Hacker News: awkwardpotato

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...

New comment by awkwardpotato in "A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it"

awkwardpotato — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:21:15 +0000

A random reply hours later, long after the post has left the front page

New comment by awkwardpotato in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

awkwardpotato — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:54:28 +0000

per Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

> In some cases, Patel appears to have sent emails from his former Justice Department email address in 2014 to his Gmail account. TechCrunch found that the emails sent from Patel’s DOJ account also appeared to be authentic.

New comment by awkwardpotato in "Why I forked httpx"

awkwardpotato — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:19:02 +0000

What's the matter with this? It's a clean builder pattern, the response is returned directly from send. I've certainly seen uglier Java

New comment by awkwardpotato in "Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English"

awkwardpotato — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:26:11 +0000

Standard appeal to accomplishment, past success does not guarantee future success... especially on this joke comment

Downdetector and Speedtest sold to Accenture for $1.2B

awkwardpotato — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:55:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/889234/downdetector-ookla-speedtest-sold-accenture

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47251248

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by awkwardpotato in "MacBook Neo"

awkwardpotato — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:50:22 +0000

> Why would you want an iPad?

At this point, there are more people taking notes on an iPad + Apple Pencil than on physical notebooks in my lectures

Announcing Systing 1.0

awkwardpotato — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:59:17 +0000

Article URL: https://josefbacik.github.io/kernel/systing/debugging/2026/02/23/systing-1.0.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142036

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by awkwardpotato in "Curl to end Bug Bounty program due to overwhelming number of AI submissions"

awkwardpotato — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:47:42 +0000

Context:

https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115893072668526438

https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115893088600630096

Curl to end Bug Bounty program due to overwhelming number of AI submissions

awkwardpotato — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:47:42 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/curl/curl-www/pull/538

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46617410

Points: 30

# Comments: 2

New comment by awkwardpotato in "ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods"

awkwardpotato — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:53:06 +0000

FYI, powering off your iPhone does not prevent it from being tracked. It continues to broadcast a low-power Bluetooth signal other Apple devices will relay to iCloud.

"Participating in the Find My network lets you locate this iPhone even when it's offline, in power reserve mode, and after power off"

Settings > Apple Account > Find My > Find My iPhone

New comment by awkwardpotato in "Linux is good now"

awkwardpotato — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:38:43 +0000

VR on Linux is probably going to be the main reason the Steam Frame is going to be a day one pre-order for me

Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key

awkwardpotato — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:14:37 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/11/cryptography-group-cancels-election-results-after-official-loses-secret-key/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011115

Points: 50

# Comments: 6

New comment by awkwardpotato in "Responses from LLMs are not facts"

awkwardpotato — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:51:26 +0000

Do you check these sources? I find Gemini and, especially, Google Search AI to regularly cite sources that does not say what it claims to says. For example, (not an actual example but along these lines), "Can Google Sheets do x feature" and it replies "Yup" and links to an Excel YouTube tutorial as its source

New comment by awkwardpotato in "Carmack on Operating Systems (1997)"

awkwardpotato — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 05:54:44 +0000

Carmack also used to have some really insightful articles on AltDevBlog. I recently read his one on functional programming and thought it was very well thought out.

This site had nice re-uploads for the some of the articles. You can maybe google around and find more

[0] http://sevangelatos.com/tag/john-carmack/