Hacker News: dmitrygr

New comment by dmitrygr in "Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones"

dmitrygr — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:21:36 +0000

Ok then. Soviet Union had free speech too. Nobody got arrested for criticizing Reagan or Churchill.

Clearly the point is clear. Why nitpick pointlessly?

New comment by dmitrygr in "Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones"

dmitrygr — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:03:40 +0000

> news about the UK it might looks like a dystopian surveillance state where you get arrested for criticising

Might it "seem" that way because it is that way?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2025/09/09/people-a...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/22/britain-has-beco...

https://freespeechunion.org/news/more-than-62-000-people-hav...

Oh, and your government itself openly states it on record, too: https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-07-17/debates/F807C...

New comment by dmitrygr in "Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant"

dmitrygr — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:49:18 +0000

My math teacher used to say that “obviously” means “I don’t know how to prove” and “trivially” means “tenuously at best”. Thanks for the demo of this in action.

It’s been a thing since 1789: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception

New comment by dmitrygr in "NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates"

dmitrygr — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:20:46 +0000

> Had I done it manually, there's also no way to prove I created it without LLM help

Of course there is -- ask you about it.

The coolest interview process i ever participated in (at MIT Lincoln Lab) was structured this way, and seems 100% LLM-proof. The interview was: give a talk about a cool/impressive technical thing you did for an hour and then answer questions from the interviewers about it for an hour. No way to succeed there without actually understanding.

New comment by dmitrygr in "Google ending ChromeOS support two years early"

dmitrygr — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:24:37 +0000

And this is why when Pixel phones started promising 7 years of support, everyone with a brain said “uh huh, suuuure” and kept buying iPhones which DO deliver that.

New comment by dmitrygr in "C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake"

dmitrygr — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:49:25 +0000

What you seek is CHAR_BIT

New comment by dmitrygr in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

dmitrygr — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:47:15 +0000

> Even the EU is a lot of different countries. Some of them quite poor, and some of them wealthier also with high GDP per capita.

All poorer than Mississippi per-capita

New comment by dmitrygr in "The stupidity and arrogance of GNOME developers (2024)"

dmitrygr — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:42:07 +0000

Your unnecessary strawmanning was correctly predicted by the author.

> Because this isn’t my first rodeo, I can already foresee the criticism of this article: people are going to focus on my persona and my tone, not on what matters: GNOME‘s shitty practice.

And he was right. If I am giving you free fixes for your very real documented bugs, take them. You can hate me for it later, privately. At least that is what happens if you care about your users more than about your ego.

Sadly, this sane behavior is rare. And this is why the year of the Linux desktop will never happen.

New comment by dmitrygr in "16GB iPod Nano 3G Upgrade"

dmitrygr — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:35:27 +0000

Now this is HACKER news! Kudos to the author! Well done.

The NOP thing was predictable. Qemu is not great at limiting itself to actual requested emulated hardware, often allowing supersets of instruction sets and abilities.

And NAND....is always unnecessarily exciting.

New comment by dmitrygr in "Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks"

dmitrygr — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:47:26 +0000

That is not a quote of anything I said. My original comment had not been edited. If you choose to convert my statements to strange exaggerated strawmen, do so without a quote implication please.

New comment by dmitrygr in "The stupidity and arrogance of GNOME developers (2024)"

dmitrygr — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:29:51 +0000

> Because this isn’t my first rodeo, I can already foresee the criticism of this article: people are going to focus on my persona and my tone, not on what matters: GNOME‘s shitty practices.

> Let’s make one thing clear: even if Satan was the one providing a patch, if the patch is valid and fixes a real issue, you apply the patch, period. Why? Because that’s what is best for the users.

Amen

New comment by dmitrygr in "Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks"

dmitrygr — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:28:22 +0000

> it makes me wonder why the administration is pursuing this at all.

Why do we pursue murderers? There are not that many.

Either the law matters or it does not. Pick your own world to live in, but be consistent.

New comment by dmitrygr in "Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red"

dmitrygr — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:28:29 +0000

Considering it just made Charizard forget its only fire-type move "Ember" to learn "Counter", I note no signs of intelligence.

New comment by dmitrygr in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

dmitrygr — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 03:28:17 +0000

So through no plan of my own, I get to uproot my family. That is indeed great

New comment by dmitrygr in "AI safety is mostly a sex cult in Berkeley"

dmitrygr — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:23:26 +0000

i did: https://archive.is/QMo1k

New comment by dmitrygr in "AI safety is mostly a sex cult in Berkeley"

dmitrygr — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:50:46 +0000

article is gone. archive: https://archive.is/QMo1k

New comment by dmitrygr in "Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center"

dmitrygr — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:27:13 +0000

> Out of a canon. Into the sun.

Takes too much delta-V. Like... a lot of delta-V. Shooting out of the solar system takes less energy. #begreen

New comment by dmitrygr in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

dmitrygr — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:10:18 +0000

  > He thought that it would be possible to do the things he was demonstrating with Wayland as it is today.

Yeah, with that AND The cooperation and rewrite of every app to actually support usecases like "if dragged to side of screen, get smaller and smaller eventually becoming a widget"

New comment by dmitrygr in "Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series"

dmitrygr — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:03:53 +0000

OK, i did.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/19122559

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/14591329

yup... still laughably behind by nearly 20%. And that is behind the M5, not even the current M6

New comment by dmitrygr in "Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series"

dmitrygr — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 02:37:55 +0000

> closest competition to Apple's M series that we have,

Not very close at all, not even to the two-year-old model, it appears

https://wccftech.com/snapdragon-x2-plus-loses-to-m4-in-4-out...