Hacker News: potwinkle

New comment by potwinkle in "Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened"

potwinkle — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:29:50 +0000

> Furthermore, Windows supports true plug and play where hardware just works the moment you connect it. Linux does not.

This hasn't been my experience for the last 5 years or so. Obscure old printers and scanners, Bluetooth headphones with modern codecs like LDAC and SBC-XQ, RGB gaming mice all "just work" on Linux, where on Windows I have to install an app from the Microsoft Store to get functionality.

I think this was probably pretty accurate in the early 2010s and before.

New comment by potwinkle in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

potwinkle — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 02:33:27 +0000

There are coding tasks where Kimi K3 outperforms Fable (haven't done much comparing between it and Sol) and the Chinese labs have access to their own synthetic datasets, along with frontier research. We're leaving behind the days where Chinese models are distilled Claude, but I hope Anthropic/OpenAI can continue to accelerate.

New comment by potwinkle in "Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS"

potwinkle — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:28:58 +0000

You can run HL2 at 1080p 60fps in 5W on Armada on the AYN Thor (on the Eco performance profile). That includes a screen and speakers.

New comment by potwinkle in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"

potwinkle — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:18:22 +0000

Still no. If you're only getting Opus-class you can still end up paying less by just using an equivalent Chinese model on OpenRouter.

New comment by potwinkle in "Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model"

potwinkle — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:43:56 +0000

Very impressive model, exciting to see an American open-source lab with such competitive results.

New comment by potwinkle in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

potwinkle — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:20:40 +0000

Technically already possible (and works surprisingly well!) if you have a PS5 with old enough firmware.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhnLdFYR2-s

New comment by potwinkle in "Leaving Mozilla"

potwinkle — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:55:12 +0000

Making almost 20 million a year is pretty good considering that their only product is a maintained FirefoxOS fork licensed to run on budget phones.

New comment by potwinkle in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

potwinkle — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:09:07 +0000

It defaults to the API, but you can download the weights for the 1T-parameter Pro model and selfhost if you have the hardware for it.

New comment by potwinkle in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

potwinkle — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 06:20:55 +0000

We usually take it from natural gas deposits instead.

New comment by potwinkle in "Vite 8.0 Is Out"

potwinkle — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:14:02 +0000

I've had a great time using Rust with Actix as the framework.

New comment by potwinkle in "MacBook Neo"

potwinkle — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:37:54 +0000

macOS actually does the opposite; to avoid wearing down the drive it will hold 7-10gb of your most commonly used files in memory and release them when the memory gets allocated for something else. In theory you could get away with editing gigabytes of files and using dozens of apps without ever wearing down your drive at all.

New comment by potwinkle in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

potwinkle — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:33:54 +0000

You can get Wipr 2 for iOS and (for me) it's been as good as uBO.

New comment by potwinkle in "Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan"

potwinkle — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:08:40 +0000

There is an open-source launcher to run Bedrock on Mac and Linux, and it runs well. Bedrock, however, still isn't as popular because servers and mods are more of an afterthought, so not a lot of effort has been put into making it developer-friendly.

New comment by potwinkle in "Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan"

potwinkle — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:03:06 +0000

It seems kind of odd to play Java edition without mods at all. Wouldn't you have a simpler time on Bedrock?

New comment by potwinkle in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

potwinkle — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:58:14 +0000

You most likely use a Windows PC and an Android phone. If Uncle Sam viewed you as a threat actor, he could ask both companies to send you a signed and verified update to either your OS or apps they control, running whatever he wants.

New comment by potwinkle in "Backing up Spotify"

potwinkle — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:33:32 +0000

I mean... not really? Not much music is Spotify exclusive (at least from the 99.6% of what people listen to mentioned in the article), and from friends in the industry I can guarantee you all major content platforms (Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, a large chunk of YouTube) have already been completely copied without a business agreement with the rightsholders by AI startups and big-name players.

New comment by potwinkle in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

potwinkle — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:02:43 +0000

Ladybird is pretty good today. A lot of web apps, even complex ones, just work. It's reached high compliance scores for web standards in a shockingly quick period. See here: https://youtu.be/VqzbqsIlaNI?si=YPdwbApq4nVYlPMQ&t=209

New comment by potwinkle in "Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business"

potwinkle — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:56:39 +0000

This seems a bit foolish? Even just limiting stock to paper launches and massively raising the price would let you say "oh, it's just the market" but here it makes them look like they're putting all their eggs in one basket.

New comment by potwinkle in "Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC"

potwinkle — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 04:32:37 +0000

Security seems like a solved problem on desktop already? Secure Boot + LUKS + SELinux gives anyone a pretty airtight userspace.

Microsoft/Apple have similarly secure set ups for their operating systems. Bitlocker by default (although there is a convenient backdoor for high-paying customers to protect against data loss and for law enforcement forensics) and Apple's Secure Enclave (only broken into by a certain five countries intelligence agencies and for older versions streaming pirates) should protect the average user pretty well.

Is there anything special about Android phones (especially budget ones) that makes them more secure? That's not what I've seen.

New comment by potwinkle in "Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts"

potwinkle — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 03:38:58 +0000

The Wikipedia page seems to show that it's just a placebo/scam? The helmet has the equivalent magnetic effect of a fridge magnet or hair dryer, and researchers in Sweden replicating the research in a double-blind study found no effect at all. Looking at the pictures on the official website https://www.god-helmet.com/wp/god-helmet/index.htm , it's just magnets on a snowmobile helmet this guy bought.