Hacker News: vhcr

New comment by vhcr in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

vhcr — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:14:43 +0000

It's just awkward, I've held the knife with my dominant hand all my life.

New comment by vhcr in "Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines"

vhcr — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:45:20 +0000

The idea would be to use autonomous drones, so they wouldn't need to communicate, the problem would be that the GPS signal is jammed.

New comment by vhcr in "FracturedJson"

vhcr — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:03:51 +0000

I don't know, but you can always use <() process substitution to create a temp file.

New comment by vhcr in "Our new SAM audio model transforms audio editing"

vhcr — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 08:37:38 +0000

This new SAM model actually competes against SOTA models.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1pp9w31/ama_wit...

New comment by vhcr in "This is not the future"

vhcr — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:59:31 +0000

Have you seen YouTube's front-page? It's pretty much 20-40min videos full of fluff.

New comment by vhcr in "UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16"

vhcr — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:02:48 +0000

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/07/uk-palestine...

New comment by vhcr in "Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know"

vhcr — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 01:48:33 +0000

What privacy? Whoever is watching your traffic can see you accessed their website with HTTPS, they can guess with high accuracy which article you are reading based on the response size.

New comment by vhcr in "Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know"

vhcr — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 01:46:36 +0000

You can enable it in the settings.

New comment by vhcr in "Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail"

vhcr — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:56:10 +0000

I'm guessing you're not storing the CLIP for every single frame, instead of every second or so? Also, are you using the cosine similarity? How are you finding the nearest vector?

New comment by vhcr in "Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses"

vhcr — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:00:13 +0000

BitTorrent v2 uses SHA-256, but in any case SHA-1 is still second-preimage resistant. And the BitTorrent piece hashes are included in the .torrent file, so you would need to find a double collision.

New comment by vhcr in "Project Euler"

vhcr — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 03:18:22 +0000

I'm guessing if you only calculate based on the digits, the probability is going to be slightly different than the real one, because you only have a finite number of plates you can choose from.

New comment by vhcr in "Addiction Markets"

vhcr — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:13:38 +0000

This is not a hypothetical, people already do it like that in my country (Argentina), you send your money to a person that buys tokens using cryptocoins, since these websites don't comply with the local regulation, even kids are addicted to gambling.

New comment by vhcr in "HTTPS by default"

vhcr — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:15:11 +0000

Depend on one less third party, you still depend on the DNS Root servers, your ISP / hosting, domain registry, etc.

New comment by vhcr in "A built-in 'off switch' to stop persistent pain"

vhcr — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 01:31:32 +0000

Swimming and Jefferson curls.

New comment by vhcr in "Kurt Got Got"

vhcr — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 04:55:16 +0000

That should only happen once, you should store the password for the second domain too.

New comment by vhcr in "Kurt Got Got"

vhcr — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 04:52:39 +0000

Second best option is to whitelist USB's PID and VID.

New comment by vhcr in "Doing Rails Wrong"

vhcr — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 02:50:59 +0000

You also have to take into account the browser and OS call stack.

New comment by vhcr in "Litestream v0.5.0"

vhcr — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:01:35 +0000

No, JOINs are pretty much always faster than performing N+1 queries.

New comment by vhcr in "The history of cataract surgery"

vhcr — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:25:40 +0000

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559253/

New comment by vhcr in "US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees"

vhcr — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:46:50 +0000

I don't want to check my luggage, I had them damaged or lost more than once.