Hacker News: surround

New comment by surround in "HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN"

surround — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 21:02:51 +0000

In the first paragraph Karpathy says he used Opus 5.5. The parent comment is asking if he used a different harness besides claude code.

New comment by surround in "Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue"

surround — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:56:04 +0000

This article is missing the point. $GOOG didn't drop because search revenue is down. Search revenue, and revenue overall, actually grew. It dropped because the rate of growth is lower than expected, and the price of a stock is determined by how investors think the company will be worth a decade from now.

New comment by surround in "Archive.today links going forward"

surround — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:54:44 +0000

If you're brave enough to want to see it yourself, visit https://archive.ph/jXv3A#:~:text=filed%20on%20Tuesday then click on the "Filed on Tuesday" link.

It redirected me to https://stolidityseashellshotter[.]com/ezrsb5dd1268e6f6ebaad... which then redirected me to a fake clone of RT news: https://rurtnews[.]com/

Unlike the Reddit mods, I'm not getting redirected to the malware site, just the fake RT site.

Edit: I clicked it a few more times and its redirecting me to either the fake RT or https://gullible-thanks[.]com/w5FDGi, which redirects to either https://sportshard[.]com/ or https://eatcells[.]com/land/?token=[a random string]

I had to disable uBlock Origin, since it does something to block many of these redirects.

New comment by surround in "In Leaked Audio, Flock CEO Tells Cops Backlash to the Company Isn't Real"

surround — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 22:18:26 +0000

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety

New comment by surround in "Show HN: gtlds.fyi – All the proposed new gTLDs"

surround — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:08:41 +0000

I'd rather not have to explain to people why I opened a website with a huge, animated banner of a cat lady twerking in a thong.

New comment by surround in "Show HN: gtlds.fyi – All the proposed new gTLDs"

surround — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:09:29 +0000

NSFW warning please. I clicked on this link while my screen was visible to to others and freaked out.

Fake Books (2022)

surround — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:57:54 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.coredump.cx/p/fake-books

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531201

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by surround in "Minecraft Java raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition"

surround — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:19:04 +0000

I highly recommend using the open source Sodium and Lithium mods to improve performance. And I hope you're not still using OptiFine!

https://github.com/CaffeineMC/sodium

https://github.com/CaffeineMC/lithium

New comment by surround in "Show HN: Optimize and serve models with Fable quality at half the cost"

surround — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:26:51 +0000

The title is misleading. This is model routing, not distillation.

New comment by surround in "An old patent inspired the new "Y-zipper", a three-sided fastener"

surround — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:52:01 +0000

Poles. The video shows a tent they set up just by zipping up the y zipper.

New comment by surround in "Which streaming service was that on again"

surround — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:32:06 +0000

Netflix never had everything. I seem to remember watching a skit 10 ish years ago that joked that Netflix only had bad movies.

The ads are what get me.

New comment by surround in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

surround — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:58:09 +0000

Minecraft gained popularity super fast in its early days, probably because it was a free-to-play game that worked in the browser (thanks to Java). Notch had no reputation or marketing at the time.

New comment by surround in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

surround — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:10:20 +0000

It seems that Deno made the right decision by choosing Rust from the get-go.

New comment by surround in "GPT‑Live"

surround — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:19:06 +0000

How does the voice model delegate requests to GPT-5.5? Can the voice model generate text?

New comment by surround in "Great Salt Lake Tracker"

surround — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:11:44 +0000

If you look at a satellite image of the Great Salt Lake [1], it looks like there's a digital seam/glitch between the north and the south half of the lake. In reality, a railroad was built through the middle of the lake in 1904, separating the water. The salinity of the north half has since become toxic to all organisms except some algae and cyanobacteria.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1985997,-112.4903027,201762m...

New comment by surround in "New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production"

surround — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:04:23 +0000

I'm not sure what you're referring to. If corn is replaced with solar panels that doesn't solve the fact that there will still be a ton of cars that demand ethanol-infused gasoline.

New comment by surround in "New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production"

surround — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:09:50 +0000

Its more efficient energy-wise, but isn't the issue that energy from solar panels can't power gas cars?

New comment by surround in "Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock"

surround — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:23:52 +0000

Fair enough. Though they certainly could still break in if the laptop isn't encrypted, so this tool is only useful when combined with disk encryption.

New comment by surround in "Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock"

surround — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:35:38 +0000

How do you define "state-level actor?" Police departments certainly have access to state and federal forensic resources to access unencrypted data in memory.

New comment by surround in "Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock"

surround — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:19:08 +0000

> in sensitive situations, law enforcement and border agents in many countries can compel a biometric unlock in ways they cannot with a password.

If the threat model includes state-level actors, then disabling biometrics won't prevent data from being retrieved from physical memory. It would probably be wiser to enable disk encryption and have a panic button that powers down/hibernates the computer so that no unencrypted data remains on RAM.

The website says shutdown "takes time" and "kills your session" but a hibernation button would take effect just as fast and would preserve the session.