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ghayes commented on Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com) github.com/skift-org/vaev... · Posted by u/monax

userbinator · 3 months ago

The subset could just be an older version of the spec, e.g. HTML 4.01 and CSS 2.1.

(My opinion as another one who has been slowly working on my own browser engine.)

ghayes · 3 months ago

I feel like some of the newer standards like CSS Grid instead of tables might be the best way to go. Many HTML/CSS improvements were not just bloat but actually better standards to build on.

ghayes commented on Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using? · Posted by u/fuzztester

Terr_ · 6 months ago

There's a bit of a struggle between sections that use just one or the other, but Elm has the managerial blessing right now.

While I think Elm is neat, it suffers from ecosystem issues. It drive a large amount of Not Invented Here because JS invented somewhere else is hard to incorporate. Also, good luck rendering arbitrary HTML that comes in as data from somewhere else.

ghayes · 6 months ago

Yeah, I loved Elm, but the restriction that you can't build your own "effect" modules really made it impossible to embrace. Say you want to use a new web API similar to using Elm's core `Http`, well... you can try and fork Elm...

ghayes commented on Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme tintin.dlazaro.ca/... · Posted by u/dlazaro

executesorder66 · 6 months ago

What do you mean non-usable? You could totally spam the work slack channel with these.

ghayes · 6 months ago

Though, sadly it's not a true image; it's composed as an SVG in HTML. So you can't copy-paste the image into chats.

ghayes commented on Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search blog.kagi.com/kagi-privac... · Posted by u/b3n

Eji1700 · 7 months ago

So....is this privacy through assumed lack of logging? Not trying to be a dick, just legit don't understand a part of this.

User A asks kagi for tokens. Kagi says "sure, here's 500 tokens". If kagi then logs the 500 tokens it just gave to user A, it now will know if any of those tokens is redeemed at a later date, that they're assigned to user A?

Of course if Kagi just doesn't retain this data, then yeah all is good because the token itself is only marked as valid, not valid and given to user A on date Y, but....that's it right? Or am I misunderstanding something?

ghayes · 7 months ago

Privacy Pass docs [0] cover this, but it is mostly referenced deeper in the paper. I believe the idea is that the tokens returned by the server are "unlinkable" to the (modified) tokens passed back by the client. So the server knows it passed back tokens A, B and C to some users, and later receives tokens X, Y and Z. It knows that X, Y and Z are valid, but not their correspondance to the tokens it issued. It uses elliptic curve cryptography for this.

[0] https://privacypass.github.io/

ghayes commented on Proof of location for online polls ip-vote.com/geolocation_v... · Posted by u/c-riq

polon · 8 months ago

I think this is covered on the page

"Successfully manipulating a poll which employs this method would require following efforts and resources:

Gaining control over a large number of devices in the target geographic region for submitting votes through those devices"

So yes, it seems like it can be defeated via a remote desktop (or any proxy in the allowed area)

ghayes · 8 months ago

Couldn't the "test" add some variety of math challenge, thus making a simple proxy insufficient. Obviously, this method would add more noise to the final calculation, but if the proxy would need to forward its data to the end-user machine to perform the math, then a simple proxy in this case wouldn't be sufficient.

ghayes commented on Soldering the Tek way hackaday.com/2025/01/09/r... · Posted by u/zdw

ghayes · 8 months ago

Curious if anyone has tips on lead-free soldering. I basically always see in online forums "just use lead," but never any tips on how to actually become capable on using lead-free solder. Esp. as my son is around a lot, it seems prudent to stay lead-free, even if you can generally handle lead safely. Thanks.

ghayes commented on Guide to 3D Print Motorized Rotation Mounts for Optical Applications (2021) arxiv.org/abs/2102.13207... · Posted by u/nativeit

nativeit · 9 months ago

ghayes · 9 months ago

Thanks. Can someone explain what these are typically used for or link to commercially available variants?

ghayes commented on ChatGPT Search openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/thm

randcraw · 10 months ago

I really don't see the value of summarizing/repackaging web search hits. Given that 99% of SEO-tuned web content is just shilling for vendors who don't want to be seen, LLM search summarization will just repackage those ads into a more palatable format that is LESS useful than the original, while more successfully hiding the obvious signatures that used to be a clear warning sign that... THE.FOLLOWING.CONTENT.IS.MANIULATIVE.CRAP.

ghayes · 10 months ago

I tend to agree. If I ask ChatGPT what is the best way to make pasta, it will pull from every source it’s ever been trained on. If it decides to search the web, it will mostly cater to one or two sources.

ghayes commented on Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC's click-to-cancel rule arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/LorenDB

diggan · 10 months ago

Wikipedia says the following about the FTC:

> Additionally, the FTC has rulemaking power to address concerns regarding industry-wide practices. Rules promulgated under this authority are known as Trade Rules.

But of course, that specific sentence is labeled "citation needed" so can't really dig deeper there. But taking it at face-value, isn't that one of the points of the FTC at least today, that they can setup these "Trade Rules"?

ghayes · 10 months ago

The recent Loper decision also expressly says Congress _can_ delegate to agencies, just that APA doesn’t do that delegation itself.

ghayes commented on Press Conference: Professor Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 [video] youtube.com/watch?v=H7DgM... · Posted by u/moose44

ghayes · a year ago

Geoffrey Hinton had an excellent series on neural networks from 2011 for Coursera available here https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoRl3Ht4JOcdU872GhiYWf6... detailing the fundamentals of machine learning. The series was later wholesale replaced by another led by Andrew Ng of Google. I really adored Geoffrey’s lectures and recommend it to anyone looking to get into the space. It ends with him hinting at the idea of attention networks, but sadly I can’t find any later lectures from him on the topic.