Hacker News: Teknomadix

New comment by Teknomadix in "(Planet Money, NPR) "We almost had a smartphone in the 90s. Why did it fail?""

Teknomadix — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:50:15 +0000

Up close and personal with the Sony Magic Link in 2018 https://youtu.be/E1YTob2Ryl0

New comment by Teknomadix in "I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware"

Teknomadix — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:31:32 +0000

>The zip archive contains 4 files: Application.cmd or Launcher.cmd loader.exe or luajit.exe or another_name.exe random_name.cso or random_name.txt lua51.dll If you submit a link to the archive to VirusTotal, it will find 0 viruses. If you submit the zip file itself, it will detect a Trojan inside it.

MS Windows

New comment by Teknomadix in "Improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin"

Teknomadix — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:17:39 +0000

Highly editorialized title. "Transient multidomain functional improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin-containing mushroom administration: a case report" This is exactly that. A case report. This is not a successful treatment. Far short of that.

New comment by Teknomadix in "Pac-Man, but you're the ghost"

Teknomadix — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:36:49 +0000

Cool idea. Horrible controls. Reminds me of how frustrating playing pacman on my 2600 was as a kid.

New comment by Teknomadix in "What task are humans still better at than AI?"

Teknomadix — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:00:55 +0000

CAD / CAM & Machining. Co-bots help tremendously at the present, and once a job is 'running' it's very automateable, but getting a job to that point of automation takes tremendous human skill and efforts. Machining touches every physical thing around you. There exists huge potential for more machine learning and automation with coming generations of robotics and edge computation, yet we are a long ways from generalized robots and embodied "AI" that are be able to conceive a new part or whole machine from its parts and make it out of mill stock. LLMs alone will never accomplish that frontier.

New comment by Teknomadix in "Tell HN: I'm making 1K USD per hour with AI"

Teknomadix — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:49:09 +0000

So you do two websites over the course of a week. You must do cold calling and outreach to maintain that momentum. You are not making $1k/hr. You have a ~$50/hr side hustle before you've paid your ±35-45% taxes.

New comment by Teknomadix in "/architect: Reduce Fable tokens by 80%, Fable orchestrates/reviews, Codex builds"

Teknomadix — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:01:54 +0000

US Govt reduces Fable Tokens by 100%.

New comment by Teknomadix in "'8647' etched into grass on the National Mall"

Teknomadix — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:16:24 +0000

Space lasers.

New comment by Teknomadix in "American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn"

Teknomadix — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:53:15 +0000

Isn't there a better alternative to this archive site?

New comment by Teknomadix in "I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200"

Teknomadix — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:42:22 +0000

These are interesting, and offer beefy through put. No point in adapting to a PCI lane thought, stuck behind the slot-bus bottleneck.

New comment by Teknomadix in "I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC"

Teknomadix — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:39:25 +0000

Tesla V100 SXM2 16GB is NOT DGX class as the author writes. It's HGX class. The V100 comes in two classes, SXM2 and SXM4, the latter coming with a Max of 80gb on board memory. Typically these are installed 8×A100 80GB SXM4 on an HGX riser, and what that gives you is NVSwitch fabric and 640GB of pooled HBM2e (on package stacked memory /w ~2 TB/s of memory bandwidth). 2u standard rack footprint too.

New comment by Teknomadix in "Clay PCB Tutorial"

Teknomadix — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:29:42 +0000

Stoned punks for sure.

New comment by Teknomadix in "Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group"

Teknomadix — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:19:04 +0000

So in other words; Mercedes-Benz was the peak, and he was estimating a decline trajectory slower than the rise.

New comment by Teknomadix in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"

Teknomadix — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:07:42 +0000

This should be a pinned top comment.

New comment by Teknomadix in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

Teknomadix — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:29:57 +0000

Iranian. Not bloody likely! Try Israeli-tied propagandists. Poke the hornets nest much?

New comment by Teknomadix in "What color is this dot? New illusion demonstrates weird vision quirk"

Teknomadix — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:25:21 +0000

Here I see 9 distinctly purple dots. On a phone screen. The depth of field about a half arms length. Despite what the article says, I see all dots — the one I'm focused upon — as well as all those in peripheral vision as purple. The illusion does not apply to my visual cortex.

Back to the drawing board.

New comment by Teknomadix in "I got laid off and realized how broken tech hiring is"

Teknomadix — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:01:37 +0000

It has been going this way for some time in the US. My own story and experience was very similar to yours. Lost my position as a Sr. Engineer, and while going through that gauntlet of algorithms trying to find a new role, I found a pivot instead. Left the software world of abstractions and optimizations, and brought my skills in physical hardware and machine knowledge to the forefront. Now I work in hard technology. I may be sort of unique in that I had these parallel skillsets and experiences. But it's never too late to learn new skills. What other skills outside of software do you have?

New comment by Teknomadix in "Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB"

Teknomadix — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:33:36 +0000

Two words; Nix Flakes

New comment by Teknomadix in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

Teknomadix — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:09:05 +0000

That's funny. I was having this similar discussion with my 16 year old niece, and I was asking her what she's been listening to as a 50 year old trying to broaden my musical horizons. She pulled out her Spotify and shared some of her playlists with me, and I was astonished to see that most of the music that she had been enjoying was produced in the late 1960s to the mid-1980s. We had a good laugh about it, and bonded over some of the classic music that I love that I was suprised to find that she loves. There were some modern things interspersed, and I did learn about some new artists and experimental genres. Seems like a clear example of the Law of diminishing marginal returns in the cinema and music industries in Southern California — leading to those industries collapsing. AI and generative crap being a big evidence point for the argument.

New comment by Teknomadix in "Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues"

Teknomadix — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:15:44 +0000

Not exactly automatically.

Seeding is opt-out, not opt-in… but it is usually a default that has to actively manually overridden. Most users never touch those settings. The average pirate downloading a torrent is seeding whether they know it or not.

The protocol absolutely does not enforce seeding. A client can lie to the tracker, cap upload to 0k. BitTorrent has no mechanism to compel one to share. Leeching a file, downloading and sharing no forward packets is possible. While the "social contract" of seeding is entirely a norm enforced by private trackers and community shame. It is not the protocol itself.