Hacker News: TMWNN

YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing

TMWNN — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:41:38 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/youtube-will-now-count-a-view-as-soon-as-a-video-starts-playing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49341696

Points: 8

# Comments: 3

New comment by TMWNN in "A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”"

TMWNN — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:57:23 +0000

Thanks for the rundown. Context for others: If you ever sell anything online to Doral FL, it's a freight forwarder. DE and OR (no sales tax), KY, and TX are also popular, but 90% of the time it's a FL address and 90% of the time it's Doral.

Anthropic becomes the 'Apple of AI': Most revenue despite being most expensive

TMWNN — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:56:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.techradar.com/pro/anthropic-becomes-the-apple-of-ai-as-it-grabs-most-revenue-despite-being-the-most-expensive

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329003

Points: 22

# Comments: 24

New comment by TMWNN in "Beware the Permanent Periphery"

TMWNN — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:54:12 +0000

>Again, consider the past: How might an 18th-century society feel if it had decided to bank on slow-but-stable efficiency increases in sailboats, slow progress toward better cures and nicer houses — but locked themselves out of the Industrial Revolution? They might have still felt good when news of the weavers smashing their looms and the sick and destitute pooling in the streets of Manchester reached them. But they would have come around to their deficits — perhaps when their ships of the line ran into steel-hulled steam ships so powerful that naval warfare was no longer a competition. Perhaps reality would reach them when they learned that every foreign peasant could afford new woven garments, or when they learned of mass-produced penicillin all-but-eradicating some of the most persistent lethalities they faced. However stable the periphery, it might soon feel the same way.

Basically Japan c. 1840. It was, compared to most of the rest of the world, an advanced society. It had some awareness of what was going on in Europe and America thanks to the longstanding Dutch trading relationship. But none of that prevented Perry's fleet from almost effortlessly demonstrating its technical superiority.

This is what the author warns against when advising against the temptation to seek refuge in "sovereign AI", or eschew AI and stay with c. 2026-era technology.

New comment by TMWNN in "A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”"

TMWNN — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:17:23 +0000

It's not darkest Africa, or Haiti, but it is sufficiently outside the normal trade routes to not have routine, inexpensive access to components that most of us here take for granted.

New comment by TMWNN in "A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”"

TMWNN — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:14:19 +0000

>Right now, RISC-V is mainly being used in cheap embedded components. Considering that x86 and ARM also were made for cheap computing, until becoming the dominant high end processor, history tells us that the cheapest ISA is the one which will become the highest performance one.

You surely mean "history tells us that the cheapest and largest-volume ISA is the one which will become the highest performance one".

It's not "RISC" having reached x86 levels; it's ARM variants. They did so with volume that for the first time in modern computing massively exceeded x86's. Apple's PA Semi acquisition has resulted in wizardry, but that wizardry would not have been possible without the massive volumes TSMC enjoys.

In any case, I'm not convinced that the above is sufficient; there has to be some level of technical superiority (or at least reasonably equal-level) as well. Otherwise, some inexpensive microcontroller that is manufactured at 100X the volume of x86 would have taken off. Does RISC-V have enough "goodness" in its design? I do not know.

New comment by TMWNN in "A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”"

TMWNN — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:04:10 +0000

I didn't get that impression. He talks about T&T (and places like that)'s inability to cheaply obtain components, but that's not the main point of his post

New comment by TMWNN in "AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64"

TMWNN — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:30:17 +0000

> Given C64 is a roughly equivalently specced machine, there is no reason in principle why they couldn't have ported AGI to C64 as well – it just, for whatever reason, never happened.

Agreed about the issues not being (completely) technical. <https://np.reddit.com/r/c64/comments/1r8hgwk/kings_quest_i/o...>

New comment by TMWNN in "AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64"

TMWNN — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:29:08 +0000

Excellent! Five months ago I wrote about why Sierra never released AGI games for C64; it was not technical so much as market focus. <https://np.reddit.com/r/c64/comments/1r8hgwk/kings_quest_i/o...>

AppleWorks on the Apple II

TMWNN — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:47:08 +0000

Article URL: https://stonetools.ghost.io/appleworks-apple2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322081

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by TMWNN in "Haitians in Springfield are required to report to ICE and wear ankle monitors"

TMWNN — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:22:29 +0000

The sacred trust of the American public was violated when previous administrations turned Temporary Protected Status into de facto permanent residency without the consent of said public.

New comment by TMWNN in "Samsung is using Claude to verify chip designs. It's not going smoothly"

TMWNN — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:08:25 +0000

Yes, that was my takeaway as well from the source article. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274393>

New comment by TMWNN in "Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf"

TMWNN — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:45:16 +0000

> As another example, I blame at least in part the crazy NYC rent situation on Sex and the City, particularly on rents in the West Village. If you've lived in NYC you know there's so many SATC girlies living out their NYC dreams and not all of them have trust funds.

Highly relevant: <https://www.thecut.com/article/nyc-west-village-neighborhood...>

New comment by TMWNN in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

TMWNN — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:34:13 +0000

>Never heard the words "basic economics" used outside of strawman political arguments.

Only someone ignorant of basic economic concepts—such as, in this case, supply and demand—would write the above.

New comment by TMWNN in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

TMWNN — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:30:21 +0000

I've heard it said that "problematic" is the "blasphemous" of said religion.

New comment by TMWNN in "Samsung with Claude: "Design and verification shortened to 2 days from a month""

TMWNN — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:53:57 +0000

Title edited by me from original translation '"Design and verification shortened to two days from a month"... Samsung Electronics Semiconductor Achieves Results by Deploying Anthropic "Claude"'

Samsung with Claude: "Design and verification shortened to 2 days from a month"

TMWNN — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:53:42 +0000

Article URL: https://biz.chosun.com/it-science/ict/2026/08/12/XIEQWWZCDRFH7BJV5Z3DOY2RLQ/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274393

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by TMWNN in "Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app"

TMWNN — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:33:21 +0000

Cuban is the #2 most-followed Bluesky user. <https://bluecrawler.com/>

4Chan Chuds Used AI to Clothe Her. She Fought Back (2024)

TMWNN — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:57:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/dignifai-4chan-shame-women-1234961851/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267010

Points: 15

# Comments: 1

New comment by TMWNN in "Let’s take apart your phone"

TMWNN — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:49:48 +0000

>Where can you find another non-linear servo-mechanism weighing only 150 pounds and having great adaptability, that can be produced so cheaply by completely unskilled labor?

—Scott Crossfield, 1954 <https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/02/01/computer/>