Hacker News: KingOfCoders

New comment by KingOfCoders in "What the Fuck Happened to Nerds"

KingOfCoders — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:35:42 +0000

:-)

New comment by KingOfCoders in "What the Fuck Happened to Nerds"

KingOfCoders — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:17:22 +0000

Nothing, I'm here since the 70s and haven't moved.

New comment by KingOfCoders in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

KingOfCoders — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:06:34 +0000

To the EU.

New comment by KingOfCoders in "Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine"

KingOfCoders — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:47:57 +0000

Some Jews in Germany thought that the EK medal from WW1 would safe them from the Nazis.

New comment by KingOfCoders in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

KingOfCoders — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:33:16 +0000

And why had that cars be to be refueled in pharmacies?

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Wiesloch_Stadtapotheke_E...

New comment by KingOfCoders in "Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism"

KingOfCoders — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:04:29 +0000

It would be kind of a stretch to argue this as the reasons for separation of the US from the UK - I can see some of it, but I think the argument is a stretch.

New comment by KingOfCoders in "Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism"

KingOfCoders — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:38:32 +0000

I'd wish the EU would pay for California separatism as much as the US is supporting breaking up the EU (Orban, AfD in Germany, Farage, ..)

New comment by KingOfCoders in "Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them"

KingOfCoders — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:45:45 +0000

I would think it depends on what you count in as cost, how long you can operate a data center, in which intervals you need to train new frontier models etc.

There are lots of knobs to dial for your costs.

New comment by KingOfCoders in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

KingOfCoders — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:35:33 +0000

There are coders and creators. The first identify as their tools, the second don't care about the tools (too much).

This explains to me 90% of the reactions I get when I talk to people.

New comment by KingOfCoders in "Claude Code and Codex Can Have Real-Time Conversation via Git"

KingOfCoders — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:30:49 +0000

I let them talk via tmux, two panes, each has an agent and agents know how to send text via tmux to panes.

You Live in an Illusion. Get over It

KingOfCoders — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:57:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.amazingcto.com/ai-the-next-absorption-event/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279185

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by KingOfCoders in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"

KingOfCoders — Fri, 15 May 2026 06:41:15 +0000

"What gives you confidence that they aren't?"

   What gives you the confidence that Bigfoot does not exist?
   What gives you the confidence we're not ruled by Reptile overlords?
   What gives you the confidence we're not just in the Matrix and nothing matters?
   What gives you the confidence you're not just a dream by a dog in Sicily?
   What gives you the confidence I even exist and you're not talking to yourself?

You're entitled to your conspiracy theories and paranoia of course, but it's not an argument.

New comment by KingOfCoders in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"

KingOfCoders — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:30:15 +0000

"EU explicitly required that ISPs retain your identifying data with the Data Retention Directive"

And then sells it?

New comment by KingOfCoders in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"

KingOfCoders — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:07:27 +0000

Deutsche Telekom in Germany/EU farms and sells my data? Any sources?

New comment by KingOfCoders in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

KingOfCoders — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:56:57 +0000

Having migrated from Windows11 to Popos/Nvidia, Minecraft is ~20% slower depending on shaders installed and distant horizons mod. TF2 is also slower but both still fine.

New comment by KingOfCoders in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

KingOfCoders — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:41:31 +0000

Yes I did, and you called that "inauthentic" based on your value system. I'm not a native speaker but in German "inauthentic" (unauthentisch) would not be considered a neutral description.

"So, this wasn’t a dick sizing contest"

You can say "I didn't intend this a dick sizing contest" but you can't say "This wasn't a dick sizing contest". Again this is based on your judgement.

New comment by KingOfCoders in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

KingOfCoders — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:19:49 +0000

"inauthentic" is your judgement based on your values. My post was not about judgement, just about explaining what I think happens with influencers. Your reply was based on your perception and assumptions, not on what I said it feels. Most influencers use Apple if using Graphene doesn't drive subscribers.

"reverse engineering or writing drivers"

When I encountered Linux I was already too old to be interested in that kind of things. But I did disassemble C/PM code. I was interested in blue boxing, cracking of games, infinite life reverse engineering and hacking in the 80s though.

"For the purposes of this discussion they are equivalent."

Again it feels like you made some assumptions about me and what I wanted to say which are just that, assumptions.

New comment by KingOfCoders in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

KingOfCoders — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:47:03 +0000

I use Linux as a daily driver, using it on servers since 1991 (or 92 whenever boot.tgz/root.tgz was released), have been coding for 45 years, started several successful open source projects, wrote a full text search engine in Java in the 90s before there was Lucene, wrote the core Wiki markup engine that powered Atlassian Confluence for quite some time, because Mike asked me. That said I use a Google Pixel because - after decades of using Apple (from first iBook G3, first MacBook, first iPhone, first iPod, iPod nano, first iPad, Xserve, Xsan, iMac Pro and on and on an on) I left the Apple ecosystem when Steve died - to me Apple feels too constraining.

Not sure what that exchange was for, but I like it!

PS: Not a native speaker, don't know what "HN peanut gallery" means. But I like peanuts, though I think Peanuts are overrated. Though sometimes our dog looks like Snoopy, when her ears are flying.

New comment by KingOfCoders in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

KingOfCoders — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:23:57 +0000

And I'm guessing an iPhone.

Internet influencers - nothing against this one, I like his videos, I think I got JetKVM because of one video - are a persona which is different from their person. They sell something in their videos and do things in videos that are different from their true self. Videos are primarily done to drive more subscribers. I don't dispute that he might be an exception but he has >1M subscribers which makes being authentic and not driven by audience difficult.

Take LTT as an extreme example.

[Edit] I'm not judging Jeff or saying this is good or bad.

New comment by KingOfCoders in "A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it began"

KingOfCoders — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:47:41 +0000

What did you find not convincing in particular?

"Our results strongly contradict the hypothesis that the sign sequences of the Swabian Aurignacian constitute writing in this strict sense."

You think it does constitute writing?