Hacker News: zexodus

New comment by zexodus in "Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages"

zexodus — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:39:52 +0000

I'm so tired of these...

Is there really no way we can make it technologically impossible for them to exfiltrate user data?

New comment by zexodus in "Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties"

zexodus — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 20:53:12 +0000

> the wood where my mouse was kept attracting weird black spots

Have the same issue, but can't subscribe to mousepads. I believe that's dust getting in the crevices of the wood.

New comment by zexodus in "Show HN: HTML-to-Markdown – convert entire websites to Markdown with Golang/CLI"

zexodus — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 11:54:56 +0000

Context size limits are usually the reason. Most websites I want to scrape end up being over 200K tokens. Tokenization for HTML isn't optimal because symbols like '<', '>', '/', etc. end up being separate tokens, whereas whole words can be one token if we're talking about plain text.

Possible approaches include transforming the text to MD or minimizing the HTML (e.g., removing script tags, comments, etc.).

New comment by zexodus in "Web scraping with GPT-4o: powerful but expensive"

zexodus — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 07:47:31 +0000

It's possible to capture the DOM by running a headless browser (i.e. with chromedriver/geckodriver), allowing the js execute and then saving the HTML.

If these readers do not use already rendered HTML to parse the information on the screen, then...

New comment by zexodus in "Weavers and Concluders: Two communication styles (2021)"

zexodus — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 09:21:01 +0000

I thought the left brain/right brain gibberish was debunked years ago.

New comment by zexodus in "Google CodeGemma: Open Code Models Based on Gemma [pdf]"

zexodus — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 08:37:44 +0000

It performed surprisingly well at categorization tasks where json results where involved compared to gemma:2b and gemma:7b

New comment by zexodus in "Write OpenAPI with TypeSpec"

zexodus — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:18:39 +0000

TypeSpec is great, but if you're working with Rust and you're about to write a new project that will require an OpenApi spec sooner or later, I'd like to recommend a web framework that has spec generation baked in:

https://github.com/poem-web/poem (see poem_openapi)

All you need to do is derive a trait on your response structs and in return you get an almost perfectly generated spec. Unions, objects, enums are first class citizens.

Also, if you're from coming from PHP, the controllers feel very much like symfony controllers.

P.s. Please do recommend an ORM that would feel closer to doctrine. I miss doctrine.

New comment by zexodus in "The /unblock API from Browserless: dodging bot detection as a service"

zexodus — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 23:15:10 +0000

Every single time I see these scraping discussions I get the same thoughts:

Businesses use data from the user. The Business does additional crunching on that data to derive new interesting data for the user. Who owns the data? The user or the app?

At the very least the user partially owns the data and as such, I'd argue that the user should have the right to share the data between different applications however they see fit. However, businesses tend to think that they somehow have the legal (moral even?) right to keep that data in their walled gardens. For as long as this (imo unfair) stance is common, I think that data extraction by use of these anti-bot-bypassing technologies is fair game.

New comment by zexodus in "HDR-NeRF: High Dynamic Range Neural Radiance Fields"

zexodus — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 06:26:58 +0000

The technology would also be killer in real estate markets. Imagine being able to take a video and give potential tenants the ability to see the apartment/house/etc in detail.

New comment by zexodus in "Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress"

zexodus — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 11:09:25 +0000

I was about to throw some money down their way, but apparently the steam version does not work on Mac M1/M2. I'm too young/uninitiated/whatever/visually_oriented to play the older version.

New comment by zexodus in "Yandex ‘leak’ reveals search ranking factors"

zexodus — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 12:21:08 +0000

It's possible to use an algorithmic approach (i.e. linear regression) to derive the weights for each of these factors.

DiIiS: Diablo III open-source server

zexodus — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:23:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/blizzless/blizzless-diiis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32579842

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zexodus in "Plex: Important notice of a potential data breach"

zexodus — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 07:56:19 +0000

Perhaps the most important thing about Jellyfin is that it's open source. I really wish the project received a little bit more love.

Web Scraping in a Nutshell: The How, When, and Why Answered

zexodus — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 11:58:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jJ1xVnj_Iw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30176404

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zexodus in "Ghost CEO lectures locked out customer about empathy"

zexodus — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 22:31:36 +0000

I wonder how they'd respond to a GDPR request.

New comment by zexodus in "How Developers Choose Names"

zexodus — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 14:10:55 +0000

Research like this could lead to IDE's suggesting names for some of our methods. Exciting!

New comment by zexodus in "Build on Redis Hackathon"

zexodus — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 11:18:04 +0000

Anybody looking for a team member?

New comment by zexodus in "I Created a Trading Simulator"

zexodus — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:14:11 +0000

Hello deandree,

Almost a year ago I've had pretty much an identical idea. Ultimately I got discouraged by the thought that historical data does not correlate with actual stock performance.

Nonetheless, I'm very proud of you for managing to release this product, regardless of the critique you get in this thread.

Best of luck in the future.

New comment by zexodus in "Do the Real Thing"

zexodus — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 21:54:42 +0000

This article reminds me that I don't really know what I want to do in the first place.

New comment by zexodus in "What Are NVMe Disks and Why Should Your Server Use One?"

zexodus — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 16:52:32 +0000

Paywalled. Please provide a mirror.