Hacker News: kronks

New comment by kronks in "Show HN: Argus – VSCode debugger for Claude Code sessions"

kronks — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:26:04 +0000

The AI generated emoji soup readme isn’t exactly inspiring…

New comment by kronks in "Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment"

kronks — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:56:37 +0000

To anyone reading, don’t do this.

This is the ONE thing you aren’t supposed to do as a passive investor. A play like this will cause you to lose upside almost always, and some people never get back in and miss out on almost a lifetime of growth.

THE MARKETS ARE NOT RATIONAL.

New comment by kronks in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

kronks — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 07:22:32 +0000

This is absolutely insane. If you look at joelreymonts recent activity on GitHub, there is what I would consider an bomb of AI slop PRs with thousands and thousands of changes, AI generated summaries/notes, copyright issues, you name it.

People like this are ruining open source for the rest of us, and those poor maintainers really have their work cut out for them sorting through this slop.

New comment by kronks in "AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem"

kronks — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:51:09 +0000

You’re just limiting yourself for no reason. It’s not Apples fault that you are sitting in front of an un-upgraded computer that is tool-less (for one of your tasks, at least) and has step by step instructions meant for beginners.

New comment by kronks in "Bypassing the Branch Predictor"

kronks — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:45:58 +0000

All of the side channel attacks for CPUs has been from in depth use of branch prediction techniques that make up a significant part of every modern processor’s performance. It’s one of the main things we can do aside from just clocking them higher.

New comment by kronks in "ImHex – A Hex Editor"

kronks — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 16:48:57 +0000

Referring to the title: Is a hex editor useful for literally anybody else?

As a reverser it does seem amazing!

New comment by kronks in "Update Firmware of Samsung SSDs in Linux"

kronks — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 11:45:12 +0000

I can’t imagine firmware updates providing tangible performance gains aside from critical issues (which may affect performance). I just don’t think it’s really in the interest of these manufacturers to invest in R&D to improve an already existing and purchased product, as lame as that is.