<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: komadori</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=komadori</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:19:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=komadori" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by komadori in "I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's easily solved!<p>The Conduit® Thinkerface® Pro Band will contain a small 90B dense local model that pre-screens your Conduit® NeuroTokens® stream for compliance against the Conduit® Acceptable Usage Policy applicable for your region and subscription tier.<p>If non-compliance is detected you'll be promptly notified via a small current applied to the Conduit® ThinkRight® Human Training Electrodes embedded within your band. Intensity and duration are dynamically adjusted until compliance is restored.<p>Even better, because this all happens on-device before your Conduit® NeuroTokens® are sent to the Conduit® NeuroServer®, non-compliant thoughts don't count towards your Conduit® Daily Thinking Allowance or expend credits from your Conduit® Additional Thinking Purchase Plan.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:43:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188735</link><dc:creator>komadori</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188735</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by komadori in "Harddrive Is Probably Full"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I recently ran `df` and was surprised to see that I'd used more than half of the two terabyte SSD in my laptop. So, being apparently atypically proactive, my first action was delete all of the target directories in my Rust projects and was equally surprised to see that it freed up nearly 10% of my disk usage (~200 GB)!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:18:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050150</link><dc:creator>komadori</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050150</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by komadori in "Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That wasn't the prompt. That text was generated by asking the model to describe an image and feeding it a rendering of the SVG it had previously generated.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:29:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951950</link><dc:creator>komadori</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951950</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by komadori in "Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a link in his profile: <a href="https://rodyne.com/" rel="nofollow">https://rodyne.com/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 10:03:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792824</link><dc:creator>komadori</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792824</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by komadori in "Exapunks (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, as I recall, he sold Zachtronics to investors sometime after TIS-100 so that he could focus on making the games and have someone else worry about the business.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:44:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766399</link><dc:creator>komadori</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766399</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by komadori in "The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wouldn't say that no one cares, but obviously many fewer people care when the cost of "recompiling" a model from its  open source training pipeline is so high. Also, if you only have the weights, you can still use it to generate training data for a new model (i.e. distillation) so it's inherently less locked down then closed source binaries were.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:22:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692755</link><dc:creator>komadori</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692755</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by komadori in "AI Compute Extensions (ACE) Specification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If CPU launches are being delayed until next year due to high memory prices, I wish I shared the CPU manufacturers' optimism the memory prices will be lower next year.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:34:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48584385</link><dc:creator>komadori</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48584385</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48584385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by komadori in "StarFighter 16-Inch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Would you like to have a version with a TrackPoint even if you have managed to live without it?<p>With all these boutique laptop brands, I hope that one of them will eventually produce a pointing stick keyboard offer a route off Lenovo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 09:04:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033989</link><dc:creator>komadori</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033989</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by komadori in "The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Jon Peterson's "Playing at the World" is a fantastic book. Highly recommend!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:28:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910171</link><dc:creator>komadori</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910171</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by komadori in "Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The first thing I searched for was Deadlock, but was saddened when I realised they weren't talking about Deadlock: Planetary Conquest</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:27:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47113389</link><dc:creator>komadori</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47113389</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47113389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by komadori in "Sins of the Children"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This short story is set in the same universe as Tchaikovsky's excellent "Shroud" novel and in fact it's the same ship. I wonder where it sits in the chronology because I think the ending of Shroud surely permits an interesting sequel.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:54:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46670919</link><dc:creator>komadori</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46670919</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46670919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by komadori in "STFU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In some Asian cultures, "uncle" can be used to refer to any man older than yourself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:09:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46650689</link><dc:creator>komadori</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46650689</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46650689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by komadori in "Users only care about 20% of your application"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I worked for a company which adopted FogBugz. The multiplier it calculated to be applied to developer time estimates quickly diverge towards positive infinity. It's probably fair to share some of the blame for that between us and it. Nonetheless, we managed to hit our quarterly release deadline well in advance of the predicted five to six years :-P.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:11:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45417577</link><dc:creator>komadori</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45417577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45417577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by komadori in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Bank of England used to offer personal bank accounts to their employees, but they phased it out after 2015. Not sure if these accounts were exactly the same as those used for central banking though.<p><a href="https://hrreview.co.uk/hr-news/strategy-news/bank-england-close-personal-banking-service-employees/100534" rel="nofollow">https://hrreview.co.uk/hr-news/strategy-news/bank-england-cl...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 20:08:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44437579</link><dc:creator>komadori</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44437579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44437579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by komadori in "Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B valuation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you think AMD's decision to buy Xilinx was any better or not?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 22:30:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43686992</link><dc:creator>komadori</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43686992</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43686992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by komadori in "Can you lose your native tongue? (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is true of all languages, but I think that Cantonese has a particularly high change velocity in terms of vocabulary and pronunciation compared to, say, English.<p>I think this is because Cantonese speakers tend to read and write in Modern Standard Chinese (more like written Mandarin) and so are much less anchored by the permanence of text. Additionally, Chinese characters provide even less guidance on pronunciation than English spelling. In this landscape, Hong Kong's small media ecosystem is a fertile breeding ground for new language.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 08:36:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43137280</link><dc:creator>komadori</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43137280</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43137280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by komadori in "Mitochondria as you've never seen them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't know, you make it sound like a pretty good analogy to me.<p>A coal power plant take a form stored energy which is relatively difficult to use because it has to be burnt with oxygen producing harmful waste products, and turns that energy into electricity which is easier to use in a variety of applications.<p>A mitochondria take a form of energy which is relatively difficult to use, sugars and fats, because they must be respired with oxygen producing harmful waste products, and turns that energy into ATP which is easier to use in a variety of applications.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:49:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42938394</link><dc:creator>komadori</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42938394</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42938394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by komadori in "Minimal 64x4 Home Computer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At least part of it is licensed under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial licence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 18:33:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42796005</link><dc:creator>komadori</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42796005</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42796005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by komadori in "Minimal 64x4 Home Computer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A DVI* signal is logically very similar to a VGA one, but with a different physical layer. The analogue colour signals are replaced with TMDS encoded digital ones, but the pixel clock and sync signal work more or less the same way.<p>I would guess that a simple VGA to DVI converter simply syncs to the VGA pixel clock, samples the analogue colours, and outputs the digitally encoded values with the same timings.<p>From a quick look, the oscillator in this machine's schematic runs at 16 MHz. I assume that the pixel clock is derived from this. The DVI specification has a minimum pixel clock of 25 MHz so you couldn't produce a valid DVI stream from this without buffering the pixels and retiming the output in summer way. Well, I suppose since the pixel clock isn't explicit on the VGA cable you could have an imaginary clock which is higher by doubling pixels horizontally.<p>Ultimately though, success probably varies depending on the converter and the display used. There are quite a lot of standard VESA modes and you can often get away with generating something close-ish to spec.<p>For more exotic video signals you can use devices like the RGBtoHDMI: <a href="https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI">https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI</a><p>It decodes the input signal into a framebuffer and uses the Raspberry Pi's video core to output the result.<p>* HDMI is, broadly speaking, a proprietary extension of DVI. You can feed DVI signals though an HDMI connector and it will display anyway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 18:26:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42795933</link><dc:creator>komadori</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42795933</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42795933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by komadori in "Lou's Pseudo 3D Page (2013)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As far as old-school 3D effects go, I like this tutorial on ray casting: <a href="https://permadi.com/1996/05/ray-casting-tutorial-1/" rel="nofollow">https://permadi.com/1996/05/ray-casting-tutorial-1/</a><p>It's great to see something similar on the effects used in driving games, which I always imagined to be akin to raycasting's vertical slices drawn horizontally.</p>
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