Hacker News: Hamuko

New comment by Hamuko in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

Hamuko — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:26:17 +0000

OPEC's aim isn't to keep prices as high as possible. If they go too high, people will start buying electric cars, investing in renewable energy, etc. Basically they want to make oil as expensive as possible while preventing it from getting so expensive that it's disruptive.

New comment by Hamuko in "DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update"

Hamuko — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:38:00 +0000

Not that surprised about it. Personally I've seen companies really just go all-in on a single provider, and that has usually been Anthropic. I don't think we're allowed to run Chinese models even locally.

New comment by Hamuko in "We eliminated 1,400 CVEs in NanoClaw's container images"

Hamuko — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:23:42 +0000

If the lightweight alternative has 1400 CVEs, how many does OpenClaw have?

New comment by Hamuko in "If I own Claude's outputs why can't I train my own model on them?"

Hamuko — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:40:41 +0000

Are they even giving out the reasoning these days?

New comment by Hamuko in "If I own Claude's outputs why can't I train my own model on them?"

Hamuko — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:21:40 +0000

I hope I see the day I start seeing AI companies suing other AI companies for training their models on GitHub repositories that were written using the AI companies' models. If Anthropic says that I can't train using Claude's output, then surely OpenAI can't train on a repository that's 100% vibecoded with Claude.

New comment by Hamuko in "Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero"

Hamuko — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:08:38 +0000

>I assume you use a real instrument to play the game, but how? Do I connect my guitar to my PC?

I use Yousician on my Mac to learn the guitar and the bass, and you just connect your instrument via an audio interface to the computer, and it gets your playing from that. I use a fourth-generation Scarlett Solo as my interface. I presume the Rocksmith dongle is ultimately just an audio interface too. Probably a pretty cheap one too.

New comment by Hamuko in "Helsinki Hacker News Meetup"

Hamuko — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:40:42 +0000

Doesn't WhatsApp have usernames these days?

New comment by Hamuko in "Helsinki Hacker News Meetup"

Hamuko — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:28:20 +0000

As a Finn, I've definitely had to say the phrase "No, I don't have WhatsApp" more times than I care to count. That being said, I imagine a FOSS project or hacker space to be more cognisant of WhatsApp's ownership than a car dealership trying to sell me a used car via video call. I got rid of my WhatsApp precisely because Meta started tweaking the terms of service.

New comment by Hamuko in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

Hamuko — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:53:47 +0000

UEFA leaving already leaves a pretty big gaping hole in any future FIFA tournament, since it'd exclude Spain (1st), England (3rd), France (4th), Norway (5th), Belgium (6th), Switzerland (joint 7th), Portugal (13th), Netherlands (17th), Germany (18th), Croatia (20th), Sweden (27th), Austria (28th), Bosnia and Herzegovina (29th).

That's 75% of the final four and of the quarterfinals, 44% of the round of 16. Then if you add CONCACAF into the mix, it comes to 63% of the RO16.

New comment by Hamuko in "Atomarine: Nuclear Data Centers at Sea"

Hamuko — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:23:55 +0000

I think the word "today" in that phrase is extremely generous.

New comment by Hamuko in "The Productivity Mirage"

Hamuko — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:44:57 +0000

Do you even want your best and most prolific engineers wasting their energy on on-call duties?

New comment by Hamuko in "Darktable"

Hamuko — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:39:14 +0000

Lightroom is 15.29 €/month and Capture One can be had for a one-time payment of 391 €. Lightroom is the more expensive one if you plan on using the software more than 2 years and 2 months.

New comment by Hamuko in "About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6"

Hamuko — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:11:31 +0000

Same. It's not the worst thing in the world, at least with Reduce Transparency enabled in the Accessibility settings, but I still don't feel any inclination to upgrade. My personal Mac Studio is macOS 15 and my work MacBook is on macOS 26, and I don't think there's a single thing that I find to be better on the work laptop than on my personal machine.

I might update to macOS 26 in September to be ready to update to macOS 27. Being two versions behind doesn't seem reasonable and I'd rather be on the "Tahoe but less shitty" version than Tahoe itself.

New comment by Hamuko in "EU Fines Google $1.02B for Favoring Its Own Services"

Hamuko — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:58:02 +0000

Google really sucks at giving users a choice. The Gmail app on iOS has a browser selector dialog, which asks if you want to open a link in an email in Chrome or Safari. Despite the fact that you can change your default browser in iOS settings if you really want to use Chrome. And even if you choose Safari and don’t ask it to remind you every time, it will still prompt you again later if you’d like to switch to Chrome this time. Couldn’t I just pick Safari and you respect that choice until I say otherwise?

I do wonder if people using Chrome on iOS face the same issue, or if Google respects your browser of choice a bit more if it’s their browser.

New comment by Hamuko in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

Hamuko — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:32:24 +0000

Wait until you hear what CPython is written in.

New comment by Hamuko in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

Hamuko — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:25:56 +0000

It's not really even that recent of a change. Black's been stable for the past 4+ years.

New comment by Hamuko in "A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway"

Hamuko — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 06:27:47 +0000

Maybe it's just the fact that I woke up 10 minutes ago, but the readability of this looks awful. Even more than just usual shell scripts.

New comment by Hamuko in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

Hamuko — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:18:41 +0000

I want someone to slap a blackbird on my bank notes. Preferably all denominations.

New comment by Hamuko in "3GPP Version 19"

Hamuko — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:27:34 +0000

I suddenly remember transferring 3GPP videos off of my Nokia back in the day.

New comment by Hamuko in "Patreon laying off 20% of staff"

Hamuko — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:48:13 +0000

What are you bulk purchasing them for?