Hacker News: hexyl_C_gut

New comment by hexyl_C_gut in "Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US"

hexyl_C_gut — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:53:06 +0000

Civil Rights law

New comment by hexyl_C_gut in "Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US"

hexyl_C_gut — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:39:47 +0000

If people feel safer with white only gyms, can people have that?

New comment by hexyl_C_gut in "Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US"

hexyl_C_gut — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:28:29 +0000

If this form of discrimination is ok, can we get other filters?

New comment by hexyl_C_gut in "Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein Had a Yearslong Relationship"

hexyl_C_gut — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:25:46 +0000

It is the cause of the war (blackmail) not a distraction from it.

New comment by hexyl_C_gut in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

hexyl_C_gut — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:15:24 +0000

I'm less concerned about AI eroding copyleft and more exited about AI eroding copy right.

New comment by hexyl_C_gut in "Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage"

hexyl_C_gut — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:18:47 +0000

M5 Max outperforms M3 Ultra.

M3 Ultra, 3.3k single core 27k multicore on Geekbench. https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/16959045

M5 Max, 4.3k single core 29k multicore https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/16956481

New comment by hexyl_C_gut in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

hexyl_C_gut — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:15:16 +0000

It sounds like they don't know that the crashes are from bitflips but those crashes are from people with flaky memory which probably caused the crash?

New comment by hexyl_C_gut in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

hexyl_C_gut — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:29:10 +0000

But that doesn't verify that the person using the ID is the person that it was issued to.

New comment by hexyl_C_gut in "Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android"

hexyl_C_gut — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:29:18 +0000

Maybe Google doesn't want users blocking ads from getting loaded.

New comment by hexyl_C_gut in "GPT-OSS-120B runs on just 8GB VRAM & 64GB+ system RAM"

hexyl_C_gut — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:27:32 +0000

I imagine steam survey has a long tail of old systems. I wonder what the average RAM capacity and other specs for computers from the past year, 3 years, etc.

New comment by hexyl_C_gut in "Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network"

hexyl_C_gut — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:42:34 +0000

For some reason, they still get CarPlay outside of US.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/gm-evs-will-get-apple-carplay-...

New comment by hexyl_C_gut in "Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down"

hexyl_C_gut — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:44:19 +0000

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

New comment by hexyl_C_gut in "US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel"

hexyl_C_gut — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:53:50 +0000

I think that is how collections work. When a business can't get you to pay they sell the right to collect it to another "collections" business (let's call it Y). Y pays a fraction of the amount owed for the right so even if they can get you to pay like 25%, they are still making a profit.

New comment by hexyl_C_gut in "The death of partying in the USA"

hexyl_C_gut — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:10:56 +0000

Demands of sports was identified as a major factor harming the ability to raise kids in Family Unfriendly by Timothy Carney.