Hacker News: ahoka

New comment by ahoka in "DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video]"

ahoka — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:33:32 +0000

Companies are standing in line to double their RAM usage right now, right.

New comment by ahoka in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

ahoka — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:11:54 +0000

The whole point was to kill personal computing.

New comment by ahoka in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

ahoka — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:50:58 +0000

It's still advertisement of the shittiest kind.

Comment made using Mozilla Firefox.

New comment by ahoka in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"

ahoka — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:25:01 +0000

All I know is that you cannot transport toilet paper in tunnels.

New comment by ahoka in "Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines"

ahoka — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:57:02 +0000

IIRC generators and co-routines are equivalent in a sense that you can implement one with the other.

New comment by ahoka in "Meta told to pay $375M for misleading users over child safety"

ahoka — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:46:08 +0000

Easy: regulation always favors incumbents.

New comment by ahoka in "Why I forked httpx"

ahoka — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:50:17 +0000

I don't think HTTPX is a registered trademark.

New comment by ahoka in "Arm AGI CPU"

ahoka — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:37:17 +0000

Exactly. :-)

New comment by ahoka in "Arm AGI CPU"

ahoka — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:27:20 +0000

All processors have memory on the same die.

New comment by ahoka in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

ahoka — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:38:12 +0000

As hilariously portrayed in the indie game "Oh...Sir!! The Insult Simulator".

New comment by ahoka in "Store birth date in systemd for age verification"

ahoka — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:50:51 +0000

Meta gives money to the Heritage Foundation? Wild.

New comment by ahoka in "Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework"

ahoka — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:51:30 +0000

I find it very interesting about the Turing test that as chatbots improve, so do humans get better at recognizing them.

New comment by ahoka in "Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc"

ahoka — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:20:00 +0000

AVX maybe?

New comment by ahoka in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

ahoka — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:56:21 +0000

It even supports Hacker News speak:

https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=Hacker+News+speak&tex...

New comment by ahoka in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

ahoka — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:55:54 +0000

It's because the meat industry is a welfare queen. In my local supermarket last year I could buy pork for ~8 EUR by kg, but champignons costed 10 (Nordic country).

New comment by ahoka in "Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold"

ahoka — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:26:12 +0000

How do you sell it?

New comment by ahoka in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

ahoka — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:12:12 +0000

The MF what?

New comment by ahoka in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

ahoka — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:39:12 +0000

Not open but stupid, IMHO.

New comment by ahoka in "ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

ahoka — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:35:19 +0000

An American colleague once said the following: if something is stupidly inefficient or done in an illogical way in the US, it's because someone makes money on it.

New comment by ahoka in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

ahoka — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:32:38 +0000

"That begs the question, is waste and inefficiency socially undesirable? Maybe not."

Organic farming is one example.