Hacker News: smallerize

New comment by smallerize in "Iran Starts Bitcoin-Backed Ship Insurance for Hormuz Strait"

smallerize — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:26:04 +0000

> > Iran Starts Bitcoin-Backed Ship Insurance for Hormuz Strait

> In America?

No.

New comment by smallerize in "I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation"

smallerize — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:41:06 +0000

If it can't run video games, it's a workstation.

New comment by smallerize in "Agent skill for UB detection in Rust"

smallerize — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:32:53 +0000

The actual blog post is https://x.com/doodlestein/status/2055411434280878331 (https://xcancel.com/doodlestein/status/2055411434280878331) and the code requires a subscription to download. https://jeffreys-skills.md/skills/rust-undefined-behavior-ex...

New comment by smallerize in "Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server"

smallerize — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:50:10 +0000

9.8 PB?

New comment by smallerize in "New Fragnesia Linux flaw lets attackers gain root privileges"

smallerize — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:58:21 +0000

Fragnesia is misspelled several times in the article.

New comment by smallerize in "Proton's password manager passes audit by top security firm – Proton"

smallerize — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:05:31 +0000

Why did you post the title like this?

New comment by smallerize in "ESR on dropping terminfo and curses from an old Unix game"

smallerize — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:50:21 +0000

The only time I touch terming these days is because something broke in my environment and the $TERM got set to "screen-256color" instead of "screen", and less and vim stop working. In my case, assuming a normal terminal would actually be more reliable.

New comment by smallerize in "Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI"

smallerize — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:39:35 +0000

3GWh/h.

New comment by smallerize in "CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers"

smallerize — Sun, 10 May 2026 00:26:10 +0000

But you have to keep a VPS updated yourself, right? A hosted site doesn't require any action from the customer to stay up to date.

New comment by smallerize in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

smallerize — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:57:47 +0000

This isn't just about weirdos (like me) who run GrapheneOS. Huawei phones don't have Google Play services installed, or Xiaomi phones with MIUI China. That's what, a billion and a half phones that can't get to your website now?

Amazon tablets don't have Google services either, which hints that the upcoming Amazon phones also might not work with this.

New comment by smallerize in "Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text"

smallerize — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:14:45 +0000

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.20245v2 Section 3 outlines the actual method.

New comment by smallerize in "ZAYA1-8B matches DeepSeek-R1 on math with less than 1B active parameters"

smallerize — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:52:56 +0000

The (unsloth dynamic) 4-bit quants of Qwen 3.6 kept getting stuck in circles for me. Even though it doesn't benchmark as well, GLM 4.7 Flash at least keeps making progress if I keep nudging it, so I have actually been able to finish some apps with it.

New comment by smallerize in "The Road to a Billion-Token Context"

smallerize — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:00:43 +0000

I think it means most of the training data is short. And a lot of the long-context examples are conversations where the middle turns are less important.

New comment by smallerize in "Over 8M Thermos jars and bottles recalled after 3 people lost vision"

smallerize — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:17:42 +0000

From the Consumer Product Safety Commission https://bsky.app/profile/cpsc.gov/post/3mkpsy7mgkk2j

"Is this user error?"

No. If we're recalling a product for a safety issue, it is not user error. There is an engineering error, or a design error, or a manufacturing error. Whatever the product is doing it should not be doing.

New comment by smallerize in "Investors pile into clean energy as Iran war drives push for energy security"

smallerize — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:47:35 +0000

That used to be true, but things have really settled down. Notice the lack of rushing to start more fracking or refining projects during this crisis.

New comment by smallerize in "This Month in Ladybird - April 2026"

smallerize — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:05:25 +0000

https://ladybird.org/#about

> How many people are working on the browser today?

> We currently have 8 paid full-time engineers working on Ladybird. There is also a large community of volunteer contributors.

New comment by smallerize in "New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges"

smallerize — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:42:19 +0000

Did I miss something or are there only 3 example photos?

New comment by smallerize in "Flickr: The first and last great photo platform"

smallerize — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:58:07 +0000

Yes. A side effect of the expansion of copyright enforcement pushed by larger corporations means that companies generally are walking on eggshells and have streamlined processes to remove content based on a standardized compliant process. Even more so in the last few years with the billion-dollar lawsuit against Cox working its way through the courts.

New comment by smallerize in "America's Geothermal Breakthrough"

smallerize — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:08:53 +0000

Solar is at 7%. It's very significant.

New comment by smallerize in "GPT-5.5"

smallerize — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:51:39 +0000

HN is owned by a startup accelerator and venture capital firm. They do growth hacking on the front page. And you probably know that since your throwaway account is several years old.