Hacker News: amelius

New comment by amelius in "Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro"

amelius — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:23:54 +0000

Car analogy time. Users would be angry if your car could only run on Apple fuel, and drive on Apple roads, and were speed-limited based on what Apple thinks is safe.

The fact that we think this is normal for phones is crazy. And the longer we wait the more Apple fuel stations and Apple roads there will be, until there is no way back.

New comment by amelius in "Everything you do is being recorded"

amelius — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:28:30 +0000

But it wouldn't be illegal, I suppose. That's what counts, in the end.

New comment by amelius in "Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice"

amelius — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:24:39 +0000

I only hope latency is not a problem.

New comment by amelius in "Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice"

amelius — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:36:59 +0000

Maybe run a STT -> TTS filter in front of your mic?

New comment by amelius in "Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro"

amelius — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:10:57 +0000

That's because of two reasons:

- normal people are morons when it comes to computers

- developers can extract money from those morons by using Apple's platform

New comment by amelius in "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code"

amelius — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:29:00 +0000

What if I want an LLM from a __different__ company to check the commands issued by Claude before they are run?

Seems to me that the API should be more general.

New comment by amelius in "Everything you do is being recorded"

amelius — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:23:08 +0000

Best approach is to shadow-ban the user when they do a secret gesture before logging in. No wiping necessary. Easiest implementation is to just log them into a shadow account.

New comment by amelius in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

amelius — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:03:14 +0000

Something with more data:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3920458/

New comment by amelius in "70% of AI revenue comes from OpenAI and Anthropic"

amelius — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:26:18 +0000

If there was one winner then that would make a lot of people very angry.

New comment by amelius in "Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video]"

amelius — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:24:22 +0000

Is Sam Altman even allowed to rent a car with his level of debt?

New comment by amelius in "Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength"

amelius — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:22:43 +0000

Does it also apply to the case where you have a single number: upvotes minus downvotes?

New comment by amelius in "There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order"

amelius — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:19:09 +0000

Why is not every 45 degree line considered for the rectangular grids?

(In the hexagons, all lines are considered even if they don't have the maximum length)

(PS: make sure you hover your mouse over the diagrams)

New comment by amelius in "Should you stop cracking your knuckles?"

amelius — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:52:21 +0000

How often can this cracking be done at a time? Does the gas escape? Does it need time to form? And why can some people do it and others not?

New comment by amelius in "My server is a phone now"

amelius — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:39:54 +0000

It would be nice if servers had a small touch screen, since they cost nothing in comparison.

New comment by amelius in "Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?"

amelius — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:25:02 +0000

I suppose in that case Intel tried to make its own transistors.

New comment by amelius in "Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?"

amelius — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:23:21 +0000

Whoever used the most recent TSMC node will have the best specs.

My guess is that even the designs of the transistors and perhaps logic gates are IP blocks owned by TSMC and not whoever wants to get their chip fabricated.

New comment by amelius in "Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating"

amelius — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:54:20 +0000

A nice plot twist would be if those tests were administered by an AI.

New comment by amelius in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

amelius — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:11:59 +0000

How does Apple handle it?

New comment by amelius in "Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength"

amelius — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:01:25 +0000

Somehow, on HN, suggesting to use an LLM to solve some problem gives you negative responses.

But then ... posting to HN that you've used an LLM to solve a problem is OK?

New comment by amelius in "A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava"

amelius — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:35:16 +0000

Would a hamster run this much naturally? Or is the running because of the boredom of captivity? TikTok for hamsters?