Hacker News: mocko

New comment by mocko in "Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS"

mocko — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:16:37 +0000

Does it support original Winamp skins?

A Few Notes on the Culture, by Iain M Banks

mocko — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:11:11 +0000

Article URL: http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47151032

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mocko in "Winamp clone in Swift for macOS"

mocko — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:53:44 +0000

https://archive.org/details/winampskins_major_tom_v5_1 was a true work of art

New comment by mocko in "Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption"

mocko — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:33:10 +0000

After some digging - https://github.com/spegel-org/spegel/blob/main/LICENSE says MIT

New comment by mocko in "Getting ready to issue IP address certificates"

mocko — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:16:52 +0000

I can see how this would work on a technical level but what's the intended use case?

Karpenter

mocko — Tue, 07 May 2024 06:32:06 +0000

Article URL: https://karpenter.sh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40282969

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Unplug Your Laptop Now, or It Will Stay Plugged in Forever

mocko — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 07:45:45 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/unplug-your-laptop-now-it-will-stay-plugged-in-forever-1851320725

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39805683

Points: 18

# Comments: 71

New comment by mocko in "London Underground is testing real-time AI surveillance tools to spot crime"

mocko — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 19:07:24 +0000

Sad but true. Anyone wanting to learn more about how dysfunctional the UK's justice system is after years of underfunding should read Secret Barrister[1]. For comfortable technology folks who seldom brush with the law it's eye-opening stuff.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Barrister

Belgian MP turned sleuth to solve London Ulez fine mystery

mocko — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:20:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/26/how-belgian-mp-michael-freilich-turned-sleuth-to-solve-london-ulez-fine-mystery

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39142838

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

UK Legal rule that computers presumed correct – unjust consequences

mocko — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:34:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2022/06/30/the-legal-rule-that-computers-are-presumed-to-be-operating-correctly-unforeseen-and-unjust-consequences/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39044716

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

40 Minutes – 'Heart of the Angel' London Tube

mocko — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 13:16:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuRWKb2Q1RQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38841305

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mocko in "OpenWrt Security Advisories"

mocko — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 09:49:21 +0000

What's the significance of this? The most recent advisory listed is almost a year old.

New comment by mocko in "No one wants to talk to your chatbot"

mocko — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 23:20:31 +0000

Holy crap, thanks for sharing this. It's the first time a conversational AI has impressed me. I can just about find the edges (short memory, relentlessly positive) but in the space of an hour it's given reasonably good advice on social situations, answered questions about how it works and even recommended some great niche bands based on my existing tastes. Just as you said, its knowledge seems to be extremely broad.

There's a contrast between Pi and the kind of chatbot discussed in the article. When we talk to Pi we don't expect it to do anything for us - it just gives advice and makes suggestions that we can take or leave. The resulting stream of tokens matches our expectations enough to satisfy us.

A chatbot on a company's website however, probably we are talking to that because we want something to happen. "Please fix my account", "my last bill was wrong" etc. As the chatbot isn't integrated with the company's processes it can't actually change the state of the outside world and so talking to it will be a frustrating experience. I wonder if this will improve if/when chatbots get better integrated with systems? Will companies even dare to do this for real?

New comment by mocko in "When did Alan Partridge first appear on television?"

mocko — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 06:57:59 +0000

Slightly offtopic but anyone with a dark sense of humour would do well to check out Chris Morris's stuff - I get a feeling most younger Brits haven't heard of it. Day Today and Brass Eye, both still funny, are wonderful time capsules satirising Britain as it was thirty years ago.

But IMO his finest work was Blue Jam - the radio comedy not the TV incarnation, hour-long episodes of low-key music and surreal sketches. Absolutely brilliant even today. Archive.org has a copy at https://archive.org/details/chrismorris_bluejam. Best enjoyed late at night.

Trigger warning: basically everything. The BBC would never get away with broadcasting it now.

New comment by mocko in "Tell HN: Books Printed by Amazon"

mocko — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 11:22:52 +0000

Amazon has had a print-on-demand service [1] for a while so the real question is whether major publishers have been signing deals to use it. Maybe from their perspective it's worthwhile for older books, to avoid maintaining lots of slow-moving inventory?

[1] https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/GHKDSCW2KQ3K4UU4

New comment by mocko in "My dad built a cool thing but never boasted about it"

mocko — Sun, 14 May 2023 08:39:18 +0000

I wouldn't say so. The story needs this context to make sense and outside a war, where else would one need to rebuild large bridges under fire. As a technical achievement it certainly is something to be proud of.

New comment by mocko in "Minidisc FAQ: MDLP (“Long-Play”) Mode Topics"

mocko — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 06:58:58 +0000

Minidisc lover here - I bought my first MZ-R50 in 1998 and a quarter of a century later I still occasionally use it.

With secondhand players getting expensive now what are the odds of somebody bringing out a new one? I'd pay good money for something that's backwards compatible, has the same chunky metallic look and feel and comes with a few new features.

New comment by mocko in "Apple will use 100 percent recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025"

mocko — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 13:23:57 +0000

Sure, I'm not hating on Apple - it's a perfectly reasonable thing for them to do. But I'd question how much of global cobalt production was ever going into macbooks/iphones rather than electric cars, lawnmowers, hoovers and whatever else.

This sets a good precedent but we'd need other manufacturers (who I'd guess are more cost-conscious) to follow suit before it changes much.

New comment by mocko in "Apple will use 100 percent recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025"

mocko — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 12:34:10 +0000

Well, hmm - is it? I'd naively imagine cobalt content is proportional to battery size, and while Apple sells a lot of devices they aren't large energy-hungry ones.

Surely far more of the world's battery production (by watt-hours or kg, take your pick) goes into cars and grid storage than iPhones?

New comment by mocko in "Arbitrary code execution during compilation – rust"

mocko — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 22:54:09 +0000

In the context of a long-lived build server it could permanently compromise the machine, allowing an attacker to modify any other package you publish from there and maintain that access even after Rust has been fixed.