Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47174318

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Is this a cleaner look? I have always loved visible scroll bars because they act as useful guides for where I am on a page and how much content remains and just easy to drag. Now you have to hover over it first.

I am curious what UX changes have stood out to you lately, for better or worse.. Maybe some designers reading this forum will take notes.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46787079

Points: 34

# Comments: 36

It could be that I'm a bit old-school, but this really seemed to confirm that ready to play fun gameplay trumps realistic graphics any day!

Imagine just one link in a tweet, support ticket, or email: https://discord.com/_mintlify/static/evil/exploit.svg. If you click it, JavaScript runs on the discord.com origin.

Here's what could happen:

- Your Discord session cookies and token could be stolen, leading to a complete account takeover.

- read/write your developer applications & webhooks, allowing them to add or modify bots, reset secrets, and push malicious updates to millions.

- access any Discord API endpoint as you, meaning they could join or delete servers, DM friends, or even buy Nitro with your saved payment info.

- maybe even harvest OAuth tokens from sites that use "Login with Disord."

Given the potential damage, the $4,000 bounty feels like a slap in the face.

edit: just noticed how HN just turned this into a clickable link - this makes it even scarier!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45821977

Points: 1

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Without updates, many sites will likely stop working with it soon.

Kiwi had some great features, like disabling AMP mode, rearranging the Chrome Store for mobile, and customizable tab layouts, etc. These features might interest others as well.

I did recently see this browser is unsafe when trying to open Gmail in it, so any chromium based update to date alternative there would be amazing!

The last time I used it one of the common hacks was adding 50 makers to a single app launch PH also openly condoned mass email blasts and tweets to drive votes which just rewarded whoever could push the hardest on promotion

In contrast Hacker News discourages asking people for upvotes and even treats it as a negative if you do That longterm focus on signal over hype is probably why HN still feels useful today while PH lost its way

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44980760

Points: 3

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- Big models like GPT-4 are split across many GPUs (sharding).

- Each GPU holds some layers in VRAM.

- To process a request, weights for a layer must be loaded from VRAM into the GPU's tiny on-chip cache before doing the math.

- Loading into cache is slow, the ops are fast though.

- Without batching: load layer > compute user1 > load again > compute user2.

- With batching: load layer once > compute for all users > send to gpu 2 etc

- This makes cost per user drop massively if you have enough simultaneous users.

- But bigger batches need more GPU memory for activations, so there's a max size.

This does makes sense to me but does this sound accurate to you?

Would love to know if I'm still missing something important.

Sure, they have huge GPU clusters, but there must be more going on - model optimizations, sharding, custom hardware, clever load balancing, etc.

What engineering tricks make this possible at such massive scale while keeping latency low?

Curious to hear insights from people who've built large-scale ML systems.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44840728

Points: 574

# Comments: 365

[1] https://www.viberank.app/

My browser just froze after scrolling half-way. Not sure if this is something to do with the scroll fx but i really don't understand why this simple site is maxing out my CPUs.

When some users burn massive amounts of compute just to climb leaderboards or farm karma, it’s not hard to imagine why providers might respond with tighter limits—not because it's ideal, but because that kind of behavior makes platforms harder to sustain and less accessible for everyone else. Because on the other hand a lot of genuine customers are canceling because they get API overload message after paying $200.

I still think caps are frustrating and often too blunt, but posts like that make it easier to see where the pressure might be coming from.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1lqrbnc/you_deser...

Migrations randomly fail, schema changes are a nightmare, and your team forgets how SQL works.

ORMs promise to abstract the database but end up being just another layer you have to fight when things go wrong.

Theyve been hitting YouTubers like Mohak Mangal, Nitish Rajput, Dhruv Rathee with copyright strikes for using just a few seconds of news clips which you would think is fair use.

Then they privately message creators demanding $60000 to remove the strikes or else the channel gets deleted after the third strike.

It s not about protecting content anymore it's copyright extortion. Fair use doesn't matter. System like Youtube makes it easy to abuse and nearly impossible to fight.

It s turning into a business model: pay otherwise your channels with millions of subs get deleted

[1] https://the420.in/dhruv-rathee-mohak-mangal-nitish-rajput-an...

Heck they can make a back up directly to the cloud in addition to black box considering I'm able to watch YouTube in some flights nowadays.

If not there should be one as even my simple home wifi camera can record hours of hd video on the small sd card. And If there is, wouldn't that help to instantly identify such things?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43149186

Points: 98

# Comments: 80

Pretty sure this is against the Show Hn guidelines.