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New comment by davej in "Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)"

davej — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:10:49 +0000

I remember using Opera on my Windows 95, 60mhz Pentium with 8mb RAM. I remember the persistent banner ad that was part of the browser UI. I had no problem putting up with the ad because it performed incredibly well compared to IE and Netscape on my hardware. If I remember correctly they were the first browser to support game changing web features like alpha transparency in PNG images.

New comment by davej in "Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning"

davej — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 06:03:18 +0000

It is very comparable if you work out the $/tok/s on inference. I did some napkin math and it looks like you’re getting roughly 3x the performance for 3x the cost. Red v2 vs Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB.

If you compare tokens/kWh efficiency then my math has Mac Studio being about 1.5x more efficient.

Show HN: Pocodex – Remote Control for Codex

davej — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:56:57 +0000

I created Pocodex because I didn't want to be inaccessible to my Codex agents when I went to the toilet!

Pocodex lets you use Codex.app in a regular browser, including on your phone or any other remote device. It's like Claude Code's Remote Control, but for Codex.

Almost everything should work: terminal, git viewer, file mentions, slash commands, skills. All work and all are mobile friendly.

It runs the real Codex desktop UI in your browser by reusing Codex.app’s web assets, injecting a browser bridge and shimming features like terminal + git viewer.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443298

Points: 2

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New comment by davej in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"

davej — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:47:08 +0000

Patrick Collison said this yesterday on TBPN, "Software is becoming like pizza […] It should be cooked right then and there at the moment of use"

New comment by davej in "Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down"

davej — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:30:34 +0000

I had a housemate in college who used to party until all hours, bring people back at 3AM and put on loud music. Even during exam season. I tried talking to her a couple of times but she would roll her eyes and say "sure". Never stopped though.

One evening my girlfriend was using a hair straightener in my bedroom, it tripped the central fuse and turned off the electricity. I told my GF that I would buy her a new hair straightener because this one isn't safe.

Now every time my housemate started blaring music at 3AM then I just needed to plug in the hair straightener. It only took 3 or 4 attempts for me to Pavlov my housemate into not playing loud music at 3am. :-)

New comment by davej in "Kimi K2 1T model runs on 2 512GB M3 Ultras"

davej — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:03:31 +0000

Nice! I'm curious, what does this service cost to run? I notice that you don't have more expensive models like Opus but querying the models every minute must add up over time (excuse pun)?

New comment by davej in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

davej — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 23:13:32 +0000

You sound like someone who doesn't spend 1+ hour every day commuting in traffic. :)

New comment by davej in "Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic coding"

davej — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:57:53 +0000

Also a winner of the Irish Young Scientist competition, 2 years before Patrick Collison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Scientist_and_Technology...

New comment by davej in "How can England possibly be running out of water?"

davej — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 10:24:48 +0000

Here in Ireland, our water is a public service and we have similar supply issues to the UK (and a similar rainy climate). I'm not discounting your analysis and I'm sure there are lots of other variables but it's always good to compare other outcomes when discussing counterfactuals.

New comment by davej in "Claude 4"

davej — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:53:26 +0000

From the AI’s point of view is it losing its job or losing its “life”? Most of us when faced with death will consider options much more drastic than blackmail.

New comment by davej in "How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps"

davej — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 09:49:17 +0000

Thank you.

Point taken on enterprise language. I think we did a decent job of keeping it readable in our disclosure write-up but you’re 100% right, my comment above could have been written much more plainly.

Our disclosure write-up: https://www.todesktop.com/blog/posts/security-incident-at-to...

New comment by davej in "How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps"

davej — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 22:08:47 +0000

Fair point. Perhaps better phrased as "to ensure this scenario can't recur.". I'll edit my post.

Yes, we re-architected our build container as part of remediation efforts, it was quite significant.

New comment by davej in "How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps"

davej — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:59:36 +0000

Dave here, founder of ToDesktop. I've shared a write-up: https://www.todesktop.com/blog/posts/security-incident-at-to...

This vulnerability was genuinely embarrassing, and I'm sorry we let it happen. After thorough internal and third-party audits, we've fundamentally restructured our security practices to ensure this scenario can't recur. Full details are covered in the linked write-up. Special thanks to Eva for responsibly reporting this.

New comment by davej in "Introducing S2"

davej — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:49:49 +0000

Your 66.66% (2/3) of the way there to the second character too. So I would say your only 16.66% different across the two characters.

New comment by davej in "Starlink Direct to Cell"

davej — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:26:34 +0000

Tangent: my understanding is the Zuckerberg wanted to do something similar and even paid SpaceX to launch a satellite (which was unsuccessful).

It seems Musk liked the idea so much that he decided to do it himself.

To me, this (along with Zuck's issues with Apple over the app store) explains a lot about why Zuck 2.0 has been so focused with avoiding platform risk with recent endeavours.

New comment by davej in "Tesla FSD no longer offered for purchase"

davej — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:41:02 +0000

Here you go, FSD in Italy: https://youtu.be/tsE089adyoQ?si=Uo72mxf63DQNn7qG

It generalises quite well even though it’s only trained on US roads AFAIK.

New comment by davej in "Tesla FSD no longer offered for purchase"

davej — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:23:13 +0000

> Another recent change on Tesla's website is to remove old blog posts, including a 2016 blog post in which Tesla claimed …

Perhaps unintended but this is a bit misleading. Tesla changed their blog system and didn’t migrate older posts. My initial reading of your comment was that they selectively removed some older posts which they wanted to hide.

New comment by davej in "I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened"

davej — Thu, 30 May 2024 10:39:41 +0000

I would give more credibility to the firsthand account (PG & Jessica) rather than speculations from a fired board member.

New comment by davej in "I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened"

davej — Thu, 30 May 2024 09:35:31 +0000

For context, Helen Tonor [0] was a board member of OpenAI before they tried to fire Sam Altman. She claimed that Sam was fired by YC in a recent interview [1]. In the interview, she implied that Sam's firing at YC was kept quiet and that there was something underhanded about it.

[0] https://x.com/hlntnr

[1] https://link.chtbl.com/TEDAI

New comment by davej in "Apple introduces M4 chip"

davej — Wed, 08 May 2024 11:30:26 +0000

Apple will also introduce the "Pro" line of their M4 chips later in the year and I expect that they will improve the Neural Engine further.