Hacker News: FullyFunctional

New comment by FullyFunctional in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

FullyFunctional — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:36:12 +0000

Ollama made it trivial for me to use claude code on my 48GB MacMini M4P with any model, including the Qwen3.5…nvfp4 which was so far the best I’ve tried. Once Ollama has a Mac friendly version of Gemma4 I’ll jump right on board (and do educate me if I’m missing something).

New comment by FullyFunctional in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

FullyFunctional — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:44:09 +0000

absolute n00b here is very confused about the many variations; it looks like the Mac optimized MX versions aren’t available in Ollama yet (I mostly use claude code with this)

New comment by FullyFunctional in "RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel"

FullyFunctional — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:24:20 +0000

Thanks :) I’ll try to remember

New comment by FullyFunctional in "RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel"

FullyFunctional — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:50:22 +0000

> AV1 on RK3576, which has very preliminary support

This peaked my interest, but I have no idea which device might have a RK3576

New comment by FullyFunctional in "What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO"

FullyFunctional — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:57:12 +0000

Backwards. The incompetent Transmeta board picked a VP from NVIDIA to be the CEO and his first action was to kill the IBM contract and move to TSMC, and forced TSMC to use a new unqualified process. This left us without chips to sell for over a year and notebook venders were furious and never returned.

This is what killed Transmeta, not all the technical details.

New comment by FullyFunctional in "What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO"

FullyFunctional — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:47:54 +0000

The Dynamo project was the genesis of a similar effort at Sun Microsystems which was the genesis of Transmeta Corp (all founders came from Sun). The question remains if the original study was flawed or if the situation was just too different for our x86 workloads.

New comment by FullyFunctional in "Show HN: I've built a tiny hand-held keyboard"

FullyFunctional — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:00:28 +0000

I wrote an entire graphical Go-game tree based editor in Lisp, with a stylus on PalmPilot. I considered it an artistic expression.

New comment by FullyFunctional in "Show HN: I've built a tiny hand-held keyboard"

FullyFunctional — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:50:57 +0000

As I hate tapping on glass, mistyping non-stop, I’m always evaluating options. This is an awesome project and a great write up, but we want more! :) Please consider published a video so we might see it in action (also showing the build process would be appreciated).

New comment by FullyFunctional in "Show HN: I've built a tiny hand-held keyboard"

FullyFunctional — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:47:55 +0000

Twiddler really isn’t the same product at all

New comment by FullyFunctional in "Show HN: I've built a tiny hand-held keyboard"

FullyFunctional — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:44:31 +0000

Yes, but this is way beyond that IMO. Really lovely project that I of course must build

New comment by FullyFunctional in "Syndicate"

FullyFunctional — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 06:39:15 +0000

Back then it was extremely rare for me to play anything more than a few minutes but Syndicate was fun, not too hard, and I remember finishing it. I was recently feature on a retro gaming YT channel which I suppose is why it’s here.

New comment by FullyFunctional in "NZ1: A minimalist, dependency-free data compression algorithm"

FullyFunctional — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:39:49 +0000

I haven’t tried it, but it claims to compress better than zstd which is a bold claim. The perf claims are meaningless without citing the exact benchmark platform details.

New comment by FullyFunctional in "Transition to using 16 KB page sizes for Android apps and games"

FullyFunctional — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 08:50:57 +0000

Completely false. The 4 KiB page size came from a machine with a total of 512 KiB (1962 Atlas, 3072B pages, 96k 48b words). It hasn’t scaled at all for inertia reasons and it has real and measurable costs. 64 KiB would have been the better choice IMO, but 16 is better than 4.

New comment by FullyFunctional in "Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system"

FullyFunctional — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 02:21:30 +0000

Or some combination of the two. Obviously sounds expensive but 20 years ago this would have been fiction. I think it’s entirely likely that energy storage and production will continue to fall enough in price to make this realistic.

New comment by FullyFunctional in "Introducing tmux-rs"

FullyFunctional — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:50:29 +0000

why is that funny? I’ve done exactly this (in a processional setting): c2rust to get something functional and then incrementally rewrote the code while producing unit tests (approval tests via insta are particularly handy). The end result was a codebase which was much easier to maintain, with much better tooling and tests.

New comment by FullyFunctional in "How Sony's Forgotten Computers Helped Shape the Playstation"

FullyFunctional — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:47:39 +0000

I vaguely remember the NEWS workstation at the time, but it was seen as weirdly different and it wasn’t that cheap compared to the competition. Also, loads of companies came out with diskless terminals — is there any evidence that Sony was a frontrunner here?

It is fun to contemplate the alternative universe in which Sony stayed in the workstation market, but I think Sony was more like DEC than Sun, and it would have ended the same way for all.

New comment by FullyFunctional in "T1000-E Card Tracker is a thin, credit card-sized GPS with Meshtastic support"

FullyFunctional — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 05:38:35 +0000

Hmmm, I still don’t understand why I would care. Andy’s videos show a UI that is geektastic, as in, I could probably work with this but my non-technical peers couldn’t be bothered with anything more complicated than WhatsApp or Signal.

New comment by FullyFunctional in "TinyAPL part 1: Introduction and Arrays"

FullyFunctional — Sat, 31 May 2025 15:41:06 +0000

That’s pretty neat. I’ve always been in two minds about J/APL but at least now I can read the semantics in a precise manner.

New comment by FullyFunctional in "Land ahoy: leaving the Sea of Nodes"

FullyFunctional — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:26:52 +0000

Thanks. I'm curious about the internal representation. Is Turboshaft using literal SSA names for sources and destinations, or are destination implicit somehow?

New comment by FullyFunctional in "Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger"

FullyFunctional — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:52:32 +0000

Thanks, finally a signal in this thread of noise. I found it unbelievable that all media presented it as if it was his decision. Of course it wasn't.

I "predicted" this three months ago (really, it was inevitable), but gave it 1-6 months.

Now for the what-happens-next popcorn. In a normal world, they would go bankrupt, but this is very much not a normal world.