Hacker News: syoc

New comment by syoc in "How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get?"

syoc — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:57:03 +0000

Why? Do you think parking should be legal anywhere? Should all minor fines be fought in court against LLMs?

New comment by syoc in "Western Sahara"

syoc — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:33:34 +0000

You are one of todays lucky 10000! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

New comment by syoc in "Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences"

syoc — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:34:13 +0000

Strange to have an article about salmon farming drawbacks without mentioning escaped salmons polluting the wild salmon population. There has been a strong decrease in wild salmon as they lose the ability to migrate back up the river to lay their eggs due to breeding with escaped farming salmon.

New comment by syoc in "New Nginx Exploit"

syoc — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:43:03 +0000

I guess someone need to update https://0ver.org/ then.

Arrested in global hit against AI-generated child sexual abuse material

syoc — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:36:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/25-arrested-in-global-hit-against-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-material

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43204062

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by syoc in "GPTs and Hallucination"

syoc — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 16:26:56 +0000

I once again feel that a comparison to humans is fitting. We are also "trained" on a huge amount of input over a large amount of time. We will also try to guess the most natural continuation of our current prompt (setting). When asked about things it I can at times hallucinate things I was certain to be true.

It seems very natural to me that large advances in reasoning and logic in AI should come at the expense of output predictability and absolute precision.

New comment by syoc in "The KeePassXC Kerfuffle"

syoc — Thu, 30 May 2024 14:21:26 +0000

How is this a debian maintainer going rogue? Maintainers making changes to default package build flags is quite normal and should be expected. These changes were even requested in the public bug tracker.

Credentials Fetcher

syoc — Sun, 05 May 2024 17:23:16 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/aws/credentials-fetcher

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40266513

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by syoc in "Tool Use (function calling)"

syoc — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 15:55:38 +0000

The mana cost is wrong on 3 out of 4 cards, no?

New comment by syoc in "X confirms plans for NSFW Communities"

syoc — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 13:52:29 +0000

This actually sounds like a solid move. There is obviously a huge market for a porn, nudity and kink related community. As proven by the decline of tumblr. I guess most US companies are too prudish to capitalize on the opportunity.

I guess the hard part is compartmentalizing the content spheres and public image perception.

New comment by syoc in "Do we need swap on modern systems? (2017)"

syoc — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 15:57:54 +0000

I strongly dislike swap on servers. I can understand some use cases laptops and one-off situations.

I would much rather have an application get killed by OOM killer than swapping. Swapping absolutely kills performance. Not having enough RAM is a faulty state and swapping hides that from admins resulting in hard to debug issues. The OOM killer leaves handy logs, swapping just degrades your service and needs to be correlated with RAM usage metrics.

My experience is also that swap will be used no matter how low (or was it high?) you set the swappiness number if the memory throughput is high enough, even if there is enough RAM available.

New comment by syoc in "Ten years of remembering every day that passes (2022)"

syoc — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 13:45:29 +0000

Or it might indicate an ignorance of X and a better understanding of Y and Z.

New comment by syoc in "Ask HN: Nitter officially declared "over" today – alternatives?"

syoc — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:53:30 +0000

Host it your self. I'm doing that with libreddit. Gives me much better performance than the highly used public instances.

New comment by syoc in "Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software (2019)"

syoc — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 19:06:36 +0000

Replace browser with operating system or computer and expand extensions to user installable programs and it mostly still rings true. I believe users should be empowered to modify their installed applications as they see fit.

Desync – Alternative Casync Implementation

syoc — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 23:07:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/folbricht/desync

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38235525

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by syoc in "Show HN: Tailspin – A Log File Highlighter"

syoc — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 18:11:24 +0000

Cool project. Very happy about you taking the time to package it. I never use cli tools I cant install with apt because i log into a lot of servers. Hope i still remember this tool once i leaves sid and gets to stable.

New comment by syoc in "Production Twitter on one machine? 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast"

syoc — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 20:44:38 +0000

Latest version: http://nabstreamingsummit.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/202... (2022)

New comment by syoc in "Show HN: Infisical – open-source secrets manager"

syoc — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 19:50:28 +0000

It's Linux specific, but I would look into the in-kernel key management https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/keyrings.7.html

New comment by syoc in "Stellarium 1.0"

syoc — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 09:31:10 +0000

Abandoning 0ver after only 20 years. I guess it's never to late to drop down to 0.9.9

https://0ver.org/

New comment by syoc in "Ace Attorney's forgotten game shows strange place of fan localisations"

syoc — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 08:46:59 +0000

At the time of the debate I actually played through this fan made Ace Attorney game http://aaonline.fr/search.php?search&criteria[title-contains....

Someone took the arguments from the debian technical committee mailing list and made it into text based game dialog. Might rip up some old wounds now though.