Hacker News: Yokolos

New comment by Yokolos in "Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25"

Yokolos — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:05:34 +0000

They never said it was good poetry

New comment by Yokolos in "FDA authorized Zyn nicotine pouches without knowing what they were made of"

Yokolos — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:08:55 +0000

Are you suggesting that all the scientists studying microplastics and papers about microplastics are just grifting for the health and wellness industry?

Also, are you suggesting that a pharma company like Philip Morris, with a yearly revenue of $40 billion, part of the TRILLION dollar pharma industry, is somehow less influential than the health and wellness industry?

There's a grift alright, and it's not some former FDA scientist selling it.

New comment by Yokolos in "Resetting Xbox"

Yokolos — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:25:17 +0000

It's on the publisher and owner to guide studios in a direction that makes money. That's literally their purpose. If these studios aren't releasing anything and they aren't making money, that's on Microsoft. So things aren't better if these studios are gone. The same people who managed this mess for ten years are still there. If you're not going to do anything to ensure these studios actually do what you need them to, I don't understand what the point was of acquisitions.

New comment by Yokolos in "Does code cleanliness affect coding agents? A controlled minimal-pair study"

Yokolos — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:38:08 +0000

This is the most frustrating part. You do everything you can to ensure there are clear instructions, you can keep the agent MD as concise and clear and short as possible. It still feels like it's all just a suggestion, and of course it is, because it's all just another part of the prompt.

New comment by Yokolos in "EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track"

Yokolos — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 06:08:19 +0000

If you don't think the EU and European governments are sweeping the same shit under the rug, I have a bridge to sell you.

New comment by Yokolos in "EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track"

Yokolos — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:40:23 +0000

You think the European wealthy are innocent of pedophilia? What about Prince Andrew? This goes far beyond just the current US administration.

New comment by Yokolos in "Europe's new climate in seven charts"

Yokolos — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 11:49:22 +0000

Why don't you research past heat waves? We're literally setting new heat records nearly every year. This year the heat record in Germany went from 39 degrees to 42. We're even setting night time heat records because of how bad it is. I don't understand the impulse to ignore what we're experiencing right now. What do you gain by sticking your head in the sand?

New comment by Yokolos in "Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop"

Yokolos — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 06:25:52 +0000

That's unfair. I'm going unfairly called out even though I stand by my beliefs and I'm only trying to defend myself. How are the replies to my comments in any way acceptable and according to HN guidelines???

"Put your money where your mouth is", come on. That's not acceptable and it's provoking. How can you defend bullies like this?

New comment by Yokolos in "Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop"

Yokolos — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:55:03 +0000

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New comment by Yokolos in "Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop"

Yokolos — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 09:00:45 +0000

> I don’t care one bit about upgradability or customizability. After a year or two, I’m happy to throw it out and buy a new one. It’s not like upgradability is a bad thing, but it usually comes with tradeoffs to weight and power draw, and I’d rather it all be in one solid package glued together. And I don’t like customizability because I like when all the testing and polish work is put into one configuration.

Jesus christ. What a wasteful and selfish way to look at things.

New comment by Yokolos in "GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches"

Yokolos — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 18:28:00 +0000

The problem is doing it as a company. IBM wasn't defeated by hobbyists building their own PCs. They were defeated by other companies reverse engineering their BIOS and selling their own IBM compatible systems. This isn't possible anymore. It just means you get buried in lawsuits until you go bankrupt.

New comment by Yokolos in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

Yokolos — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:51:41 +0000

The assumption back then was that other companies would be making shows. Consolidating even more show production in one company is not something we should want.

New comment by Yokolos in "Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business"

Yokolos — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:56:53 +0000

Why would anybody buy it? This is a bad sign for consumer memory in general. It's more likely we're going to see more exits from this segment instead.

New comment by Yokolos in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

Yokolos — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:35:46 +0000

I think we can all agree that performance is often an afterthought to game developers, particular in bigger productions, but HD2 is sort of a bad example for that.

New comment by Yokolos in "Fallout 2's Chris Avellone describes his game design philosophy"

Yokolos — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:00:33 +0000

He's worked on an impressive number of great games. Prey, SW Kotor 2, Fallout New Vegas, Neverwinter Nights 2, Icewind Dale 1+2 and Alpha Protocol (ok, arguably great) jump out at me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Avellone#Works

New comment by Yokolos in "WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps in Europe"

Yokolos — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:01:56 +0000

I miss the days when I could start Pidgin and it'd automatically log into every single service I use, and I could chat with anybody regardless of which service they were on. I didn't need half a dozen different apps running just to chat. It felt like a utopia compared to what we have today.

New comment by Yokolos in "“Boobs check” – Technique to verify if sites behind CDN are hosted in Iran"

Yokolos — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:58:10 +0000

I'm wondering for what purpose one would be interested in finding out if a site is hosted in Iran or not.

New comment by Yokolos in "Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight"

Yokolos — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 11:51:06 +0000

EDAC is a general term for an error detection and correction system. It can encompass ECC memory or other solutions.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01419...

New comment by Yokolos in "Seagate achieves 6.9TB storage capacity per platter"

Yokolos — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:49:38 +0000

Probably no different than current drives? Who would pay more for worse drives? Particularly in enterprise, where defect rates and error rates make a much bigger difference and quickly add up across such a large number of drives.

New comment by Yokolos in "Running Unsupported iOS on Deprecated Devices"

Yokolos — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:00:55 +0000

You clearly haven't met a lot of your average PC or phone user then. Most people don't care about getting the newest and best thing. If a thing still works, they'll use it until it doesn't anymore, however long that is. You have no idea the kinds of PCs I saw people using when I worked as a technician. People just don't have an interest in getting new tech unless they're forced to, because they largely aren't interested in tech. They're interested in document processing, watching videos, listening to music and dealing with their pictures. And they don't care how old the device is they're doing it on.

In addition, they don't want to spend money on it. They'd rather spend money on things they actually care about. Festivals, clubs, vacations, a new TV, a car, restaurants, whatever. Your average non-tech person is happy if they don't have to spend anything on gadgets for 10 years.