Hacker News: circuit10

New comment by circuit10 in "US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban"

circuit10 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:19:27 +0000

I've also seen them described as ICE cars (internal combustion engine)

New comment by circuit10 in "Google ending ChromeOS support two years early"

circuit10 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:41:09 +0000

I think they mean save money on hardware based on the previous part of the sentence

New comment by circuit10 in "What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s"

circuit10 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:09:24 +0000

I think when people say non-deterministic what they mean is closer to chaotic, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory as in very small changes in conditions can produce completely different output making predictions difficult

New comment by circuit10 in "California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law"

circuit10 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:47:43 +0000

I guess it depends on the culture but I would think it's a good thing to show interest and passion for this stuff by talking about things you do in your free time like setting up Minecraft servers, whoever you're talking to will probably have similar things like that

New comment by circuit10 in "Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days"

circuit10 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:25:44 +0000

Being available to the public if they bought the game doesn't mean it's in the public domain and you're allowed to upload a copy of it (or a derivative work) onto GitHub, though

(I like these projects but I really don't think they could defend themselves legally if you company went after them)

New comment by circuit10 in "Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)"

circuit10 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:00:11 +0000

My approach is generally just to put the destination into Google Maps and select public transport, it works on the same data source as this and has live tracking

New comment by circuit10 in "MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID"

circuit10 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:20:27 +0000

It is confirmed and the algorithm has been reverse engineered, though not by looking at firmware

https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/

Seems like the algorithm is simple enough that they did it just by looking at some prints

New comment by circuit10 in "Spaghettifying DRAM"

circuit10 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:26:54 +0000

I struggled to understand the article, it doesn't properly explain what the exploit is in a way I could immediately understand, after staring at it for a bit and reading comments here I think it's a hardware register that's exposed to user software that shouldn't be but I really didn't understand that at first glance ("Poke the DRAM controller" made me think a hardware exploit) and I'm still not sure if I'm right about that (if it is, just start by explaining that instead of all the unnecessary filler and diagrams and animations of the Mona Lisa being scrambled and talk of bath salts which I still don't understand the relevance of)

New comment by circuit10 in "Python string literals are kinda funny"

circuit10 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:02:04 +0000

This is still significantly more clunky than f-strings, especially when you're writing them a lot for debugging purposes

New comment by circuit10 in "I'm So Tired of "Is This AI?""

circuit10 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:34:07 +0000

Generally, people have to make an active decision to spread false information, or be misinformed themselves in the first place, and that's not actually particularly common, whereas for LLMs it's just the default due to how they work and it's difficult to filter out due to how they present everything with such confidence and authority

New comment by circuit10 in "I'm So Tired of "Is This AI?""

circuit10 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:31:04 +0000

I think it matters because AI can hallucinate so it makes me doubt the truthfulness

It's also somewhat dishonest to present unedited AI-written content as your own work

New comment by circuit10 in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

circuit10 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:18:36 +0000

Not by the definition on Wikipedia at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)#Source_code_...

New comment by circuit10 in "Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29"

circuit10 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:16:15 +0000

Could you not develop the same sense by just looking in front of you without the viewfinder? I don’t see how a frame that doesn’t actually have any relation to what the camera is capturing helps you at all

New comment by circuit10 in "Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29"

circuit10 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:37:01 +0000

But if it’s giving you no information about what will actually be in frame you might as well just look in front of you and guess

New comment by circuit10 in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"

circuit10 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:26:04 +0000

It would be nice if they made a web app, that would make it work on iOS but also desktop and every other platform with a web browser at the same time

New comment by circuit10 in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"

circuit10 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:23:41 +0000

A web app would also make it work on iOS (and other non-Android platforms) at the same time

New comment by circuit10 in "Printing Gaussian Splats"

circuit10 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:56:08 +0000

Trying a bunch of sizes in their studio tool (all cubes to make it easier):

5mm x 5mm x 5mm (smallest I can select): $32.58

10mm x 10mm x 10mm: $36.58

20mm x 20mm x 20mm: $82.86

30mm x 30mm x 30mm: $143.60

50mm x 50mm x 50mm: $509.14

100mm x 100mm x 100mm: $3,028.58

150mm x 150mm x 150mm: $9,618.86

195mm x 195mm x 195mm: $20,641.32

(it says it's an estimate excluding tax and shipping)

New comment by circuit10 in "Google Flight Simulator"

circuit10 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:57:03 +0000

It’s only new for the web version (but this seems way worse than the one in the desktop version, sadly)

New comment by circuit10 in "Google Flight Simulator"

circuit10 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:30:38 +0000

This is new for the web version

New comment by circuit10 in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

circuit10 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:52:23 +0000

I think they should just have to properly explain how AI tends to make things up when it doesn’t know, and that it’s good for coming up with ideas or suggesting directions for research but that you shouldn’t rely on it, because currently their advertising makes you think you can rely on it

The “AI can make mistakes” kind of disclaimers they hide in the corner don’t really cut it