Hacker News: diabllicseagull

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

diabllicseagull — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:55:24 +0000

I'm using uBlock's AI Blacklist. It doesn't remove AI generated pages from search results but when a page doesn't load, you know.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Googlebook"

diabllicseagull — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:19:18 +0000

so Aluminum OS is finally here. it should be big enough of an announcement by itself but what we get is googlebook; hardware with an AI-tied value proposition. how do they think people would justify choosing a googlebook over everything else only to use gemini?

I wish it was framed around the OS and how it can run on a wide range of devices (similar to android and chrome os) and become something more in time (maybe with apps that can be developed outside the android ecosystem with a desktop experience in mind).

New comment by diabllicseagull in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"

diabllicseagull — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:39:46 +0000

> Alas, despite modern technologies and institutions, our human societies, technology, and understanding ultimately rely on 50,000-year old hardware (our brains!), which evolves slowly and mysteriously. Unavoidably, we work with individual and collective neural hardware limits.

this bit especially tells me the reader needs a pile of salt.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Amiga Graphics Archive"

diabllicseagull — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 01:51:30 +0000

I came across this archive not long ago. Avril Harrison has some insane artwork!

New comment by diabllicseagull in "The house is a work of art: Frank Lloyd Wright"

diabllicseagull — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:46:44 +0000

Fallingwater has just gone through a series of renovations and all areas are now accessible. If you haven't seen it yet, now is a great time.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

diabllicseagull — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:16:19 +0000

I'm not a big fan of reducing computing as a whole to just inference. Apple has done quite a bit besides that and it deserves credit. Mac Pro disappearing from the product line is a testament to it, that their compact solutions can cover all needs, not just local inference, to a degree that an expandable tower is not required at all.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Apple Just Lost Me"

diabllicseagull — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:41:04 +0000

https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/m2/

still too many missing bits for me.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "JSLinux Now Supports x86_64"

diabllicseagull — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:32:39 +0000

win2000 brings back so many good memories.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines"

diabllicseagull — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:28:12 +0000

> The impotence of naive idealism in the face of economic incentives.

I don't think it was so much the naivety of idealism, but more an adoption of idealism and related language to help market what was actually being built: a profit-first organization that's taking its true form little by little.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine"

diabllicseagull — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:11:19 +0000

speaking of xbox, we witnessed a ps5 being used like a pc before xbox console-pc hybrid could materialize.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me"

diabllicseagull — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:41:16 +0000

seriously. I don't even wanna compile code when binaries are available in a repository. the thought of everybody preferring vibe-coding something on their own over using something that's battle-tested and available to the collective is just crazy to me.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

diabllicseagull — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:56:27 +0000

you would hope that comments in a thread would stay in context, ideally.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

diabllicseagull — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:27:05 +0000

he liked his thinkpads and uhmm some other stuff

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

diabllicseagull — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:14:34 +0000

so spacex worked on an orbital data center?

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

diabllicseagull — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:24:58 +0000

if I may add, you can't really launch a station three times the size of ISS with a single rocket so there will be multiple launches. Just the launch costs alone could likely finance multiple similarly sized server rooms on land.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice"

diabllicseagull — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 04:07:24 +0000

sadly micron/sandisk bubble is going full steam ahead

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

diabllicseagull — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:17:38 +0000

classic "closing-store" sale, I wouldn't be surprised if the closing phase never ended.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Banned C++ features in Chromium"

diabllicseagull — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 04:26:47 +0000

Agreed. I also prefer conformity over sporadic use of new features going against an already set of standards in a codebase. it's overall less cognitive load on whoever is reading it imho.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

diabllicseagull — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:02:32 +0000

you don't have to do it alone

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux"

diabllicseagull — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:12:50 +0000

I gave it a try. it's super rough around the edges. I noticed a much higher cpu usage compared to firefox. nevertheless, it's super promising.