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embedding-shape··on Barcelona unrest: how to fabricate a protest in the age of TikTok
What opposition organized these riots? You're confusing them from proper demonstrations and protests that are organized by actual opposition. The riots seems to have come from something else, unless you can quote which organization is behind this.
embedding-shape··on Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update
> so a lot of the time, people use Tailscale just for SSH. I personally feel the impact is still quite big, especially since SSH leads directly to control of the server

I too use ssh with Tailscale, but as I understand things, this is only impact "tailscale ssh", which is different from doing "ssh over tailscale" (over tailnet), at least how I understand other comments here, someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

embedding-shape··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
Does that mean you also believe the same to be true for mouse affordances ruining it for keyboard users and vice-versa? Or "touch" is special in this regard?
embedding-shape··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
I got a Surface laptop/tablet hybrid thingy, which was weird at first to get used to, but actually kind of nice. I mostly got it for notetaking, drawing and 3D work, which it worked very well for, until the machine bricked itself during a Windows Update like a month after the warranty, and now it no longers powers up itself.

While it worked, it was useful for me, mostly the drawing I guess was the most different, as I used to use Wacom tablets for that, but seeing exactly where you draw makes things a lot easier.

If I was still in the market for a laptop, I'd probably again get a touch-based one, as long as it's not Microsoft, as that was the first and last time I bought any Microsoft hardware. Probably not Apple either as the OS and software is such a mess, so probably leaning Asus or Thinkpad with Linux on it, if anything.

embedding-shape··on Barcelona unrest: how to fabricate a protest in the age of TikTok
> at least at 16:30 a lego store on passeig de gracia announced that there was a demonstration starting

> looks like it was a planned protest

Huh? The first doesn't mean the second automatically becomes true, spontaneous protests without permission happens city-center from time to time, wouldn't be the first time.

The figure out if it was planned, could you please outline which political groups organized this and where they posted about this planned protest? As that's what a "planned protest" actually means. Going to a location of a Tiktok post to cause mayhem isn't a "planned protest" regardless of how many LEGO stores close.

embedding-shape··on Behringer open-sources its $150 sampler for vibe coders
This kind of feels like the approach Elektron should have taken once the 3rd party firmware showed up. Instead they decided to hide it from the community. Such a shame private equity bought up my favorite hardware company, shit like that never ends up well :(
embedding-shape··on Barcelona unrest: how to fabricate a protest in the age of TikTok
Maybe try reading the article, it isn't claiming "all protests in Spain are fake".
embedding-shape··on Barcelona unrest: how to fabricate a protest in the age of TikTok
> On the other hand, can’t these things also legitimately arise from disenfranchised groups without needing to point to a boogie man?

I think that's the crux, they do, constantly! We have "real riots" in Spain all the time, and protests, both peaceful and violent ones. We have experience of the actual process of seeing people getting more and more frustrated, and things slowly bubbling until it reaches a threshold, then bubbles over.

This doesn't seem to be that. There is zero political parties/groups involved, which is very uncommon, we have strong groups that are always up for causing some property damages and similar things, when these "real riots" happen, but none of these were involved.

When you have basically groups of individuals all acting in uniform way, based on the same misinformation, with zero association or relation to our existing political factions, then it's quite easy to see that things didn't happen as they "normally" do, that's why people are asking questions right now about it.

embedding-shape··on Barcelona unrest: how to fabricate a protest in the age of TikTok
> What I will say is that getting tiktoks in front of hundreds of thousands of people in a coordinated way isn't easy

Literally trivial: https://getstarted.tiktok.com/gofulltiktok?lang=en

> and they won't come out if they weren't already passionate about something

First time protesting and/or rioting in Barcelona? There is definitively always people taking advantage of our peaceful protests to cause chaos and mayhem, this happens every time there are protests, and especially once the police wants to shut down the events but people want to keep on partying.

