Hacker News: Varloom

New comment by Varloom in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

Varloom — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:55:52 +0000

If I wanted only apps signed by developers I'd use Playstore.

New comment by Varloom in "Qualcomm Wants to Buy Intel"

Varloom — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 23:46:58 +0000

Qualcomm main business is mobile phone chips and 5g modems.

Majority of it's revenue goes to Taiwan for TSMC as margins.

Having Intel fab, will cut the middle man, and revenue will skyrocket, all while no money leaves the USA.

New comment by Varloom in "Intel foundry business to make custom chip for Amazon, chipmaker's shares jump"

Varloom — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:14:55 +0000

Big move for Amazon

New comment by Varloom in "NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules"

Varloom — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:41:26 +0000

They know CUDA monopoly won't last forever.

New comment by Varloom in "Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same"

Varloom — Sat, 25 May 2024 11:58:18 +0000

I reduced my google search engine usage by 90%

Just Option+Space and get the answer with ChatGPT for MacOS.

No ads, no nonsense, just the answer.

New comment by Varloom in "Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam Altman"

Varloom — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 01:20:08 +0000

There goes their almost $13B investment down the drain.

Both masterminds of ChatGPT have left the company.

Feels like Nokia 2.0

New comment by Varloom in "Apple admits third-party app stores in Europe are inevitable"

Varloom — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 20:48:57 +0000

No, there will be 3rd party App stores (approved by EU) where developers can release their Apps.

New comment by Varloom in "Apple admits third-party app stores in Europe are inevitable"

Varloom — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 20:47:43 +0000

I'm pretty sure one of the first app stores we'll see is Meta App Store.

The deliberate delay in releasing the Threads app in the EU, without any clear reason, makes me believe that they intend to make it an exclusive offering of the Meta store.

New comment by Varloom in "Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic"

Varloom — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 10:58:38 +0000

It's absolutely good, have you tried their Claude 2 AI?

New comment by Varloom in "Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic"

Varloom — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 10:56:49 +0000

That means all the work they did on their own AI has failed. So they are buying someone else's AI.

New comment by Varloom in "Cortex X2: ARM aims high"

Varloom — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 10:53:52 +0000

Agreed, generic ARM cores are weak. The solution is to go custom like Apple did and soon Qualcomm with Oryon Cores.

New comment by Varloom in "Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked"

Varloom — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 13:16:54 +0000

Just use Yandex, it wild wild west over there.

New comment by Varloom in "Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked"

Varloom — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 12:59:51 +0000

With Encrypted Client Hello being rolled out (default on Firefox, optional on chrome/edge with Cloudflare DNS). ISPs can't technically block any website anymore.

They used to block DNS requests, then when secure DNS rolled out, they targeted SNI requests.

But with ECH there is nothing to block except the ip address, which is dynamic and doesn't even belong to the website if it was hosted on a CDN.

New comment by Varloom in "Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims DeepMind co-founder"

Varloom — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 12:51:53 +0000

Why I have never heard of perplexity.ai

Just tried it, so good and fast.

New comment by Varloom in "TSMC: Ecosystem for 2nm Chip Development Is Nearing Completion"

Varloom — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 01:21:53 +0000

Almost everyone is moving to N3 from N4 (not N5), the performance jump is not as impressive as the numbers which are based on N5->N3.

New comment by Varloom in "iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation"

Varloom — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 10:34:19 +0000

Do you honestly expect that they would admit it and face millions of lawsuits ?

New comment by Varloom in "iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation"

Varloom — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 09:55:43 +0000

Damn that's dangerous level of radiation, why this was only discovered recently?

New comment by Varloom in "Intel announces Arm investment, talks up RISC-V"

Varloom — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 00:21:29 +0000

Meta is switching to RISC-V

https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/meta-details-its-first-custo...

New comment by Varloom in "Intel announces Arm investment, talks up RISC-V"

Varloom — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 22:14:00 +0000

Softbank are dumping their shares in ARM while at peak valuation, before RISC-V eats its market share (they saw it coming, that's why they are rushing to IPO before rise of RISC-V).

Most big ARM clients are dumping ARM for RISC-V.

Including, Qualcomm:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/qualcomm-one-of-arms...

Google (Converting whole Android system to support RISC-V):

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/google-announces-off...

And Samsung :

https://research.samsung.com/news/Samsung-Electronics-Partic...

When you want to invest look for the underdog, not a company that has it's market share ready to be eaten alive by RISC-V in the coming 5-10 years.

New comment by Varloom in "Apple to Remove Nostr Damus from App Store for Bitcoin Tipping Feature"

Varloom — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 15:44:11 +0000

By May 2024 every iPhone in EU will be allowed to install alternative app stores legally.

It's only a problem for the rest of the world.