Hacker News: ginko

New comment by ginko in "The AirPods Effect"

ginko — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:34:51 +0000

Being able to hear your surroundings on a motorcycle or bicycle seems very important for safety to me. Filtering that out feels dangerous.

New comment by ginko in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

ginko — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:09:04 +0000

Wasn't that what the whole Alphabet re-org was supposed to do?

New comment by ginko in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

ginko — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:32:22 +0000

I'm generally in agreement on social media bans for children, but the proposed solution is age verification on all platforms which has a huge amount of problems.

Why can't we just ban the use of smartphones without parental locks for under 16-year-olds instead? That's not perfect but would already be a huge improvement and adults wouldn't be affected by it.

New comment by ginko in "The oldest surviving animated feature film at 100"

ginko — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:01:10 +0000

The key part being "feature film". There's tons of animated short films from the 1910s.

New comment by ginko in "Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs"

ginko — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:55:38 +0000

Someone prepare a set of floppy disk images so you can get the proper installation experience.

New comment by ginko in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

ginko — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:14:36 +0000

The EC wrote the DMA. There is nothing to "interpret" for them.

New comment by ginko in "French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56"

ginko — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:25:09 +0000

I'm from Vienna (admittedly younger) but it seems believable. The place she picks up the drugs in the comic is "Café Camera" which is clearly a reference to "Camera Club" which was well-known for this in the 80s and 90s.

New comment by ginko in "A Man Who Reads Books for a Living"

ginko — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:52:28 +0000

Good plot / bad writing seems like a good fit for a film adaption if you get the right director.

New comment by ginko in "Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025)"

ginko — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:45:45 +0000

Quite a few publications do this and it's really annoying, yeah.

New comment by ginko in "DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic "Air-Muscles" Instead of Motors"

ginko — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:32:26 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

New comment by ginko in "Meta repeatedly snubs EU body over Facebook and Instagram user bans"

ginko — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:37:39 +0000

> But they are enough to continually fund the EU regulatory bureaucracy itself

Why do people keep repeating this falsehood? The EU budget is hundreds of billions of Euros. Even the largest fines so far would be a drop in the bucket compared to that. But more importantly it's the individual member states that invoke those fines (like Ireland with the €1.2B GDPR fine on Meta) not the EU itself.

New comment by ginko in ""The Apple Boogie" 1987 Mac Promo Album Cassette Tape [video]"

ginko — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:16:25 +0000

Wouldn't releasing an album during that time be quite risky because of the ongoing legal issues with Apple Corps[1]? In 1991 Apple legal was so paranoid that they even worried about the names of Mac OS system sounds[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi

New comment by ginko in "Chuwi Minibook X"

ginko — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:57:21 +0000

I have the first GPD Pocket which I used when traveling for a while (it's now fairly outdated and always had some annoying quirks but that's another story). It weighs 480g. The great thing with that is that you can just drop it in your bag and basically forget it's there while walking/traveling around.

This is definitely not the case with my 1.23kg Macbook Air.

New comment by ginko in "Sony Launches Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II with 'True RGB'"

ginko — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:50:32 +0000

>I could not see prices but I would expect this to be significantly cheaper, or maybe the refresh rate is much better than OLED.

The 55" Bravia 7II is listed as 2300 Euro. I paid like 1600 Euro for my 55" LG OLED tv a couple of years ago. Of course Sony is generally a more reputable brand (and LG's WebOS sucks) and consumer prices have been going up, but price doesn't seem to be the differentiator here.

New comment by ginko in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

ginko — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:45:42 +0000

When I studied in Austria everyone with a high school diploma would be eligible to matriculate at Vienna University of Technology[1], but then the first semester courses would have a bunch of "knock-out" exams that would have a large chunk of first semester students fail and eventually drop out.

IMO this is "fairer" but of course it means you might lose a semester. Helps that there's barely any tuition fees.

[1] Even then (~2005) that wasn't the case for all universities though. Medical university already had entrance exams, mainly due to the high number of German students trying to enroll.

New comment by ginko in "AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes"

ginko — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:08:01 +0000

>I wonder how many Linux GPU sales their decision to penalize Linux on their FPGA line will cost them.

Not many I would guess.

New comment by ginko in "AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes"

ginko — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:39:51 +0000

When AMD bought Xilinx I was hoping they'd open up the software side like they (eventually) did with their GPU drivers. Looks like that isn't happening anytime soon.

It seems silly to put up SW barriers for people to use your fairly expensive HW, but what do I know.

New comment by ginko in "The Steinwinter Supercargo"

ginko — Wed, 27 May 2026 10:58:27 +0000

What do you mean? The BX looked great. Nice 80s futurism before everything turned into this terrible rounded blob later-on.

New comment by ginko in "Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died"

ginko — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:16:58 +0000

South Korea has extremely strict food waste laws and a pretty well developed systems of convenience stores. I wonder how things are handled there.

New comment by ginko in "Eagle 3.1: Collaboration Between the EAGLE Team, vLLM Team, and TorchSpec Team"

ginko — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:52:38 +0000

It feels like AI folks are particularly careless about checking if a name has been used in computing before.