Hacker News: BlobberSnobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BlobberSnobberHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:05:36 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by BlobberSnobber in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"]]>There’s no way you actually believe these word-predictors are actually thinking, right?

]]>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:04:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003285BlobberSnobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003285https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003285<![CDATA[New comment by BlobberSnobber in "Will It Mythos?"]]>> Thinking. I know this user well, they don't actually want me to find all errors.

> Thinking.. But I found a smoking gun of an error with this SPICE model, maybe I should inform the user.

> Thinking... Hm, but again, I know this human well, they likely don't care about this error. That's absolutely right - it's not an assistant's job to decide this, it's the user's.

]]>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:50:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48644969BlobberSnobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48644969https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48644969<![CDATA[New comment by BlobberSnobber in "AirPods Max 2"]]>Funny that something similar swore me off another brand’s headphones. The noise cancelling would amplify mechanical vibrations of the headphones, so much so that even eating with them on would cause a deafening bass. Walking with them on was also incredibly loud.

I sent them to support with a very good description of the problem, came back the same, “cannot reproduce”.

It seems support workers for both companies just connect them to an audio source and check if sound comes out relatively alright.

]]>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:11:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402627BlobberSnobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402627https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402627<![CDATA[New comment by BlobberSnobber in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"]]>Especially since a very similar, if not exactly the same, panel from the XDR will be in monitors from other brands for a fraction of the price (like the LG 27GM950B).

]]>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:56:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244440BlobberSnobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244440https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244440<![CDATA[New comment by BlobberSnobber in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"]]>Happens to me with HDMI, not USB-C

]]>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:51:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244416BlobberSnobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244416https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244416<![CDATA[New comment by BlobberSnobber in "Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance"]]>I know what you mean, but Gnome was the DE that clicked the most for me (after I gave it a real try). I liked Gnome 2 and then 3 made me switch to KDE, then switched back. So I was actually completely wrong and, while writing this comment, I remembered what a pain it was to learn Gnome back then lol

]]>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:53:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241501BlobberSnobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241501https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241501<![CDATA[New comment by BlobberSnobber in "AWS outage due to drone attacks in UAE"]]>It wasn't the US attacking the UAE, just FYI.

]]>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:36:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47231434BlobberSnobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47231434https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47231434<![CDATA[New comment by BlobberSnobber in "Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance"]]>As someone who uses Linux, macOS and Windows interchangeably, I'm curious to know what you're using.

I learned to live with macOS, but I also like and use Gnome, which many Linux-only people hate. I tried most WMs on Linux, like Hyprland, Sway, i3, but none ever felt worth the config hassle when compared to the sane defaults of Gnome.

]]>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:28:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47231374BlobberSnobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47231374https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47231374<![CDATA[New comment by BlobberSnobber in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"]]>Even worse: it funds the White House’s regime more, by a large margin

]]>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:45:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119702BlobberSnobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119702https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119702<![CDATA[New comment by BlobberSnobber in "Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst"]]>Fond memories of planning the assassination of a politician in South America and creating popular unrest through a disinformation campaign in China :,)

]]>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:43:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47109968BlobberSnobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47109968https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47109968<![CDATA[New comment by BlobberSnobber in "Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst"]]>It made me cringe at how boot-licking the author, and apparently a lot of people at the CIA, are (like defending the “petty thief” not getting the job).

People will work for one of the most evil organizations in the world and expect pity for being interrogated, while that same organization has torture sites.

]]>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:06:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106520BlobberSnobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106520https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106520<![CDATA[New comment by BlobberSnobber in "RISC-V takes first step toward international ISO/IEC standardization"]]>ISO defines standards for much more than bolts and plugs. A few examples include: the C++ ISO standard, IT security standards and workplace safety standards, and that’s a small subset of what they do.

They develop a well defined standard, not the technologies mentioned in the standard. So yes, they’re qualified.

]]>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 10:05:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45821291BlobberSnobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45821291https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45821291<![CDATA[New comment by BlobberSnobber in "Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy"]]>The list of Sunny's removed episodes from Hulu is insane to me:

- Season 4 Episode 3: America's Next Top Paddy's Billboard Model Contest

- Season 6 Episode 9: Dee Reynolds: Shaping America's Youth

- Season 8 Episode 2: The Gang Recycles Their Trash

- Season 9 Episode 9: The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 6

- Season 14 Episode 3: Dee Day

They're all in my home server, though :)

]]>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 08:35:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44909925BlobberSnobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44909925https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44909925<![CDATA[New comment by BlobberSnobber in "Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk"]]>Apple for some reason hasn’t implemented that feature, and it boggles the mind. Say I’m playing music on my iPhone and I try playing a track on my mac, it doesn’t ask me on which device to play, hell, it doesn’t even stop playing on my iPhone to start on my mac, it just puts an ugly warning in the middle of the screen saying something like “stop playing on your iPhone to listen to the song on this device”.

It’s actually insane to me.

]]>Thu, 08 May 2025 10:54:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43924970BlobberSnobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43924970https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43924970<![CDATA[New comment by BlobberSnobber in "Zotero Fullscreen Mode by Script"]]>I find the built-in one pretty great: has light and dark modes, good annotations, performs well. The only thing missing is this fullscreen behavior, which should exist by default IMO.

]]>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:05:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43680849BlobberSnobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43680849https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43680849<![CDATA[New comment by BlobberSnobber in "Googler... ex-Googler"]]>Always someone with a horrible opinion to give in this hellsite

]]>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 06:34:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43678620BlobberSnobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43678620https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43678620<![CDATA[New comment by BlobberSnobber in "4o Image Generation"]]>Yeah. I understand that this site doesn’t want to become Reddit, but it really has an allergy to comedy, it’s sad. God forbid you use sarcasm, half the people here won’t understand it and the other half will say it’s not appropriate for healthy discussion…

]]>Wed, 26 Mar 2025 13:23:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43482016BlobberSnobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43482016https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43482016<![CDATA[New comment by BlobberSnobber in "TikTok goes dark in the US"]]>Adult population is obviously implied. Love when the universe gifts us this level of irony.

]]>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 14:24:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42757240BlobberSnobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42757240https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42757240<![CDATA[New comment by BlobberSnobber in "iTerm2 critical security release"]]>At ultra settings? Even if, 30 fps at 1080p is not nearly “without breaking a sweat”. Also, the air will have trouble keeping that performance after a few minutes without a fan.

I love my MBP M4 Pro, but its gaming performance doesn’t reflect well what it’s capable of.

]]>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:47:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42587795BlobberSnobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42587795https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42587795<![CDATA[New comment by BlobberSnobber in "iTerm2 critical security release"]]>Cyberpunk 2077 on a MacBook Air without breaking a sweat? At what resolution and framerate?

]]>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 08:39:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42583788BlobberSnobberhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42583788https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42583788