Hacker News: throawayonthe

New comment by throawayonthe in "Oracle is changing free tier limits. Update by the 15th to avoid charges"

throawayonthe — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:13:40 +0000

i don't think anyone affected by this was paying lol

New comment by throawayonthe in "Can't Stop the Signal. Poison It"

throawayonthe — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:09:45 +0000

does it not affect the vignette effect? i can't test it (on the phone) but performance seems fine for me (and i have js jit disabled lol)

yes they should have tested the site on firefox, but idk i wouldn't expect css gaussian blur of all things to cause slowdowns in some browsers

New comment by throawayonthe in "Linux 7.1"

throawayonthe — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:02:33 +0000

doesn't debian usually stick to LTS kernels? afaik 7.0 was designated as an LTS release so it'll probably be the version that next major release will ship with (next year maybe?)

New comment by throawayonthe in "Dillo directory – Directory of useful sites that work reasonably well on Dillo"

throawayonthe — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:45:05 +0000

> Let me know if you know more sites to buy goods that work without JS, they are very hard to find.

Craigslist probably does? idk i haven't used it in a while. i should go browse best of craigslist again... https://www.craigslist.org/about/best/all/

New comment by throawayonthe in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

throawayonthe — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:17:52 +0000

> I had no idea that particular image was nazi-related and I don't think most other people would have either

for context it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totenkopf#Nazi_Germany , i'm surprised so many people didn't know the nazi use

if platner really didn't know, i guess it just spoke to him as a (future?) blackwater mercenary

New comment by throawayonthe in "Dangerous Technology for Americans Only"

throawayonthe — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:21:30 +0000

> “Race”, such as it is, is orthogonal to place of origin

what? no it isn't, what makes you say that

New comment by throawayonthe in "France's Own Hack Is the Best Argument Against Its War on Encryption"

throawayonthe — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:51:45 +0000

i don't get how it's an argument for encryption if that wasn't the affected part

New comment by throawayonthe in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

throawayonthe — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:08:58 +0000

i would call out reduction in extreme poverty or increased healthcare access or something but yeah the models are fine i guess

New comment by throawayonthe in "Open source AI must win"

throawayonthe — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:42:33 +0000

afaik deepseek doesn't have any closed models and publish more code/data/papers than most.. could start using their api i guess?

not a byproduct of the corporation

New comment by throawayonthe in "WASI 0.3"

throawayonthe — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:53:54 +0000

it is faster, but there is unacceptable loss when passing data to/from js, definitely an area needing improvement (or having to do it less)

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/making-webassembly-a-first...

New comment by throawayonthe in "WASI 0.3.0 Released"

throawayonthe — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:50:36 +0000

this is a confusing question; why would it be much better to e.g. compile a C program for x86 linux musl but not the C compiler?

New comment by throawayonthe in "WASI 0.3"

throawayonthe — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:46:15 +0000

i don't think people calling it CORBA-like are doing it in good faith, but regardless, no we should not do unix apis everywhere for the rest of time please

New comment by throawayonthe in "macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux"

throawayonthe — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:21:34 +0000

...why would they, this is a strict improvement with less surface area

New comment by throawayonthe in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

throawayonthe — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:52:25 +0000

> any desire to have it run while I'm asleep seems absolutely ridiculous.

could that be the difference from your peers? :p (real question b/c if you brought it up you're probably seeing others do it)

New comment by throawayonthe in "Notes on DeepSeek"

throawayonthe — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:15:02 +0000

1. this seems to be based on misconceptions about how the chinese economy works 2. why haven't they done it yet? is the implication that they will wait until they're dominant in some x number of industries worldwide and then... raise prices?

p.s. how would such "subsidization" work on a such a scale? if you think the EVs, PV panels, etc are cheap because the govt like, just covers the loss on every sale(?) where do they get all that surplus finance to cover labour and resources?

have you considered 'subsidies' can be used for accelerating R&D for national interest rather than some monopolistic plot

New comment by throawayonthe in "Notes on DeepSeek"

throawayonthe — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:04:39 +0000

isn't that exactly what the quote says? the software service (presumably their web chat) has restrictions that the model itself does not

New comment by throawayonthe in "Reviving Papers with Code"

throawayonthe — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:53:28 +0000

what's the well established initialism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PWC is it one of these?

New comment by throawayonthe in "Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?"

throawayonthe — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:50:00 +0000

i doubt uv and ruff are going anywhere that quickly at least

New comment by throawayonthe in "How much do amd64 microarchitecture levels help in Go?"

throawayonthe — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:39:05 +0000

> Also, FTA: “and arguably the whole scheme should be replaced by finer-grained feature detection”. Such feature detection would lead to a combinatorial explosion of different binaries.

the thread is about runtime detection tbf

Premature optimization is fun sometimes

throawayonthe — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:01:31 +0000

Article URL: https://invlpg.com/posts/2025-06-19-premature-optimization.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48443322

Points: 80

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