Hacker News: zargon

New comment by zargon in "Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen"

zargon — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:18:26 +0000

An LLM can be useful to help you figure out stuff like that.

New comment by zargon in "Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen"

zargon — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:40:37 +0000

These days, most things that I run that aren't from my distro's repos get their own bubblewrap. On top of this, I use opensnitch. Even if I trust the application (uncommon), I never trust npm, pypi, etc. any longer. It's tedious to set this up and OSes should be helping make this easy.

New comment by zargon in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

zargon — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:30:16 +0000

Never make the mistake of anthropomorphizing David Ellison.

New comment by zargon in "Qwen Image 2.1"

zargon — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:26:02 +0000

I promise I searched on my phone before posting that, but it looks like I misinterpreted an hf search result that was actually Qwen-Image-2512 but the url was truncated to Qwen-Image-2 due to my screen width (ugh). For some reason I was thinking Qwen Image 2.1 was the one that had been available for a while but not released, but you're right that was 2.0.

New comment by zargon in "Qwen Image 2.1"

zargon — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:36:21 +0000

It would make more sense to compare with Qwen Image 2, since that was the last open weights Qwen model.

Edit: This is wrong.

New comment by zargon in "Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM"

zargon — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:31:18 +0000

Memory allocated for HBM is memory taken away from DDR production.

New comment by zargon in "Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain"

zargon — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:26:28 +0000

"Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside" is a really stupid and pretentious article arguing against a straw man.

New comment by zargon in "Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others"

zargon — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:56:33 +0000

I have a tendency to use documentation as a quality bar. Byre might be great but I can't continue reading this slop.

New comment by zargon in "Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)"

zargon — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:36:49 +0000

Fun for about 5 minutes but screeches to a halt when ships start to teleport. Only takes a few minutes to be able to get to wave 12 and then there's no progress after that.

New comment by zargon in "No Man's Sky Cosmos"

zargon — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 02:11:24 +0000

I didn't think to check for mods. Thanks.

New comment by zargon in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash"

zargon — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:50:12 +0000

This perspective that consciousness cannot be programmed can only make sense if you're a dualist. We don't know how consciousness arises. If you're a naturalist it can't be ruled out based on the simplicity of the algorithm.

New comment by zargon in "No Man's Sky Cosmos"

zargon — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:30:57 +0000

Unpopular opinion, but for me, no amount of puzzles/story can offset the utter obnoxious frustration of the time loop.

New comment by zargon in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

zargon — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:55:59 +0000

> I've been using AI increasingly more and more

> genuinely

We can tell.

New comment by zargon in "typ.ing"

zargon — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:02:28 +0000

The Glove80 looks close to what I want, but that thumb cluster looks basically as bad as the Ergodox one. Too many keys overall, especially pinky ones.

New comment by zargon in "Hister – A private, full content search index that you control"

zargon — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:09:09 +0000

AGPLv3 is awesome, great choice!

New comment by zargon in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

zargon — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:29:53 +0000

Aris Mpitziopoulos at cybenetics.com

New comment by zargon in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

zargon — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:34:28 +0000

I'm not sure whether this comment is serious or not. Poe's law strikes again.

New comment by zargon in "Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI"

zargon — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:44:06 +0000

> Do not give yourself diabetes by eating vast amounts of sugar. If you are doing this, stop. Not having diabetes decreases CVD risk.

Not eating vast quantities of sugar is good advice, but it's not the direct cause of T2 diabetes. The best evidence suggests that T2 diabetes is caused by the accumulation of fat in the liver and pancreas. See the twin cycle hypothesis. To prevent diabetes, one needs to maintain a weight low enough where the body isn't storing fat in the liver and pancreas (everyone has their own individual threshold for this). If you're pre-diabetic, lose enough weight and most people will regain insulin sensitivity.

New comment by zargon in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

zargon — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:05:16 +0000

Yes, llama.cpp does that.

New comment by zargon in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

zargon — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:36:36 +0000

KL divergence is nothing close to a replacement for benchmarks. As flawed as benchmarks are, KL divergence is a barely useful signal. The fact that Unsloth only just started publishing KL divergences shows how unserious the quantization space is.