Hacker News: Aissen

New comment by Aissen in "Our position on open-weights models"

Aissen — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:00:45 +0000

We should fight against their call to ban distillation much more strongly: LLM SaaS should ease people getting their full query history and everyone should be allowed to pool them to distill or analyze or whatever. It's a basic requirement against future monopolies.

New comment by Aissen in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

Aissen — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 06:48:13 +0000

Following this being in the news, GrapheneOS wrote this post summarizing the data extraction defense: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/40700-grapheneos-protection...

On the duress pin, they say (read the whole thing though):

> People should carefully consider how to use it in an actual duress situation where there can be physical or legal consequences for wiping the device.

New comment by Aissen in "Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models"

Aissen — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:44:24 +0000

They've seen the government officials parroting OpenAI and Anthropic lobbies talking points, and they have smart enough people to see the signs of upcoming regulatory capture.

If I were cynical, I'd say it isn't helped by the current US administration.

New comment by Aissen in "Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS"

Aissen — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:05:43 +0000

One of the reasons I never run any agent on my home machine. Containment is mandatory, even more with proprietary harnesses.

New comment by Aissen in "Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors"

Aissen — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:44:34 +0000

Good article because it clearly exposes the methodology and the shortcomings of the measurements (mostly the front CDN of a ~20k number of old continent entities of apex/www domain).

New comment by Aissen in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

Aissen — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:51:44 +0000

> 1. Compute costs collapsed since the advent of Cloud and yet hyperscalers still have fat margins.

No, compute costs collapsed (before mid-2025) because of normal technological progress on all fronts of compute.

New comment by Aissen in "Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity"

Aissen — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:13:28 +0000

Before Jeff first talk about this, I got one of those cheap Ethernet adapters (with the new realtek chip) on aliexpress for ~55€. It works really well, but I don't have USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 hardware, so I only get ~4Gbps out of it. But I'm pretty happy to break the 1G barrier, and the adapter will be useful in the future when I get better hardware; and I don't have to go through a 2.5Gbps or 5Gbps step.

New comment by Aissen in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

Aissen — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:17:59 +0000

You can install the Google Camera, if you use sandboxed Google Play. It has all the same features AFAIK.

New comment by Aissen in "An interview with an Apple emoji designer"

Aissen — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:44:30 +0000

More specifically, it was this set: https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2

Interesting tidbit:

> Emoji support required iPhone OS 2.2 and a SoftBank SIM card.

New comment by Aissen in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

Aissen — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:17:08 +0000

People love to say how great these big clouds are, until they discover they've been paying ten times the market price outside of crises.

New comment by Aissen in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

Aissen — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:24:29 +0000

Yes, and they will to preserve margins at some point. They're just doing a huge Mexican standoff, waiting for others to move. All smaller clouds have raised some prices already.

They'll probably wait for summer, the world cup finals, or whatever's last big US government thing is so it flies under the radar.

New comment by Aissen in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

Aissen — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:35:41 +0000

It's a bit higher than 4 now.

New comment by Aissen in "My graduation cap runs Rust"

Aissen — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:04:09 +0000

I was wondering why I saw them for cheap on aliexpress…

New comment by Aissen in "HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression (DSC) Ready for Amdgpu Linux Driver"

Aissen — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:21:42 +0000

were*

As the article says, they most likely changed their mind, probably following quite a bit of background discussions and industry influence.

Image Loading on the Web

Aissen — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:40:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ludicon.com/castano/blog/2026/05/image-loading-on-the-web/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48018499

Points: 2

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New comment by Aissen in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"

Aissen — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:55:23 +0000

Interesting that t8i is both for post-training and inference.

New comment by Aissen in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

Aissen — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:15:36 +0000

Screen, battery and charging port replacements are already routine at any repair shop, at least for the devices I buy.

New comment by Aissen in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

Aissen — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:43:00 +0000

Next: replaceable storage? Since flash-based storage is widely known as a consumable that tends to fail first.

New comment by Aissen in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

Aissen — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:01:49 +0000

Why wouldn't it move the needle? Less time spent, less frustration, more performance, more resources focused on the business?

New comment by Aissen in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

Aissen — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:28:10 +0000

What's the plan to migrate off of it ? https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/data-center-end-of-life#...