Hacker News: Tistron

New comment by Tistron in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

Tistron — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:10:39 +0000

From what I've read, EVs mostly break with the engine, and recover quite some of the energy that way. To the point that I've read warnings about the breaks rusting here in south Sweden, and that you need to do some aggressive breaking now and then to clean them out.

New comment by Tistron in "'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees"

Tistron — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:29:58 +0000

Surely it isn't impossible to devise one-way data flows that provably work for remote sensing? And yeah then you have to send somebody to fix stuff if something is off..

Like something that would work but not not scale would be one computer writing data to an updating qr code and another reading it. Surely something like that can be made (and probably already exists?) on the cable level?

New comment by Tistron in "Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?"

Tistron — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:26:01 +0000

:) I'm not trying omarchy. I'll probably go with Fedora or NixOS.

New comment by Tistron in "Ask HN: Is it impossible to disable Siri on macOS 27?"

Tistron — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:09:10 +0000

I jumped to mac with Tiger when they started using x86. Around 2006 I believe. It was always to become more comfortable with POSIX, but I liked it and have stayed. My current laptop is a 2019 MBP and as they are now phasing out Intel support I'm now buying a thinkpad and finally moving on to Linux. Macos has just become too annoying, and macs too expensive.

New comment by Tistron in "GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher"

Tistron — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 07:35:04 +0000

That's what sidestepping means, no?

That the answer doesn't matter, and capabilities and behaviour are there either way.

New comment by Tistron in "Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%"

Tistron — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 22:33:30 +0000

That specific thing hasn't been latency free for me for years.

Though I agree it should be.

New comment by Tistron in "Show HN: Amaze Kings – a browser logic puzzle with 1,400 hand-graded levels"

Tistron — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 22:31:22 +0000

I've played this game before and it's been called queens, not kings. But this is a fairly nice implementation.

New comment by Tistron in "Terpstra Keyboard"

Tistron — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:22:26 +0000

You're mixing up Go and Othello :)

New comment by Tistron in "Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%"

Tistron — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:03:13 +0000

Try it on a flaky connection. Every menu (maybe any action of any kind?) makes a roundtrip to the server before displaying, with a very slow timeout. It's crazy how bad it is.

New comment by Tistron in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

Tistron — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:07:43 +0000

I have a software degree and some work experience but have been doing other things for a decade or so. I'm curious to try out some "vibe engineering" but it seems a bit daunting to get started, there are so many new tools available on top of the AI itself. Are there good resources for somebody like me to get started, that'll guide me though how to think about prompting, and using CI and how go have the agent successfully write specs and tests and what-not. I don't mind paying some for a good course, but I find it hard to figure out which one would be worthwhile, or whether there are some youtubers that would be better to follow.

Any tips?

New comment by Tistron in "Show HN: Nectar, a Rust-like React that compiles to WebAssembly"

Tistron — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:55:04 +0000

Demo does not work in Fx on android

New comment by Tistron in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

Tistron — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:54:06 +0000

I've used both, and for me mullvad has worked a lot better. They seem more focused on VPN as core to what they do and don't leak data when reconnecting to a different server, and with proton I often experience that my connection stops working if my laptop gas been closed for some time, and the only way to make it work again is to reconnect to a new server. And then it leaks connections for a few seconds.

New comment by Tistron in "15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test"

Tistron — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:50:54 +0000

My gf experiences some thing like this sometimes. Seems to correlate without exercise or excitement or eating histamine rich food. She takes pentatop to regulate it with some success. I'm also interested to head about your experience.

New comment by Tistron in "The desperation of NYTimes"

Tistron — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:29:49 +0000

I've been close to subscribing to The Economist a couple of times, but when I do a web search I find a lot of people complaining about their similar practice of making it difficult to unsubscribe, so I've refrained.

I guess there are more people who give up on unsubscribing than who refrain from subscribing?

New comment by Tistron in "A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous"

Tistron — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:37:50 +0000

https://archive.is/wPKhf

New comment by Tistron in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

Tistron — Mon, 11 May 2026 08:33:41 +0000

Voice input works really well for people speaking English with a Swedish accent. I think the accent of most educated Swedes is mostly a case of prosody. For sure there are some sounds we say slightly differently than native English speakers. We often have some trouble with /s/ and /z/, but I don't know, "war and peace", I think that's easily understood.

Source: voice typing this with Swedish vocal chords, and only had to correct "different lives" to "differently", and add /[^\w\s]/.

New comment by Tistron in "Biscuit"

Tistron — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:25:38 +0000

Cool. Though one of the reasons for me to have a device like that is that it doesn't have distractions like games and messages.

But for those that want that, I guess this is a cheap version?

New comment by Tistron in "San Francisco, AI capital of the world, is an economic laggard"

Tistron — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:10:58 +0000

How does 91 x >1e9 become 600e9? Is it like a bundle discount?

"It hosts 91 other AI “unicorns”, private companies worth more than $1bn, collectively valued at a further $600bn."

New comment by Tistron in "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information"

Tistron — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:29:33 +0000

It's called Freja. It's also possible to get a special hardware device to do the bankID dance, which is great to have if your phone breaks, as having that device will make it possible to provision a new bankID without visiting a bank office.

New comment by Tistron in "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information"

Tistron — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:26:27 +0000

What do you mean here? Isn't bankID limited to only one device?