Hacker News: faragon

New comment by faragon in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

faragon — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:06:38 +0000

Microsoft degrading user experience plus lower price on Mac computers it maybe their downfall. E.g., removing local accounts, unwanted advertising, arbitrary decisions (forced TPM requirement), etc.

New comment by faragon in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

faragon — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:52:33 +0000

"All your Copilot are belong to us"

New comment by faragon in "OpenAI to double workforce as business push intensifies"

faragon — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 05:45:08 +0000

Wasn't their target to replace humans with AI? Why is that not applicable to their business?

New comment by faragon in "Monkey Island for Commodore 64 Ground Up"

faragon — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:12:05 +0000

IIRC, the original CGA/EGA version was: 8x 360KB 5.25" disks, or 4x 720KB 3.5" disks.

New comment by faragon in "The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers"

faragon — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:41:46 +0000

Maybe it's time for creating simpler languages, easier to validate with a mix of LLMs, grammar validation, and test-covered aggregation/integration.

New comment by faragon in "Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business"

faragon — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:27:58 +0000

It's "fair": ARM takes 1% of the iPhone CPU, i.e., less than 0.1% of the total phone price, while Apple takes 30% of the apps in the iStore

New comment by faragon in "IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption"

faragon — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:47:09 +0000

With the workforce may happen like with DRAM and NAND flash memories: unexpected demand in one side leaving without enough offer in other sides.

New comment by faragon in "xAI joins SpaceX"

faragon — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:34:04 +0000

My question is how they'll update the hardware, if AI processors get outdated every 4-5 years? Or they will keep outdated satellites just for routing and Internet-related services?

New comment by faragon in "Nexphone-A phone that runs Android, Linux, and Windows?"

faragon — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:36:19 +0000

Is it working for phone calls when running Debian and Windows?

New comment by faragon in "Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered"

faragon — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:15:01 +0000

Why Microsoft stores the encryption keys of the users in their servers? Key recovery is convenient, but in my opinion it should exist the "opt out" option, without MS being involved in the key storage in their datacenters.

New comment by faragon in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

faragon — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:07:06 +0000

My prediction: Google will win. Rationale: cost/token + pre-existing ad knowledge + APIs for third-party apps. My concern is how an OpenAI collapse could hurt Microsoft and Nvidia.

New comment by faragon in "Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)"

faragon — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:36:39 +0000

Why Apple don't sponsor Asahi Linux? E.g., I would buy Apple computers gladly for running Linux.

New comment by faragon in "The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void"

faragon — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:42:08 +0000

That's beautiful. E.g., I have Chinese coworkers and now I realize what they meant with "that's not wrong". I felt those expressions like humbleness, but now I realize they were trying to keep their authenticity. Mind blowing.

New comment by faragon in "Apple and Intel Rumored to Partner on Mac Chips"

faragon — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 20:17:37 +0000

Why Apple don't just buy Intel? That would allow better vertical integration.

New comment by faragon in "Ego, empathy, and humility at work"

faragon — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:33:03 +0000

Empathy and humility are ok when shown by behavior, not when used as a "manipulative card" against "ego". E.g., when the "empathy card" is used to manipulate others in "you're an ego-driven person that always knows better than me". In my opinion there are less confrontative ways, e.g., a team lead handling the frictions with procedures, diplomacy, and other soft skills.

New comment by faragon in "'The French people want to save us': help pours in for glassmaker Duralex"

faragon — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 18:55:35 +0000

Duralex were used and loved in Spain, too. Most houses still have some of them, although nowadays there's lot more competition. I would pay twice for their glassware, quality-wise is good stuff.

New comment by faragon in "Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser"

faragon — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 15:31:00 +0000

I used Dillo in 2001-2002 with the PlayStation 2 Linux kit. With 32MB of RAM for Linux, and 4MB for the graphics. It worked really well despite the CPU was 294MHz (MIPS R-5900, two-way in-order CPU, with SIMD unit, and only one hardware thread, having two auxiliary vector units as companions).

New comment by faragon in "Real VT102 Emulation with MAME"

faragon — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:37:31 +0000

VT102 specs, e.g., 8085A 6MHz CPU [1]

[1] http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/dettaglio_mame.php?game_name=vt1...

New comment by faragon in "Why can't transformers learn multiplication?"

faragon — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:45:59 +0000

Maybe the AGI will come with the equivalent of a "Turing Machine" enabling some kind of computability.

New comment by faragon in "Windows 7 usage seemingly skyrockets in wake of Windows 10 end of support"

faragon — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 08:45:27 +0000

Why Microsoft just don't make optional the TPM requirement for upgrading from Windows 10 to 11?