Hacker News: als0

New comment by als0 in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

als0 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:14:00 +0000

If you show up to a protest then you automatically get put on a police database via facial recognition.

New comment by als0 in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

als0 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:47:21 +0000

> It was still better than the competition

Plenty of cases where Surface isn't. Microsoft like to think they can make hardware but they're no better than other OEM and it's clearly not a focus for them

New comment by als0 in "A disappearing Service Processor (2025)"

als0 — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:35:05 +0000

For the uninitiated, Service Processor (SP) is just another kind of Baseboard Management Controller.

UK public data to inform decisions and build services

als0 — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:23:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.data.gov.uk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340751

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by als0 in "WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64"

als0 — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:08:24 +0000

Projects like this is why I come to Hacker News. Well done.

New comment by als0 in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

als0 — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:17:24 +0000

> Microsoft has broken sleep with pushing S0 sleep in UEFI

> Sleep s3 is needed, but Microsoft killed it.

Would you or someone else here mind explaining this?

New comment by als0 in "Intel Arc Pro B70 Review"

als0 — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:34:19 +0000

Intel's strategy has consistently been that they do not consider doing any kind of business unless they earn at least 25% margin on each sale.

New comment by als0 in "Ti-84 Evo"

als0 — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:44:08 +0000

Any secure boot design can achieve that, you don't need TrustZone to do that

New comment by als0 in "Intel Arc Pro B70 Review"

als0 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:39:48 +0000

> Please don't charge too much for it

Intel wouldn’t decide to do this even to save their own life

Tar: A slop-free alternative to rsync

als0 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:48:11 +0000

Article URL: https://drewdevault.com/2026/03/28/2026-03-28-rsync-without-rsync.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720754

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Apple signs meaningless deal to make some less-important parts in America

als0 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:07:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/apple_expands_list_of_bits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703217

Points: 37

# Comments: 15

New comment by als0 in "Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac"

als0 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:36:29 +0000

Same. What a disaster Tahoe is.

New comment by als0 in "Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac"

als0 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:27:48 +0000

Is this for Tahoe only? I’m still clutching onto Sequoia

New comment by als0 in "OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says"

als0 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:31:59 +0000

> we might see something approximating post-scarcity economics in our lifetimes

Can you elaborate more on this? All I see is growing inequality.

New comment by als0 in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"

als0 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:11:59 +0000

Still an amazing hack today and I love it. However, I heard Apple are developing a touch screen MacBook this year, and I simply don't get why they're doing that. I don't know what's worse, the ergonomics or the fingerprints.

New comment by als0 in "Capability-Based Security for Redox: Namespace and CWD as Capabilities"

als0 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:10:25 +0000

Implementations include seL4, Barrelfish, Google Fuchsia OS, Capsicum, and a slew of research systems too long to list. It's also worth checking out tangential things like the E programming language and Google's old Caja project.

New comment by als0 in "Capability-Based Security for Redox: Namespace and CWD as Capabilities"

als0 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:07:38 +0000

Good work. I'm happy to see this for Redox. There are numerous implementations of capabilities now, and they confirm that the concept really does simplify access control and sandboxing.

New comment by als0 in "Arm AGI CPU"

als0 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:17:33 +0000

What is your point? NASA is upper case

New comment by als0 in "Arm AGI CPU"

als0 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:27:16 +0000

I also miss the all-capitals ARM spelling. I think they've never been the same since they've changed that, since around the same time their business strategy went from sensible to nonsense.

New comment by als0 in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

als0 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:28:19 +0000

You really do need to try the latest ones. You can’t extrapolate from your previous experiences.