Hacker News: als0

New comment by als0 in "Android apps running native on macOS"

als0 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:32:12 +0000

Everything aside from apps with SafetyNet dependencies. Banking apps come to mind.

New comment by als0 in "The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPO"

als0 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:30:11 +0000

Why? Do you think frontier AI will never generate enough profit to justify its costs? The market seems to move on vibes rather than logic. I can imagine one of those company failing and the other seizing the market.

New comment by als0 in "The internet discovers TLA+. Now what?"

als0 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:02:12 +0000

I've always thought CSP as a robust design pattern where you have no shared state between components and they must communicate with each other using message passing. It also requires synchronous communication (rendezvous-style). If you follow those rules you can have a pretty robust system. Aside from these abstract rules, CSP has more formal research (algebra) but I'm not sure if there are any decent tools available.

TLA gives you a full toolbox and in theory can model whatever you can express. That's very different from a design pattern.

New comment by als0 in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

als0 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:57:38 +0000

Why decades?

New comment by als0 in "macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review"

als0 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:48:09 +0000

How does battery life compare to Sequoia? I heard there is a huge drop

New comment by als0 in "Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business"

als0 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:52:02 +0000

Google is the new IBM. All the signs are there.

New comment by als0 in "I Don't Have a Smartphone"

als0 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:14:11 +0000

I thought supermarket loyalty cards were just a QR code of a simple serial number. Is it different where you are?

IKEA Hackers

als0 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 20:33:05 +0000

Article URL: https://ikeahackers.net

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502475

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by als0 in "IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE"

als0 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:53:10 +0000

The story about that AMD ARM core is that they were making it for Amazon. Performance was not good enough so it was canned. Amazon then went on to make their own chips called Graviton.

New comment by als0 in "FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels"

als0 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:56:45 +0000

> your average diabetic who has fairly good control over their blood sugars

I think it's huge for diabetics. It's a mental toll for them. They hate having to constantly prick themselves to take readings. It's awkward, inconvenient and you have to do it multiple times to be sure you got a good reading. And worse of all, it's possible to forget to take a reading when you need to.

New comment by als0 in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

als0 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:45:29 +0000

Tahoe slows it down, but Seqouia is still strong.

New comment by als0 in "New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro"

als0 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:36:21 +0000

Yep, even 600GB/s is barely usable and not fun.

New comment by als0 in "Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized"

als0 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:51:25 +0000

> Requires macOS 26 Tahoe or later

Why? Tahoe hasn’t even reached its first birthday and plenty of us are still on Seqouia not wanting to put up with apple’s disaster release. There’s nothing a terminal needs from Tahoe specifically.

New comment by als0 in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

als0 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:24:16 +0000

7. Do you want the most contributions?

I hate to admit it, but GitHub has a massive community. I’ve personally seen a project leave it and then contributions dropped significantly.

New comment by als0 in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

als0 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:07:04 +0000

The larger 3.6 35B is actually a mixture of experts (MOE). This means a small proportion of those B's are actually active. It's fast and suitable for agentic tasks but nowhere near good as the dense 27B model, which has all of its parameters loaded.

New comment by als0 in "Cyberscript"

als0 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:55:12 +0000

This. Despite my personal dislike of Python I would never discourage anyone from using it. It has an extraordinary ecosystem.

New comment by als0 in "Cyberscript"

als0 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:26:42 +0000

Seems to be in the same category as Lua. Can a PL nerd explain what's different about it?

New comment by als0 in "Ask HN: When will ChatGPT Voice be able to control my phone?"

als0 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:23:00 +0000

> Can somebodhy explain to me why this isn't implemented yet?

Because right now it's a privacy and security nightmare.

New comment by als0 in "Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Mac"

als0 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:04:17 +0000

Says it requires a 2TB disk? Must it be internal NVMe?

New comment by als0 in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"

als0 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:30:03 +0000

Have you heard about the cloud?