Hacker News: esskay

New comment by esskay in "The coolest use for the Vision Pro"

esskay — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:14:43 +0000

As cool as it is, I do wonder how much life is left in the Vision Pro, it's clearly failed massively. I know they didnt expect to sell loads, but they're still sitting on stock made when it first came out, and seemingly have no plans to do any major updates.

New comment by esskay in "New Framework Desktop Option with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 and 192GB Memory"

esskay — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:37:35 +0000

Agreed, what the heck were they thinking, it's obvious it should've been Ryzen AI Max Plus Pro Ultra 495.

New comment by esskay in "Full Scale Foldable Wing Extensions"

esskay — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:41:29 +0000

Cool, but then you'd be forced to fly on a Boeing.

New comment by esskay in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

esskay — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:41:32 +0000

Stack overflow was always going to die. AI just sped it up. The misconception that it was a community is surprising. People went there for an answer and left, very few would stick around, not only because there was no incentive, but if you did you'd likely get crapped on by one of the hostile moderators which would ensure you'd leave and never come back, because who wants to willingly be treated badly.

It was basically an imposer syndrome enforcing machine.

New comment by esskay in "Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources"

esskay — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:57:41 +0000

You think they'd only have to go through antitrust in the US? These are global payment processors, and the EU loves getting involved in this kind of thing. And no they can't just ignore it if they want to keep the majority of their customers.

New comment by esskay in "Count Binface"

esskay — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:44:41 +0000

Yeah no, if thats your takeaway then you've severely misunderstood the situation. They dont expect, nor want to win that seat. They want Nige to win it back so he's held accountable as thats in their interest. And then when he's likely ousted later this year they'll all run when theres another election.

New comment by esskay in "Count Binface"

esskay — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:43:26 +0000

We're super flexible on name law in the UK. I could change my name right now and just use it, I dont need any formal approval or anything to do so. It only becomes a legal issue if you do it for legally questionable reasons.

New comment by esskay in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

esskay — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:08:10 +0000

oMLX[1] is the only one that comes to mind but it's not exactly unique to mac, it just runs MLX models and provides a nice gui. It does have the whole paged SSD KV cache thing, not sure if thats working on other platforms.

[1] https://omlx.ai/

New comment by esskay in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

esskay — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:06:34 +0000

whos going to buy one? You cant trust them not to kill it within a few years and cease all software updates AND make it impossible to install a different OS to keep it going. Until they stop being dicks about what you can do with the hardware you own it's a non starter.

New comment by esskay in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

esskay — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:00:50 +0000

Around where? They're pretty popular for it in the UK right now given our obscene energy pricing as they end up being one of the best low power options for local llm. If you're not in the local llm space you obviously wouldn't see it. It's like saying Tennis isnt popular around here then admitting you dont frequent a tennis court so wouldn't even know.

New comment by esskay in "OpenPrinter"

esskay — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:13:36 +0000

Ugh yes agree, that Prusa one was a massive misstep.

New comment by esskay in "OpenPrinter"

esskay — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:52:24 +0000

Unless I'm missing something using this in a commercial application would be a license violation:

> Open Printer is distributed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

> This means that everyone is free to use, share, and modify the project, provided they credit the original author, share derivatives under the same license, and do not use it for commercial purposes.

It's also not opensource yet, there's a vague mention of "when its ready" it'll be released.

New comment by esskay in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

esskay — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:13:24 +0000

Not sure that counters their point...or even relates to it.

New comment by esskay in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

esskay — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:36:23 +0000

> But in many cases there are not any homegrown alternatives to support

There shouldn't need to be. Realistically for something like this an EU backed highly-audited non-profit should be in place for permanent highly controlled services like this that do not rely on any non-EU entities for it to function.

New comment by esskay in "Swift Package Index joins Apple"

esskay — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:00:40 +0000

It's Apple, theres a high chance they'll just delete it and pretend it never existed. They've got a pretty consistent reputation for this now. Dark Sky, PrimeSense, Drive.ai, Beddit, Topsy, NextVR, Fleetsmith, FingerWorks, to name a few.

New comment by esskay in "Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct"

esskay — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:20:22 +0000

Unless you live in bumfuck nowhere theres zero reason to be subjecting yourself to a supermarket meal deal, we've got an overabundance of independent food places in towns in the uk.

New comment by esskay in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

esskay — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:12:12 +0000

Sure, lets ignore everything else. Keep that head buried deep in the sand.

New comment by esskay in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

esskay — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:04:32 +0000

I dont need to, as I said I'm on brave, which isnt losing its adblocker.

New comment by esskay in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

esskay — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:03:02 +0000

> The real question is whether SpaceX ownership improves Cursor or drives its users away.

I can't speak for anyone else but I wont be renewing my sub. Funding anything Musk related isn't exactly high up on my list of desires, and theres ample alternatives out there.

New comment by esskay in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

esskay — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:59:35 +0000

Yup still got it due to paying for a year up front, its still very decent, especially the newer composer 2.5 model, it's cheap and has a ton of usage included so works well as a general day to day tool.