<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: HDBaseT</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=HDBaseT</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:16:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=HDBaseT" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HDBaseT in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This effectively only tells you what the E-Marker reports though, the actual capabilities of the cable are still unknown.<p>You can say the cable can do whatever you want on the E-Marker, its not the source of truth.<p>The problem is, to actually benchmark everything, voltage drop, resistance, actual bandwidth (especially at Thunderbolt 5 speeds) requires a lot of hardware.<p>Using a USB-C Test Controller ($13,000), connected to a Pro Keysight Infiniium oscilloscope ($258,809) is the proper way to test it. 
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]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:25:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204478</link><dc:creator>HDBaseT</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204478</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HDBaseT in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a few of these cables, pretty decent although I think the USB-C ports are a bit too thin? They feel lose in multiple of my devices</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:18:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204430</link><dc:creator>HDBaseT</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204430</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HDBaseT in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the case on on-device/self-hosted LLMs. You ask your agent to implement xyz feature 10 times and use a model to compare the outputs and combine the best results.<p>Raw intelligence becomes slightly less important when you can iterate and improve automatically. You can still claim it was "one shot" even when 30 different implementations were made then combined.</p>
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<p>Access to "ChatGPT-Image-2" I suppose?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:01:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204322</link><dc:creator>HDBaseT</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204322</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HDBaseT in "Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Instead, you should say something like:<p>"You can adjust the output style in your '.claude/settings.local.json' file".<p>OR<p>"You can decrease verbosity by doing x, y and z."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:44:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204184</link><dc:creator>HDBaseT</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204184</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HDBaseT in "Online Friends Are Real Friends"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I assume he means sending images, in real time taken from the built-in snapchat camera.<p>You cannot "snap" someone without actually snapping a picture. You cannot for example generate some AI image or photoshop something and send it, as it will appear as an attachment, instead of a snap.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:05:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192300</link><dc:creator>HDBaseT</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192300</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HDBaseT in "Online Friends Are Real Friends"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe in isolation, although in most competitive video game spaces (which is where I've met majority of my "online friends") a disagreement between two parties tend to get resolve because it disrupts the entire dynamic.<p>It is increasingly difficult to just "drop" someone when you friends with their IRL friends, which is also pretty common. You'll play a game and meet someone, they'll meet you and invite their friend to all queue up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:03:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192292</link><dc:creator>HDBaseT</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192292</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HDBaseT in "Iran threatens to hit Gulf states if US launches new strikes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can deploy solar and batteries rapidly, Australia is doing it.<p>Australia has the highest number of solar panels per capita in the world. Batteries are following suit with government subsidies. Yet, Australia has some of the highest energy prices in the world, its not a fool proof solution.<p>My comment wasn't even really about coal, it was about oil (and fuel). I'm talking about transport (even public transport) but planes & massive tankers are the big consumers. The original point is simply we cannot just stop ships.<p>When ships stopped due to the routes being blocked, we pushed ever closer to a recession and people starved and died because they were denied critical produces, equipment, food and medicines all over the world. Not to mention cost of living. This is what I mean by we "cannot afford" to not use oil.<p>We cannot afford for the routes to be shut, we cannot ban boats, cars, planes without major economic downturn.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:04:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191909</link><dc:creator>HDBaseT</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191909</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HDBaseT in "Iran threatens to hit Gulf states if US launches new strikes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We can't afford to not keep burning oil.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:49:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190627</link><dc:creator>HDBaseT</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HDBaseT in "Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The decades of US brainwashing children into thinking China is the big bad guy has worked unfortunately.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:03:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190256</link><dc:creator>HDBaseT</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190256</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HDBaseT in "Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Outputs are a little bit more deterministic if you control the harness.<p>It is easy to benchmark across one harness, one system prompt and extract the most performance when you control the harness.</p>
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<p>Meta, please offer this on OpenRouter too (ZDR + Non-ZDR, official Meta Provider).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:50:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190120</link><dc:creator>HDBaseT</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190120</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HDBaseT in "You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are spot on.<p>Throughout school, my mates would meet up at a lookout on Wednesday @ 3-5ish PM, go grab dinner and just hang out.<p>Been doing this for 7 years straight. There is enough of us that someone being sick or away doesn't impact anything.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:07:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189703</link><dc:creator>HDBaseT</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189703</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HDBaseT in "libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Would you consider a city buying a Microsoft Office E3 license (Copilot 365 or whatever the fuck its called) for their staff an efficient use of taxes?</p>
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<p>It's an intriguing idea, but prompt injection and misleading the AI seem like fairly trivial things to do right?</p>
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<p>I don't really get this philosophy, at least with coding harnesses.<p>I don't want to spend 2 hours prompting, configuring and fixing features that I need which are standard in every other harness. I don't really want to be wasting my tokens to make an application function like every other harness. I don't really want to have to repeat the cycle on every machine I want to work with. Every VM, every server, every laptop.</p>
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<p>You have no understanding on piracy to come to this conclusion.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:50:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176824</link><dc:creator>HDBaseT</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176824</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HDBaseT in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You literally just copy the cracked steamapi.dll into your game files. It's near universal and simple.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:37:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176746</link><dc:creator>HDBaseT</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176746</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HDBaseT in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Valve needs to grow a bit of a spine here.<p>The Call of Duty series is one of the worst offenders, effectively every game outside of the last 2 years has so many bad CVEs' and remote code exploits that even opening them on your PC is unsafe. Playing the official matchmaking on even something as recent as Black Ops 3 will have your computer compromised in minutes.<p>Yet they are still on the store front, they never go on sale. Black Ops 2 has been out for well over a decade and still wants full price for it on Steam & its unsafe.<p>Playing Call of Duty games on PC is probably the most unsafe thing you can do with your computer, outside of downloading malware itself.<p>Valve should delist these games from the store if they are effectively unplayable. They should ban Activision from selling new games on the store if they cannot make older titles even remotely safe. It's pure neglect, most of this stuff is fixed by the community with a few lines of code.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:33:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176724</link><dc:creator>HDBaseT</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176724</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by HDBaseT in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You wouldn't be able to.<p>GTA VI is not being released on the Xbox One. Game discs aren't DVDs and haven't been for well over a decade, they use Bluray discs, which won't even matter since GTA VI isn't shipping with a physical disc, only a code.<p>You need internet to access this product. You need updated system firmware.</p>
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