Hacker News: CountHackulus

New comment by CountHackulus in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

CountHackulus — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:08:03 +0000

Gmail is going to be Google's System/390 mainframes.

New comment by CountHackulus in "GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search"

CountHackulus — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:47:59 +0000

According to Homeland Security, within 100 miles of the border is a "constitution free zone". So there's a whole lot to unpack before we even get to miranda rights.

New comment by CountHackulus in "Late Bronze Age Collapse"

CountHackulus — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:24:35 +0000

Historia Civilis somehow distills subjects down to squares in a great way. Entertaining and informative. Fantastic channel.

New comment by CountHackulus in "Why were Covid vaccine trials so fast?"

CountHackulus — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:19:17 +0000

If you read the article, you'll see that they did in fact meet the full requirements by August 2021. The EAU plus criteria were met quickly, but they did meet every criteria normally used.

New comment by CountHackulus in "I Fired Google"

CountHackulus — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:38:37 +0000

I feel like the song suggestions also vary depending on the music service. For example the other day, "Play cicada by Igor" got me Cicadidae by Igorrr on YT Music (this is what I wanted), but got me Igor's Theme by Tyler the Creator. ???? So I tried "Play cicadidae by I-G-O-R-R-R" and I got Cicada by Good Kid.

That said I feel like no matter the music service it's a 50/50 shot each time if it plays the song I want. No matter how many times before I've played it or asked for it.

The latest Gemini update for Android Auto also absolutely ruined the voice control for Waze. It was already bad, but now Android Auto is basically unusable by voice.

New comment by CountHackulus in "Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine"

CountHackulus — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:22:38 +0000

It's unclear to me why I'd want to use this over libcaca or similar? The demoscene has made really excellent ASCII rendering for decades, and this seems like it has less options and less understandable output. If this is just a fun personal project "just because" then cool! That's awesome! But for actual use cases I'd much rather use libcaca.

New comment by CountHackulus in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

CountHackulus — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:47:00 +0000

Considering YouTube's current level of detection of absolutely anything, this will likely be an absolute disaster with no way of appealing to a real human.

New comment by CountHackulus in "Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app"

CountHackulus — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:14:45 +0000

Alexa+ has been a massive downgrade for me. It's extremely laggy and constantly misunderstands me, whereas the old one never did. "Set a timer for 20 minutes" used to be instant and just work, I did this the other day and it took 10 seconds to respond and set a timer for 10 minutes.

New comment by CountHackulus in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

CountHackulus — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:56:38 +0000

Every time I'm reminded of this article about package managers. https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2025/09/08/package-manage...

New comment by CountHackulus in "Bring Back MiniDV with This Raspberry Pi FireWire Hat"

CountHackulus — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:45:19 +0000

Just because I've dealt with this exact issue in the past, it may have been a 30fps vs 29.97fps issue. For me the audio was a fixed length, but the frame rate was SLIGHTLY too fast. The problem can manifest as either too slow or too fast depending on which side is expecting 30fps vs 29.97fps.

New comment by CountHackulus in "AI-First Company Memos"

CountHackulus — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:20:55 +0000

This reads like they don't want AI, they just want tooling. More, better tooling. AI is just a scapegoat/easy out for writing more tooling that makes them more efficient.

New comment by CountHackulus in "Making niche solutions is the point"

CountHackulus — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:30:06 +0000

Check your local library, a lot of them have one and can help you get started. It's usually pennies to print too. I printed an adapter for my coffee grinder at my local library a few weeks ago and it took 2 days and cost me $4. Fantastic stuff.

New comment by CountHackulus in "IBM Patented Euler's 200 Year Old Math Technique for 'AI Interpretability'"

CountHackulus — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:19:44 +0000

When I worked there many decades ago, I had pressure and saw people get rewards for patenting everything you could. Seems like things haven't changed.

New comment by CountHackulus in "Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?"

CountHackulus — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:24:46 +0000

About 10 years ago I was working on a net-new COBOL compiler for z/OS. There was a huge demand from banks especially for this.

New comment by CountHackulus in "MacBook Air M4"

CountHackulus — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:18:58 +0000

The last time they "innovated" on macbooks we got a touch bar (ignoring M chips). I'm good with incremental improvements if we can avoid those gigantic blunders.

New comment by CountHackulus in "Bayleaf · Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard"

CountHackulus — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:47:56 +0000

I have a keyboardio Model 100 and it does have symbols on it. Available in mac, windows, and blank iirc.

New comment by CountHackulus in "When your last name is Null, nothing works"

CountHackulus — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:31:52 +0000

I've got the same problem with a hyphenated name, and it was always the way they phrased the error messages that annoyed me. Porter Airline's error message for the longest time was "Your Name is Invalid". No, my name is valid, your system doesn't support it.

I ended up having to contact their support quite a few times for them to fix the error message. Still doesn't work, but at least the error message is reasonable now.

New comment by CountHackulus in "Don't "optimize" conditional moves in shaders with mix()+step()"

CountHackulus — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:45:06 +0000

I love seeing the codegen output, makes it easy to understand the issue, but claiming that it's faster or slower without actual benchmarks is a bit disappointing.

New comment by CountHackulus in "Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel"

CountHackulus — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 06:22:54 +0000

What happens when Linus retires (or god forbid dies)? He can't defuse those situations forever, there needs to be some sort of process.

New comment by CountHackulus in "Hotline for modern Apple systems"

CountHackulus — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 06:07:47 +0000

Hotline was an amazing experience when I was younger. Really taught me a lot about devops and about ISPs.