Hacker News: kenny11

New comment by kenny11 in "Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM"

kenny11 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:30:11 +0000

If Samsung is limited in the number of wafers they can process per month and they use more of those to produce HBM they necessarily have less of them left to make other products, like consumer DRAM.

New comment by kenny11 in "Gmail might partially be to blame for receiving emails from other Sean Conners"

kenny11 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:20:55 +0000

I also have a firstname.lastname@gmail address from many years ago and quite often get emails for about five different people (based on the real-world location info in them). It seems that most of these are really sent to firsnamelastnamenumbers@gmail and somehow the number(s) get truncated by the sender, leading to firstnamelastname@gmail which then gets routed to me.

New comment by kenny11 in "Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature"

kenny11 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:29:35 +0000

This bit me too. If I wanted a mouse-driven app, I'd use the GUI. I don't understand why they're trying to replicate that experience in a text environment.

New comment by kenny11 in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

kenny11 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:42:41 +0000

And the footgun (although I haven't seen a smoking footgun yet).

New comment by kenny11 in "The Slow Death of the Power User"

kenny11 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:18:21 +0000

Which are typically city approved, licensed, and taxed

New comment by kenny11 in "Virgin and Qantas to ban use of portable power banks after string of fires"

kenny11 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:02:48 +0000

I had this happen at the Shenzhen airport a few weeks ago. They confiscated my Apple MagSafe battery because it didn't have the CCC mark. From the looks of it, they were confiscating a lot of them.

It was a missed opportunity for someone to not have opened an approved power bank store just past security.

New comment by kenny11 in "Thank you Google for breaking my YouTube addiction"

kenny11 — Mon, 19 May 2025 01:34:25 +0000

If that's the case, it's surprising they keep pushing Shorts so hard on the Apple TV app, because watching vertical Shorts videos on a TV is a uniquely terrible experience.

New comment by kenny11 in "An interactive-speed Linux computer made of only 3 8-pin chips"

kenny11 — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 01:48:11 +0000

And a variant of ACCESS.bus lives on as the extremely widely adopted DDC that is a part of HDMI, DVI, and VGA.

New comment by kenny11 in "Solitaire"

kenny11 — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:29:22 +0000

I thought I was the only one with this problem.

I can still remember how to play the original Doom after all these years (and where all the secrets are!) but the modern editions have so many controls and weapon modes that if I don't play it for a month I don't remember how anything works.

New comment by kenny11 in "The port of the Windows 95 Start Menu was not all it seemed"

kenny11 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:45:27 +0000

I think that's referring to the NT "Shell Update Release" which was an early beta of the Windows 95-style start menu that you could install on Windows NT 3.51.

New comment by kenny11 in "What everyone seems to be missing in the CrowdStrike incident"

kenny11 — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 03:42:21 +0000

This is covered in the linked article as well as Dave Plummer's video referenced therein. The Crowdstrike driver is specifically marked as critical to starting the system and so disables the last-known-good mechanisms.

Here's the section where Dave talks about it: https://youtu.be/wAzEJxOo1ts?si=aCX8pOTP0D_IRNAx&t=670

New comment by kenny11 in "Microsoft forgot to renew their Office CDN certificate"

kenny11 — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:38:07 +0000

If you use a wildcard cert, then only "*.domain.net" is recorded in the logs, not the actual hostnames you're using.

New comment by kenny11 in "Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash"

kenny11 — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 20:05:48 +0000

Not just credentials - account balances, account numbers, etc. There's a big difference between your browser history recording that you opened your bank or healthcare provider's web site and Recall recording everything that appeared on the screen while you did.

People might use Incognito mode to browse porn, but I imagine it's a lot less common when looking at other sensitive sites.

New comment by kenny11 in "Ask HN: What makes Windows 11 perform much worse than Windows XP?"

kenny11 — Fri, 24 May 2024 02:58:43 +0000

If that were the case then it should have affected Intel-based MacBooks too, and that does not seem to have been widespread.

New comment by kenny11 in "Boeing Starliner's first crewed mission scrubbed"

kenny11 — Wed, 08 May 2024 00:18:00 +0000

> have access to the station without getting Russia involved.

Except for the Russian engine on the Atlas V.

New comment by kenny11 in "Misunderstanding about the details of how Apply Pay works"

kenny11 — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 02:59:55 +0000

I had the same experience as you on a trip to the Netherlands. Ironically, the only place where it didn't work was the Apple store in Amsterdam. I don't know if that was an actual technical limitation, or they were aware that it was not yet available in the Netherlands and so didn't even let me try with my phone and its US credit card.

New comment by kenny11 in "Scientists traced a mysterious Covid case back to six toilets"

kenny11 — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 03:57:22 +0000

They could live outside the city where they would be connected to a local septic system instead of a central city sewer.

New comment by kenny11 in "'It hasn't delivered': the failure of self-checkout technology"

kenny11 — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:47:51 +0000

The Home Depot stores near me do this really well. Since they also sell a lot of bulky and/or oddly shaped merchandise, their self checkouts each have a wireless, handheld barcode scanner that you can use to scan each item, often without even taking it out of your cart.

New comment by kenny11 in "FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s"

kenny11 — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 21:33:40 +0000

He did say "When people say I changed the culture of Boeing, that was the intent, so that it’s run like a business rather than a great engineering firm" and he does seem to have been successful at making it into something other than a great engineering firm.

New comment by kenny11 in "The step-by-step mechanical logic of old pinball machines [video]"

kenny11 — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 02:03:53 +0000

In QBert it "knocks" when the QBert character jumps off the edge of the grid. First, there's a sound effect that sounds like QBert falling, then a short time later a loud knock that sounds (and feels) like hitting the bottom of the cabinet at the end of the fall.