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New comment by mbmbn in "Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick"

mbmbn — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:50:16 +0000

I tried going that route, but most apps for streaming are Android. And that was only one of the issues.

It was a rabbit hole and in the end I got back using my NVIDIA Shield. This is about 10 years now, but it’s actually still the best option.

New comment by mbmbn in "'My life's screwed': Korean investors stress out after AI bubble bursts"

mbmbn — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:35:38 +0000

> they don’t really have a choice

This kind of discourse is so intellectually poor…

New comment by mbmbn in "Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women"

mbmbn — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:54:40 +0000

And in Italy, she has 90 days to do it legally and for free.

And please stop that rape red herring. The overwhelming majority of abortions are carried out as contraceptive methods.

New comment by mbmbn in "Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women"

mbmbn — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:52:21 +0000

So, providing information on how to carry out abortion after the 1st trimester in a country where abortion in the first 90 days is legal and free is not the disturbing part to you… it’s trying to prevent abortions after those 90 days.

I believe there’s something very wrong with your moral compass, pal.

New comment by mbmbn in "DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]"

mbmbn — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:33:04 +0000

They are not catching up to US models. The only Chinese models that attain a modicum of competence are all, sooner or later, are discovered to be trained by exploiting US models (in fact Deepseek itself admitted so about 1 year back).

Chinese models are not innovating anything, they are just doing what China does everywhere else: copying the West… poorly but cheaper.

New comment by mbmbn in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

mbmbn — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:13:39 +0000

I do hope we get Charles Martel though.

New comment by mbmbn in ""Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok"

mbmbn — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:26:14 +0000

Shows about the same level of technical mastery that present days painters.

New comment by mbmbn in "Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained"

mbmbn — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:31:13 +0000

Would these measures have prevented, for instance, the generalized Rape Gangs they had in the UK and that were hidden by the authorities to keep some weird idea of social peace?

New comment by mbmbn in "Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)"

mbmbn — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:54:41 +0000

This title is very misrepresentative of the actual article.

This is an article about initiatives to attract scientists to the Netherlands, not about some supposed ongoing brain drain.

New comment by mbmbn in "The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting"

mbmbn — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:44:59 +0000

And in a decent society, the state forcibly taking your money away with the threat of violence is called a robbery.

New comment by mbmbn in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

mbmbn — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:53:59 +0000

It’s an analogy, it’s always going to be imperfect!

Jesus Christ.

New comment by mbmbn in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

mbmbn — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:37:19 +0000

It’s like Bill Gates criticizing Apple… if you really want to split hairs about the analogy used.

New comment by mbmbn in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

mbmbn — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:05:14 +0000

I mean, I can see some issues with SpaceX valuation, but I find it really funny that we are now taking advice from the LinkedIn founder on HN.

Ideology is truly blinding.

New comment by mbmbn in "Steam Machine launches today"

mbmbn — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:33:34 +0000

But, will it properly support NVIDIA GPUs? That’s was the biggest pain point for years.

New comment by mbmbn in "Britain's prime minister to step down, Burnham puts himself forward as successor"

mbmbn — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:23:39 +0000

Why undemocratic? I thought parliamentary elections in UK worked like in most of Europe: you vote for a party, not a candidate.

At least here, it already happened, to have the PM resigning and then someone else from the party to pick up the role and that’s legally sound.

New comment by mbmbn in "How to feed a dictator"

mbmbn — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 10:45:05 +0000

To spare the ones that still didn’t lose all their good sense to have to go through the all article. It ends with trying to put Trump in the same bucket as Pol Pot and Sadam Hussein (this is all so tiresome).

So, it seems clear this film does have a side to pick and will be of dubious accuracy.

“Neel did give some thought to including Donald Trump in his film – even though, “to be clear, he is not a dictator,” he says. “He wants to be one, but he’s not. I did find a chef who cooked for him before he got elected.”

New comment by mbmbn in "Amazon employees say they're facing termination for backing data center limits"

mbmbn — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:32:33 +0000

I’m not sure about the law protecting them or not, but it’s deeply hypocritical from their part.

It’s just people used to virtue signaling that aren’t willing to pay any price, no matter how small, for what they defend. They really think they are up to something when all they do is speak and “look good”.

If they think their company is doing something really problematic, then resign.

New comment by mbmbn in "SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable"

mbmbn — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:46:18 +0000

Realistically, what should be expected if I run this in my desktop with AMD 9000x CPU and a NVIDIA RTX 5000x GPU?

New comment by mbmbn in "Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive"

mbmbn — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:13:24 +0000

How do you achieve that? Any special tooling or just skills?

New comment by mbmbn in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

mbmbn — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:48:49 +0000

Then again, our laptop battery only lasts 1/3 as much on MacOS.

I know, I know. The community keeps pretending this isn’t an issue for the last, hum, 15 years? But it is, and for people that are looking for a tool and not for a statement, it quickly drives them away from Firefox back to Chrome browsers.