<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Talinx</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Talinx</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:40:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Talinx" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Talinx in "You can't test if quantum uses complex numbers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't get why we talk about using complex numbers when doing quantum physics. What's really important is that we use numbers from an algebraically closed field (complex numbers being just a simple example). This makes it clearer what's happening under the hood.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:48:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288041</link><dc:creator>Talinx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288041</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Talinx in "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OneDev (<a href="https://onedev.io/" rel="nofollow">https://onedev.io/</a>) is self-hostable, too, and works great.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:37:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44867035</link><dc:creator>Talinx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44867035</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44867035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Talinx in "Linux kernel is leaving 486 CPUs behind, only 18 years after the last one made"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, actually... The LTS kernel with longest support before 6.15 is 6.1. It will be supported until December 2027 [1] which is a few months over 20 years after the last 486 CPU [2].<p>[1] <a href="https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html</a><p>[2] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061009060120/http://developer.intel.com/design/pcn/Processors/D0106013.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20061009060120/http://developer....</a> as linked in the Ars Technica article</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 19:24:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43948161</link><dc:creator>Talinx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43948161</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43948161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Talinx in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the broadest sense Android and IOS are similar to browsers: All are platforms that execute code given in a certain format and have APIs for interacting with the device.<p>(The browser is different in that it doesn't need a separate download to acquire the code and makes partial code downloads easy. And from search to opening an app is a single click and very quick.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 11:34:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42182329</link><dc:creator>Talinx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42182329</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42182329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Talinx in "Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have never been given a probiotic while getting an antibiotic.<p>Seems like a good idea. Is that a common thing? Does the evidence support this?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:01:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41384327</link><dc:creator>Talinx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41384327</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41384327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Talinx in "What Is Analog Computing?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Quantum computers deserve to be mentioned in discussions about analog computers. Under the assumption that nature is quantum at its core it follows that every analog computer could instead by replaced by a quantum computer running a suitable algorithm.<p>This connection opens doors for research in both directions, how to design quantum algorithms and how to built physical computing systems that make use of quantum mechanics.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 16:04:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41182723</link><dc:creator>Talinx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41182723</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41182723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Talinx in "YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why not load the minimal required content for it to look right first (e. g. thumbnail, video controls) and load everything else once the rest of the page has been loaded (e. g. buffer the first few seconds of the video), somewhat similar to hydration?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 11:36:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40904464</link><dc:creator>Talinx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40904464</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40904464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Talinx in "120ms to 30ms: Python to Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is a lot of text for not determining why the new solution is faster. The only relevant part:<p>>  Before our migration, the old pipeline utilized a C library accessed through a Python service, which buffered and bundled data. This was really the critical aspect that was causing our latency.<p>How much speed up would there have been if they moved to a Rust wrapper around the same C library?<p>Using something other than Python is almost always going to be faster. This Reddit post does not give any insights into which aspects of Python lead to small/large performance hits. They show that it was the right solution for them with ample documentation which is great, but they don't provide any generalizable information.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:54:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40821196</link><dc:creator>Talinx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40821196</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40821196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Talinx in "Framework Laptop 13 Deep Dive – Creating a custom high-resolution display"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On the framework discord it is speculated that it is most likely from the Lenovo Thinkbook 13x Gen 4 [1] [2]. Would fit in terms of specs, rounded corners etc.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.lenovo.com/us/vipmembers/ticketsatwork/en/p/laptops/thinkbook/thinkbook-x/lenovo-thinkbook-13x-gen-4-(13-inch-intel)/21krcto1wwus1" rel="nofollow">https://www.lenovo.com/us/vipmembers/ticketsatwork/en/p/lapt...</a>
[2] <a href="https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkBook-13x-G4-laptop-review-One-of-the-best-subnotebooks-apart-from-the-keyboard.840954.0.html#toc-4" rel="nofollow">https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkBook-13x-G4-laptop...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 15:18:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40609526</link><dc:creator>Talinx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40609526</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40609526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Talinx in "New earplugs won't amplify the sound of your own voice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are earplugs that minimize certain frequencies, e. g. Flare Calmer [1]. They have a report with frequency response graphs [2].<p>No idea if this helps with tinnitus at all.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.flareaudio.com/en-eu/collections/calmer" rel="nofollow">https://www.flareaudio.com/en-eu/collections/calmer</a>
