Hacker News: elpocko

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.

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.

New comment by elpocko in "Germany Law to Force Algorithm Boost for State-Approved News"

elpocko — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:37:04 +0000

Me too. I wish I could live in a society that protects free speech, and not just "free" (the kind that needs no protection in the first place) speech.

New comment by elpocko in "Declassified CIA Cartography Maps from the 1980s"

elpocko — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:29:07 +0000

Whatever they and their affliction are called, they've successfully ruined the last few comment sections on the web that were still worth visiting for me. I hope they'll eventually receive the help they so desperately need. Maybe they'll be able to handle reality one day.

New comment by elpocko in "Stop Advertising in Your Commits"

elpocko — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:03:09 +0000

>Normal computer tools can be verified to work reliably. Cat can be tested to copy data. Sort can be confirmed to sort properly.

Right. You can indeed verify that a given computer program can reliably copy or sort data.

>You can't verify that a coding agent can reliably produce code

That's not the goal. You don't need to verify that a coding agent can reliably produce "code". You only need to verify that the solution produced by the agent solves a given problem. And that's already been done and verified many, many times. I hear most code is written by LLMs nowadays, and not all of their users are idiots.

New comment by elpocko in "Stop Advertising in Your Commits"

elpocko — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:57:07 +0000

Imagine using software tools on a computer to make a computer do work without telling anybody that you used software tools on a computer to make the computer do the work. That's just disgusting. Matrix multiplication was invented by the devil.