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New comment by a1o in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

a1o — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:18:19 +0000

Apparently this isn’t OpenGL Mathematics the C++ library I expected.

New comment by a1o in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

a1o — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:46:52 +0000

It can work for students as a grant

New comment by a1o in "macOS Container Machines"

a1o — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:19:57 +0000

With colima I can run AMD64 (x86) Linux containers in my Arm64 too. I think this is strictly for Arm64 Linux VMs, or is there some way to run x86 with this too?

New comment by a1o in "The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python"

a1o — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:44:55 +0000

That is a cool algorithm, indeed very interesting 5 lines. Also fun to see things in C#. :)

New comment by a1o in "Cloudflare CEO Is Lying to You About the Bot Traffic Jump"

a1o — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:58:53 +0000

What does pixel means in this context?

New comment by a1o in "Retro-Tech Parenting"

a1o — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:38:17 +0000

I am looking for recommendations for a boombox that is kid friendly and can play CDs. Something not too big but also a bit more resistant. If it can be colorful that is a plus!

New comment by a1o in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

a1o — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:41:51 +0000

I don’t know why you are getting downvoted, agree with you, Microsoft Office is awful on macOS, it just doesn’t work the same, has awful integration with Sharepoint (and Sharepoint in MS Teams and OneDrive), and continuously forgets its properly licensed and complains with a big message that it isn’t licensed - sometimes downgrading to read only. It’s just a terrible thing to use.

New comment by a1o in "Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it"

a1o — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:46:11 +0000

This is a cool infection vector for the ai virus from earlier today to use. It could be like NDS feature that it greeted a passerby but now for spreading stuff digitally.

New comment by a1o in "U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device"

a1o — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:50:56 +0000

I think an approach could be to use some engineered security issue or however people build botnets, and give it some AI llm that is small and minimal but comes with instructions to download models from hugging face, and some other minimal prompts and descriptions of tools. Then it could use this to grow in infected computers and try find more capable and vulnerable computers to run better capable models and also devise some minimal communication between the different points of the botnet. Perhaps set itself a goal to dominate the biggest amount of compute and have some other goal. Would be curious to see what happens.

New comment by a1o in "GitHub and the crime against software"

a1o — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:10:36 +0000

Hey, I know it’s supposed to be simple, but any chance of a write up of the macmini as a server approach? I would be interested in learning about the details of how you set it up. I would read this blog post if you ever write one!

New comment by a1o in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

a1o — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:46:06 +0000

On missing audio: usually I notice this when I watch with subtitles at night and then end up rewatching during the day with audio at much higher volume… And the thing that is said to be said is just… Not there?

New comment by a1o in "Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs"

a1o — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:37:53 +0000

This would be very bad for Wine too. I think Wine has some answer to this, since Wine does run on Android, but I think it won’t make the current easy path that is just brew install wine and be done.

New comment by a1o in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

a1o — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:08:55 +0000

SuperSpark and then UltraSpark. And then we can get SparkCube, Sparkii, and SparkiiU.

New comment by a1o in "Chuwi Minibook X"

a1o — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:25:03 +0000

I love netbooks and I am curious to get one of these at some point - I can’t justify one right now.

I do have my ASUS EEEPC 701 4G Surf still working. I think it is 18 years old at this point? It is rocking Antix, in its 3.6 GB hard drive. It broke the S key in the keyboard last night and I ordered a replacement.

I use it as writer deck and to ssh to my server and raspberry pi from the sofa.

It is built in a very resistant way? Survived my kid so far.

New comment by a1o in "1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices"

a1o — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:30:51 +0000

That is very low, looks like it should run in base MacMini M4 with 16GB RAM. I understand it is not released yet? What sort of harness is necessary for this type of model? (I have only used coding agents through GH Copilot in VS Code, the JetBrains AI tool and Pi, this last one was sort of a pain to setup…)

New comment by a1o in "1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices"

a1o — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:38:19 +0000

Anyone could pickup the minimal hardware requirements for this? Like both RAM and Storage?

New comment by a1o in "Tsplat – Run Gaussian splatting in your terminal"

a1o — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:19:24 +0000

Second commit is an ask to an llm “pickup things that go viral”. That is a weird thing to ask. :/

New comment by a1o in "Voxel Space (2017)"

a1o — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:09:30 +0000

When this was first posted I made a game with a port of this approach to AGS Engine. Nowadays AGS is much faster since we have improved a lot of things, but this wasn’t the case at the time, so I had to make a few little tricks to make the rendering work well with the engine at the time.

https://github.com/ericoporto/i_rented_a_boat

New comment by a1o in "Poll: How often do you check "newest"?"

a1o — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:02:12 +0000

I have a feeling that new was much slower moving five years ago. Now if I check new everything is from the last 15-20 minutes.

New comment by a1o in "Last.fm is now independent"

a1o — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:41:17 +0000

Wasn’t it more like SoundCloud?

I never used last.fm but I always assumed it was more like SoundCloud. It’s been a few years I don’t use SoundCloud though.