Hacker News: pkaye

New comment by pkaye in "Optimization of 32-bit Unsigned Division by Constants on 64-bit Targets"

pkaye — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:29:43 +0000

Look up the book Hackers Delight if you like there low level algorithms and bit manipulations

New comment by pkaye in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

pkaye — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:05:07 +0000

Actually I remember the change being reported in the Reddit /r/claueai chat back around that time frame. I was concerned that it would increase costs but nobody made a fuss so I presumed it was not a big deal.

New comment by pkaye in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

pkaye — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:12:10 +0000

Ecoflow is actually a Chinese company.

New comment by pkaye in "Lunar Flyby"

pkaye — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:49:56 +0000

Someone did a nice animation on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNQ7MoL7erI

New comment by pkaye in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

pkaye — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:30:06 +0000

Yes the do have an one time purchase option. You get 5 years of updates but no new features. I have it on my home computers. But new features are not a big deal since the differences are not big anymore (just like mobile phones.)

New comment by pkaye in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

pkaye — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:54:31 +0000

Our Comcast plan has a monthly data usage of 1.2TB. We rarely go over 600GB in any month but month we nearly hit the limit. I was looking through the router logs to see what was going on and it turned out that somehow one particular Instagram video my spouse was watching would consume huge amounts of bandwidth when the channel was live streaming!

New comment by pkaye in "Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification"

pkaye — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:26:57 +0000

I think Linus Torvalds lives in Oregon.

New comment by pkaye in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

pkaye — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:06:50 +0000

Did you do this in Gemini or Nano Banana? Should I give multiple view points and top view of the back yard? I'm trying to see how much info to give.

New comment by pkaye in "Claims of disability are highest at elite universities"

pkaye — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:18:00 +0000

> they're actively taking spots from students with genuine needs.

How would determine who has genuine needs? Many of these conditions have no definitive tests.

New comment by pkaye in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

pkaye — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:51:59 +0000

I've read that compute costs for LLMs go up O(n^2) with context window size. But I think it is also a combination of limited compute availability, users preference for Anthropic models and Anthropic planning to go IPO.

New comment by pkaye in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

pkaye — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:22:02 +0000

Above 200k token context they charge a premium. I think its $10/M tokens of input.

New comment by pkaye in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

pkaye — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:19:15 +0000

Solar has become all about ROI these days just like home ownership has become an investment.

New comment by pkaye in "Games Workshop bans staff from using AI"

pkaye — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:17:11 +0000

If a person holds a camera and clicks a button, the output can be copyrighted. But if I write a few pages worth of prompts and click enter, it cannot be copyrighted?

New comment by pkaye in "Postal Arbitrage"

pkaye — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:03:12 +0000

Wow didn't realize its much more expensive in some places outside the US. I'd think the smaller land area would make it cheaper.

New comment by pkaye in "The next two years of software engineering"

pkaye — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 02:22:43 +0000

My university had Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering and Computer Science degrees (in additional to all the other standard ones.)

New comment by pkaye in "Logistics Is Dying; Or – Dude, Where's My Mail?"

pkaye — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 07:48:30 +0000

Where can you read more about this?

New comment by pkaye in "Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders"

pkaye — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:15:23 +0000

Yes it can be done on the state level. California passes consumer protection laws all the time. Some of the recent ones are listed here. The problems is people are waiting for Congress or the President to do something when it could be enacted at the state level first and when there are enough support and consensus could be passed by Congress.

https://www.kcra.com/article/new-california-laws-in-2026-jan...

New comment by pkaye in "Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay"

pkaye — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:50:15 +0000

My podiatrist also recommended New Balance and it made a huge difference for my foot pain and various issues.

New comment by pkaye in "Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems"

pkaye — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:56:16 +0000

Its hard to locate anything in their stores these days and its even harder to find any staff. So what I do is order for pickup and let them do the work.

New comment by pkaye in "How the Creator Economy Destroyed the Internet"

pkaye — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:11:23 +0000

Craigslist killed off the classified section which was a big income source for newspapers. People didn't mind because Craigslist was free for most users.