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New comment by Lio in "Laptop Based on 6502 CPU"

Lio — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:48:47 +0000

My understanding was that Sinclare got to 48K using 8× 4116 + 8× 4532 chips where the 4532 was basically a 64K-bit 4164 where only half the chip worked.

> One of the future goals is to copy the ROM and RAM and switch it out of the address space.

Like the BBC Micro Sideways RAM system? Nice.

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

New comment by Lio in "Laptop Based on 6502 CPU"

Lio — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:12:06 +0000

Interesting spec. Why go for 48K of RAM and not at least 64K (the full address space without paging)?

Back in the day 48K got used as a way of binning in the ZX Spectrum (Z80 based) to make use of cheap "bad" memory. Surely RAM prices aren't that crazy now? :P

New comment by Lio in "Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio"

Lio — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:07:35 +0000

As long as you can disconnect it from the network then it's more private than something running on a cloud server.

New comment by Lio in "William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace"

Lio — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:57:02 +0000

Top Trumps is a popular card game for kids here.

As a kid that’s a hilarious name because “trump” is also a euphemism for fart. To this day, fart is the first thing I think of when I hear the word trump.

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

New comment by Lio in "US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions"

Lio — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:37:10 +0000

Again, as repeated elsewhere in the thread, Musk requested that Starshield be slowed.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/10/16/musk-appro...

New comment by Lio in "US threatens Europe over Starlink restrictions"

Lio — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:29:15 +0000

> and the decision reportedly came from the White House.

That looks like outdated information. The request to slow Starshield came directly from Musk.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/10/16/musk-appro...

New comment by Lio in "Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio"

Lio — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:53:26 +0000

I have no interest in Siri or always-on AI assistants. I turn as much of that off as I can.

I do have an interest in local, private inference though and I am willing to pay for that.

Apple segmenting the market is actually a good strategy. Horses for courses, as they say.

New comment by Lio in "New 'super ice' 10 times stronger, bringing it close to the strength of concrete"

Lio — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:23:55 +0000

The CIA already had the SA-C46[1] for that “unexplained death” scenario. I believe ot was developed “but not used”… ;) ;)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAC-46_(handgun)

New comment by Lio in "Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts"

Lio — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:00:12 +0000

Yes that makes senses. It's a hedge.

Meta's past behaviour has been to ignore illegality in business, with the hope that they can either win in court or stave off legal action altogether.

That's how they acted with the books they pirated to train models and when they targeted children with gambling products to increase revenue.

They love a legal grey area. It's not what's moral it's what you can get away with.

New comment by Lio in "The engineering that allows articulated buses to bend"

Lio — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:49:18 +0000

Yep I find the Elizabeth Line in London has this effect too.

I find it a bit freaky to be honest but you do get used to it.

New comment by Lio in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

Lio — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:08:54 +0000

It’s an interesting question. I would also guess that this kind of behaviour would be illegal for private companies in many countries even if you don’t do it domestically.

Why Your Mac Is Slow at Local AI (and It's Not the Chip) [video]

Lio — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:51:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_qmqqp6d7s

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50104527

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Lio in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

Lio — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:16:44 +0000

> Reuters has reported that billions of dollars’ worth of Meta’s ad revenue comes from ads for scams, illegal gambling, pornography and other banned content. In the US, ICE and other government agencies have bought software that uses ad tech data to track people’s movements.

I don't know if an ad blocker protects against Discover-Tech’s Controlium but in general you'd be a fool to allow ads in your browser in at this point. The ad industry is pretty shady all round.

New comment by Lio in "The Toftwood Male Voice Choir: A Mystery Pressed in Vinyl"

Lio — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:32:36 +0000

In my head this record sounds like the "Tonge Singers" from Joe Barnes' The Rare Folk:

https://youtu.be/mA19d7OoS38?t=110

Meta's Smart Glasses May Have Been Recording People Without Their Knowledge

Lio — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:55:00 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/metas-smart-glasses-recording-without-consent-2000826018

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50101424

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by Lio in "Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones"

Lio — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:56:25 +0000

That sounds like something completely made up by trolls.

It's like me saying I'm on the Pope's Super Secret Christmas List because some random on Reddit said so.

It's just amateur propaganda.

New comment by Lio in "Do Frameworks Matter Anymore?"

Lio — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:24:20 +0000

Given the choice, I think I would prefer to go as browser native as possible.

Library code is useful for abstraction but browser native APIs are always going to be more stable over the long term.

If I have to vibe code now then at the very least I should be able to take advantage of agents to reduce the number of external "moving parts" involved by going native.

e.g. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_compone...

Why bother with an external framework when it's built in? My familiarity with React no longer matters.

I'll probably move towards using library code only for things like cross compatibility shims, to be removed over time, but that's about it.

New comment by Lio in "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"

Lio — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:16:12 +0000

Oh yeah, I used Gopher at uni. I think this whole world wide web thing is probably a fad. :P

New comment by Lio in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

Lio — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 23:52:55 +0000

Yes, I definitely agree. The Scenic is probably the one I'd get given the choice. I've driven one and liked it a lot. Good range, easy to handle and very comfortable IMHO.

New comment by Lio in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

Lio — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 23:45:45 +0000

> like the Leaf and the BMW i-series.

I don't know about the i-series but the current Leaf is not a city car. Nissan's small city car is the Pixa.

The Leaf is mid sized and well designed for longer distance travel with a range of 387 miles.