Hacker News: PcChip

New comment by PcChip in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

PcChip — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:05:14 +0000

there's still an annoying pause in there on video load (and sometimes video skip/scrub) due to how youtube tries to thwart ad-blockers

New comment by PcChip in "Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given "Predictable" Data (2024)"

PcChip — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:43:14 +0000

with a lower power cap set, it runs cooler, which sometimes allows the GPU to reach higher boost speeds. This is a real effect on gaming GPUs - however I have no idea if it applies to datacenter GPUs

New comment by PcChip in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

PcChip — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:35:26 +0000

Why do our browsers even allow that?

New comment by PcChip in "Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?"

PcChip — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:00:50 +0000

I always assumed ubuntu was brought down to prevent ubuntu servers from patching copy.fail, so that hacking group could exploit as many targets during that time as possible

New comment by PcChip in "Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model"

PcChip — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:13:56 +0000

question: why not use something like Claude? is it for security reasons?

New comment by PcChip in "More cows, more wives"

PcChip — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:09:23 +0000

That’s quite the hot take. My wife has more boyfriends than i do girlfriends, does that make us bottom of the barrel humans?

New comment by PcChip in "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast"

PcChip — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:27:12 +0000

It’s a landmine for low carb gluten free people

New comment by PcChip in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

PcChip — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:49:08 +0000

>This was not poor design, but a decision to restrict the user from copy pasting entire articles

do you have a source for that?

New comment by PcChip in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

PcChip — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:15:15 +0000

How did they force you to do that?

New comment by PcChip in "Microsoft mishandling example.com"

PcChip — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:06:04 +0000

I’ve worked with hundreds of customers that use .local internal domains and vmware, what issues are you describing?

New comment by PcChip in "Exe.dev"

PcChip — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:50:40 +0000

Because it literally tells you what to do

New comment by PcChip in "Show HN: DNS Benchmark Tool – Compare and monitor resolvers"

PcChip — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:02:44 +0000

is this similar to the GRC tool?

New comment by PcChip in "Let AI do the hard parts of your holiday shopping"

PcChip — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:32:40 +0000

Handcrafted headphones? I’m interested…

New comment by PcChip in "Floss Before Brushing"

PcChip — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:31:57 +0000

I'm curious what these reasons are

(My second thought after typing that was "I suppose I could just ask an LLM though")

New comment by PcChip in "Subway Builder: A realistic subway simulation game"

PcChip — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:11:50 +0000

no demo? just a link to pay $30?

New comment by PcChip in "Should you take creatine?"

PcChip — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:17:08 +0000

100% positive

New comment by PcChip in "Should you take creatine?"

PcChip — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 13:37:07 +0000

It gave me crazy nightmares

New comment by PcChip in "Orion Browser"

PcChip — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:27:25 +0000

100% agree with every word you said

New comment by PcChip in "The Promised LAN"

PcChip — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 19:24:33 +0000

This sounds really interesting and something I'd be into

no word on how to join though

New comment by PcChip in "Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic"

PcChip — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 19:04:03 +0000

Nothing. I did it with IRC servers in the late 90s when I was a dumb kid in high school