Hacker News: asimovDev

New comment by asimovDev in "Metal Driver for Nvidia GeForce RTX Cards on macOS 15 Sequoia on Intel Macs"

asimovDev — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:21:54 +0000

https://www.reddit.com/user/null-moth/comments/1x17fda/mac_o...

same user is also teasing running macOS 27 (the one that dropped intel support) running on a Mac Pro 2013 (Trashcan).

New comment by asimovDev in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

asimovDev — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:46:22 +0000

I've been using Macs for close to a decade and I still constantly forget this little fact. I am reading this very comment I am replying to on a Mac and I still had to do a double take to confirm for myself that it's indeed called 'delete'

New comment by asimovDev in "Public will be able to watch Fort Hood shooter's execution, Hegseth says"

asimovDev — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:34:14 +0000

Putting morality of such a thing aside, I wonder what kind of livestreaming platform would be used for this. Part of me easily can imagine Elon Musk stepping in and offering to put up a stream of it on his social media website, they do have the tech for such a thing even. I don't think other high bandwidth streaming services like Twitch or Netflix would want to participate in this. On the other hand if this was planned in advance for a long time, they might have come up with a bespoke website for this (has anyone checked whois records for liveleak.gov? )

New comment by asimovDev in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

asimovDev — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:21:13 +0000

Do you curl the file onto the VPS and then scp or do you open a tunnel ?

New comment by asimovDev in "Gemini 4 Argon"

asimovDev — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:03:29 +0000

that one is a hardcoded easter egg

New comment by asimovDev in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

asimovDev — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:41:07 +0000

iirc it's something akin to R5 3600 + RX6700. 16GB of memory shared between RAM and VRAM (at most 12GB can be allocated to VRAM)

New comment by asimovDev in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

asimovDev — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:38:24 +0000

half of gta 5 online revenue is from PC. They will definitely release GTA 6 for PC, maybe half a year after the console release to get people to double dip (those who bought it on PS5 and then buy it again on PC cause they prefer playing on PC)

New comment by asimovDev in "Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat"

asimovDev — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:16:44 +0000

that's pretty cute. They must be in their late 30s by now, I wonder if they still remember doing this

New comment by asimovDev in "Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream"

asimovDev — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:14:31 +0000

I paid 400e for my PS5 in 2023. For the same budget, I'd need to hunt down used deals for hardware and then suffer through using Windows (if the hardware I buy ends up even working at all) because the only game I play requires annoying workarounds to work on Linux that technically break the ToS (since they bypass the kernel level anticheat) and could potentially end up in my account getting banned. I'd rather just put my PS5 on a VLAN and enjoy hassle free gaming with some downsides like not being able to stream my game to my friends on Discord once half a year. Don't get me started on DRMs and questionable PC ports where the 60 FPS targets in system requirements are under assumption of framegen and upscaling.

New comment by asimovDev in "Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream"

asimovDev — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:02:33 +0000

I used to remote play on a second user on the PS5 and then used the controller connected to my PS5 to log into my main user profile and then game from there whenever I wanted to stream something to my friend(s). That way the issue of needing to connect the peripherals to the computer was solved

New comment by asimovDev in "Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream"

asimovDev — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:00:05 +0000

Sony supported PPPoE on the PS4, I wonder how many people used that (not counting the jailbreak exploit)

New comment by asimovDev in "Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B"

asimovDev — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:37:59 +0000

You should probably say that you are the founder or maybe add that in your profile description so that other people realize you are not just a passionate employee ;) Congratulations to you and everyone at Verda.

Could you elaborate on your last point about AWS? I am interested in what you mean exactly since a lot of companies in Finland fall under that sub 10M umbrella and use AWS / Azure extensively

New comment by asimovDev in "Transit rewards"

asimovDev — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:56:13 +0000

I sometimes take the slower and older commuter train back home from the office during "green months" as I call them (May to September) to enjoy the scenery and the ambient clickclacks of the train wheels.

New comment by asimovDev in "M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review"

asimovDev — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:02:30 +0000

thanks, I naively assumed when, for example, Claude Code starts subagents it loads a new instance with empty context

New comment by asimovDev in "Apple Mac mini review"

asimovDev — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:03:10 +0000

We've been using M2 Pro machines at our workplace and they still are fast, quiet and have long battery life even at ~85 percent of battery life. It would feel wrong to upgrade from these. 10 years ago it would've been a no brainer to upgrade a 2 year old MacBook in a professional setting but nowadays I feel like I could go 5+ years on a single Apple Silicon macbook with how light our workloads seem to be for these chips

New comment by asimovDev in "M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review"

asimovDev — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:54:25 +0000

can run multiple subagents of Qwen 27B though, right? Unless I am fundamentally misunderstanding how VRAM constraints work

New comment by asimovDev in "Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors"

asimovDev — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:24:06 +0000

I imagine those devices are same as Superboxes that were plaguing the USA recently

New comment by asimovDev in "Apple M6 Pro achieves the highest single-core CPU score in Geekbench 7"

asimovDev — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:03:52 +0000

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/single-thread/

https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/singlecore

here are the leaderboards for anyone else who was curious

New comment by asimovDev in "Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep"

asimovDev — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:08:48 +0000

Oh, I haven't considered the possibility of indexing things like Instagram or Discord with this. I am now much more interested than before

New comment by asimovDev in "Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust"

asimovDev — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:10:00 +0000

Remembering my teachers 20 years ago talking about staying in school grading until 8-9 PM, I wonder if these things are a symptom instead of a disease