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New comment by 4k0hz in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

4k0hz — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:41:51 +0000

I doubt it. Desktops don't add substantial hardware features often or get damaged in the same way phones do.

$TLDC – Too Long; Didn't Code

4k0hz — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:43:44 +0000

Article URL: https://cdbnk.github.io/tldc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380742

Points: 1

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New comment by 4k0hz in "Codex-maxxing"

4k0hz — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:48:26 +0000

The author of this post works at OpenAI on the Codex team.

New comment by 4k0hz in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

4k0hz — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:03:31 +0000

Is HTML really that much worse to edit than MD?

New comment by 4k0hz in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

4k0hz — Wed, 06 May 2026 02:37:41 +0000

Elsevier is shitty to people doing stuff that (imo) should be allowed. Meta is making money doing the same thing and not getting the same shittiness from Elsevier.

Elsevier at least works within the (admittedly broken) system, Meta does not.

New comment by 4k0hz in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

4k0hz — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:07:08 +0000

Airlines were heavily regulated in the US and essentially operated as government contractors until 1978 [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Aeronautics_Board

New comment by 4k0hz in "Simplest Hash Functions"

4k0hz — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:46:12 +0000

At least on x86, multiple additions and multiplications can be done with a single `lea` instruction so it's preferable to XOR. Though I have no idea about other architectures, compiler implementations, any interpreters...

New comment by 4k0hz in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

4k0hz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:20:00 +0000

Modern != brand new shiny hipster thing. Unless you're a devotee of rolling release or unconvential things like Nix, Mint is not obsolete.

New comment by 4k0hz in "Goodbye to Sora"

4k0hz — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:51:48 +0000

Is it actually useful and valuable? I can't see any serious use cases except maybe stock video generation.

New comment by 4k0hz in "Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)"

4k0hz — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:04:27 +0000

"Decentralized" seems like a stretch for something developed and promoted by monolithic payment processors.

New comment by 4k0hz in "Good software knows when to stop"

4k0hz — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:27:57 +0000

> That backlash was short lived. Adobe went from $4.4 billion in revenue in 2021 to $23.7 billion

So? Anecdotally, the vast majority of Adobe product users are still upset about the subscription model (but not upset enough to switch to worse software)

> It used to cost $2500 for the "master collection". Now it's $50 a month.

Illustrator-filmmaker-animator-publisher-photographer-web-designers everywhere rejoice!

New comment by 4k0hz in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

4k0hz — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:45:04 +0000

The point is that there was basically no reason to totally kill Wordpad in the way that they did. They're different products and the new Notepad is closer to the ideal version of Wordpad than what Notepad is supposed to be, and now there's no Notepad.

New comment by 4k0hz in "I was insulted today – AI style"

4k0hz — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:45:30 +0000

Plus the devaluing of labor in basically every sector (to varying extents).

New comment by 4k0hz in "We rolled our own documentation site"

4k0hz — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:27:45 +0000

It's barely a value-add when agents can scrape the docs themselves and browsers have the reading tools built in.

>I would ask if you've started a real business but it's clear you haven't.

I wouldn't speak so authoritatively about this stuff if I didn't know anything about running a business. My lemonade stand was extremely successful in the geographic area it was marketed in (~10 blocks around my house). I was planning on going public but unexpected regulatory issues (end of 4th grade summer break) forced me to reevaluate. Though these new agentic lemon beverage developments seem like they might draw me back into it...

New comment by 4k0hz in "We rolled our own documentation site"

4k0hz — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:46:03 +0000

I'm not opposed to the idea of natural language search, my point is the tools should be on the user side. Right now, I can ask questions about plain text pages that haven't been updated in 30 years directly in Firefox with no effort from the site operator. If an agent needs to have direct access to documentation, it's trivial for it to download pages autonomously (or even set up its own MCP server). There's literally no reason to demand that millions of sites independently add features that browsers and agents already have better and more uniform versions of.

New comment by 4k0hz in "We rolled our own documentation site"

4k0hz — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:47:13 +0000

>I don't see AI chat so I can ask quick, natural language questions. No MCP I can install so Cursor can query. Prob no llms.txt. No quick Copy to Markdown.

It's not the site's job to add those features though. If you want that experience there are ways to get it without adding bloat to every page on the web. Scraping a static site and answering questions/summarizing is a solved problem.