Hacker News: PunchyHamster

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done"

PunchyHamster — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 23:06:24 +0000

Gonna coin a new term here, AAAI Slop

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done"

PunchyHamster — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:50:41 +0000

Gonna be interesting flop

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

PunchyHamster — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:48:15 +0000

because you might not want to send a technician to every single one of them once a firmware update is needed

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

PunchyHamster — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:47:18 +0000

It's not even significant cost. The main cost is still the hardware, not electronics driving it, and especially not a tiny module that talks with electronics to send/receive commands/metrics

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

PunchyHamster — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:40:31 +0000

"I won't lock the door coz attackers might be able to bring battering ram"

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?"

PunchyHamster — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:37:02 +0000

Nope. I want one with OpenWRT

also

> 4. used terminal PC, they go for cheap. Just add ethernet usb card for second link

also

> 5. plenty of small form factor multiple ethernet boards you can get on ARM and even x86, tho gonna be more expensive than a dedicated router

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?"

PunchyHamster — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:24:17 +0000

I don't know what you mean, looks more like camera lens from front

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?"

PunchyHamster — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:22:48 +0000

we're quickly getting into "we're sorry, you can't access the site unless you verify with android/iphone" so yes, that would be essentially dead

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?"

PunchyHamster — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:21:50 +0000

...by being even less open than Android. It's not an improvement

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'"

PunchyHamster — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:13:00 +0000

Question is really how many companies will stay due to inertia while competition catches up

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Bot traffic from Yandex"

PunchyHamster — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:51:46 +0000

And yet overnight the pro UA comments in Polish internet dropped by order of magnitude, must be coincidence....

...it's fucking datacenter, obviously it runs more than just "crawler bots"

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Bot traffic from Yandex"

PunchyHamster — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:49:19 +0000

Just co-located datacenter next to a military base

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Bot traffic from Yandex"

PunchyHamster — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:45:26 +0000

US put some of those regimes in power

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Bot traffic from Yandex"

PunchyHamster — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:44:04 +0000

Well, hopefully it is in plans, online matchmaking in EU PvP games would be better overnight

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Bot traffic from Yandex"

PunchyHamster — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:42:17 +0000

Still, at least Polish Facebook seem to be far quieter with anti-UA/pro russia comments. So not only search bots

New comment by PunchyHamster in "A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't"

PunchyHamster — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:07:40 +0000

I think the problem is that we build it the wrong way around

It should be:

* city decides which area need more housing or re-development, open to community feedback ideas. * developers pen up proposals * city picks one * city keeps an eye on timelines and quality

Developers get the job with less fighting the city, city gets what it wants, where it wants, and hopefully there is less pathologic development all around

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Decade-old RAM is making a comeback"

PunchyHamster — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:00:45 +0000

Yes, let's encourage absolute minimum effort when posting!

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Decade-old RAM is making a comeback"

PunchyHamster — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:49:55 +0000

Not GPUs. AI chips. no benefit to the customer

New comment by PunchyHamster in "The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4"

PunchyHamster — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:40:11 +0000

unlesss it's for children, just read books.

and if it is for your child, read them books.

New comment by PunchyHamster in "The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4"

PunchyHamster — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:38:42 +0000

DDR4 have similar latency as DDR5 and that's what matters in all games, while raw bandwidth only matters in some games