Hacker News: computerdork

New comment by computerdork in "China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines"

computerdork — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 04:12:37 +0000

Think for the most part the opposite is being said? That the Chinese will eventually develop their own DUV and EUV technology.

Yeah, no one in with decent knowledge of tech would think a cutting edge nation like China couldn't figure this out.

New comment by computerdork in "Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library"

computerdork — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:57:53 +0000

Haha, agreed:)

New comment by computerdork in "Our position on open-weights models"

computerdork — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:44:31 +0000

That was my thought too. Because it’s just a tsunami of distrustful comments

New comment by computerdork in "Our position on open-weights models"

computerdork — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:35:48 +0000

Wow, so much cynicism and distrust in the comments, to the level of conspiracy theory, in my opinion. Yeah, this is the company that fairly recently refused to allow the government to use its models for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance, and refused to remove its guardrails.

Am not saying we should take what Dario is saying at face value, but he already has shown by his actual actions that he can be well intentioned. There might be elements of truth to what he’s saying.

New comment by computerdork in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

computerdork — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:19:25 +0000

Interesting, will take a look!

New comment by computerdork in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

computerdork — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:19:00 +0000

Ah, okay. Will probably just have to try it out.

New comment by computerdork in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

computerdork — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:52:02 +0000

How is the remarkable at converting handwritten notes into text? Especially so that you can search over it? Yeah, I used to handwrite my notes on paper back in the day, and still do for a couple of important topics, but switched over to putting things in Evernote several years ago. The reason is actually do need to do searches over them quite often, and it’s obviously very difficult to do with handwritten documents.

New comment by computerdork in "Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU"

computerdork — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:37:00 +0000

Haha, well, maybe a couple dozen grad students creating some unusual extension to the os:)

New comment by computerdork in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

computerdork — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:26:02 +0000

Hmm, it didn’t occur to me. Yeah, not sure it’s obvious to many people so was glad for the explanation

New comment by computerdork in "Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI"

computerdork — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:49:19 +0000

Funny!

New comment by computerdork in "Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language"

computerdork — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:49:47 +0000

Ah okay, thanks!

New comment by computerdork in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

computerdork — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:49:27 +0000

Thanks for the info:)

New comment by computerdork in "Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language"

computerdork — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:57:51 +0000

Thanks for the explanation on this. Think I partially understand. Birds can distinguish calls on at least two characteristics, by the sound of it and by its function. And the authors have developed experiments to show that birds can do both. Is this correct or did I get on the wrong track?

New comment by computerdork in "New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf]"

computerdork — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:56:41 +0000

This is a helpful explanation - am not a researcher so I have little idea how to run an unbiased, meaningful experiment (except that it takes a lot of effort and thought to run one). Useful analysis

New comment by computerdork in "Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language"

computerdork — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:52:42 +0000

Interesting! Could you break this down further? Maybe specific examples of what you're mentioning might help - for instance, what "similar-sounding calls with different functions" are zebra finches discriminating between? What exactly are different situations of these functions? How exactly (and through what experiments) did she determine this?

And I read the article (but not her research paper), and have a vague idea, but it's tough to get a full grasp - and if this is just too difficult to fully explain, no worries!

New comment by computerdork in "The Fall and Rise of Screwworm"

computerdork — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:03:16 +0000

Scenes from the human harvesting operations at in the Matrix come to mind, but am sure it's different than that:)

New comment by computerdork in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

computerdork — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:01:33 +0000

those advertisers are crafty:)

New comment by computerdork in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

computerdork — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:49:05 +0000

Totally agree - having been telling this to friends for years, to no avail.

Btw, what network monitor are you using? Was it just a diagnostic tool in your router's admin page? Or is it something special like dd-wrt? Because seems like it's kind of hit or miss if a router's stock admin includes a reliable network monitor.

New comment by computerdork in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

computerdork — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:43:35 +0000

Actually, think all the devs here should know this too (and am surprised people on HN are making such a big deal about this). Agreed, 500Mb is what most households need because, yeah, 90% of the time 4k video is the most demanding thing we do (which is only 25Mb/s per person in the household).

Having been telling this to my family and friends whenever they want to upgrade to 1Gb/s, but to noavail. They rarely ever take the suggestion (ah well, to each their own).

New comment by computerdork in "22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'"

computerdork — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:54:55 +0000

Oh, wow, that is actually an interesting application of ai