Hacker News: awkwardpotato

New comment by awkwardpotato in "DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models"

awkwardpotato — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:53:47 +0000

Except this is also banned under the DHS order. The order bans "information technology products and services developed by Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd", and more pressingly, "third-party products and services developed using DeepSeek implementations".

New comment by awkwardpotato in "Curl proposes "Every vulnerability report < HIGH is immediately made public""

awkwardpotato — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:50:59 +0000

Thread: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/117458480244745831

Curl proposes "Every vulnerability report < HIGH is immediately made public"

awkwardpotato — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:50:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/23458

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154714

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by awkwardpotato in "Gemini 4 Argon"

awkwardpotato — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:07:51 +0000

Argon's build is pretty much unusable on mobile, the header takes up half the screen

Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Adds Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

awkwardpotato — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:30:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/surveillance-company-tells-cops-it-wants-to-add-facial-recognition-to-flock-cameras/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893969

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by awkwardpotato in "Sony makes bold claim about game ownership"

awkwardpotato — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:35:19 +0000

Is this not the Steam Machine? Provides a console-like experience with its controller and SteamOS.

New comment by awkwardpotato in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

awkwardpotato — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:38:45 +0000

Those are all for MoE models. And I prefer measuring my tokens in t/s instead of s/t

New comment by awkwardpotato in "Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability"

awkwardpotato — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:31:51 +0000

How so? All 6 of the CVEs covered in the article did not actually exist when investigated

New comment by awkwardpotato in "US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections"

awkwardpotato — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:58:29 +0000

And what are the odds in Vegas? How is the opinion of a bunch of gamblers on polymarket relevant?

New comment by awkwardpotato in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

awkwardpotato — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:31:37 +0000

> Thinking that computer software must be exempt from that mess as a goal is just strange

Software is deterministic, it has been since its inception[0]. Why go from something objective/provable to something that does "strange things", when we already have former? It's like making bricks out of paper and declaring "actually, this is logical next step for bricks because stuff waves in the wind".

> What if our lives get much, much better?

What if not?

[0] (Yes not really/actually if we're being pedantic)

New comment by awkwardpotato in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

awkwardpotato — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:18:17 +0000

> I do absolutely not want a "Well let's think jointly about this for a couple of minutes".

But why?

Most of my most fulfilling experiences in tech have come out sitting down and hashing out a problem with someone else (including with managers/leaders).

It sounds like a miserable org if I am not expected/allowed to have an actual back and forth conversation with my boss. If I'm employed to be on a team working on an aligned common goal, why would I not use that collective skill and experience to my fullest advantage?

U.S. Military Turned GPS into a Global "Numbers Station"

awkwardpotato — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:06:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/the-u-s-military-quietly-turned-gps-into-a-global-numbers-station-evidence-suggests/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48414479

Points: 113

# Comments: 2

New comment by awkwardpotato in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

awkwardpotato — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:07:47 +0000

95% of the people I interact with over email are on Gmail (or Outlook). Google/Microsoft still have those emails either way, even if I switch off.

Linux 7.2 Proceeding to Deprecate Af_alg Due to "Massive Attack Surface"

awkwardpotato — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:09:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-AF-ALG-Deprecation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48355766

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by awkwardpotato in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

awkwardpotato — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:18:14 +0000

This is the same reason I bought my Framework 13. For the same price/less could I have bought a nice MacBook? Yes, but Framework's mission is something I wanted to support and it's an exciting product. I'm still very happy with my purchase.

New comment by awkwardpotato in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

awkwardpotato — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:16:01 +0000

He's also invested billions of dollars in SpaceX and Tesla... which he regularly makes wild claims about that are untrue.

New comment by awkwardpotato in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

awkwardpotato — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:00:16 +0000

> I think my next printer will be mostly 3D printed

What you're looking for then is a Voron. They're the printers that Bambu was "inspired" by and are made with all off-the-shelf parts.

I really enjoyed building my Voron 2.4. I bought a kit that included all the wires pre-harnessed which made it much simpler to do.

New comment by awkwardpotato in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

awkwardpotato — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:05:34 +0000

Steam already supports 3rd-party controllers and VR headsets. SteamOS is available on several 3rd-party handhelds. What more do you need for "steam compatible hardware"?

EverQuest, the MMO that changed everything (2019)

awkwardpotato — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:12:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/breaking-the-internet-the-story-of-everquest-the-mmo-that-changed-everything/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925162

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by awkwardpotato in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

awkwardpotato — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:59:18 +0000

Meta is the largest sponsors of these bills... https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_b...