Hacker News: Maken

New comment by Maken in "Fairphone is now officially available in the United States"

Maken — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:17:10 +0000

Whoever came with calling it the "The Fairphone (Gen 6)" instead of "Fairphone 6" should have been fired on the spot.

New comment by Maken in "Fairphone is now officially available in the United States"

Maken — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:15:27 +0000

> so you make a screenshot when you want to lock the phone half of the time

I share that pain. I use a Fairphone 6 as my main phone, and my only real gripes with it are the extremely weak haptic engine and that power button placement.

New comment by Maken in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

Maken — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:09:16 +0000

If that's a pool for human use, the worst case is a bacterial/fungal infection due to incorrect filtering.

New comment by Maken in "[dead]"

Maken — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:34:14 +0000

There are just too many to kill them in a single swoop. Destruction on this scale needs planning, logistics and well supplied stockpiles.

New comment by Maken in "Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)"

Maken — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:58:24 +0000

These examples mention explicitely ambient light, which is the point of the article. SSAO makes no sense for direct ligth.

New comment by Maken in "Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)"

Maken — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:56:06 +0000

AO is an approximation of how indirect light behaves. If you have an actual global illumination solution you don't need these tricks.

New comment by Maken in "How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues"

Maken — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:18:38 +0000

>It is not a good idea to build a bridge that last 500 years.

Why not? A well-build bridge from 500 years ago is perfectly functional today [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puente_de_Segovia,_Madrid

New comment by Maken in "Google Kills Custom Search API on Jan 1, 2027"

Maken — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:14:57 +0000

Maybe they intend for Gemini to be the only chatbot with built-in access to internet search.

New comment by Maken in "Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies"

Maken — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:20:41 +0000

Because the NSA has such a great record of getting punished from their transgressions, right?

For foreign countries, handling your data to either the Chinese surveillance apparatus or the USA one makes no difference. In fact, any company with such deep ties with a foreign intelligence agency as Palantir should be automatically considered a security thread in other nations.

Anyway, the deal with Huawei was about buying hardware, not handling over data.

New comment by Maken in "Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies"

Maken — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:25:58 +0000

You are mixing apples and oranges. The infamous Huawei deal was buying tons of HDD servers. Any deal with Palantir is handling all your data to the NSA.

New comment by Maken in "Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies"

Maken — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:23:25 +0000

You are probably thinking about ketamine.

New comment by Maken in "Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies"

Maken — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:19:15 +0000

Most homes and public spaces have AC installed, but it doesn't help as soon as you set your foot on the street.

New comment by Maken in "Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies"

Maken — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:15:20 +0000

The contract with Huawei was about buying storage servers [1], which would then be managed by the Interior Ministry. They were not outsourcing anything.

[1] Concretely these: https://support.huawei.com/enterprise/en/flash-storage/ocean...

New comment by Maken in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

Maken — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:19:10 +0000

If scrapping content is legal, model distillation should be legal too.

New comment by Maken in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

Maken — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:43:58 +0000

To be fair, the UI randomly changing in every update is a pain point for people of any age.

New comment by Maken in "Claude Fable 5"

Maken — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:22:25 +0000

The bar is just too low.

New comment by Maken in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

Maken — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:16:08 +0000

Just in time for fusion energy?

New comment by Maken in "Meta asks users to pay for WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook"

Maken — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:59:13 +0000

Whatsapp used to be a paid app.

New comment by Maken in "Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200"

Maken — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:15:02 +0000

It's not like they had much of an option, when everybody was hoarding every GPU they could. For the second Colossus they could book future production, but the first one had to be built ASAP so xAI looked as a serious competitor in the AI space.

New comment by Maken in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

Maken — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:15:17 +0000

The problem is that only works at the advanced courses. However people need to learn the basics before they reach that level, specially when they are starting and are in many regards below the LLM's baseline.