Hacker News: martin1975

New comment by martin1975 in "Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance"

martin1975 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:20:14 +0000

Curious, what type of code and in what language do you write that the compiler wouldn't take care of this without you even trying?

New comment by martin1975 in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

martin1975 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:39:13 +0000

What's with the antisemitism? Did some Jew hurt you personally?

New comment by martin1975 in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

martin1975 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:23:08 +0000

And they will soon find out that world's make believe. No one I know, and I know hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of people would allow themselves in a room to be recorded surreptitiously.

New comment by martin1975 in "I miss thinking hard"

martin1975 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:46:49 +0000

I've been writing C/C++/Java for 25 years and am trying to learn forex disciplined, risk managed forex trading, It's a whole new level of hard work/thinking.

New comment by martin1975 in "2025 was a disaster for Windows 11"

martin1975 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:30:44 +0000

Sounds like Windows needs to undergo a similar evolution, or rather, renewal as what OS 9 did moving to OS X. I'm not sure what that might look like, but the easiest route is to probably rebase Windows atop Linux, with a WINE emulation layer to start with to keep compatibility with old apps, as they transition/port their cash cows to Linux/Rust. Rust has been in their sights for a long time now and seems MS is committed to it. They have a 4+ decade long legacy and it needs to be shed, not hauled into the future forever. It will breathe new life into MS. They know they need it. Question is, is Nadella the one to pull this off?

New comment by martin1975 in "A guide to local coding models"

martin1975 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:05:46 +0000

this is the extent to what I use any LLM - they're really good at looking up just about anything, in natural language, and most of the time even the first hit, without reprompting, is a pretty decent answer. I used to have to sort thru things to get there, so there's definitely an upside to LLMs in this manner.

New comment by martin1975 in "iPhone Air"

martin1975 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:04:51 +0000

Am I the only one who has never owned an Apple iPhone? I just got my Pixel 7 upgraded to Pixel 10 Pro XL, couldn't be happier.

New comment by martin1975 in "Sequoia backs Zed"

martin1975 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:57:24 +0000

Nothing against emacs, but check out NeoVIM. If you like Emacs, you might like NeoVIM and its powerful extensibility features.

New comment by martin1975 in "Antiqua et Nova: Note on the relationship between AI and human intelligence"

martin1975 — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:49:47 +0000

Reminds me of one of my favorite ST: TNG episodes, "The Measure of a Man" - I urge anyone who read this note to watch this episode.

Ultimately it comes down to the question of whether machines, regardless of how smart they can be made to appear, even if they pass the Turing test with flying colors, are imbued with a soul.

In the episode, the Enterprise JAG officer, questions whether we humans "have souls."

C.S. Lewis felt that our souls transcend time/are immortal, whereas our bodies are temporal (https://checkyourfact.com/2019/09/18/fact-check-cs-lewis-sou...).

What we call "AI", is created in our image, e.g. training the model defines its range/category of responses.

We humans, if you'll believe it, are created in our Creator's image. By Creator, I do not mean our parents here.

FFT - what do you believe?

New comment by martin1975 in "OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically for OpenWrt"

martin1975 — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 10:34:29 +0000

I never buy routers w wifi. Running PC Engines APU4 with Ubiquiti AP is more rock solid/stable than anything else I ever ran which had wifi+wired in a single router.

New comment by martin1975 in "[dead]"

martin1975 — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 22:10:05 +0000

To all the CS folk, he was a legend.

New comment by martin1975 in "Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?"

martin1975 — Tue, 07 May 2024 21:06:49 +0000

Just came to see if anyone here got interested in MS-DOS TSR programs as a result of their exposure to Sidekick :).

New comment by martin1975 in "Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets"

martin1975 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 02:45:20 +0000

Just hire Chinese engineers who were born/raised here. It would meet the DEI quota and decrease the chance of industrial espionage. No guarantees, but I think this would help.

New comment by martin1975 in "Spomenik Database"

martin1975 — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 10:04:41 +0000

Друже Тито, ми ти се кунемо, да са твога пута не скренемо!

New comment by martin1975 in "Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android"

martin1975 — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 18:23:33 +0000

The source to Signal is open to analysis if you doubt its security. I suspect they C&D forks because they don't follow coding/security practices as upstream does, and it would be too hard to ensure they would if they just let anyone fork it.

New comment by martin1975 in "Eclipse October 2023"

martin1975 — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 21:56:58 +0000

Dammit, I clicked thinking Eclipse was releasing an update to their IDE :).

New comment by martin1975 in "ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment"

martin1975 — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 01:58:32 +0000

Rumor has it, it may eventually replace Linux as the underlying OS to Android/ART. By now I'm thinking G's leadership is realizing the epic undertaking it would mean to bring Fuchsia to maturity... and I give Fuchsia a 50/50 chance of ending up in the vast Google graveyard (https://killedbygoogle.com/) in the next 5 years.

I'm curious why they couldn't poach one of the L4 microkernels to build Fuchsia on, specifically SEL4 which is used in Genode/SculptOS, same as they did with Linux and Android. It would've given them a strong base to build on, saved time/$$$....

New comment by martin1975 in "Where does my computer get the time from?"

martin1975 — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 19:17:55 +0000

If you're interested in precise time keeping, this is Time-Nuts is a great place to start (http://www.leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm).

New comment by martin1975 in "YouTube's crackdown on ad blockers intensifies"

martin1975 — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 19:14:17 +0000

That's ok, we split the internet then.

New comment by martin1975 in "YouTube's crackdown on ad blockers intensifies"

martin1975 — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 19:09:52 +0000

judging by the flame fest they received on their github issues/comments section, I doubt they'll be proceeding. Then again, money talks and b.s. takes the walk every time and twice on sunday.