Hacker News: mfro

New comment by mfro in "Harddrive Is Probably Full"

mfro — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:50:41 +0000

I think about this problem often in life because of my tendency to procrastinate. Only the long term effects that cause me serious paranoia get any real attention (failing to meet social expectations, major health issues, large-figure finance problems). It’s absolutely necessary to define the constraints before they define you. This requires a lot of forward thinking and effort but considering how little time we get on this earth… worth it

New comment by mfro in "Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac"

mfro — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:38:27 +0000

I don't love that this starts an API server on launch and has no option to disable it...

New comment by mfro in "Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)"

mfro — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:15:20 +0000

yes, this is something I have seen used to good effect, for example in the RE:4 remake

New comment by mfro in "Traders are increasingly betting against SpaceX just weeks after IPO"

mfro — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:55:39 +0000

No, I’m just saying I don’t know if buying SPY today would be a good idea.

New comment by mfro in "Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)"

mfro — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:33:16 +0000

SSAO really is awful but it’s the best performing AO we could get for a long time afaik. It’s such a hallmark of 00s and 10s rendering that I laugh every time I see it in a modern release. There are some new solutions hitting the space, I believe RTGI/PT inherently handles AO, and there is even a new method called ‘FidelityFX CACAO’ which does look considerably more realistic. Things are improving… slowly.

New comment by mfro in "Qubes OS Security in the Public Record"

mfro — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:11:15 +0000

Ehhh, I think most engineers that actually want this are pretty accepting of their current tooling and wouldn’t want to switch to a whole new Linux distribution just for a slightly more seamless experience. Besides, the people who care are always pushing forward to make the UX better — see devcontainers, Apple Containers, WSL, etc.

New comment by mfro in "Valve say there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, prices going to increase"

mfro — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:33:49 +0000

The reality is more along the lines of traditional rendering with special ML models inferring and splicing in generated frames. Framegen is already in most modern games and Nvidia has made it a driver level option for many unsupported ones. In case you haven’t used it — it is black magic. Studios will have almost no motivation to optimize if framegen can be perfected, and it’s not far.

New comment by mfro in "Traders are increasingly betting against SpaceX just weeks after IPO"

mfro — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:59:29 +0000

Would have been an amazing idea 10 years ago. Not sure anymore.

New comment by mfro in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

mfro — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:40:30 +0000

Fun fact, Gigabyte motherboards do the same thing. Thankfully they give you an option to disable it in BIOS.

New comment by mfro in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

mfro — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:36:58 +0000

Are you sure you've ever gone above 60hz and 60fps? It is unequivocally agreed to look much better

New comment by mfro in "Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch"

mfro — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:43:28 +0000

Why waste time memorizing arcane flags when you can spend that time actually building things? Frankly I still check man pages for things like tar all the time and I’ve been using linux for over a decade. It becomes less of a fun learning activity and more of a chore when every tool has a hundred different invocations to memorize.

New comment by mfro in "Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI"

mfro — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:37:43 +0000

Yes, this is a separate runtime. Docker handles containerization differently with more overhead. OCI is a 'standard' way of constructing container images and both are compatible with OCI.

New comment by mfro in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

mfro — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:09:51 +0000

Interesting. From the hyundai manual, driver attention monitoring only uses front sensor with no face recognition in the vehicle as far as I can tell. Are you sure your cruise control issue isn’t because of hand sensors?

Also, I think the issue with it stopping the car sounds like ‘collision avoidance forward safety’ which can be disabled according to the manual. I haven’t had any issues so far though.

I also disable lane assist but largely just because I prefer to have full control. The highway driving assist is really neat though.

New comment by mfro in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

mfro — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:45:52 +0000

For those interested or forced to buy a new car — I recently picked up a brand new Hyundai and was impressed the new tech does not get in the way. ‘Driver attention warning’ does not have a face camera, it just uses the front sensor to confirm you’re not all over the place. It can also be disabled. Lane assist can be disabled with one button on the wheel. Almost all important controls are real (non capacitive) buttons. Warnings can be customized. Smart cruise control can be customized. As someone who really liked his 90s Toyota, I’m impressed.

New comment by mfro in "Resetting Xbox"

mfro — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:41:34 +0000

This is something audiences are clearly desperate for today. I think it's obvious when looking at the huge success of Helldivers, Bodycam, Ready Or Not, Arc Raiders, (none of which are particularly innovative) players appreciate high quality, tactile and grounded world interaction.

New comment by mfro in "Apple Neural Engine: Architecture, Programming, and Performance"

mfro — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:37:37 +0000

I've done some basic testing of the CoreAI framework (using Apple's official 'llm-runner' and officially supported .coreai converted models) and seen no noticable performance increase between standard MLX or GGUF with llama.cpp. I'd love to see some thorough benchmarks from someone though.

New comment by mfro in "Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs"

mfro — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:51:57 +0000

Truly despicable shit from these manufacturers. Don't buy smart TVs, or block their network access if you must.

New comment by mfro in "Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs"

mfro — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:28:37 +0000

The web browser is a compiled program. The problem is that it’s a huge program.

New comment by mfro in "Samurai City"

mfro — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:48:58 +0000

Yes, if you enjoyed the show, I cannot recommend the book enough

External Clock Generation on RTX 50 Series

mfro — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:35:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.xtremesystems.us/post/external-clock-generation-on-rtx-50-series

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48379580

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