Hacker News: sorz

New comment by sorz in "How does GPS work?"

sorz — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:02:47 +0000

So gound stations need keep measuring their own positions due to continental drift! Never thought that before. Thanks.

New comment by sorz in "Lunar Flyby"

sorz — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:33:23 +0000

I found one taken with Z9: https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009301

There are some very bright noise pixels on the dark area, which is different from the noise in similar photos taken with D5 (much darker and uniform).

New comment by sorz in "What changes when you turn a Linux box into a router"

sorz — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:07:38 +0000

I feels wrong to not mention IPv6 in 2026.

- net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1

- nftables is default to `ip` family which only applies to IPv4. Setting it to `inet` will allow rules to apply to both IPv4 & 6; or `ip6` for IPv6 only. You can skip NAT rules, usually.

- dnsmasq: in addition to DNS and DHCP, turns on router advertisement with SLAAC. Some devices can get IPv6 address from stateful DHCPv6 server, others (e.g. Android) only work with SLAAC.

New comment by sorz in "Gpg.fail"

sorz — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 02:36:04 +0000

Lots of issues follow the pattern "ANSI escape code inside untrusted text". It feels like XSS but for terminal.

New comment by sorz in "Tunnl.gg"

sorz — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 07:40:08 +0000

Random thoughts: one can get user's ssh public keys from GitHub on the fly (from `https://github.com/.keys`), so that it requires a valid GitHub account to use this service, without (extra) auth process.

Atomically accurate de novo design of antibodies with RFdiffusion

sorz — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 22:48:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09721-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45829127

Points: 2

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New comment by sorz in "DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia"

sorz — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 11:33:43 +0000

Better be "three months of the country's GDP".

New comment by sorz in "CAPTCHAs are over (in ticketing)"

sorz — Mon, 26 May 2025 14:32:19 +0000

The time at which scalpers buy tickets becomes irrelevant. They can resell tickets at arbitrary-high-price + margin because buyer know they will receive refund for the exceed amount, thus pay only (final price + scalper margin) for the ticket eventually.

Bonus: buy ticket from scalpers after price settled, you will get a determined price, no more guessing and find inner peace.

The problem for scalpers is that if they buy too many tickets, the final price may become too high to be attractive for real buyers.

New comment by sorz in "Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents"

sorz — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:48:15 +0000

In the mug-scrubbing video, the person clearly pretends to wash the cup but does not seem to want to get their hands wet anyway. I'm curious as to when models can figure out that subtle thing.

New comment by sorz in "Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts"

sorz — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 05:29:05 +0000

Did you try scancode map registry[1]? I use it to swap Ctrl/CapsLock and it works well even with RDP softwares and run-as-admin apps which PowerToys couldn't handle.

[1] https://superuser.com/questions/550679/where-can-i-find-wind...

New comment by sorz in "Has Google Translate been fixed yet?"

sorz — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 04:40:09 +0000

The whole post is on base on the fact that "TW" in their URL. But I think this is really just a internal implementation detail of Google Translate, which is not intended to display to users (e.g. complete hidden on their app). Everywhere on their UI shows "Chinese (Traditional)". That is what they try to communicate with users.

Sure, zh-TW is somewhat misleading. But they nor say that parameter is a ISO 639 or RFC 5646 conformed.

New comment by sorz in "RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era"

sorz — Tue, 23 May 2023 07:54:40 +0000

They said the paper is still working in progress and will improve it.

https://twitter.com/AiEleuther/status/1660811180901019648

New comment by sorz in "ChatGPT outperforms crowd-workers for text-annotation tasks"

sorz — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:12:13 +0000

Just watched a talk[0] about natural language understanding research in post-GPT-3 era. Old issues may has been solved, while new topics are coming to this area (quoted from the slides):

- Retrieval augmented in-context learning

- Better benchmarks

- Last mile for productive application

- Faithful, human-interoperable explanations

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lnHHWRCDGk

New comment by sorz in "ChatGPT outperforms crowd-workers for text-annotation tasks"

sorz — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 02:55:40 +0000

Is NLP a solved problem now?

New comment by sorz in "BlenderGPT: Use commands in English to control Blender with OpenAI's GPT-4"

sorz — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 07:34:15 +0000

> then the amount of information we need to make billboards and signs make sense.

Subsequently, this applies to posters, letters, newspapers, and other types of text-heavy images, ultimately reducing the language modeling problem to an image generation problem.

New comment by sorz in "GPTs Are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of LLMs"

sorz — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 16:52:16 +0000

OpenAI did exact the test for GPT-4. The raw, non-fine-tune GPT-4 is quite good at predicting confidence level ("highly calibrated" by their words). But the RLHF fine-tuning process seems ruin its calibration. Figure 8 on page 12 of GPT-4 Technical Report shows this dramatic changes before & after fine-tuning.

New comment by sorz in "How Rust 1.64 became faster on Windows"

sorz — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 16:23:43 +0000

Is it possible that the profile is over-fitting to the benchmark tests?

New comment by sorz in "Guest WiFi using a QR code"

sorz — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 09:34:19 +0000

Does it work for WPA3-Personal network?

New comment by sorz in "Show HN: Flash your ESP32 from the browser using JavaScript"

sorz — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 09:56:38 +0000

Want to know when Firefox will support Web Serial API, but turn out they won't since they consider it harmful: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#webserial

One file that mixes all current JavaScript proposals

sorz — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 00:56:33 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/jackworks_asref/status/1330172789924442112

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25173916

Points: 2

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