Hacker News: b473a

New comment by b473a in "Sagrada Família Lego set"

b473a — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:23:27 +0000

I feel like if I were just a little deeper on the Autism Spectrum I would really like Germany.

New comment by b473a in "Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism"

b473a — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:35:37 +0000

I am a Catholic who is heavily involved in adult faith education, and and I can very safely say everyone in the Church thinks this is a terrible idea except for the tech people that make these models. These things are all independent projects.

Because of the nuance involved in explaining theological concepts there's a long, long history of reviewing and approving books that explain doctrine. LLM outputs can be reviewed by a competent authority and approved for publication but releasing an AI to explain the theology to the general public in any sort of official way is impossible.

New comment by b473a in "Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES"

b473a — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:48:08 +0000

Currently a Google search for vulpine-lz4 gives a very serious AI overview.

New comment by b473a in "Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died"

b473a — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:08:22 +0000

Yeah tenure is nice but there's just a hint of mystery behind the title "itinerant professor." Like a wizard that just pops up in places to work computer science magic.

New comment by b473a in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

b473a — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:03:00 +0000

> Windows UI is the most disjoint though, with designs accumulated over the past 20 years still kicking in various places.

But every Linux distro has its own UI, and pretty much every distro makes it easy to configure it to look how you want, with tens of thousands of themes out there developed over the past 20 years by people wanting their os to look a certain way.

The most glaring inconsistencies are going to be user-inflicted. If I spend a weekend tweaking defaults to look just right I need to be ok with possibly tweaking any new software I download to fit my theme.

But even from a non-power-user perspective, if my mom runs into problems with her computer it's much easier to walk her through a fix over the phone if she's on Windows or a Mac.

My dad, who is very tech-literate, once tried Linux and all the trouble shooting guides required him to open a command prompt (because there isn't a consistent GUI you can use to fix things across distros). He never forgave it.

New comment by b473a in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

b473a — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:43:00 +0000

Mac works great out of the box. Linux can do whatever you want if you put some work into it. Windows sits kind of in the middle, and it turns out for a lot of people that's a comfortable spot even with its trade-offs.

New comment by b473a in "CD Projekt issue DMCA takedown notice against popular Cyberpunk VR mod"

b473a — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:26:14 +0000

At $10/mo for access even if he's not doing it for profit he's absolutely making bank. Verge in 2022 estimated about $20,000 a month [1].

CDPR has an explicit policy allowing free mods with a tip jar, but not mods that are pay-only. Whether or not you agree with that policy it's CDPR's right to make that decision, and you can't complain when they enforce it.

1: https://www.theverge.com/23190201/luke-ross-vr-real-mod-gta-...

New comment by b473a in "CD Projekt issue DMCA takedown notice against popular Cyberpunk VR mod"

b473a — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:15:14 +0000

CDPR's policy is you can have a tip jar but you can't put it behind a paywall. Dude was asking $10/mo on Patreon for access. I imagine he does quite well because he has the same mod for a lot of other games.

Pretty sure he could rerelease it for free and ask for donations.

New comment by b473a in "SK hynix dethrones Samsung as world’s top DRAM maker"

b473a — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 02:51:19 +0000

They purchased Intel's entire NAND business a few years back, so they just kind of exploded into the SSD market. They sometimes sell their drives under the name Solidigm.