Hacker News: summarity

New comment by summarity in "Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month"

summarity — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:20:22 +0000

Good to know, I had let the team know. It’s handled by the appropriate folks so I won’t see further updates, but this should be in good hands now.

Personal(!) opinion: do get a standard template drafted for these cases by a legal professional. You don’t have to retain anyone or sue anyone, but having a consistent, and compliant filing always expedites decisions - this isn’t GitHub specific. Some platforms like YouTube try to abstract this process and end up with the opposite problem of lots of specious claims. Hence the transparency of publishing all notices we receive. Again no idea whether the filing is the issue in this specific case, nor saying you did anything wrong here, just general advice for fewer headaches.

New comment by summarity in "Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month"

summarity — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:58:20 +0000

Is there a ticket code or other contact you've been in touch with?

As for DMCA filings, we publish all of them here: https://github.com/github/dmca

I see two from Photopea, one from 2022 (https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/d97814f268e07e62aabe8b5c...) and one from 2024 (https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/d97814f268e07e62aabe8b5c...) - could you point to the recent filing?

I work at GH, but am not involved in DMCA filings, and can in no way answer or judge this case, but potentially follow up internally.

New comment by summarity in "CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective"

summarity — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:10:11 +0000

My comment explicitly did not focus in the use of LLMs and in fact much of the post doesn’t. Leading with the depressing “work alone” slide, it focused on similarity, not AI use. Between students, ruling even “inadvertent” exposure as the same punishable (and literally literally undeniable!) offence. There’s millions of ways to structure a class for learning, this myopic focus is not one of them. Ironically the setup ignores the very basics of human collaboration. AI merely amplifies extremes, it’s a factor but neither the cause nor culprit here.

The title includes “retrospective” but the learning and changes following such a process are absent.

New comment by summarity in "CS240 AI Cheating Retrospective"

summarity — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:52:31 +0000

If you remove the mention of AI from this post, the authors process and setup of the notice to students is absolutely mental. The intentions might be good, but damn if this isn’t a comically inept way to set up a kafkaesque nightmare rather than a place for actual learning. The defensive attitude doesn’t help either. Just the sheer energy that went into all the steps mentioned here, not invested in any even superficial attempt to perhaps adapt. That isn’t to “give into AI” or cheating, but if 50% of students break your rules, more rules and litigation about the rules are not the next step to take.

New comment by summarity in "America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft""

summarity — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:23:16 +0000

Cynically this is a great way for the unhinged admin to train and harden an AI censorship filter :)

If you’re in need of a writing prompt …

German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol

summarity — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:07:47 +0000

Article URL: https://rheinmetall.github.io/onboardapi-documentation/9.10.0/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49718928

Points: 284

# Comments: 109

New comment by summarity in "Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?"

summarity — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:49:56 +0000

“Opt in by default” would mean that it is not enabled by default. Do you mean opt out?

New comment by summarity in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

summarity — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:52:00 +0000

They also cancelled availability of the 512 M3 Ultra months ago in many regions, likely just redirecting memory

New comment by summarity in "The AI Situation in Software Development"

summarity — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:45:18 +0000

Keeping a simple log of "accepted/rejected" avenues is basically all that's needed, maybe with a root style guide in the project. I've got several multi-day sessions in 5.6 Sol running without going off the rails in terms of complexity. After a while in this loop it actually starts to remind/berate itself to keep things straight-forward.

New comment by summarity in "Racket v9.3"

summarity — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:43:50 +0000

Thank you for Herbie btw, it continues to be one of the most used tools in my personal projects (all 3D math and rendering)

New comment by summarity in "Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”"

summarity — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:01:17 +0000

I agree in general, but can think of at least one counterpoint: https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html

Actually novel implementation is protected, paid the author's bills, and was dedicated to the public domain recently - no massive corp involved.

Rich Text Editing Innovations in Bike

summarity — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:21:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/posts/bike-rich-text/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242206

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by summarity in "F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language"

summarity — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:52:34 +0000

What? There’s literally a completely interactive book linked right from the home page.

New comment by summarity in "Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English"

summarity — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:55:15 +0000

"Test B is an alternative to test A."

could mean there's a Test B and a Test A, and they're interchangeable.

Or:

You can run Test B to confirm A works, that is "to test A".

Again the stated goal to clear documentation for non-native or limited-exposure speakers. This doesn't pass that test.

New comment by summarity in "Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English"

summarity — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:50:27 +0000

Gotta love how the very first example in Issue 9 of the standard is already self-defeating:

> "Test" is an approved noun, but not an approved verb.

> STE: Test B is an alternative to test A.

So much for clear - unless you know the STE specific rule, the sentence is unambiguously ambiguous.

Direct access btw since the official site gates downloads with a Google form: https://www.asd-ste100.org/assets/files/ASD-STE100_ISSUE9.pd...

New comment by summarity in "Blender 5.2 LTS"

summarity — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:44:05 +0000

To answer the question at the top, yes there are countless suites that are instantly resumable even after months away. I used to teach Blender (v3) and I think I could find my way around but the overhead isn’t worth it. I’m also though in a privileged position to be able to afford more, smaller commercial tools.

CAD: MoI (cool kids nowadays use Plasticity, but that is taking on similar feature creep - in any case I own and use both)

SubD modelling: nothing has ever beat Silo. And silo still gets updates, but the workflow is the same. Cheetah3D is also in the same boat.

Rendering (I do products, not character/CGI): Maverick. Fastest path tracer in the world, perpetual license, rivals Vray for product viz. if you’re currently using Keyshot - switch now.

Texturing: 3Dcoat or Marmoset Toolbag 5

What most of these have in common is either the workflow is super intuitive, or you have at least 15 years of training material readily accessible that still applies to the software today as it did back then.

Overall it’s a choice between a kitchen sink pipeline (Blender, Rhino) vs a specialised one. If I were to teach again, I would still use Blender in the classroom, and I fully support the project. My brain just works better with smaller, focussed tools.

New comment by summarity in "Blender 5.2 LTS"

summarity — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:35:22 +0000

The question is why don’t they integrate cycles? I mean I have a random app for home planning on macOS and even that comes with Cycles as the rendering engine. Can’t be that hard.

New comment by summarity in "OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court"

summarity — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:00:41 +0000

Key difference between the trademark systems here: in the EU system you don’t get a trademark by trading with a specific name and it then being recognized. It’s the other way around: the name must be unique, not confusing, and highly specific. It’s actually irrelevant whether a product exists or is traded at all.

Having gone through the process and gotten both approvals and rejections, the line is pretty clear.

New comment by summarity in "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"

summarity — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:11:40 +0000

Vs Voxtral would be a better comparison. No other model, open or closed, has been able to hit such a low AER (Acronym Error Rate ;)) for my meeting transcripts. Seems to understand/infer all the technobabble I use at work. Never have to edit anything. Whisper was catastrophically bad.

New comment by summarity in "Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot"

summarity — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:14:45 +0000

It has supported custom, local, any BYOM for quite a while.

I work at GitHub but even then I often use OpenRouter models in the CLI and Copilot App