Hacker News: klipklop

New comment by klipklop in "Resident Evil Requiem with Denuvo DRM Cracked"

klipklop — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:06:23 +0000

How much does the frame rate go up by with the crack applied I wonder…

New comment by klipklop in "Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Polls Find"

klipklop — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:12:39 +0000

We might all find ourselves become “useless”. If we don’t like it, a drone might come to our door to correct our behavior.

What do we do when most can’t trade their labor for money?

New comment by klipklop in "Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight"

klipklop — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:09:45 +0000

So installing mass surveillance systems without permission of the people being spied on counts as philanthropy now?

We are at a weird place right now in the US.

New comment by klipklop in "Americans want heat pumps – but high electricity prices may get in the way"

klipklop — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:25:33 +0000

We don’t want them, they are being forced on us by banning natural gas furnaces and efficient refrigerants.

New comment by klipklop in "Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo"

klipklop — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 02:27:29 +0000

Yeah I can work for minutes in the $20 Claude plan but potentially hours with Codex. It’s just not worth bothering.

New comment by klipklop in "Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees"

klipklop — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 06:41:23 +0000

People have to work to survive and afford medical treatment in the US. It’s funny how you can blame the people forced to work to survive and not the system that is setup to force them to do so.

The elite post covid have placed the average worker firmly under their boot. They apply more pressure each day.

New comment by klipklop in "Resurrecting Crimsonland – Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game"

klipklop — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:28:08 +0000

Using LLM's in an "agentic loop" is indeed a game changer. Give it a try in a sandbox.

New comment by klipklop in "GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex are now 40% faster"

klipklop — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:25:05 +0000

5.2-codex is pretty solid and you get dramatically higher usage rates with cheap plans. I would assume API use is much cheaper as well.

New comment by klipklop in "Best Gas Masks"

klipklop — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:20:33 +0000

An amazon affiliate link wrapped in the mantle of edgy resistance. Ignoring that, why would anybody take this site serious for gasmask recommendations? Shallow and fast-food level information.

New comment by klipklop in "Microsoft's Azure Linux"

klipklop — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:42:32 +0000

I wonder where this sits in the “Embrace, extend and extinguish” cycle. I would avoid this distro like the plague for fear of future lock-in.

New comment by klipklop in "Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday"

klipklop — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 06:37:50 +0000

I agree. KDE is pretty good these days.

New comment by klipklop in "PicoPCMCIA – a PCMCIA development board for retro-computing enthusiasts"

klipklop — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:50:45 +0000

A dream device for 486 and pentium laptop enthusiasts. Got in line to get one.

New comment by klipklop in "OpenAI to begin testing ads on ChatGPT in the U.S."

klipklop — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:54:51 +0000

It took many years and billions in profit before Google enshitified. OpenAI? Almost at birth.

New comment by klipklop in "OpenAI's Sora now sits at #71 in the US App Store and #108 on Play Store"

klipklop — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:19:34 +0000

The app got boring as they expanded the safety and copyright measures limiting what types of videos you can make. They would let celebrities of course bend the rules and when you try to remix the video with yourself in it the video fails due to copyright/IP violations. The minefield of rules even to make silly parody videos made it so you need to spend 20+ attempts to make your video. No thanks, I am out.

Also their algo to show you videos is horrible. It's just stupid like six-seven clips over and over and similar.

New comment by klipklop in "The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones"

klipklop — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:31:58 +0000

So Apple trying to move iPhone production to places like Vietnam does not count? Apple already makes some of their devices in Vietnam now (not iPhone yet.) These things can't happen over night. This decoupling might take decades. Or just be abandoned by the next administration. Who knows?

New comment by klipklop in "The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones"

klipklop — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:43:40 +0000

Interesting that so many here are speculating that this ban is to stop "freedom fighters" in the US and not the obvious case that the US has wanted to reduce dependence on China in areas of critical technology.

Drones are not going away in the US, they will just not be made by their primary political adversary. Let's not be hyperbolic, the US is nowhere close to having a revolution or civil War. People need to stop getting their primary world view from doom scrolling instagram or reddit.

New comment by klipklop in "Why have death rates from accidental falls tripled?"

klipklop — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:36:40 +0000

I have always thought once I get to a certain age I might just start wearing a helmet...everywhere when standing. It will look silly, but maybe it's not such a bad idea.

New comment by klipklop in "Interview Coder Just Leaked Full Names and Companies of All SWEs Who Cheated [video]"

klipklop — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 02:08:34 +0000

What's going to stop them from closing shop and re-opening with a new name + website in a few days?

New comment by klipklop in "Dell admits it made a mistake when it abandoned XPS"

klipklop — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:45:14 +0000

This post talked me out of buying the new XPS that is going to be released in a few weeks.

New comment by klipklop in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

klipklop — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:55:35 +0000

> Where do you stand on encryption?

This is a really complicated and broad topic that I cant take the time to type out here. I do not stand on the side of "I have nothing to hide." I fully understand the risks of that position. People must keep some secrets to protect themselves from society. Especially as everything devolves into increasingly strict "purity" tests.

With that said, I don't think the right to obfuscate real estate transactions is the same as spicy personal beliefs/private conversations/etc. IMO there is nothing more public than real estate. I do not consider real estate transactions as protected speech nor one that can be legally hidden. We live in this world together.