Hacker News: Xiol

New comment by Xiol in "Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs"

Xiol — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:28:02 +0000

That's an expensive looking 'if'.

New comment by Xiol in "What happens to an economy when it's too hot to work?"

Xiol — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:22:06 +0000

Oh, ok. All good then.

New comment by Xiol in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

Xiol — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:08:53 +0000

So hard to tell what is satire and what isn't these days.

New comment by Xiol in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

Xiol — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:08:56 +0000

I've yet to see someone answer a question like this with a decent, useful answer.

New comment by Xiol in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

Xiol — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:11:45 +0000

I'm having solar installed next month and I specifically had to ask for islanding capability. This added about £1500 to the cost of the system, which I can see many people not opting for.

New comment by Xiol in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

Xiol — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:38:26 +0000

You will burn yourself out in months at that level of daily context switching.

It isn't worth it.

New comment by Xiol in "HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'"

Xiol — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:27:31 +0000

Huh, I'm in the late 150000's. I was genuinely expecting it to be in the millions.

Claude Code Removed from $20-a-Month "Pro" Subscription for New Users

Xiol — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:56:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wheresyoured.at/news-anthropic-removes-pro-cc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855832

Points: 79

# Comments: 38

New comment by Xiol in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

Xiol — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:46:33 +0000

The UK doesn't have a constitution.

New comment by Xiol in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

Xiol — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:20:58 +0000

Unfortunately that would affect shareholder value.

New comment by Xiol in "CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root"

Xiol — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:42:14 +0000

Worth looking at Fedora. Been using it for work and play for over a decade and it's never let me down. Absolutely solid.

New comment by Xiol in "Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation, Institutional Capture"

Xiol — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:34:05 +0000

Doesn't apply to private companies.

"This Is Not the Computer for You"

Xiol — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:11:38 +0000

Article URL: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351807

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by Xiol in "Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom"

Xiol — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:36:38 +0000

Sunglasses, no.

Meta RayBans, deservedly.

New comment by Xiol in "Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood"

Xiol — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:50:17 +0000

Good job we can outsource all our thinking to an agent, now.

New comment by Xiol in "Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts"

Xiol — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:59:56 +0000

And with a love of the emdash and lists, too.

New comment by Xiol in "Attention Media ≠ Social Networks"

Xiol — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:07:20 +0000

The amount of shady stuff Facebook has tried with their app over the years has resulted in it, and other Meta apps, being banned from my devices.

New comment by Xiol in "EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 (2023)"

Xiol — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:19:47 +0000

The UK is not in the EU.

New comment by Xiol in "Micropayments as a reality check for news sites"

Xiol — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:20:14 +0000

This is all absolutely impenetrable.

New comment by Xiol in "Two different tricks for fast LLM inference"

Xiol — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:43:44 +0000

Well, you've blown this account now. Try again.