Hacker News: karlkloss

New comment by karlkloss in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)"

karlkloss — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:45:06 +0000

"deletion of the Private Cloud subscription triggered deletion across both geographies"

It's called single point of failure, and it's the nightmare of everyone who was ever in charge of safety.

New comment by karlkloss in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

karlkloss — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:27:34 +0000

To the surprise of absolutely nobody.

New comment by karlkloss in "OpenTitan Shipping in Production"

karlkloss — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:57:31 +0000

I read until Google.

New comment by karlkloss in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

karlkloss — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:42:58 +0000

Wake me when they add webserial.

New comment by karlkloss in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

karlkloss — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:02:34 +0000

An AI company restricting the access of AIs to their AI.

Exactly my kind of humor.

New comment by karlkloss in "Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"

karlkloss — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:03:18 +0000

3.6 roentgen you say?

New comment by karlkloss in "RISC-V is coming along quite speedily: Milk-V Titan Mini-ITX 8-core board"

karlkloss — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:54:20 +0000

As things are now, I can only afford boards that take the RAM modules I inherited from my grandfather.

New comment by karlkloss in "The web runs on tolerance"

karlkloss — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:07:00 +0000

My tolerance for online ads is zero. Do I break the web?

New comment by karlkloss in "Cassette tapes are making a comeback?"

karlkloss — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:03:42 +0000

As soon as recordable CDs were affordable, I switched completely, and never looked back.

Cassette tapes were nice when we didn't have anything better, but they were always a big pain in the back. Noisy, wearing out, skipping took a long time, making compilations took hours. I don't miss those times.

Nowadays, I can play mp3's on a $3 microcontroller, at excellent quality, and I love it.

Do you still use a kerosene lamp when you go into your barn at night?

New comment by karlkloss in "AI should only run as fast as we can catch up"

karlkloss — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:52:32 +0000

That has been said about the world in general. Guess what?

New comment by karlkloss in "OSHW: Small tablet based on RK3568 and AMOLED screen"

karlkloss — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:51:02 +0000

Add transport, tariffs and vat, and you could as well buy a cheap Android tablet from Walmart.

New comment by karlkloss in "State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'"

karlkloss — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 07:48:41 +0000

There's nothing more dangerous to dictatorships than the truth, so it's only logical.

New comment by karlkloss in "How to repurpose your old phone into a web server"

karlkloss — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 06:39:23 +0000

I can run a web server on a $1 microcontroller, so what?

New comment by karlkloss in "The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable"

karlkloss — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:02:38 +0000

Did you notice that LFP batteries became more prevalent and much cheaper recently? That's because some key patents expired.

The same thing happened with 3D printing a while ago. It only took off after the patents expired.

Patents are a pest. They're just another mechanism to pump money from below to above.

New comment by karlkloss in "Google Antigravity"

karlkloss — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:56:08 +0000

Finally! Affordable antigravity!

New comment by karlkloss in "Steam Frame"

karlkloss — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 06:49:50 +0000

Steam does a lot of things right here, but also some things wrong, which is unfortunately a dealbreaker for me.

I read the specs and got excited, until I read about the resolution. 2160x2160 is what I have now with the Pico 4, and while it's ok for entertainment, and acceptable for browsing and reading, it's far too low for professional work.

Linux would have been great, but I can't justify spending money on a headset with exactly the same low resolution as my current one.

Also, I've become used to color passthrough, and going back to monochrome would feel like a big regression.

New comment by karlkloss in "Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage"

karlkloss — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 07:05:17 +0000

And when the AI bubble bursts, "refurbished" HDDs and GPUs will flood the market. Save your money now and be prepared.

New comment by karlkloss in "'No idea who he is', says Trump after pardoning crypto tycoon"

karlkloss — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 09:05:16 +0000

From the person who claims that Biden is so senile, that he didn't even know what his autopen signed.

New comment by karlkloss in "Solar-powered QR reading postboxes being rolled out across UK"

karlkloss — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 09:02:39 +0000

At least they can read QR codes. In germany, they're switching to parcel lockers without display and camera, only bluetooth. So you're forced to install an app on your phone to get or send a parcel, that comes with several evil trackers that send your position to whomever.

New comment by karlkloss in "First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)"

karlkloss — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 08:44:11 +0000

This is giving me "Brainstorm" vibes.

If you haven't watched the movie, now would be a good time.