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jinnkoon Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?

I was using various open weights models until glm-5.3-flash came out recently. It's incredibly capable and cheap, even if it's very verbose and not the fastest. I've assigned it to all my agents across my harness and it's getting the job done. Still needs a good steer every now and then, but a great work horse.

jinnkoon Linux 7.1

Check out FastFlowLM for AMD NPU support.

jinnkoon Reconciling Earth's growing energy imbalance with ocean warming

After seeing the photos of earth from the Artemis II mission, I wondered why the new photos look washed out. Could it be the ”dirty mirror" effect described in this paper?

jinnkoon Asbestos, talc, and The Lancet's 1977 publication

Veritasium recently did a very good episode about asbestos which also mentions this paper. Well worth a watch. https://youtu.be/cMx139eTxoc

jinnkoon Incremental Backups of Gmail Takeouts

I haven't used it for a while, but imapsync[0] still supports Gmail. With an approach like this you can regularly sync and get your messages in a standard format. Plus you don't have to wrangle those 50GB takeout dumps.

0: https://imapsync.lamiral.info/FAQ.d/FAQ.Gmail.txt

jinnkoon DNA Learning Center: Mechanism of Replication 3D Animation

I remember studying this in detail 30 years ago. To watch that whole process in a video now it's mind blowing. Thank you.

jinnkoon New antibiotic targets IBD and AI predicted how it would work

I had a similar experience, i.e. strict keto for 9 months and fully came off meds with no signs of UC or asthma. UC came back after around 2 years and I don't remember how long before I had to start asthma meds again. I can no longer do keto though, each time I try I get palpitations now after around a week.

jinnkoon Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?

AmneziaVPN has censorship circumvention options and makes it easy to set up a self hosted instance of that's what you prefer, or use their hosted service.

https://amnezia.org/

jinnkoon GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]

Once upon a time, prior to Microsoft or eBay purchasing it, this is what Skype was. It required a set of central instances to be supernodes to facilitate discovery, then each client communicated with others directly. And IIRC any client up long enough and with sufficient compute and bandwidth, could become a supernode.

jinnkoon Ask HN: Why is "Tea" still on the App Store after so many data breaches?

According to Wikipedia this is misattributed.

Still resonates though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Wilhoit

jinnkoon Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved feature (2022)

There's another issue with a more complete proposal

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/216351

jinnkoon Show HN: Empty Enter Expander – Type less in the terminal with this tool

I've been using https://github.com/denisidoro/navi for this kind of scenario.

jinnkoon Ask HN: Best way to simultaneously run multiple projects locally?

I hadn't come across overmind before and searching turned up several very different projects.

I think the parent comment is referring to this one: https://github.com/DarthSim/overmind

jinnkoon Goodbye K-9 Mail

It's a reference to Dr Who.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K9_(Doctor_Who)

jinnkoon Wikipedia searches reveal differing styles of curiosity

There's a good episode of Mindscape (Sean Carroll) with the authors of Curious Minds, Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett, which goes into depth about the busybody, dancer and hunter concepts.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2022/11/28/219-...

jinnkoon Cannonball: An enhanced OutRun engine

This is great.

If you're into these retro games there's a couple of others that have been fun:

Ultimate Stunts: https://www.ultimatestunts.nl/

Descent 3: https://github.com/DescentDevelopers/Descent3 (if you own the original, or on other platforms if you want to buy)

jinnkoon Using GPS satellites to detect tsunamis via ionospheric ionization waves

I don't get it, are the figures here typos?

> Given that GNSS satellites typically travel in medium Earth orbit, approximately 20,000 km or 12.4 miles above the surface, GNSS systems are well suited for detecting fluctuations in ionospheric density. > > Further, because ground stations can detect GNSS satellites from such a significant distance (up to 1,200 km),...

Should that be 2000 km and 1240 mi?

jinnkoon macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive

A bit of nostalgia.

Switch to whatever you want https://youtu.be/9GO3mccvTCs

jinnkoon Using Rust in non-Rust servers to improve performance

I'm curious how many cores the server the tests ran on had, and what the performance would be of handling the requests in native node with worker threads[1]? I suspect there's an aspect of being tied to a single main thread that explains the difference at least between tier 0 and 1.

1: https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html

jinnkoon Proton announces release of a new VPN protocol, "Stealth"

Tailscale has been working in China for me the last couple of weeks.

Also check out Amnezia VPN and the cloak implementation.

jinnkoon Unveiling URI, URL, and URN

> All URLs or URNs are URIs, but not all URIs are URLs or URNs.

jinnkoon Show HN: Open-source superhuman like email client

Aerc

https://aerc-mail.org/

jinnkoon SSH over HTTPS

I used to use a tool that does exactly this nearly 20 years ago to poke a hole through corporate firewalls, corkscrew[0].

Nice standalone implementation and write up though.

0: https://github.com/bryanpkc/corkscrew

jinnkoon Stop using JSON Web Tokens for user sessions

And set the SameSite attribute to strict to prevent CSRF

jinnkoon Solar-powered off-road car finishes 620-mile test drive across north Africa

The teams own post: https://solarteameindhoven.nl/article?solar-team-eindhoven-p...

jinnkoon Show HN: Obligator – An OpenID Connect server for self-hosters

I recently came across Caddy Security[1], and while it's not an OIDC IdP itself, it does serve as a good authentication gateway that's easy to get up and running and maintain.

1: https://authp.github.io/

jinnkoon Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘scourge’ continues

Last year we were at a very well kept Airbnb in Cornwall that turned out to have been bugs.

Last spring we stayed at an equally nice family place in the black forest (Germany) also with bed bugs.

My brother bought a nice wooden cabinet in London that turned out to be infested.

It's incredibly distressing cuz you don't want to bring them home. And I've spoken with a fair few people since who've had similar experiences in the past few years.

jinnkoon A place where no humans will tread for 100k years

There was a documentary about this by Michael Madsen in 2010 called Into Eternity.