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kaimac··on Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed
You can't say anything these days Phil
kaimac··on Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed
These days if you say you're English you'll be arrested and thrown in jail
kaimac··on The Origins of Wokeness
are you the Daniel Gackle mentioned at the bottom of the article or a different one?
kaimac··on Nullboard: Kanban board in a single HTML file
You can get the browser to confirm you want to close the tab. That's what I did with my little single-file scrapbook thing: http://kaimac.org/posts/scrapbook/index.html
kaimac··on 25 Years of Dillo
Have you tried using Ladybird? The performance is unfortunately not very good. On the other hand Dillo loads pages instantly, even if most pages don't look right.
kaimac··on Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals
peak hacker news comment
kaimac··on A “meta-optics” camera that is the size of a grain of salt
you could detect the supporting electronics with a nonlinear junction detector but they are not cheap
kaimac··on A “meta-optics” camera that is the size of a grain of salt
Not a single mention of the obvious privacy concerns in the article
kaimac··on Zig's (.{}){} Syntax
"just"
kaimac··on Microsoft: 'ever present' AI assistants are coming
could be great news for linux adoption
kaimac··on What the hell is a luminiferous theremin?
VL53L0X
kaimac··on Google scraps minimum wage, benefits rules for suppliers and staffing firms
nah
kaimac··on Show HN: Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting
I love the MS UI Gothic pixel font that people use on these retro sites
kaimac··on Sora: Creating video from text
meanwhile people are dying
kaimac··on British man appears in Spanish court over plane-bomb hoax
>The message, sent before Mr Verma departed Gatwick airport, read: "On my way to blow up the plane (I'm a member of the Taliban)."

>Mr Verma's message was picked up by the UK security services who flagged it to Spanish authorities while the easyJet plane was still in the air.

>A court in Madrid heard it was assumed the message triggered alarm bells after being picked up via Gatwick's Wi-Fi network.

I don't see what this has to do with Gatwick's wifi - presumably one of these agencies have their hooks in Snapchat somewhere, PRISM-style.

kaimac··on Ask HN: Who else is working on nothing?
Thanks for writing all that out, I'm in a similar situation I suppose and you've made me feel better. And I love the idea of your ant colony.
kaimac··on Ask HN: Does Cloudflare block HN comments if you have code blocks in a reply?
Cloudflare has access to everyone's cleartext? I was unaware of this. NSA must love that
kaimac··on Making the web fun again (2013)
love what you are doing for the web! unfortunately I've not been able to receive the verification email, I guess you're having some issues at the moment.
kaimac··on High myopia is now the leading cause of blindness in Japan, China, and Taiwan
> I’d love to understand why you would post such a dogmatic dismissal without so much as a citation

Is this your first time on hacker news?

kaimac··on LLM Visualization
I found these notes very useful. They also contain a nice summary of how LLMs/transformers work. It doesn't help that people can't seem to help taking a concept that has been around for decades (kernel smoothing) and giving it a fancy new name (attention).

http://bactra.org/notebooks/nn-attention-and-transformers.ht...

kaimac··on We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x
skill issue
kaimac··on How to pass a first-round interview
> So I recommend you continue to search for a situation you can recall in detail.

Or just make one up. Ask silly questions, get silly answers.

kaimac··on Is Your Twitter Down?
Down for me for several hours as well.
kaimac··on YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
This will lead to the post-ad captcha. "To continue watching the video, select which product was being advertised"
kaimac··on Sketch.systems
As a writer of embedded software I'm a big fan of state machines. I always thought they were underused in other domains, so it's good to see things like this.
kaimac··on Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
Clicking on the title of the kbin post takes you here where there are more comments: https://mstdn.games/@chris/110553477682106144

This seems like such an unwise thing for them to do that I feel like there must be another explanation.

kaimac··on Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely
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