Hacker News: hypercube33

New comment by hypercube33 in "GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)"

hypercube33 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:47:33 +0000

IMO they peaked with the Nexus 6 - camera has gotten worse and they make up with it in software or try to. You could and can see this at night or stacked shots in N6 vs pixel 4,5,6.

They bought the best phone hardware and software companies (Motorola and Android) and gutted them both.

New comment by hypercube33 in "New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro"

hypercube33 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:30:33 +0000

I want a mini Neo for like $399 or whatever apple can muster. it could be the size of a deck of cards to boot.

New comment by hypercube33 in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"

hypercube33 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:27:57 +0000

Nice looking phone im seriously interested in but they don't say what US carriers I'd be able to use anywhere I could find which seems odd with the off the shelf chipset.

New comment by hypercube33 in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold"

hypercube33 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:22:33 +0000

USB-C is far easier to break than rca plugs in my experience and then you lose data and rapid charging or charging completely if the phone doesn't do wireless. Until phones get repairable like the current generation of laptops where you pop the port out and can replace it we aren't in a great spot.

New comment by hypercube33 in "Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today"

hypercube33 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:49:20 +0000

This was before broadband and pocket computers were big so we had to split screen or hot seat multiplayer on the family computer. It was a lot more in person and social and that may have been a big factor.

New comment by hypercube33 in "Flock wanted to tap dashcams in rideshare vechicles to add to surveillance data"

hypercube33 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:48:02 +0000

Sumaritan from Person of Interest is more like what they are aiming for I think.

New comment by hypercube33 in "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't"

hypercube33 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:32:17 +0000

Absolutely check out his multi part series "it doesn't have to suck" about turning Tucson AZ into a living greenspace city. It's hopeful and inspiring what they are doing there!

New comment by hypercube33 in "Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent"

hypercube33 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:50:07 +0000

I went the skills route - skill improvement skill and a rule to use it always. Basically it's directed that if anything causes more than a hop of thinking - failure - try something else it should flag that it needs to learn it as a skill so it never does it other than first shot again or if an existing skill fails improve it after it solves whatever problem. it then syncs the files to a shared location and updates the version and also pulls new skills. this let's a team use it or you have multiple workstations.

New comment by hypercube33 in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions"

hypercube33 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:07:40 +0000

Specifically, yes to all of the above but only with things such as this (financial data) since it's basically a commodity. Entire markets exist around personal data like this for credit and advertising.

New comment by hypercube33 in "Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage"

hypercube33 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:55:51 +0000

I think I read at one point alpha had a 64bit cpu in the 90s that could have hit 1ghz but some bug held it back. I am having so much trouble finding these articles and stories about processors these days with AI and shitified Google.

The other one I can't find I swear was a former AMD engineer talking about how Intel bet the farm on one ibm mainframe design but AMD went with an older architecture (under the hood of x86 for both) that was harder to deal with but ultimately runs faster and that's how we got ryzen. Maybe I'm just losing my mind.

New comment by hypercube33 in "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"

hypercube33 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:18:06 +0000

Try the Plezy app or the web server URL directly. For now it's far better. I believe you can disable the streaming garbage to some degree.

New comment by hypercube33 in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions"

hypercube33 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:33:18 +0000

I look forward to more models like this but don't take this the wrong way, I'm not touching this with a 10 foot pole unless it's running locally on my private hardware.

New comment by hypercube33 in "Elevators"

hypercube33 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:03:15 +0000

After visiting a hospital with like 5 floors and 2 elevators people were having a hell of a time with just 'going up ' or down arrows

New comment by hypercube33 in "Elevators"

hypercube33 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:36:53 +0000

There are some awesome hacker talks about elevators on YouTube worth checking out

New comment by hypercube33 in "Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10"

hypercube33 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:08:53 +0000

Am I the only one who knows people who always eagerly suggest places to eat when you visit but they have an absolute track record of suggesting expensive crappy restaurants? We almost always never go anywhere they suggest and instead go where they say they don't like and enjoy it immensely. These are the type to take you out when you visit and they also regret going anywhere they recommend.

New comment by hypercube33 in "Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg"

hypercube33 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:34:49 +0000

My pioneer tape deck has a high end DSP that spanks dolby and removes tape noise and I love the sound it produces.

New comment by hypercube33 in "Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality – Worse on Purpose"

hypercube33 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:55:27 +0000

It's just crapitalism - make thing as cheap as possible and charge as much as possible.

New comment by hypercube33 in "Kimi Work"

hypercube33 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:46:33 +0000

BeOS didn't suck. It's UX stood out and was utilitarian.

New comment by hypercube33 in "Frank Lloyd Wright’s first home"

hypercube33 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 07:58:21 +0000

Actually more similar than most let on too I believe. I think it's been accused that he didn't even come up with some of the designs either by others. History is weird like that. Griffin is his woz

New comment by hypercube33 in "LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models"

hypercube33 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:38:45 +0000

I love LM studio and this is super cool and I plan on trying it out tonight. I'm absolutely dying for an android link app and I'm jealous of iPhone users