Hacker News: snovv_crash

New comment by snovv_crash in "Show HN: Dual YOLOv8n UAV Detection on RK3588S at 42 FPS Using NPU"

snovv_crash — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:02:21 +0000

Newer versions aren't open source, or at least have murky licencing.

New comment by snovv_crash in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

snovv_crash — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:08:54 +0000

Europe might have a hiccup until warming becomes more widespread and it goes back to 'normal'. The question is how long until Texas and Florida become uninhabitable because the heat isn't being shunted out to Europe, on top of the additional heat from global warming.

New comment by snovv_crash in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

snovv_crash — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:00:37 +0000

Agreed. You aren't going to convince people in India that their children should stay poor when there is an option to uplift them. That's an extra billion people of energy and material needs, all by itself.

New comment by snovv_crash in "EU Commission looking at practical consequences of Anthropic decision"

snovv_crash — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:45:27 +0000

You spend too much time online. The EU isn't bogged down with issues, it has uplifted an enormous part of itself out of abject post-communist poverty and yes growth isn't as fast, but it also isn't foisting as much debt on its citizens or working everyone to death. The problems you hear about on the news make the news because they are newsworthy, not because they are normal occurrences.

New comment by snovv_crash in "Making Claude a Chemist"

snovv_crash — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:56:32 +0000

I work a lot with the geometry side of computer vision (camera calibration, 3d reconstruction etc.) and LLMs have been really bad in this space. They throw stuff at the problem until a minor improvement is made by over fitting on a testset, then gaslight that this is the best thing possible. Then I go do something like working with raster-based data, or some JavaScript based visualization, and it goes super smoothly.

New comment by snovv_crash in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

snovv_crash — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:09:29 +0000

You can also make squirrel-cage rotors that are auto-inductive in the sense that they resist slip from the rotating field of the stator. This is also extremely simple to manufacture and doesn't require driving separate fields or anything similar.

New comment by snovv_crash in "How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)"

snovv_crash — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:26:32 +0000

You can trigger their systems even by manually just following and unfollowing to drive account engagement. No automation required.

New comment by snovv_crash in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

snovv_crash — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:37:51 +0000

It's like the Martingale strategy for roulette, but if you figure out you have slightly better than 50% returns you have positive expected outcomes.

New comment by snovv_crash in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"

snovv_crash — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:48:21 +0000

Strong statement to make when I have at least 2 datapoints contradicting it, in SaaS and embedded/robotics.

New comment by snovv_crash in "Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA"

snovv_crash — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:26:59 +0000

Considering that the government legally cannot manage this, it sounds like you are advocating for this whole camera network to be dismantled due to the danger of how it might be used in the wrong hands? That's also a valid take.

New comment by snovv_crash in "Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA"

snovv_crash — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:30:33 +0000

Yes but that is the country, not the individual that didn't choose to be born there and also didn't choose to do military service there.

New comment by snovv_crash in "Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA"

snovv_crash — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:29:06 +0000

I guess you missed the part where people don't get to choose where they were born, and in the case that where they were born has mandatory military service, whether they are part of that.

This is the same stereotyping that leads to the worst kinds of racism.

New comment by snovv_crash in "Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA"

snovv_crash — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:47:06 +0000

So I guess for you the same rules would be for Swiss, Danish, Brazilian, Greek and many others that also have mandatory military service?

New comment by snovv_crash in "Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA"

snovv_crash — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:41:53 +0000

Since military service is mandatory in Israel, it means that basically any Israeli (with the exception of Hasidic Jews), male or female, is, not by choice, ex-IDF. It isn't a signal of their choices, or willing participation, just of where they were born.

If you don't know this, now you do. If you knew this already...

New comment by snovv_crash in "Creatine raise brain energy levels and slow Alzheimer's cognitive decline by 30%"

snovv_crash — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:57:05 +0000

I've felt dehydrated while I'm in loading phase, it's very noticeable from that perspective. But the mental effects only come after at least a week (for me: longer attention span, less impacted by poor sleep).

New comment by snovv_crash in "Show HN: KVBoost – chunk-level KV cache reuse for HuggingFace, 5–48x faster TTFT"

snovv_crash — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:08:58 +0000

Even the things that should be normal dashes are em-dashes

New comment by snovv_crash in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

snovv_crash — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:44:24 +0000

Anywhere that MTN (telecom provider) operates. East and southern Africa mostly.

New comment by snovv_crash in "Apparently Google hates us now"

snovv_crash — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:59:00 +0000

Also running a wiki. Similar. Had a sign-up based on in-game knowledge. LLMs now crack it and I had to turn off signups about a year ago. Now people email me directly if they want an account.

New comment by snovv_crash in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

snovv_crash — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:45:45 +0000

In Africa they've had this since ~2005 with the Mpesa system. It basically transfers cellphone credits as payment. In certain regions everyone with a dumb phone was hooked up and you could do anything from buy a coconut from a guy on the side of the road to pay your taxi driver to pay at the supermarket.

New comment by snovv_crash in "Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks"

snovv_crash — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:23:32 +0000

I guess it's that, and yes, much as they learned speech patterns from us, now we start to learn from them.

I play with local models a lot but also have limited time and the conciseness, polish and human indication in presentation has become a major quality indicator. I've wasted too much time with slop projects or people's LLM-induced delusions and now take a pretty strict line on what I'm willing to spend my time on. Even if this ends up with some false positives, there's just so much happening these days it doesn't really matter...

Best of luck with Forge!