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chompychop··on Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
They should have gone with 57. Everyone knows it's prime.
chompychop··on Knuth reward check
No other writers have the stature of Knuth. The motivation to proof-read here is not the monetary reward after all.
chompychop··on The Slow Formation of Durable Software
In this day and age, I'd say this is hardly an excuse. Spin up your favorite harness and let the agents sort it out. :)
chompychop··on Phosh 0.56.0
With tap-to-pay, you can store multiple cards in your digital wallet, and you don't have to remember any of their PINs. You can use your fingerprint to sign transactions. I believe this makes it faster.
chompychop··on Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally
Is Whisper still considered SOTA for STT? Since it came out years ago, I'd have assumed there are better models by now.
chompychop··on ETH-Zurich: Digital Design and Computer Architecture; 227-0003-10L, Spring, 2025
Does anyone know how this course compares to the NAND2Tetris course?
chompychop··on Mixpanel Security Breach
Sam Altman.
chompychop··on Await Is Not a Context Switch: Understanding Python's Coroutines vs. Tasks
Asynchronous and parallel programming are concepts I've never really learned, and admittedly scared to use, because I never really understand what the code is doing or even the right way of writing such code. Does anyone have any good resources that helped you learn this and have a good mental model of the concepts involved?
chompychop··on Meta Segment Anything Model 3
Thanks! TIL there's a class of segmentation models with the YOLO naming scheme.
chompychop··on Meta Segment Anything Model 3
YOLO is not a segmentation model.
chompychop··on Cormac McCarthy's personal library
Where can I read more about your research? Knowledge graphs interest me.
chompychop··on FFmpeg merges WebRTC support
I have a beginner question - Can WebRTC be used as an alternative to sending base64-encoded images to a backend server for image processing? Is this approach recommended?
chompychop··on Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
But modern browsers do have this feature, don't they? I can do this on Chrome and Firefox, at least.
chompychop··on Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings
Don't you mean "John" instead of "Jack"? :)
chompychop··on Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories
It's edging pretty close to this - multimodal LLMs can already beat early bosses in soulslike games: https://arxiv.org/html/2409.12889v2
chompychop··on Show HN: Open-Source Colab Notebooks to Implement Advanced RAG Techniques
Does it still have the "abstraction hell" issue when trying to work with it for custom, non out-of-the-box use cases?
chompychop··on Show HN: Open-Source Colab Notebooks to Implement Advanced RAG Techniques
Huh? All of their notebooks use LangChain.
chompychop··on AlphaProof's Greatest Hits
Is it currently possible to reliably limit the cut-off knowledge of an LLM (either during training or inference)? An interesting experiment would be to feed an LLM mathematical knowledge only up to the year of proving a theorem, and then see if it can actually come up with the novel techniques used in the proof. For example, having only access to papers prior to 1993, can an LLM come up with Wiles' proof of FLT?
chompychop··on LoRA vs. Full Fine-Tuning: An Illusion of Equivalence
I don't see how the authorship by Christopher Manning shifts favour towards the other paper; this paper has Antonio Torralba as a co-author, who's also one of the big shots in AI.
chompychop··on Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan
Manjul Bhargava is not Indian.
chompychop··on Show HN: Fast and Exact Algorithm for Image Merging
I believe the term in research literature for this is "Dynamic Video Synopsis". Check this CVPR 2006 paper for instance: https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~peleg/papers/cvpr06-synopsis.pdf
chompychop··on Ex-bank CEO gets 24 years after falling for crypto scam, causing bank collapse
This also reminds of how an employee single-handedly brought down UK's second oldest merchant bank at the time, by speculative trading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Leeson
chompychop··on Open-source tool translates and dubs videos into other languages using AI
How is it subjective? Can't terms like "replacing" and "fast" be quantified by metrics related to rates of unemployment and adoption of AI systems for tasks previously manned by humans? I'm not saying the data is readily available, but I do see a route to objectively measuring this.
chompychop··on FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python
One check I always like to do with a new Python-based framework is this - does it support the creation of a dynamic number of components at runtime, AND each having their own component state? Most frameworks I've tried support one or the other, but not both. Is there an example that demonstrates something like this in FastHTML - user provides a number n at runtime, n cards are generated, each card has its own text field which can be modified by the user without affecting the other cards' text fields.
chompychop··on Show HN: Open-Source Video Editor Web App
Awesome work! Could you tell us a little about how you went about building this? What resources would you recommend for learning to build something like this?
chompychop··on 3D framework for the web, built on Svelte and Three.js
Thanks for your work! :)

Could you tell us how Threlte compares with React-Three-Fiber in terms of feature parity and performance?

chompychop··on VideoGigaGAN: Towards detail-rich video super-resolution
I guess one can break videos into 200-frame chunks and process them independent of each other.
chompychop··on Show HN: a Rust based CLI tool 'imgcatr' for displaying images
And then there's this little issue of backward compatibility. :)
chompychop··on WebAssembly adoption: Is slow and steady winning the race?
But isn't it really slow (like 20x or so) than native FFMPEG?
chompychop··on Fine tune a 70B language model at home
Does this support multimodal language models (E.g.: LLaVA)?
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