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longwave commented on WordPress plugin quirk resulted in UK Gov OBR Budget leak [pdf] obr.uk/docs/dlm_uploads/0... · Posted by u/robtaylor

glenjamin · 21 days ago

There's a couple of passing mentions of Download Monitor, but also the timeline strongly implies that a specific source was simply guessing the URL of the PDF long before it was uploaded

I'm not clear from the doc which of these scenarios is what they're calling the "leak"

longwave · 21 days ago

It sounds like a combination of the Download Monitor plugin plus a misconfiguration at the web server level resulted in the file being publicly accessible at that URL when the developers thought it would remain private until deliberately published.

longwave commented on Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver value arxiv.org/abs/2509.12337... · Posted by u/marvinborner

fedeb95 · 3 months ago

what's most interesting to me about this research is that it is an online collaborative one. I wonder how many more project such as this there are, and if it could be more widespread, maybe as a platform.

longwave · 3 months ago

This comment reminded me to check whether https://www.distributed.net/ was still in existence. I hadn't thought about the site for probably two decades, I ran the client for this back in the late 1990s back when they were cracking RC5-64, but they still appear to be going as a platform that could be used for this kind of thing.

longwave commented on Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-... · Posted by u/dheerajvs

pera · 5 months ago

Wow these are extremely interesting results, specially this part:

> This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.

I wonder what could explain such large difference between estimation/experience vs reality, any ideas?

Maybe our brains are measuring mental effort and distorting our experience of time?

longwave · 5 months ago

I also wonder how many of the numerous AI proponents in HN comments are subject to the same effect. Unless they are truly measuring their own performance, is AI really making them more productive?

Posted by u/longwave 7 months ago

Human coders are still better than LLMs antirez.com/news/153...

longwave commented on The cultural evolution of distortion in music royalsocietypublishing.or... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

JeffeFawkes · 9 months ago

It has been worked into a tune! Love this artist (Venjent), he takes a lot of random samples like that and turns them into EDM tunes.

https://youtu.be/gpQS41WQSPY?si=7zK7wbtulqbgx-AA

longwave · 9 months ago

Similarly, Mistabishi's Printer Jam from 2009 sounds much like you might expect from the title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALNV4ZW33fA

longwave commented on 4o Image Generation openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

trekkie1024 · 9 months ago

Interesting that in the second image the text on the whiteboard changes (top left)

longwave · 9 months ago

It seems this is because the string "autoregressive prior" should appear on the right hand side as well, but in the second image it's hidden from view, and this has confused it to place it on the left hand side instead?

It also misses the arrow between "[diffusion]" and "pixels" in the first image.

longwave commented on Why are UK electricity bills so expensive? climate.benjames.io/uk-el... · Posted by u/chmaynard

jatin101 · a year ago

Commercial energy broker here - the only 2 'real' costs in your price are the wholesale and supplier costs. Choose suppliers that offer a fully-fixed electricity contract, so that made up variable costs such as distribution, network, etc are all factored into the unit rate that the supplier charges you for your contract. Avoid smart meters at all costs. Renewable / green contracts are always a lot more expensive than standard contracts. I help businesses across the UK get the lowest rates in the market, if it's something you need help with reach out to me - yousaveutilities.co.uk

longwave · a year ago

This smells like an advert. Over the last year I've spent less money on energy by being on Octopus Tracker (which requires a smart meter) over any fixed tariff.

longwave commented on Mozilla introduces updates to tab management in Firefox support.mozilla.org/en-US... · Posted by u/sam29681749

longwave · a year ago

Tabs now show a preview on hover since Firefox 129, which is a nice improvement, but it's not actually mentioned on that page.

longwave commented on Fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe a screen tomshardware.com/tech-ind... · Posted by u/moose44

longwave · 2 years ago

If this is true does this mean we don't need fingerprint scanning hardware any more, but we can just use a microphone and software to unlock a device when the user runs their finger over any convenient surface?

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