Hacker News: prism56

New comment by prism56 in "Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)"

prism56 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 06:58:47 +0000

That made it trigger for me intuitively. Thanks

New comment by prism56 in "Updated Xbox Console Prices"

prism56 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:44:49 +0000

Hate how nowhere on that page does it say what the price will be. I guess they don't want the full price in the announcement...

New comment by prism56 in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

prism56 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:37:16 +0000

Futo with the new swipe model is the first android keyboard i've used that I don't feel like i'm compromising vs GBoard.

Integrated speak to text, good autocorrect typing, good autocorrect swiping.

New comment by prism56 in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

prism56 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:32:00 +0000

I've used both extensively and it's a fair bit better, but was significantly worse preupdate

New comment by prism56 in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

prism56 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:29:28 +0000

I settled on the middle model.

New comment by prism56 in "Steam Machine"

prism56 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:51:47 +0000

Yeah i've used moonlight/sunshine a handful of times and it's absolutely perfect, I couldn't even tell in most cases it was streamed.

New comment by prism56 in "16-year-old SATA II SSD survives 1 petabyte of writes, 25x the drive's rating"

prism56 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:57:03 +0000

284TBW which is maybe double the spec. It's an 850 evo.

New comment by prism56 in "16-year-old SATA II SSD survives 1 petabyte of writes, 25x the drive's rating"

prism56 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:03:56 +0000

I have an old sata SSD that's been my write cache and transcoding drive for 8 years. Will check the tbw

New comment by prism56 in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

prism56 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:19:48 +0000

Not surprised. I work in the gas turbine market and this AI boom has revolutionised our business and investments, oil and gas is dead. (to us)

New comment by prism56 in "Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency"

prism56 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:34:46 +0000

How do you know it swaps to ram vs on the TPU?

Would be interested in testing this on my pixel.

New comment by prism56 in "Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites"

prism56 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:42:57 +0000

I've just cancelled Kagi. While it was great. I'm trying to stop supporting US companies unless they provide good value

New comment by prism56 in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

prism56 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:29:29 +0000

Delete the accounts and move on... They don't deserve your time and business.

New comment by prism56 in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"

prism56 — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:00:31 +0000

Yeah agreed, the data itself I don't have an issue with at all and this kind of info is stored on the vehicle. 1) We should have easy access to it. 2) Why is it instantly uploaded to some cloud, what I haven't done is tried to review how the data is used.

New comment by prism56 in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"

prism56 — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:56:42 +0000

I have a Kia that's networked (since disabled). I did a GDPR data request and after a couple of weeks they sent me numerous CSV files and I was a little amused at some of the data fields.

Here's some examples I thought aren't for my benefit.

- How long I let the car warmup before driving after every start, - max speed, - acceleration rates, - Lateral acceleration around corners tagged with GPS data, - every GPS datapoint, - destinations and exactly when I set off and arrived

New comment by prism56 in "Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs"

prism56 — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:51:41 +0000

This has ruined my optimism for the steam machine. I love my Steam Deck OLED, I don't play high end games at low settings or low framerates. I play older games, simpler indie games and it's an absolute joy for that.

This price increase is a hard sell still, makes me stick to the mantra of don't upgrade or buy anything unless there is no other option.

I'll just play different games, read a book, watch TV. There so much media out there, I don't want to be drawn into this AI RAM pricing war on products.

/rant

New comment by prism56 in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

prism56 — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:57:04 +0000

I'm in this boat, currently subscribed and with the news of them potentially stripping out the AI offering from the $10 subscription tier, I might give DDG another shot.

It just doesn't seem to surface much reddit content. I know I know reddit, but on niche topics they often have some good discussions/links/experts.

New comment by prism56 in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

prism56 — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:55:21 +0000

Does it index new reddit content? I refuse to use Google, DDG doesn't seem to surface much new reddit content.

Currently settled on Kagi but the price is a little steep, happy to support EU based services.

New comment by prism56 in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

prism56 — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:53:17 +0000

I enjoy my Kagi usage but there are still a few things I use the !g or !gm bangs for.

Shopping and finding locations is definitely one.

New comment by prism56 in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

prism56 — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:08:58 +0000

Cant tell if this is satire. But I'm not self hosting my passwords unless I fully understand exactly what's happening. Trusting that to an LLM without really understanding what's happening seems very risky to me.

New comment by prism56 in "WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency"

prism56 — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:01:38 +0000

But I do worry a bit about dying in a car accident, it's why I wear my seatbelt, drive safe, try to drive defensively.

Adding both those risks together still is a higher risk than before...