Hacker News: 0x20cowboy

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"

0x20cowboy — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 23:23:02 +0000

Ah, the opinionated strikes again.

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU"

0x20cowboy — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:30:18 +0000

Most of the people I see doing that ship nothing. They just seemingly loop for the sake of looping.

However, I just saw a product yesterday that was released and being built as you described. Interesting times.

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Black hole singularity is a surface not a point"

0x20cowboy — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:25:34 +0000

That’s amazing

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "How HN: Qisutu – an open-source, self-hosted ticketing and service desk"

0x20cowboy — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:22:13 +0000

Perl? Now that’s a name I haven’t heard for a long time. A long time.

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Black hole singularity is a surface not a point"

0x20cowboy — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:46:55 +0000

> Normally people think of gravity as pulling on objects. You can instead think of it as pulling on the space those objects are in.

(Very uneducated person here) I’ve always wondered if large objects caused gravity, or if maybe large objects form in the places where there is a lot of gravity. This is probably elementary, but I’ve never looked in to it. Maybe today is the day!

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options?"

0x20cowboy — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:12:32 +0000

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Show HN: A techno machine in one HTML file, with verifiable renders"

0x20cowboy — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:26:04 +0000

What about the font? Is that a typical LLM font or something?

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Show HN: A techno machine in one HTML file, with verifiable renders"

0x20cowboy — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:23:50 +0000

What kind of projects?

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "AI Chip Architectures"

0x20cowboy — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:03:38 +0000

Strong opinions…

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

0x20cowboy — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:29:30 +0000

> People are shipping all sorts of weird architectures, non-performance code, etc.

And they weren’t before AI?

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU"

0x20cowboy — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:18:50 +0000

"Content that is entirely generated by artificial intelligence is not protected by copyright."

If that is faithful reading of the law, that makes sense. I know a number of people who use AI, but none of them (that are making anything actually useful) have the output "entirely generated" (aside from some POC tests that never see the light of day).

I have a hard time believing anything of value, anything worth copyrighting, could be entirely generated by AI.

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "MicroGPT-C in pure C hits 10M TPS on Apple M5"

0x20cowboy — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:40:56 +0000

Does that mean an African elephant 2.57×10^11 (neurons) is smarter than a human 8.6×10^10 (neurons)?

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering"

0x20cowboy — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:24:16 +0000

“…requires opinionated simplicity…”

Of course it can’t just be simplicity, it has to be “opinionated” simplicity. Rolls eyes.

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US"

0x20cowboy — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:56:03 +0000

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/U1MigIJXJx8

New comment by 0x20cowboy in ""Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023)"

0x20cowboy — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:33:59 +0000

Which would be fine if these people weren't the ones making / influencing the hiring decisions, paying them half a million dollars (even though they have done nothing) and people retweeted their “opinionated” takes on subjects they barely understand.

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Linux on ESP32"

0x20cowboy — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:08:33 +0000

Why would it be a game changer? It seems a heavy hammer for what is actually needed. FreeRTOS itself is already really incredibly fat.

(Worthy goal though I agree there. Fun at the minimum.)

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac"

0x20cowboy — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:57:59 +0000

But here’s the thing nobody tells you, it’s a repository not a spaceship. Not a pizza, not a cow, but an undeniable disco boot. Let’s delve into this.

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Using a Gaming PC's RTX 5070 from a separate Linux workstation"

0x20cowboy — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:59:23 +0000

Check out exo if you haven’t already https://github.com/exo-explore/exo

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "It's getting harder to focus every day"

0x20cowboy — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:01:40 +0000

Not the OP, but there was a lot of talk that glp1 had a negative effect on bone density and in older people it was especially problematic.

There is evidence that is not the case though https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8878541/

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Perfection is not over-engineering"

0x20cowboy — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:14:40 +0000

> I believe a perfect solution exists.

That is incorrect when dealing in the real world with many different humans using a complex system. I’ve heard other people say this, and it always confuses me how it is not self evident. Human interaction is not a maths equation. There are too many random variables.