Hacker News: bpye

New comment by bpye in "What makes a good smartphone camera?"

bpye — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:50:24 +0000

> The best camera is the one you have with you.

This is why I ended up picking up an (admittedly quite expensive) Ricoh GR IV. It's tiny enough to take with me everywhere, has a modern APS-C sensor and great IBIS.

New comment by bpye in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

bpye — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:13:43 +0000

Nothing says you have to use the same browser at work and outside of work? I use Edge for work, Firefox everywhere else.

New comment by bpye in "Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?"

bpye — Sat, 02 May 2026 08:45:25 +0000

Alternative - return to tradition with beige - https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/computer-chas...

New comment by bpye in "Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE"

bpye — Fri, 01 May 2026 06:02:25 +0000

Out of interest, what are you seeing for token generation - especially as the context fills?

New comment by bpye in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

bpye — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:28:41 +0000

At least today, it isn't practical for most people to run these models locally- I think adding a dependency on a cloud service is different enough to some local (possibly open source) tool like an IDE.

New comment by bpye in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

bpye — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:53:30 +0000

> Putting compute in space is expensive but so is building a data center in the US.

You know what's also really hard in a vacuum? Dissipating heat.

New comment by bpye in "MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany"

bpye — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:51:41 +0000

I believe the Mali graphics also require a blob if you want 3D acceleration.

New comment by bpye in "NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating"

bpye — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 04:24:38 +0000

There are definitely projects where getting a full test pass can take a day or two. I worked on one where we only got a full run each weekend, and if someone broke the tests? Nobody gets their results...

New comment by bpye in "Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs"

bpye — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:16:41 +0000

My B580 works fine on Linux. Graphics perf is a bit worse than under Windows, but supposedly compute is pretty much the same.

New comment by bpye in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

bpye — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:40:17 +0000

Over the last two years I bought 2 4TB SSDs, 64GB DDR5 ECC UDIMM and 4 14TB HDDs.

I couldn't justify buying any of them today.

New comment by bpye in "Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol"

bpye — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:45:45 +0000

I would love to have some way to configure the USW Flex Minis without the controller software. I can't find any other small PoE powered switches for a similar cost.

New comment by bpye in "My Homelab Setup"

bpye — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:34:31 +0000

You can definitely get PCIe on some micro PCs. I have a Lenovo m920q that I use with a Mellanox NIC as my router.

You could certainly install a SAS or SATA controller, the issue would be having somewhere to mount the drives, and a way to power them. External SAS enclosures are not cheap.

New comment by bpye in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

bpye — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:08:31 +0000

I run it on my RK3588 based MNT Pocket Reform. I have to force the GL ES 2 backend because of, presumably, Panfrost bugs, but otherwise it runs well despite the fairly weak CPU and GPU.

New comment by bpye in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

bpye — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:06:07 +0000

They did improve this in more recent generations, but you need a W series chipset to use it.

New comment by bpye in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

bpye — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:48:36 +0000

There are 16" laptops with ECC, you can get a ThinkPad P16 with it for example. I've yet to find any 14" devices with ECC though.

New comment by bpye in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

bpye — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:43:57 +0000

Similar experience. I played with overclocking the DDR5 ECC memory I have on my system, it would appear to be stable and for quite a while it would be. But after a few days I'd notice a handful of correctable errors.

I now just run at the standard 5600MHz timing, I really don't find the potential stability trade off worth it. We already have enough bugs.

New comment by bpye in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

bpye — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:41:05 +0000

I believe caches and maybe registers often have ECC too though I'm sure there are still gaps.

New comment by bpye in "Does that use a lot of energy?"

bpye — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:59:10 +0000

50W average doesn't seem absurd, peak power is going to be an order of magnitude higher, but computers are often running pretty close to idle...

New comment by bpye in "MacBook Neo"

bpye — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:28:09 +0000

Are the instructions missing, or does iOS just not run the hypervisor?

I suppose we'll find out pretty soon, supporting virtualization would be important if they wanted to sell these to CS students that need eg. Docker.

New comment by bpye in "MacBook Neo"

bpye — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:25:37 +0000

A bootloader exploit at that, and we haven't had one of those in years.