Hacker News: ezconnect

New comment by ezconnect in "How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?"

ezconnect — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:25:39 +0000

In the computer world, wait a few years and things get cheaper. That was broken by an exceptional event. Who would have thought you can't afford DDR4 in 2026?

New comment by ezconnect in "I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots"

ezconnect — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:59:34 +0000

Ads is just a tiny part of Marketing.

New comment by ezconnect in "I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots"

ezconnect — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:54:15 +0000

They are basically rebranding the Folding@Home idea and adding modern words to market it.

New comment by ezconnect in "Mystery behind Moana: After 1,700 years, why did Polynesians suddenly sail east?"

ezconnect — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:23:49 +0000

They are probably trying but only succeeded after many failures and fix the food supply of a long sea journey, navigation and mapping of the sea.

New comment by ezconnect in "Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries"

ezconnect — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:33:20 +0000

The washing machine is the one that needs redesign to incorporate folding.

New comment by ezconnect in "Steam Machine launches today"

ezconnect — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:56:44 +0000

You see only the address when it is already paid and to be shipped. Cancelling credit card transaction is very costly to the merchant.

New comment by ezconnect in "How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart"

ezconnect — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 05:41:50 +0000

There are some section of a train line where 4 stations are owned by someone else and they change names along the same rail route. They also change the driver or whatever he is called when changing the company name of the train.

New comment by ezconnect in "AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs"

ezconnect — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:56:57 +0000

I think we are in the era we have so many CPU choices.

New comment by ezconnect in "AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs"

ezconnect — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:55:21 +0000

The West just a few years ago declared that at airport entry points, no one is including their citizen is not protected by any law when it comes to providing access to your private stuff.

New comment by ezconnect in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

ezconnect — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:46:37 +0000

What is Parakeet?

New comment by ezconnect in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

ezconnect — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:36:29 +0000

It was probably done on a foreign language on an archived forum. Claude is the improvement of the internet search box.

New comment by ezconnect in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

ezconnect — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:52:09 +0000

For the Capitalist crowd, YES it is the biggest cost. The next is energy. Imagine a world where your research and development is all AI and the production is all automated by robots. Instant product to sell to the masses who has no money because no one is working.

New comment by ezconnect in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

ezconnect — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:48:15 +0000

When you use page up and page down key when reading that blog the first line on the screen is obscured by the floating bar or what ever it is. It is not even needed for reading.

New comment by ezconnect in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

ezconnect — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:57:00 +0000

I reloaded my torpedoes but it is taking so long and it just keeps on blinking.

New comment by ezconnect in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

ezconnect — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:45:02 +0000

The submarine don't look like a submarine.

New comment by ezconnect in "HDD Firmware Hacking"

ezconnect — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:24:17 +0000

I am surprised he didn't try to lower the clock of the MCU of HDD first if he just wanted to delay the reply.

New comment by ezconnect in "Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment"

ezconnect — Sat, 02 May 2026 02:46:38 +0000

I don't see a future with humanoid robots inside the house. We probably will have specialized robots for certain task like the roombas.

New comment by ezconnect in "PCR is a surprisingly near-optimal technology"

ezconnect — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:01:02 +0000

This is how the consumer Glucose meter market works. The machine is free and it only accept their rebranded sticks.

New comment by ezconnect in "Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock"

ezconnect — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:51:44 +0000

There are lot cases where it is proven that you don't have any legal protection on border crossings.

New comment by ezconnect in "I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months"

ezconnect — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:30:06 +0000

You can use AI now to design the STL files for printing.