Hacker News: elpocko

New comment by elpocko in "Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts"

elpocko — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 16:36:51 +0000

> The power required per user to run those GPUs seems like enough to run an air conditioner.

Not true. Maybe you're thinking of computer games? Inference requires much less energy per user session than a session of your average AAA game title. And there are more active gamers at any time than active ChatGPT users.

New comment by elpocko in "France is getting download tax for content providers (€0.055/GB)"

elpocko — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 23:15:17 +0000

Haha, making better compression algorithms is a detriment to society, I love it. Finally. Getting those bastard HEVC devs behind bars is a lifelong dream of mine.

New comment by elpocko in "French national assembly votes 0.055€/GB internet tax"

elpocko — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:10:59 +0000

Wait until you hear about Germany, where you have to pay a fee on all data storage media because it's possible that you might use it to copy something. It's awesome.

Edit: I apologize to the French people. I did not intend to disrespect your innovations or appropriate your legislature.

New comment by elpocko in "Ask HN: What's it like working at Google nowadays? Core teams like Search, Ads?"

elpocko — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:17:17 +0000

You go there every day, and they give you money. It's not great but it's just a job after all. It's quite weird because they expect you to do something for at least 20 hours every week, sometimes even more. It's not easy to keep up.

They made me come in on a Wednesday last week, and I was like "Whaaat?", I'm not doing that for 250K/month, like are you kidding

New comment by elpocko in "Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era?"

elpocko — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:52:04 +0000

No, love AI. Greatest thing that ever happened. Very tired of the haters though, they ruin everything.

New comment by elpocko in "Reddit will force everyone to log in"

elpocko — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 22:04:19 +0000

Reddit has an agreement with Google, only G is officially allowed to scrape reddit's content.

New comment by elpocko in "Patrick Stewart has died"

elpocko — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:57:45 +0000

But it was too late. I've seen everything.

New comment by elpocko in "Sorry Harvey! I Made a Free Open-Source Alternative to Your Overpriced Legal AI"

elpocko — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:47:52 +0000

You can't prove that! It's just two different accounts with no history, created on the same day. Pure coincidence, happens all the time on HN. Ugh.

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

# Comments: 29

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.