Hacker News: PcChip

New comment by PcChip in "Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey"

PcChip — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:38:16 +0000

When we watched that South Park episode, my wife had to explain to me that those were real and not a made up thing for the show

New comment by PcChip in "Why I Left Google DeepMind"

PcChip — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:44:44 +0000

am I the only one that finds it very hard to read this font?

New comment by PcChip in "Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone"

PcChip — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:49:19 +0000

this is a really dumb question, but how is -1 represented?

is it a float? if so, how many bits is the float?

I've never heard of a bit ever having more than two possible values

New comment by PcChip in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

PcChip — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:36:09 +0000

I've used it since that simpsons episode

"it's a load bearing poster..."

New comment by PcChip in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

PcChip — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:02:41 +0000

I saw a very similar post a month or two ago, is this the same author?

edit: no, this is the one I was remembering: https://farnoy.dev/posts/linux-latency

New comment by PcChip in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

PcChip — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:04:04 +0000

>Outside of home-labs, it's rare for me to see any devices connected to the LAN side of a wireless router these days

I would assume every gaming desktop computer would be? I actually assumed every desktop would be...

New comment by PcChip in "1k Words: A Writing Contest"

PcChip — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:00:30 +0000

probably for a lot of people, AI has been degrading our skills

New comment by PcChip in "24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)"

PcChip — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:21:31 +0000

you might want to see if your DAC re-clocks incoming optical, if not then it's relying on the cheap clock generator from your computer

New comment by PcChip in "24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)"

PcChip — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:14:28 +0000

I'm also one of those audiophile crazies that obsesses over which metals to use in cabling, power filtering, swapping opamps, and builds their own DACs, amps, and speakers

New comment by PcChip in "24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)"

PcChip — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:53:02 +0000

I'm curious if the audio was being sent bit-perfect to the DAC for all of these tests (ALSA direct), or if it was being run through the audio mixer and being resampled

I can always tell if my 44.1 songs are being resampled to 48 because they're being run through the OS mixer

New comment by PcChip in "There is minimal downside to switching to open models"

PcChip — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:23:49 +0000

Is it just me or is half the article missing?

I enjoyed the first part though

New comment by PcChip in "Linux latency measurements and compositor tuning"

PcChip — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:03:52 +0000

you do have to appreciate how much time he put into doing all the measurements he did take though

New comment by PcChip in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

PcChip — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:51:53 +0000

I think I'm on an A/B test on the Facebook app, now whenever I open the app it goes straight to reels and starts playing videos with sound enabled. I looked through all settings to try to disable this but couldn't, so I finally just gave up and uninstalled it

I open the app to keep up with what my friends are doing, and also check the dating portion of the app for new matches. I purposely always avoid reels on any app, because I hate them and what they do to people. So when I open the app and it immediately starts playing reels with sound on and no way to disable it, it feels like a slap in the face

New comment by PcChip in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

PcChip — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:38:00 +0000

An nvidia engineer in a discord server said it should work fine

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?