Hacker News: Kuinox

New comment by Kuinox in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

Kuinox — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:14:57 +0000

Never managed to make it work in background.

New comment by Kuinox in "China's 450kmph bullet train is the fastest ever built"

Kuinox — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:07:09 +0000

The French TGV managed to reach 574km/h, so 300km/h is not an hard limit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOdATLzRGHc

New comment by Kuinox in "Software 3.1? – AI Functions"

Kuinox — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:27:29 +0000

It may seems that a terrible idea, but I think that's good to run quick scripts. It means you can delegate some uninteresting parts the AI is likely to succeed at.

For example, connecting to endpoints, etc... then the logic of your script can run.

New comment by Kuinox in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

Kuinox — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:03:06 +0000

Were the middle class, but what people think of middle class today, doesn't apply to what it was back then.

> The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners, merchants and wealthy people, in general, which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a " middle class" between the peasantry and aristocracy. They are traditionally contrasted with the proletariat by their wealth, political power, and education, as well as their access to and control of cultural, social, and financial capital.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeoisie

Today the meaning of bourgeoisie, still applies to "business owners, merchants and wealthy people", but is now seen as upper class.

New comment by Kuinox in "Permacomputing"

Kuinox — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:24:48 +0000

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/permaculture

> Blend of permanent +‎ agriculture, coined by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in 1978.

New comment by Kuinox in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

Kuinox — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:21:03 +0000

> The American and French revolutions originated in the middle classes.

I don't know about the american revolution, but that's wrong for the french revolution. I'll link to french wikipédia pages since they are far better on the subject. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tats_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9raux_... Here we can see the first National Assembly was half nobility and clergy. The third estate was the other half.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiers_%C3%A9tat > Par ailleurs, les députés du tiers état aux états généraux représentaient essentiellement la bourgeoisie[2].

Which indicate that the majority of the third estate representative were bourgeois.

New comment by Kuinox in "Permacomputing"

Kuinox — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:54:50 +0000

Permaculture is a contraction of permanent culture.

New comment by Kuinox in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

Kuinox — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:08:25 +0000

It's been at least 10 years that google translate had hallucinations. Some translation simply change depending of a ponctuation mark. But peoples complain only now that they heard about AI.

Of course it's not perfect, but I agree that we didn't had a machine translation as good before.

New comment by Kuinox in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

Kuinox — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:57:07 +0000

Are you using some weird extension ? Never had this on my pixel 6.

New comment by Kuinox in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

Kuinox — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:55:43 +0000

Yet translation was the main application for applied language machine learning.

New comment by Kuinox in "Permacomputing"

Kuinox — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:43:12 +0000

Permaculture is the art of picking words that sounds logical and smart, make studies with n=1 to determine what is better, erect rules to follow based on that, and the communities that group around that. This is the same thing for computers.

New comment by Kuinox in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

Kuinox — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:12:48 +0000

Here it's more Poe's law.

New comment by Kuinox in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

Kuinox — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 22:46:03 +0000

An MQTT Broker just mean server, that's MQTT terminology.

New comment by Kuinox in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

Kuinox — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:42:32 +0000

I'm interested to see if they will try to tackle the segregation of human vs AI code. The downside of agents is that they make too much changes to review, I prefer being able to track which changes I wrote or validated from the code the AI wrote.

New comment by Kuinox in "Why E cores make Apple silicon fast"

Kuinox — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:17:16 +0000

It depends at which point in time and what you consider is the best gear.

New comment by Kuinox in "Why E cores make Apple silicon fast"

Kuinox — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:15:47 +0000

It's bench score on single thread is 0.6% better than the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, which have a lower TDP and was released 6 months before. Boths use the same lithography node. If you look at the chip by their lithography node, the Apple silicons are the same than the others...

New comment by Kuinox in "Why E cores make Apple silicon fast"

Kuinox — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:55:31 +0000

You are seeing basically the lithography node used to make the CPU. Since Apple books more capacity than anyone else, they have their chip 5-6 months ahead of the market, you'll see chips with similar performance by core.

New comment by Kuinox in "Why E cores make Apple silicon fast"

Kuinox — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:34:26 +0000

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/laptop.html

New comment by Kuinox in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

Kuinox — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:17:16 +0000

> Building 3-5x more solar plants in the Arctic, would still be cheaper than travelling to space.

Well first you have to make solar panels works in the polar nights, in winter they have a few minutes of sun in the day at most.

New comment by Kuinox in "I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck"

Kuinox — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:31:23 +0000

Tracing profiler can do exactly that, you don't need a dynamic lang.