Hacker News: hossbeast

New comment by hossbeast in "New analog chip capable of outperforming top-end GPUs by as much as 1000x"

hossbeast — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 19:50:53 +0000

Can it run doom?

New comment by hossbeast in "Resurrect the Old Web"

hossbeast — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:49:32 +0000

I once bought a SNES game that couldn't be found at local stores (final fantasy 2) by 1/ finding a guy on a message board with the cartridge, 2/ mailing that person a check, and 3/ waiting (probably weeks?) to receive the cartridge in the mail. The old Internet. I still have that game btw.

New comment by hossbeast in "Real Time Chess – A physical chess board without the concept of turns"

hossbeast — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:49:09 +0000

In addition to the per-piece cool downs, there should be a per-playet global cooldow of say 10 seconds

New comment by hossbeast in "How Waymo outlasted the competition and made robo-taxis a real business"

hossbeast — Thu, 30 May 2024 06:08:52 +0000

It is also that they suck on average.

New comment by hossbeast in "Angle-grinder: Slice and dice logs on the command line"

hossbeast — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:17:44 +0000

How does it compare to angle grinder?

New comment by hossbeast in "Hospitals that make profits should pay taxes"

hossbeast — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 18:11:36 +0000

Any comment on the article though?

New comment by hossbeast in "Radicle: Open-Source, Peer-to-Peer, GitHub Alternative"

hossbeast — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 05:50:02 +0000

I really want to have the problems this solves.

New comment by hossbeast in "GitHub is preparing for IPv6 support for Github.com"

hossbeast — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 15:44:46 +0000

I'm curious what issues you're having with the metadata service on IPv6?

New comment by hossbeast in "New Linux glibc flaw lets attackers get root on major distros"

hossbeast — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 18:22:05 +0000

You are conflating C with glibc

New comment by hossbeast in "Capturing the ripples of spacetime: LISA gets go-ahead"

hossbeast — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 00:31:15 +0000

"The launch of the three spacecraft is planned for 2035, on an Ariane 6 rocket."

New comment by hossbeast in "Sourcehut and Codeberg are both currently experiencing a DDoS attack"

hossbeast — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:34:55 +0000

No. Mercurial.

New comment by hossbeast in "NASA study finds life-sparking energy source and molecule at Enceladus"

hossbeast — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 20:46:21 +0000

Many things which are hard to believe are nevertheless true.

New comment by hossbeast in "Choose your own IP"

hossbeast — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 23:09:18 +0000

They will even vend you a /56 if you ask for it, via dhcpv6 IA_PD.

New comment by hossbeast in "The Sight and Sound “Greatest Films of All Time“ poll"

hossbeast — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 23:38:23 +0000

If you click on the Directors top 100, it's number one! (deservedly so)

New comment by hossbeast in "Ask HN: Suggestions to host 10TB data with a monthly +100TB bandwidth"

hossbeast — Sat, 27 May 2023 16:09:04 +0000

Does it accumulate month to month and eventually they charge you once a threshold is reached?

New comment by hossbeast in "Twitch.tv Lays of 400 Employees"

hossbeast — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 04:24:39 +0000

Which principles would you like the companies that you are invested in to maximize ahead of stockholder value?

New comment by hossbeast in "Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”"

hossbeast — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 22:55:20 +0000

Can you share the transcript?

New comment by hossbeast in "Is Crypto Dead?"

hossbeast — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 17:47:48 +0000

If you think 200TWh is too much to operate the Bitcoin network, is there a smaller number you would find reasonable?

New comment by hossbeast in "Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive' (2018)"

hossbeast — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 23:53:49 +0000

Because Star Wars was released in theaters?

New comment by hossbeast in "Leaving the Basement"

hossbeast — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 22:54:08 +0000

As someone storing important stuff on ZoL on my desktop, this is concerning to read. OTOH I'm 4+ years in, I've never had an issue, and I have backups (outside of the zfs volume itself).