Hacker News: fouc

New comment by fouc in "How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings?"

fouc — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:38:29 +0000

think about how much faster it would've been with a small local model!

New comment by fouc in "Show HN: Countries where you can leave your MacBook at a random coffee shop"

fouc — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:20:29 +0000

what if other people want to use that table? is it okay to move their laptop/bags off?

I actually find it annoying if people put stuff on tables and then walk away for an hour or more, hogging a spot that could be used by others.

New comment by fouc in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

fouc — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:29:00 +0000

indicator of being detail oriented

New comment by fouc in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

fouc — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:34:33 +0000

I liked this article's definition of Full Self Driving (Level 4 autonomy), it is very clear - when Tesla directly takes on the legal liability for unsupervised driving.

New comment by fouc in "Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him"

fouc — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:34:51 +0000

Yeah that's what I was referring to, the last 10% takes 90% of the time. Or the difficulty of getting from five 9s to nine 9s.

In this case the final 1% is 200x harder than getting to the initial 95%.

New comment by fouc in "Chinese EVs Can Now Project Movies from Their Headlights"

fouc — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:44:05 +0000

Interesting, this tech is already in some chinese EV car models since 3 years ago, so it's not super new.

New comment by fouc in "Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him"

fouc — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:28:42 +0000

Seems like HW3 has been pretty good since FSD v12.3+ came out.

If we describe HW4 as 99% of the way to true FSD, then HW3 is probably 95% of the way.

Though approaching 100% (maybe 2x the human standard) is going to be exponentially harder to get to.

New comment by fouc in "Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him"

fouc — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:03:54 +0000

technically it was called "Full Self Driving (BETA)" and then "Full Self Driving (Supervised)"

New comment by fouc in "How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?"

fouc — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:07:52 +0000

>Starting with 4 virtual cores and 8 GB vRAM, where the VM ran perfectly briskly with around 5 GB of memory used, I stepped down to 3 cores and 6 GB, to discover that memory usage fell to 3.9 GB and everything worked well. With just 2 cores and 4 GB of memory only 3.1 GB of that was used, and the VM continued to handle those lightweight tasks normally.

Good reminder that there's a certain amount of memory tied up with each core (probably mainly page cache and concurrency handling etc).

New comment by fouc in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

fouc — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:42:11 +0000

I remember Friendster being very popular in parts of Latin America / Brazil and Philippines. I think you could definitely get a lot of users through the nostalgia factor.

New comment by fouc in "X is shutting down Communities because of low usage and lots of spam"

fouc — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:40:42 +0000

I see x links frequently shared even in communities that have a quite a few people already on bluesky etc.

New comment by fouc in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

fouc — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:05:24 +0000

Modern linux kernel running cooperatively inside the Windows 9x kernel, sick!

New comment by fouc in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"

fouc — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:21:43 +0000

Pi appears to be a reference to what is essentially an alternative to agent harnesses / CLI tools like Claude Code or Open Code [0]. I am curious what providers/models are you using in place of Claude's model?

[0] https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono

New comment by fouc in "I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language"

fouc — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:33:21 +0000

Sounds like the Forth way.

New comment by fouc in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

fouc — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:43:37 +0000

I remember having a fun time with a line editor the one time I tried it, it felt very intuitive. I can't remember if it was 'ed' or forth-based variation though.

New comment by fouc in "The RAM shortage could last years"

fouc — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:08:07 +0000

I'm a bit surprised the article makes no mention of Google's TurboQuant[0] introduced 26 days prior.

Given that TurboQuant results in a 6x reduction in memory usage for KV caches and up to 8x boost in speed, this optimization is already showing up in llama.cpp, enabling significantly bigger contexts without having to run a smaller model to fit it all in memory.

Some people thought it might significantly improve the RAM situation, though I remain a bit skeptical - the demand is probably still larger than the reduction turboquant brings.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47513475

New comment by fouc in "Android now stops you sharing your location in photos"

fouc — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:35:16 +0000

Or Firefox would still be using android's file system / upload process, which probably hands off the photos with geotags stripped already.

I'm pretty sure this is what happens in the iPhone at least, so I'd imagine it is the same in Android.

New comment by fouc in "Most people can't juggle one ball"

fouc — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:13:22 +0000

Lol, he's probably not technically allowed to set that as a requirement in most places I would guess. Funny side quest to offer though.

New comment by fouc in "Mr. Chatterbox is a Victorian-era ethically trained model"

fouc — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:48:15 +0000

It would be interesting to talk with a victorian-era chatbot, including victorian-era ethics. would be interesting to see how much divergence from modern era ethics it would have.

New comment by fouc in "From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in our office lab"

fouc — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:30:09 +0000

I don't understand the init.d script hate ;)