[2] <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1721/0649/files/ISVR_Offical_Report_on_Calmer.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1721/0649/files/ISVR_Offic...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2024 22:07:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40517607</link><dc:creator>Talinx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40517607</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40517607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Talinx in "To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree - I think it is pretty clear that there is a difference between programming languages and other languages. Figuring out the differences (instead of getting wrong ideas because they share some similarities) should lead to better words for different kinds of languages.<p>Maybe "Spoken languages" is a better term for languages like English? I find speaking computer code out loud just doesn't work except for some particular lines of code. "At dataclass class QueueItem magnitude colon int equals one..." is really not clear, if I have to communicate such code in words I wouldn't read it directly and instead describe it, e. g. "QueueItem is a dataclass with the attributes...").</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2024 16:46:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40483505</link><dc:creator>Talinx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40483505</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40483505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Talinx in "Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Minisforum V3 is a tablet that can also be used as a monitor via USB-C, so definitely possible. I wish more tablets would work that way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2024 00:45:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40461676</link><dc:creator>Talinx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40461676</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40461676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Talinx in "Autism and PTSD Are Vulnerably Linked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Stimming helps autistic people. Refraining from stimming leads to increased anxiety in autism [1].<p>It can very well be the case that it does not help any allistic people, I'm not familiar with the literature in that regard. Searching for "stimming PTSD" in google scholar does not bring up any studies that look into this, so if PTSD and ASD share some common characteristics this might be worthwhile looking into.<p>[1] <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13623613231195108" rel="nofollow">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/136236132311951...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 18:04:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40370327</link><dc:creator>Talinx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40370327</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40370327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Talinx in "Autism and PTSD Are Vulnerably Linked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe stimming helps people with PTSD, too. Has anybody tried that?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 16:55:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40369441</link><dc:creator>Talinx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40369441</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40369441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Talinx in "Context: The Missing Feature of Programming Languages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Functions make assumptions all the time and there is often no way to specify them except with type information. E. g. one can specify that a function takes a float as input but not that the float has to be in [0.0, 1.0]. Hard to catch with static code analysis.<p>Idea for implicit parameters:<p>Implicit parameters are values from somewhere up the call stack. So make an object with a get function:<p><pre><code>    Scope.get('Logger')
</code></pre>
But then you can get anything. So add a mechanism to put things in there up the call stack:<p><pre><code>    logger = Logger()
    Scope.put('Logger', logger)
</code></pre>
That's a key-value store with scope levels.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:34:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39816095</link><dc:creator>Talinx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39816095</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39816095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Talinx in "Car dealers say they can't sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That not every customer wants an EV or that an EV is not the best car for every customer is no excuse for sales reps being subpar when it comes to EVs. Especially when the car industry does not take sales rep performance into account when evaluating EV sales at dealerships.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 16:27:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38461483</link><dc:creator>Talinx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38461483</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38461483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Talinx in "Linux and TPMs with systemd measured boot [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Relying on no bugs in the entire software stack makes the attack surface quite large.<p>If a laptop is stolen the thief can wait sufficiently long for some vulnerability to be discovered somewhere in the stack. With LUKS only the LUKS encryption has to be good and full disk encryption protects the data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2023 12:28:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38150551</link><dc:creator>Talinx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38150551</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38150551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Talinx in "Review: Framework Laptop finally gets an AMD Ryzen config–and it’s pretty good"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They sent out an e mail an hour ago, batch 2 <i>shipments starting later in October</i>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2023 21:08:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37757597</link><dc:creator>Talinx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37757597</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37757597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Talinx in "Thermodynamic Linear Algebra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does this hold up when taking quantum mechanics into account?<p>Let's assume you need at least <i>m</i> = <i>n</i>^2 particles for a physical system modelling a <i>n</i> by <i>n</i> matrix and model the change of the system from setting the state of the particles (to the matrix elements) to measurement by a finite number of interactions between particles (by exchanging a photon):<p>- a particle can interact with a particle of the heat bath<p>- a particle can interact with another particle of the <i>m</i> particles of the system<p>I guess this result holds up if the second interaction kind does not matter because the first interaction alone then takes a constant time for each particle. The whole thing becomes a massively parallel computation (with <i>m</i> threads).<p>But the second interaction should matter, otherwise how can the system capture/model dependencies between variables (I guess)?<p>My intuition would be that subsystems of particles get closer to the equilibrium by interaction with the heat bath and then two subsystems combine their wave functions to one by the second kind of interaction. You got subsystems that are in local thermal equilibrium that combine and split their wave functions and as time goes to <i>t_0</i> the subsystems sizes that are in local equilibrium get larger and larger until they reach size <i>m</i> at time <i>t_0</i>. This does seem to take longer for more particles (not that massively parallel anymore). Anyone got any insight into how this scales?<p>(This only matters under the assumption that the number of photon exchanges (that each particle experiences) for each of the <i>m</i> particles is finite and constant (or gets larger with larger <i>m</i>) for a fixed temperature. I could easily have missed some things that could make these thoughts irrelevant.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2023 06:39:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37107263</link><dc:creator>Talinx</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37107263</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37107263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Talinx in "HP bricking printers remotely if the client's credit card expires [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/FrameworkPuter/status/1617566347877298177" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/FrameworkPuter/status/161756634787729817...</a><p>Currently have a ten year old HP printer, constantly causes problems. If Framework actually makes a printer I'll buy it instantly.</p>
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