Hacker News: crest

New comment by crest in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

crest — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:28:02 +0000

Nice (accidental?) pun.

New comment by crest in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

crest — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:12:42 +0000

I can get a (used) fanless laptop and a USB GPIO/I2C/SPI/CAN/whatever adapter for that money. Raspberry Pis started at ~$30 for a minimal configuration. They were so cheap that they killed the whole overpriced range of $100 to $200 dev boards by vendors that tried to make money of dev boards for their chips.

They have to be cheap enough that tinkers leave them in their projects.

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

crest — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:08:38 +0000

The court ruled that the AI generated content has an author/editor/publisher: Google. It also ruled that Google can be held liable. Insert pikachu face meme.

New comment by crest in "Writing Portable ARM64 Assembly (2023)"

crest — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:20:30 +0000

How is this code portable to other platforms if it assumes that clang implies macOS?

New comment by crest in "Radxa Dragon Q8B: A Laptop Cosplaying as an SBC?"

crest — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:38:15 +0000

This exactly the missing laptop/lowend desktop performance bracket missing in the ARM ecosystem. Make a Mini-ITX compatible board for the SoC, upstream drivers into mainline Linux (and *BSD), and people will buy it as the low power 24/7 board for the home. Is it so fucking hard not shoot yourself in both feet?

New comment by crest in "Only 17% of all 64-bit Integers are products of two 32-bit integers"

crest — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:54:09 +0000

So you're better of using a 8x8->16 widening multiplication SIMD instruction or even just a multi register TBL/TBX instruction?

New comment by crest in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

crest — Sun, 31 May 2026 09:25:09 +0000

I guess that means they are fine with users ignoring their rights too? Just crack their software until something better comes along?

New comment by crest in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

crest — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:56:12 +0000

This should be treated as an organised crime syndicate stealing the purchase price from every customer.

New comment by crest in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

crest — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:20:20 +0000

Bend over for big tech!

New comment by crest in "C constructs that still don't work in C++"

crest — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:50:33 +0000

About half of them read as "I tried to use C++ as a worse C" e.g. using struct initilisation instead of constructors, using malloc instead of new or new[].

My pet peeve with C++ is that the sequence point operator can be overloaded at which point it stops being a sequence point.

New comment by crest in "New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output"

crest — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:33:58 +0000

If you want to know how bad it take your time with GCC 4.x before they responded to clang. GCC error messages used to be horrible for anything but the most trival errors. A single C++ template error could span multiple screens and still not tell you the location.

New comment by crest in "Fabricked: Misconfiguring Infinity Fabric to Break AMD SEV-SNP"

crest — Mon, 18 May 2026 08:55:50 +0000

That's exactly what SEV is supposed to protect against. If you trust the hypervisor you don't have to encrypt your virtual machine's main memory.

New comment by crest in "Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server"

crest — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:59:56 +0000

Meanwhile those without cheap credit to burn through can't even get a reasonably sized system SSD without selling a kidney.

New comment by crest in "Don't hijack my mouse pointer"

crest — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:36:05 +0000

Instant tab closed.

New comment by crest in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"

crest — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:22:03 +0000

To the ones of people who like to move fast and break things.

New comment by crest in "Ask.com has closed"

crest — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:05:35 +0000

Good riddance. The only thing they deserve to be remembered for is their fucking "tool" bar malware.

New comment by crest in "Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different"

crest — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:19:36 +0000

UTM can do both depending on how you configure it.

New comment by crest in "Be Alexandra Elbakyan"

crest — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:17:32 +0000

Some people look best in the warm glow of their own pyre.

New comment by crest in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

crest — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:59:11 +0000

We need extra laws to punish companies that try to fend of human users with AI "support" bullshit.

Allow users to file a lawsuit against the company using AI against their customers and judge the company only on what the AI generated without a chance to add anything more in their defense. Also any boilerplate legalese the AIs will quote in reaction to such laws is null and void.

Suddenly every AI support channel will have an "escalate to human support" button.

New comment by crest in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

crest — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:02:34 +0000

I've been running full dual stack for >15 years now. It has become second nature by now and I'm slowly testing IPv6 mostly, but so far it's just easier to deliver dual-stack to all users instead of dealing with workarounds to make the last few non-IPv6 capable services work without native IPv4.