Hacker News: vivzkestrel

New comment by vivzkestrel in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

vivzkestrel — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:23:54 +0000

- does anyone have actual studies or reports or arxiv papers or something that actually concludes that surveillance is not safety?

- how do you know that it doesnt cut down crimes or deter criminals or make identifying criminals easier?

- no seriously think of me as the stupidest person on the planet and explain to me why everyone is super duper paranoid about surveillance

- what other methods do you recommend for tracking , catching criminals, terrorists and anti social elements?

New comment by vivzkestrel in "The sneaky way companies get new chemicals into our food"

vivzkestrel — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:53:41 +0000

- is the title actually exaggerated or is there actually a loophole ? - sorry i dont have time to sit and listen to a 35 min long talk, would be nice to know what this person is talking about from someone knowledgeable

New comment by vivzkestrel in "Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screenshots, PDFs, webpages"

vivzkestrel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:17:16 +0000

- how well do you think this ll work with code? i mean take code screenshots and convert it into actual code for vscode

New comment by vivzkestrel in "Show HN: Nutrepedia – Nutrition info in 29 locales built with Clojure and Htmx"

vivzkestrel — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:14:49 +0000

- we need an indian version of this website with all the 10000+ indian food items listed on it

New comment by vivzkestrel in "Why China got rich and India didn't"

vivzkestrel — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:24:16 +0000

"why a dictatorship got rich while a flawed democracy didnt?" FTFY

New comment by vivzkestrel in "Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA"

vivzkestrel — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:59:23 +0000

think of me as the stupidest person on the planet and explain to my how a flock camera is violation of privacy

New comment by vivzkestrel in "FROST: Fingerprinting Remotely using OPFS-based SSD Timing [pdf]"

vivzkestrel — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:19:37 +0000

a bit off topic but on the topic of fingerprinting here, anyone knows how reddit fingerprinting works at a rough level?

New comment by vivzkestrel in "Expertise in the age of AI"

vivzkestrel — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:49:21 +0000

- a calculator does not have opinions, it gives facts

- also a calculator does not offload your critical thinking ability

- fun fact, i have stopped using calculators since the last 3 months or so as an experiment and guess what? I can subtract and add six digit numbers effortlessly now

- also a calculator is not subject to bias which the AI frontier model companies can most certainly push in your direction if they wanted to.

- So when I see people comparing AI with the dawn of calculators, i really sit and wonder how such a comparison even makes sense

New comment by vivzkestrel in "Japan Lost 3M People in Five Years"

vivzkestrel — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:06:31 +0000

stupid question: if by some magic 80% of the population of the planet disappeared tomorrow, what ll happen to the economy and stock market

New comment by vivzkestrel in "tsz: high performance TypeScript checker, emitter, and language service in Rust"

vivzkestrel — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:55:26 +0000

how does it compare to tsx ? https://github.com/privatenumber/tsx

New comment by vivzkestrel in "Computer game cuts risk of dementia by 25% and it's free"

vivzkestrel — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:54:51 +0000

do we have a report on general gaming like does the chance of dementia go down if you are playing call of duty or something? has there ever been any studies conducted on this?

New comment by vivzkestrel in "Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades"

vivzkestrel — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:00:14 +0000

if you are using that chatbot, you are also a part of the problem, just saying

their product wouldnt run if they had 0 users

New comment by vivzkestrel in "Growing Neural Cellular Automata"

vivzkestrel — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:36:23 +0000

- is that a blog that you are familiar with that teaches you neural networks in the most animated visual manner that absolutely blows your mind off?

- because it finally clicks and you realize how it works on the inside?

- https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/

- i found one but it doesn't have text content explaining the math, the reason behind gradient descent, the need for a partial derivative etc.

- I would super appreciate if someone has a resource for cnn, rnn, and other types of neural networks like this

New comment by vivzkestrel in "PyTorch Landscape"

vivzkestrel — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:03:36 +0000

why did tensorflow not gain traction? out of the loop here

New comment by vivzkestrel in "Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0"

vivzkestrel — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:03:38 +0000

https://gamesbymason.com/blog/2026/microsoft/

Prediction: Microsoft Is Going To Do The Funniest Thing Imaginable this guy called it loooong back

New comment by vivzkestrel in "The Rage of the Billionaires Is Coming"

vivzkestrel — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:45:22 +0000

is putting a paywalled article on HN actually allowed?

New comment by vivzkestrel in "Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO"

vivzkestrel — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:39:33 +0000

"Domo Says No to AI FOMO"

FTFY the headline for you

New comment by vivzkestrel in "HTML Lists"

vivzkestrel — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:26:32 +0000

no i am talking about a page like this

- https://www.seangoedecke.com/page/2 or

- https://mmapped.blog/posts this or

- https://kevinpatel.xyz/posts/ this

New comment by vivzkestrel in "HTML Lists"

vivzkestrel — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:04:33 +0000

- you guys write such nice blogs but i cant seem to ever get a list of all the posts on your blog in 1 go

- https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/archive doesnt work

- https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/archives nope

- https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/posts nada

- https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/all nil

- https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/blog nyet

- do you understand that most of us got 10000+ bookmarks and it would be really really handy if you could make a single page on your website that lists every post every written without the description or the entire article on it?

New comment by vivzkestrel in "AI is making me dumb"

vivzkestrel — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:07:54 +0000

you are suffering from point 4 as mentioned by the OP here https://personalaisafety.com/p/youre-not-getting-smarter-you...

"4. When the answer feels done, you stop thinking"