Hacker News: elpocko

New comment by elpocko in "People sick, 57 hospitalized in 32 states courtesy of contaminated jalapeños"

elpocko — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:44:02 +0000

I wouldn't be surprised if this is another example of the HN automatic title mutilator. "If it ends in -os, it must be an operating system" is not even the stupidest rule in there.

New comment by elpocko in "Amen Break"

elpocko — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:32:58 +0000

Announcing your flagging is against the guidelines, too. Flagged.

New comment by elpocko in "The arguments against open source AI are bad"

elpocko — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:33:56 +0000

I agree with you in general, it's not "Open Source". But in many cases you're allowed to fork them, and create and distribute derivative works (finetunes) from open models, and the training and inference code is also permissively licensed. That's not shareware.

And working with the binary weights of a huge pretained model is much easier and cheaper than doing it based on the entirety of its humongous source datasets.

New comment by elpocko in "Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time"

elpocko — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:32:09 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o8E3ycB7Aw

In case someone wants to see for themselves how "instantly" it really was. Skip to ~9:50 when it gets real sluggish.

Edit: if you don't wear nostalgia glasses, you can watch the bits of screen being redrawn piece by piece after something moves or a menu closes. Everything is flickering. Opening and closing a menu takes up to one second. The text being typed in the editor lags. This is not more responsive than a modern system, far from it. Obviously.

New comment by elpocko in "Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter (2020)"

elpocko — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:40:48 +0000

I guess he didn't pop up because the article is 6 years old.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23362673

New comment by elpocko in "A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?"

elpocko — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:26:23 +0000

Every post and comment this account made so far is self-promotion. You can safely dismiss everything they say, it's not an actual person.

New comment by elpocko in "I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs"

elpocko — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:02:49 +0000

I remember back when Wordle was popular, people said the "Share result" feature was so effective, it was the reason for the game's viral success. I can't think of any other example though.

Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948

elpocko — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:18:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/06/ibm-604-thyraton-tube-module.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436819

Points: 92

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New comment by elpocko in "Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts"

elpocko — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:49:24 +0000

This will be the thing that does it. That sounds reasonable.

New comment by elpocko in "Python JIT project was asked to pause development"

elpocko — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:22:13 +0000

It would make sense if there was any activity on that older post. A 12 hour old post with no comments is dead, linking to it is a waste of time, especially for those who click on it to find 0 comments.

I did click on your link, it was a waste of time and that wasn't very nice.

New comment by elpocko in "Python JIT project was asked to pause development"

elpocko — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:09:17 +0000

Don't bother clicking, that post got 0 attention. Not helpful, mate.

New comment by elpocko in "How Fear and Social Pressure Are 'Overarming' the U.S."

elpocko — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:07:32 +0000

The mods are obviously wrong and there should be way more pushback from the users. It's embarrassing.

New comment by elpocko in "How Fear and Social Pressure Are 'Overarming' the U.S."

elpocko — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:43:27 +0000

It's baffling how almost no one here ever speaks out against it. Everybody just puts up with it even though we all know what a sign of arrogance and incompetence it is to attempt to alter post titles in this clumsy, embarrassingly broken way. Everyone is just silently looking at their feet in second hand embarrassment and doesn't want to speak up. And the funniest thing is: there is an official rule that says not to edit the original titles. Amazingly bizarre.

New comment by elpocko in "Show HN: Ideogram 4.0 – open-weight 9.3B text-to-image model"

elpocko — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:23:10 +0000

Non-commercial license, you should not call that "open-weight". Words have meaning.

And people are having a laugh at how censored the model is.

https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1tvtu2u/id...

https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1tvxhzv/id...

New comment by elpocko in "State Is No Good"

elpocko — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:18:24 +0000

Hey, look at how many of the submissions from this domain were made by one-off accounts that never posted anything else: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=yusufaytas.com

I'm sure that means nothing, it's a coincidence.

New comment by elpocko in "I'm Done Using AI"

elpocko — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:10:49 +0000

Okay, thank you.

New comment by elpocko in "When AI Crosses the Line: The Matplotlib Incident"

elpocko — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:23:23 +0000

It's a fear response. I'm looking forward to the inevitable data center bombings, committed and cheered on by some of these muppets. Look at the top comment in this thread, that's just insane.

Your comment will be downvoted and flagged soon, so that no can read your wrong opinion.

New comment by elpocko in "It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop"

elpocko — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:34:18 +0000

Eternal September 1991

New comment by elpocko in "Let's compile Quake like it's 1997"

elpocko — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:54:09 +0000

VC++ 6 was awesome, I wouldn't have a career if I didn't have pirated copies of VC++ 6 and Borland Delphi. And look at how clean and crisp it all looks. Every pixel has a purpose.

New comment by elpocko in "The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin"

elpocko — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:46:10 +0000

Could be! Let's check. I just need your name and address, your SSN, a list of businesses you are a client of, and a DNA sample.