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New comment by darkwater in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

darkwater — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:17:56 +0000

This made me smile because in my book this is at every effect impossible, especially if the goal is getting a functioning laptop at the end of the process. To be clear, it's impossible for me because I lack the knowledge, expertise and tooling to even think about doing it.

New comment by darkwater in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

darkwater — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:52:55 +0000

At that point in time I would not have called it Wintel yet. That started after Windows 95, IIRC.

New comment by darkwater in "I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit"

darkwater — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:52:24 +0000

Yes, but you need a style before :) But in TFA's author case, he actually had a few other blog posts which feel not LLM generated to use as an example, I agree.

New comment by darkwater in "I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit"

darkwater — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:02:18 +0000

100% agreed. Maybe this inner reaction will disappear over the years of being exposed to the GPT writing style, or maybe LLMs will be "smarter" on this regard, and being able to use different styles even by default. But I had the same exact feelings as you reading this piece.

New comment by darkwater in "Native Americans had dice 12k years ago"

darkwater — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:14:04 +0000

So, what is the right way to call such civilizations, according to you?

New comment by darkwater in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

darkwater — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:39:23 +0000

That didn't end well, unfortunately.

New comment by darkwater in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

darkwater — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:55:53 +0000

Yep. Especially for Anthropic. Goddamnit, they have it in their company's name!

New comment by darkwater in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

darkwater — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:36:31 +0000

I agree on that part as well, but saying that AI will go back at what it was before ChatGPT came along is false. LLM will still be a standalone product and will be taken for granted. People will (maybe? hopefully?) eventually learn to use them properly and not generate tons of slop for the sake of using AI. Many "AI companies" will disappear from the face of Earth. But our reality has changed.

New comment by darkwater in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

darkwater — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:19:26 +0000

I wonder if they have more or less the same marketing team over all these years or now it's just part of the mindset.

New comment by darkwater in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

darkwater — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:16:36 +0000

Saying that LLMs will disappear once the financial hype desinflate is like saying that LLMs are the answer to everything.

New comment by darkwater in "Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise"

darkwater — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:07:18 +0000

Most of the copy-paste Linux command used to be 'sudo aptitude install -y blahblah'. It is worth noting though that Ubuntu's PPAs became at some point widespread enough to have pasting a new repo source as a standard practice as well (which would open the way to this kind of attack for sure)

New comment by darkwater in "Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone"

darkwater — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:10:13 +0000

I don't think that having or not having women in the design team is the key here. IMO it's more about how men perceive how men should be.

New comment by darkwater in "Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone"

darkwater — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:13:24 +0000

This really tells you how "bad masculinity" pervaded everything. I'm speaking of the designers here, not the astronauts. Why not a diaper also for male astronauts from the beginning? Isn't manly enough? Does it show weakness, like a toddler or an old dying man?

New comment by darkwater in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

darkwater — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:23:11 +0000

I mean, the GP example about Venezuela and Cuba was totally on point. They are not at any degree comparable to the sentiment against the US and the west in general of some Middle-East countries. I mean, Palestinian are bound to hate to death Israel and the US for a couple generations more (and for good reasons). The same does not apply to Venezuela, even with all the Chavez/Maduro propaganda against the Evil Empire.

New comment by darkwater in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

darkwater — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:41:41 +0000

It's not that simple, at all. Any kind of electronic device adds a complexity that many HNers tend to underestimate. Giving an e-ink device would probably be the best approach but you have to manage them at scale, and I don't think there is any solution out of the box right now. But to give a general computing device like an iPad or a Chromebook to teenagers was going to end like this from day 0.

New comment by darkwater in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

darkwater — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:46:09 +0000

Yes, but if they can annihilate or get you to surrender from the beginning, there won't be such a generation.

New comment by darkwater in "A dot a day keeps the clutter away"

darkwater — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:43:06 +0000

> Almost all retail RFID tags are on hanging labels, like with the price, or a sticker on the item. Although I did find one inside a pillow once.

I would say that Decathlon stuff has the RFID inside the internal labels (the ones that you should cut off if you don't want them to scratch your skin but sometimes you don't notice them)

New comment by darkwater in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

darkwater — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:17:33 +0000

We have modern architecture crumbling already less than 100 years after it has been built. I know engineering is about tradeoffs but we should also acknowledge that, as a society, we are so much used to put direct economic cost as the main and sometimes only metric.

I tried Firefox's new AI 'Smart Window' in a beta build

darkwater — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:36:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/firefox-smart-window-hands-on

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47585853

Points: 1

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New comment by darkwater in "15 Years of Forking"

darkwater — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:55:56 +0000

Well, the default search engine is definitely your business partner, no? So they are getting a different tratment: default search engine (like in most other browsers, nothing fancy here) and their ads in their SERP are not blocked - at least by default - by the embedded ad-blocking engine of WaterFox. Isn't that correct? Happy to stand corrected, if it's the case.