Hacker News: xVedun

Investigating Service Outage

xVedun — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:18:06 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481265

Points: 2

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New comment by xVedun in "1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History"

xVedun — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 04:17:33 +0000

Check out Demons of Unrest, which covers the few months before the American civil war. It covers the stories of Lincoln, other union leaders and Confederate leaders and their understanding and misunderstandings about what the other side thought.

It's remarkable about what assumptions people can make without talking to people from other places.

New comment by xVedun in "I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus"

xVedun — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:22:14 +0000

Maybe the only way to be sure is to have it generate (not stable diffuse) an image with the value in there.

New comment by xVedun in "The Naming of America (2023)"

xVedun — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 23:44:51 +0000

There doesn't seem to be a ton of information easily accessible about America Vespucci, but this [1] except from the Washington Democratic Review for February 1839 notes the following:

> The object for which she had specially come to America, was to obtain, if possible, a grant of land from the Congress of the United States, as a means of honourable and independent support and the failure of her application, as well as the grounds on which it was deemed necessary to decline compliance with the request, are fully and fairly stated in the following Report made to the Senate of the United States, by Mr. Walker, of Mississippi.

Where a report names that she seems to be worth of the name, but fails to mention any actual land grant, which I would assume is a nice way to say no.

> She feels that the name she bears is a prouder title than any that earthly monarchs can bestow; She asking us for a small corner of American soil, where she may pass the remainder of her days in this land of her adoption. She comes here as an exile, separated for ever from her family and friends; a stranger, without a country and without a home; expelled from her native Italy, for the avowal maintenance of opinions favourable to free institutions, and an ardent desire for the establishment of her country's freedom. That she indeed is worthy of the name of America —that her heart is indeed imbued with American principles, and fervent love for human liberty, is proved in her case, by toils, and perils, and sacrifices, worthy Of the proudest days of antiquity, when the Roman and the Spartan matrons were ever ready to surrender life in their country's service.

[1] http://portraits.allenbrowne.info/Vespucci/Buckingham/

New comment by xVedun in "Elon Musk posts deepfake of Kamala Harris that violates X policy"

xVedun — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 13:24:48 +0000

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Guide to Full Disk Encryption with TPM and Secure Boot

xVedun — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:12:22 +0000

Article URL: https://blastrock.github.io/fde-tpm-sb.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205498

Points: 1

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Adversarially Trained Physics-Based Character Animations

xVedun — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 19:45:23 +0000

Article URL: https://nv-tlabs.github.io/ASE/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33126030

Points: 2

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New comment by xVedun in "An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system (2014)"

xVedun — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 03:57:15 +0000

Wow that's super interesting. I'm glad that the MBTA is publishing more detailed stats so we can get super interesting visualisations like that. I'd be curious to see how the charts update as Boston fixes its recent delays.

Robot Learns to Climb Stairs Blind

xVedun — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 13:57:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPhEmC6b6XU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27983784

Points: 1

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New comment by xVedun in "Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (2017)"

xVedun — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 14:28:57 +0000

Possibly something like this: Caffeine and theanine have opposed effect on attention when stressed (2017)

Based on the definition of emotional arousal, stress isn't 100% accurate, but perhaps better than aroused.

[1] https://www.thefreedictionary.com/emotional+arousal

AMD Shows New 3D V-Cache Ryzen Chiplets, Up to 192MB of L3 Cache

xVedun — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 03:31:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-shows-new-3d-v-cache-ryzen-chiplets-up-to-192mb-of-l3-cache-per-chip-15-gaming-improvement

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27350479

Points: 5

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New comment by xVedun in "Is Consciousness Everywhere?"

xVedun — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:53:08 +0000

I would be curious to see how the author would respond to this fairly detailed criticism of his book: [1] One excerpt from this amazon review goes "If you are impressed by statistics, blips on fMRI screens, taking correlations as proof of causality and meta-analysis as equal to replication, then you might like this book. If you are interested in what wild speculations parapsychologists are coming up with these days, then this is the book for you. If you are looking for evidence that psi is explained by quantum physics, you'll be disappointed."

[1] https://www.amazon.com/review/R2VIDRICPX3ROL/ref=cm_cr_srp_d...

EHang to Provide UAM Services in Zhuhai, China

xVedun — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 19:36:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ehang.com/news/719.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25850917

Points: 1

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New comment by xVedun in "Show HN: Open-source quadruped robot with robotic arm"

xVedun — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 20:08:19 +0000

This looks very cool! I wonder how close it is to the method that Boston Dynamics uses to control the their version. Did they simply train a machine learning algorithm for way longer than a hobbyist can or is there a ton of manual tweaking?

New comment by xVedun in "Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?"

xVedun — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:15:24 +0000

I found that going to the last page showed a more realistic number for results. This would only be shown on that "last page" of results though. However, it does seem strange that there are only 447 results for a google search of "apple"[0] down from a whopping 4,070,000,000 results shown before that page. And that is with show omitted results. Seems like max result limiting for the 0.1% of users that want to look past page 10 of search results

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=apple&start=440&sa=N&filter=...

New comment by xVedun in "What I Learned About Failing from My 5 Year Indie Game Dev Project"

xVedun — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 18:50:08 +0000

If the work and stress is spread out over two or three years. It's likely that the time spent could easily be outweighed by many other jobs/projects,

New comment by xVedun in "Snapchat Detection on iOS (2019)"

xVedun — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 15:45:41 +0000

Interesting that even apple apps with the strictest sandboxing by default still has over ten different methods of determining if a jailbreak exists. Now maybe these methods are only useful when a phone is jailbroken, but it seems that this just seems like another way of collecting information.

New comment by xVedun in "Why Does DARPA Work?"

xVedun — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 18:14:27 +0000

It seems that this would be a much better way of funding research in a general sense, since that seems to be the general process of their problem solving. The only thing is that to apply this to other fields, the barrier for getting people that are equally motivated and intelligent about analyzing if the research is 'going' somewhere is high

EHang approved to transport heavy cargo by drone

xVedun — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 15:03:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ehang.com/news/649.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23467255

Points: 1

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New comment by xVedun in "Dark Basin: Uncovering a Hack-for-Hire Operation"

xVedun — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 14:55:57 +0000

If this is what a single company can accomplish with a moderate amount of funding. It makes me worried about what a military force could accomplish given 100x resources.