> they should subpoena tiktok for exact records

Absolutely, straight up attempts to subvert democracy, should be met with investigations immediately.

embedding-shape··on Spain train crash: 'At least 10 dead' in high-speed collision
> if you open one of the biggest newspapers in Spain they report already 50 dead

Which one, El Pais? ABC is American, not sure why you'd claim this is a Spanish newspaper. What Czech TV stations report also feels not so relevant.

Here you have an actual news article from an actual Spanish newspaper: https://english.elpais.com/spain/2026-10-28/at-least-10-peop...

embedding-shape··on Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
> I would love to see more text to 3D model models that can wire up straight to a game engine

Same, but none of the models actually have good enough output yet to make that work. Currently they're all aiming to "fake" the niceness by doing modeling+texturing, but when you look at the wireframe, it's pretty clear they're very far of from being usable, even less so in a game where performance matters a great deal, and you can't just YOLO assets however you want, which is what the "text to 3D" models like to do.

Inevitable that we'll get there eventually though, it's miles ahead where it was just 1-2 years ago. I guess my point is that it's not the "3D model > game engine" that is lacking at the moment, but "text > 3D model" that cannot produce high quality enough results.

embedding-shape··on Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM
> when it can't be found by scraping a web page?

This is the very purpose of those tokens! The reason they're like that, is because you won't encounter it in random content, so during training, you can put them where you want them to end up at prediction time.

embedding-shape··on Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses)
Shit happens, this is normal. However, this:

> We were aware of this mismatch before launch

Isn't normal. Am I misunderstanding or are they openly confessing they've stopped caring about quality at all? Why would you launch when you know it's wrong?

embedding-shape··on Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses)
It took me until "We have remediated the issue" to realize Cloudflare is talking about an issue they have in their infrastructure, up until that point they're not making that clear at all, and seems to point towards something else, unless you of course already are aware of what exact names Cloudflare uses for their products...
embedding-shape··on Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
New kids often don't want to be in the same space as where the "new adults" are though, that's uncool. See: literally any social media site since forever.
embedding-shape··on PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory (2025)
> the thought process that led to thinking it was a good idea

Seemingly that can be found here: physicsforums [dot] com/threads/official-response-to-allegations-of-ai-misuse-in-pf.1078532/

> During the past several months, to counter declining engagement, I experimented with generative AI, intending to add value to "thin threads", especially those with 0 replies.

> For experiment #3, I used real accounts that I considered to be decade-old spammers as best I could tell, but I can't be 100% certain. I categorically regret and reject such a shameful and unethical decision.

(that website also modifies your clipboard when you copy stuff, big fuck you to the site owner, seemingly lacking any sort of guiding compass, good riddance to them)

embedding-shape··on One of the Greatest Inventions in the History of Human Transport
> If only most cities could have this today

Judging by the rest of the replies (most of which I'd agree with), it seems more uncommon that they do not, than they do :) I think this heavily depends on how friendly your government in general is to public transport, which can vary heavily if you're in some specific places in the world.

embedding-shape··on Superhuman Hardware Design Is the Easy Part
I used to have the interest, and even used to participate in those circles, as I sold drugs when I was younger. Plenty of guns around those circles no doubt, but none of them would sell guns to random people, for obvious reasons.

But this was all in countries where guns were and are outlawed, which does make it harder to acquire guns, since those countries don't suffer from the problem of everyone and their mother having a gun, school shootings and all the other jazz that stuff comes with.

It still isn't "easy to get illegal guns" in those countries, even though it's much easier in other countries that are a bit behind the rest of the world when it comes to safety.

embedding-shape··on Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM
The first place I think I encountered it, was GPT-2's tokenizer, back when OpenAI did actual open source stuff, maybe around 2020?

I'm guessing as with most stuff in the LLM ecosystem, someone did it, no one re-evaluated why and just copied it wholesale, and here we are. The most important point, that this sequence of text never occurs in "real text", is the main point of the specific character chosen, and seems to still work good for that purpose.

