Hacker News: kiddico

New comment by kiddico in "EV Stupidity Checklist"

kiddico — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:39:43 +0000

I don't like it, but that was often the first thing people mentioned liking when the got in.

New comment by kiddico in "80386 Microcode Disassembled"

kiddico — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:56:49 +0000

I'm absolutely going to make one of those

New comment by kiddico in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

kiddico — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:42:06 +0000

Seeing the *.k12.oh.us in the delegated subdomains brought me back to highschool. When I was little I always wondered why the city name was before k12. Didn't know it was structured like that everywhere.

New comment by kiddico in "The Hiddn Financial Bubble in AI Infrastructure [pdf]"

kiddico — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:41:24 +0000

Not sure if that cultural touch point is as well known as you feel it is lol.

New comment by kiddico in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

kiddico — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:07:30 +0000

Considering what you get and the historic prices of 10GbE those are absolute steals.

How much would they need to cost before you'd consider it cheap? If you want CHEAP then 10GbE is not for you in 2026.

New comment by kiddico in "3.4M Solar Panels"

kiddico — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:29:32 +0000

This comment is a joke. Are jokes entirely warrantless?

New comment by kiddico in "Making RAM at Home [video]"

kiddico — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:45:41 +0000

I rewatch that every year as a reminder of what we're capable of. Great video.

New comment by kiddico in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

kiddico — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:09:15 +0000

I've always found that behavior baffling so it's interesting to hear someone using it as intended instead of being frustrated by it.

New comment by kiddico in "Every GPU That Mattered"

kiddico — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:55:55 +0000

It's basically AMD's 1080ti, except they just kept making them lol

New comment by kiddico in "Every GPU That Mattered"

kiddico — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:55:02 +0000

Kind of funny that a someone making a website about desktop hardware didn't expect anyone to use desktop hardware to look at their site.

New comment by kiddico in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

kiddico — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:52:16 +0000

I read it in chunks from the wiki and feel the same. Maybe I'm not a discerning reader but it stayed in the front of my mind for a good few days after.

New comment by kiddico in "A brief history of instant coffee"

kiddico — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:26:25 +0000

"I am very happy despite the rats, the rain, the mud, the draughts, the roar of the cannon and the scream of shells. It takes only a minute to light my little oil heater and make some George Washington Coffee . . . Every night I offer up a special petition to the health and well-being of Mr. Washington."

Is my favorite part of the article lol

New comment by kiddico in "Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall"

kiddico — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:35:40 +0000

How?

New comment by kiddico in "How to make a sliding, self-locking, and predator-proof chicken coop door (2020)"

kiddico — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:14:19 +0000

Jesus. You bought what sounds like a beautiful place and murdered your way to a couple dozen eggs...

New comment by kiddico in "iNaturalist"

kiddico — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:51:41 +0000

I have my house covered in observations and it would not take a rocket scientist to figure out where I live. I'm also a big believer in accurately tagging observations with locations of things in case someone else wants to try to find it. If someone wants to come to my house and take pictures of spring tails they're welcome to lol

New comment by kiddico in "[dead]"

kiddico — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:01:35 +0000

I see this and articles like it all the time, thankfully snopes did the hard work of writing an article saying otherwise: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sweden-crows-cigarette-but...

New comment by kiddico in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

kiddico — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:39:51 +0000

On windows at least it does what it's supposed to do. I never hibernate on Linux so idk about that side of things.

New comment by kiddico in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

kiddico — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:28:27 +0000

I'm rocking a framework 13" intel 12th gen still and I love it. The only issue I had was being part of the few that got a batch of bad hinges. I didn't know there was a replacement program I could have used and just replaced them myself with the heavier hinge option. At this point I have every expansion port thing they offer and keep them in my bag. My laptop can have any I/O I want :) pretty cool.

New comment by kiddico in "UEFI Bindings for JavaScript"

kiddico — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:20:16 +0000

Thank you for the reminder to do my yearly viewing of that video lol

New comment by kiddico in "Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers"

kiddico — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:59:37 +0000

Thank you!