Hacker News: howdyhowdy

New comment by howdyhowdy in "Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)"

howdyhowdy — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:25:26 +0000

I thought DMR and Venice were supporting memory encryption by default. With the keys living on the CPU side and no standards for key sharing, I wonder how this will gain traction.

New comment by howdyhowdy in "Rant/Help Google auto-account bans are insane"

howdyhowdy — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:44:25 +0000

I recently had an account banned for 'bot' activity that I use for work. The Open Compute Project uses google docs and drive EXCLUSIVELY for all of their work, and this email address is tied to it. I don't have a gmail account, this account was created using my work office365 account.

This weekend my account was suspended for 'suspected bot activity' and that I was welcome to file an appeal that would be reviewed over the course of 2 days to determine if I should be turned back on or not, and that I could get my account data via takeout.

So I did the take out thing, which broke 98kb into THREE zip files due to 'size concerns' lmao

All activity was null save one YouTube channel subscription that I made accidentally because I needed to use the YouTube app to TFA my account at some point and hadn't logged out. That was the only piece of data for this account, was this seriously the thing that triggered the autoban?

about five minutes after submitting my paragraph and a half of appeal I get a generic 'fuck you goodbye' with no further recourse, no human, no longer appeal process where a human eventually gets around to things, just...get your data and get out.

At this point I'm wondering if a human every even clicked a confirm button much less looked at anything in this workflow. Now I'm stuck, there are a ton of files and docs I don't have access to that I was actively working on that I now have to what, link to a personal account?

This is fucking insane. If this surfaces at all on HN and someone at google sees it please help. Shit like this is why people are fleeing your products.

Sincerely, ScreamingIntoTheVoid

Rant/Help Google auto-account bans are insane

howdyhowdy — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:44:25 +0000

Article URL: https://accounts.google.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261808

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by howdyhowdy in "Multifold Speed Boost for Supercomputer Simulations of Molecules"

howdyhowdy — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:55:46 +0000

Sick, MD is hard

New comment by howdyhowdy in "Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app"

howdyhowdy — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:06:03 +0000

Man. Just enjoy your vast fortune. Quit flailing into new things and disappear into the woods.

New comment by howdyhowdy in "How Reverse Game Theory Could Solve the Housing Shortage"

howdyhowdy — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:02:16 +0000

Go read about things like rent maximizer from yardi then come back. Another reason people can't afford to buy housing is because companies like these enable apartment complexes to collude on pricing under the guise of software. Rent is higher than a mortgage payment in some places, and folks can't afford to pack any savings away. So they rent until they fall behind, then they rent something less ideal, then they leave the area or live out of their car. Either way it's garbage. The only reason I could afford my home is because I managed to find a private renter who was charging significantly below market rate for years so that I could build a down payment, and I managed to buy at the right time. Two years after closing the 'value' of my home jumped 60% and I would have been priced out, it's all just bullshit.

Maybe instead of going around our elbow to get to our asshole we should just call a spade a spade and make rent 'optimization' illegal. Then once people can actually afford a home we'll have a better picture of how many should be built. Because ultimately? People just want to be able to live without the stress of bills and the looming worry of maintaining a roof over their heads.

New comment by howdyhowdy in "When do we become adults, really?"

howdyhowdy — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:34:24 +0000

When you start caring for others more than yourself in ways that are personally expensive, then you're an adult. Personally expensive changes as you do.

New comment by howdyhowdy in "Cloudflare's Gen 13 servers: trading cache for cores for 2x performance"

howdyhowdy — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:54:18 +0000

Someday someone will deploy CXL

New comment by howdyhowdy in "Human Existence Is Just as Wasteful as AI Data Centers, Sam Altman Suggests"

howdyhowdy — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:46:57 +0000

Can you smell the desperation of these grifters? Whataboutism on a hilarious scale

Azure delivers the first cloud VM with Intel Xeon 6 and CXL memory

howdyhowdy — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:04:21 +0000

Article URL: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sapapplications/azure-delivers-the-first-cloud-vm-with-intel-xeon-6-and-cxl-memory---now-in-priv/4470067

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45973477

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by howdyhowdy in "Memory is slow, Disk is fast – Part 1"

howdyhowdy — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:59:21 +0000

Why not CXL?

New comment by howdyhowdy in "Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras"

howdyhowdy — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 15:51:16 +0000

Are they breaking the E2EE feature, or is this for folks that didn't care/were scared off by the red text that said they wouldn't be able to recover their videos if they lost their trusted devices?

New comment by howdyhowdy in "Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone"

howdyhowdy — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 03:49:10 +0000

Ladybird ladybird

New comment by howdyhowdy in "Data movement bottlenecks to large-scale model training: Scaling past 1e28 FLOP"

howdyhowdy — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 16:19:29 +0000

It would be really amazing for ai folks if they would crack a book on HPC open every now and then.

New comment by howdyhowdy in "Smiling robot face is made from living human skin cells"

howdyhowdy — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 04:21:46 +0000

Buh

New comment by howdyhowdy in "Safe Superintelligence Inc."

howdyhowdy — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 23:10:00 +0000

Lmao

New comment by howdyhowdy in "Pulled over for Using Apple Vision Pro While Driving"

howdyhowdy — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 05:34:24 +0000

Good.

New comment by howdyhowdy in "Suggestions: A simple human-readable format for suggesting changes to text files"

howdyhowdy — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 15:52:40 +0000

There's also the todo package for latex that has worked really well. Doesn't help much for markdown though I suppose. You can specify colors for different types of notes and can render said comments inline or in the margins.