The original usage is only "<|endoftext|>" I think, which was the EOS token for GPT-2, then more and more special tokens were added as various delimiters to new model releases.

embedding-shape··on PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP
> Anecdotally, it's not representative of your experience.

I'm glad you got the gist of my comment :)

> But... Rewrite-it-in-Rust is a meme, while rewrite in Go is not.

Today no, but it definitely was when it first became popular, "X but in Go" was fairly common on the HN frontpage and elsewhere. Just like "X but in Ruby" used to be a thing too, but isn't anymore.

embedding-shape··on PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP
> Rust was used primarily for rewriting things (compared to, for example, Go, which was used to write new things, not replacements

How could you possibly know this, for either languages?

FWIW, I've only worked and written greenfield software with Rust, and have only worked professionally with Golang to replace existing services. I'm sure I'm not alone in this, nor in the complete opposite. But I don't think either of us could say how either of the languages or "primarily used", that's a bit too much.

embedding-shape··on Superhuman Hardware Design Is the Easy Part
You make the action and the barrel in PLA or ABS I suppose? Sounds reliable :)

> but again, there is criminal markets that fill the needs.

Again, those are bigger in some places in the world, and almost non-existing in most parts of the world, even though it's possible to obtain in the right circles.

If we stop assuming the US's "everyone should have a gun at home" mentality is how it goes everywhere, it's still not "easy to get illegal guns" in most parts of the world.

embedding-shape··on Superhuman Hardware Design Is the Easy Part
> You know it's easy to get illegal guns right?

Where though? It's certainly easier in some parts of the worlds than others, and surely something in the environment makes this easier/harder, I wonder if we could identify what exactly?

embedding-shape··on Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
Rather than sarcasm, wanna point out some examples where it did work in practice?
embedding-shape··on Washing machines took decades to catch on
The wheeled suitcase for traveling also feels like such a no-brainer in retrospective, yet seemingly took longer than expected to catch on. One example:

> Sadow spent months attempting to sell his wheeled suitcase to various New York City department stores, but was met with resistance. Most department stores, according to him, refused to sell his invention due to a "macho feeling" that men would consider rolling their luggage "wimpy" and that women who travelled would have their husbands around to carry their suitcases for them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suitcase#Late_19th_century_to_...

embedding-shape··on fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine
> It's extremely common that games that are now popular and beloved weren't very fun until a few months before they released.

I'm not sure that's so common, most games released that weren't fun before they were all completely finish, don't fare so well in the end. What tends to do well, is stuff that is fun/feels good early on, but might not be "visually/creatively complete" until just a few weeks before launch. That last part, is extremely common in game development, maybe you got the two confused.

embedding-shape··on France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms
> VPNs may be used by what, 0.1% of all users?

Probably, since not many of us in Europe don't have lots of use cases for them, yet.

But things like our (Spain's) "internet shall not be 100% available during La Liga football matches" or our neighbors thinking of blocking DNS to stop political activism, surely will continue to make this number raise, albeit slowly.

embedding-shape··on Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
All which would be owned by a US entity after all, and still at the whims of Meta executives. CLOUD Act makes stuff like that impossible to trust, anything going through US infrastructure or administration needs to be considered compromised at this point.

Amazon/AWS tried this route with their "sovereign cloud" which still ends up being beholden exactly the same way as "real AWS", so what's even the point? Who is even falling for these "tricks"?

embedding-shape··on Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models
"X is the Y of Z" might not be insightful enough to prevent being downvoted. It's basically a saying, and the author likely spent like 20 seconds coming up with it. Probably I spent more time just writing this comment, than parent spent thinking+writing theirs.

Insightful critique of AI companies get upvoted here, more so than insightful cheering, I'd say.

embedding-shape··on ThinkRail from JetBrains
Yeah, nah, I'm not sunken deep enough into the jaw of capitalism to feel fucking empathy for a corporation, sorry HN.
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