Hacker News: zos_kia

New comment by zos_kia in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

zos_kia — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:03:50 +0000

I guess you could just code and have it author only the commit message

New comment by zos_kia in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

zos_kia — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 08:18:15 +0000

If you have an Android box, you can set Kodi as the launcher (so the home button will always take you to Kodi home). It has a section that lists Android apps and lets you run them from there.

It's a bit backwards but I did it for years, and it works really well if you're ok with the Kodi experience.

New comment by zos_kia in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"

zos_kia — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 08:12:17 +0000

Koyeb (recently acquired by Mistral if I'm not mistaken) have GPUs you can rent by the minute and they also have one-click deploy of some open models.

New comment by zos_kia in "This time is different"

zos_kia — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:52:21 +0000

I think the author is saying that a specific crowd, which happened to be very vocal and excited about web3 and NFTs, is also very vocal and excited about AI. In my personal experience they are right, a lot of the hustler types around me who were trying to get everyone to "invest" in digital land are now doomposting about AI.

It's not a very legible situation for people outside of the profession, and a lot of them believe it's just another grift that will blow up in a few years.

New comment by zos_kia in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

zos_kia — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:59:13 +0000

The worth is zero because the producer doesn't pay for the externalities (pollution, landfill usage etc). So essentially it is "free" because it is subsidized by everyone.

The "headache" is just : produce what you sell, sell what you produce, don't fill the world with your shit.

New comment by zos_kia in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

zos_kia — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:42:25 +0000

I think of it as a plane that cannot land. Allow it to fail in flight and you won't have a plane to fix or designers to fix it.

New comment by zos_kia in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

zos_kia — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:36:28 +0000

I think that's actually an interesting feature of society as a macro system. It is very fault tolerant, which is frustrating for any power user but without which the system as a whole would not function at all.

New comment by zos_kia in "Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive"

zos_kia — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 09:42:20 +0000

Twake includes OnlyOFfice which has collaborative realtime document editing on Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc...

New comment by zos_kia in "A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)"

zos_kia — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 13:32:03 +0000

Next.js bundles the code and aggressively minifies it, because their base use case is to deploy on lambdas or very small servers. A static website using next would be quite optimal in terms of bundle size.

New comment by zos_kia in "Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models Tech Report 2025"

zos_kia — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 12:26:22 +0000

I've found this approach brings slightly better result indeed. Let the model "think" in natural language, then translate it's conclusions to Json. (Vibe checked, not benchmarked)

New comment by zos_kia in "All AI models might be the same"

zos_kia — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 23:09:16 +0000

Someone more knowledgeable might chime in, but I don't think two corpuses can be mapped to the same vector space. Wouldn't each vector space be derived from its corpus?

New comment by zos_kia in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

zos_kia — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 23:20:07 +0000

Can't remember the last time I actually had to open a website on chrome for compatibility reasons. Is that still a thing?

New comment by zos_kia in "Sony FX-300 Jackal: A technological marvel of the late 70s (2021)"

zos_kia — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:39:10 +0000

You're right, the choice was made for color, not resolution.

New comment by zos_kia in "Sony FX-300 Jackal: A technological marvel of the late 70s (2021)"

zos_kia — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:36:13 +0000

It's really cool, my only regret is that they didn't use the CRT. I know, I know, resolution and all that but still...

The Weyland logo on startup is a really nice touch.

New comment by zos_kia in "Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji"

zos_kia — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:34:07 +0000

With the amount of pre processing that is done before integrating stuff in a dataset I'd be surprised if those kinds of shenanigans even worked

New comment by zos_kia in "Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024"

zos_kia — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:04:49 +0000

I say greed with absolutely no moral implications here ! But when you watch the doco it is pretty apparent that this kind of hunger is compulsive.

New comment by zos_kia in "Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024"

zos_kia — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:02:29 +0000

Yes that is why I mentioned it was nearly impossible to replicate. The final optimized method involved a lot of social engineering, which required to have very high standing in the casinos. She had to request, under the guise of superstition, a specific setup with a specific style of dealer, who never changed decks, and to be authorized to call out certain cards as "lucky" which the dealer would flip themselves.

It also required deep pockets, as just playing the shoe enough to sort it could take a few hours of regular gambling. That's the crazy thing, this elaborate setup just got them a few % edge on the house which they milked relentlessly.

New comment by zos_kia in "Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024"

zos_kia — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 07:54:52 +0000

You are absolutely right, sadly i can't edit my original comment anymore. Also that's the exact documentary i got it from, thanks for posting it.

New comment by zos_kia in "Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024"

zos_kia — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:30:29 +0000

There is a woman who found a way to game casino black jack and made millions out of it before getting caught. It's nearly impossible to replicate but it involved spotting imperfections in the way print sheets are cut up into individual cards.

I don't remember her name but she was an associate of poker legend Phil Ivey, and there's a whole documentary on YouTube about it. It's pretty fascinating what greed and a ridiculous level of risk tolerance can achieve.

New comment by zos_kia in "Divers recover Phoenician shipwreck that sank 2.6k years ago off coast of Spain"

zos_kia — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 23:00:01 +0000

That is intriguing I had never seen xk used in that sense. Is that a common convention?