Hacker News: ubixar

New comment by ubixar in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

ubixar — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:43:47 +0000

I've long suspected DJT is on a rampage of radical, ragebait news worthy actions to take the news away from the Epstein files. I hate that it's working and many people have to suffer because of it.

New comment by ubixar in "Parse, Don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust"

ubixar — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:47:42 +0000

C# gets close to this with records + pattern matching, F# discriminated unions are even better for this with algebraic data types built right in. A Result<'T,'Error> makes invalid states unrepresentable without any ceremony. C# records/matching works for now, but native DUs will make it even nicer.

New comment by ubixar in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

ubixar — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:53:43 +0000

Notepad had one job, display text. Microsoft decided it needed an attack surface instead.

The year of the Linux desktop doesn't need to arrive - it just needs Windows to keep shipping.

New comment by ubixar in "The Day the Telnet Died"

ubixar — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:59:12 +0000

New comment by ubixar in "The Day the Telnet Died"

ubixar — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:39:46 +0000

The most interesting thing here isn't the CVE - it's the invisible coordination. A backbone provider acted on advance knowledge of a critical flaw, implemented filtering at scale, and the rest of us didn't notice until GreyNoise's data showed the drop. The vulnerability got patched at the network layer before it ever reached the application layer. This is what mature security ecosystems look like - the boring, quiet fixes that happen before the press release.

New comment by ubixar in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

ubixar — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:59:55 +0000

The most interesting finding isn't that hyperbolic growth appears in "emergent capabilities" papers - it's that actual capability metrics (MMLU, tokens/$) remain stubbornly linear.

The singularity isn't in the machines. It's in human attention.

This is Kuhnian paradigm shift at digital speed. The papers aren't documenting new capabilities - they're documenting a community's gestalt switch. Once enough people believe the curve has bent, funding, talent, and compute follow. The belief becomes self-fulfilling.

Linear capability growth is the reality. Hyperbolic attention growth is the story.

New comment by ubixar in "Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser"

ubixar — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:11:49 +0000

For those exploring browser STT, this sits in an interesting space between Whisper.wasm and the Deepgram KC client. The 2.5GB quantized footprint is notably smaller than most Whisper variants — any thoughts on accuracy tradeoffs compared to Whisper base/small?

New comment by ubixar in "Speed up responses with fast mode"

ubixar — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 02:50:20 +0000

Just when you thought it was safe to use Opus 4.5 at 1/3 the cost, they go and add a 6x 'bank-breaking mode' - So now accidental bankruptcy is just one toggle away.

New comment by ubixar in "Omarchy First Impressions"

ubixar — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:40:08 +0000

First time I've seen Josean switch to another OS fulltime - was always on macOS since I started watching him.

He's a Vim / Terminal super user and was always surprised that he stuck it out on macOS for so long, IMO Arch Linux / Hyprland is the best choice for VIM keyboard warriors.

New comment by ubixar in "Omarchy First Impressions"

ubixar — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:57:10 +0000

One of my favorite YouTube creators (Josean Martinez) for finding super productive dev / terminal tools has just made the jump from macOS to Arch Linux / Hyprland (ala Omarchy). It's a great channel for finding out a Pro Hyprland setup tuned for terminal productivity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOsJr5EB2zc

New comment by ubixar in "OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III"

ubixar — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:50:45 +0000

been following OpenCiv3 with interest. curious if you've been using any AI coding assistants to speed things up, or if it's been mostly vanilla dev? the codebase looks pretty clean

New comment by ubixar in "The Waymo World Model"

ubixar — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:39:16 +0000

been playing around with world models for sim-to-real transfer lately. the waymo approach looks solid, but curious how you're handling the distribution shift between generated scenes and real sensor data. any tricks for that besides the usual domain randomization?