Hacker News: puzzlingcaptcha

New comment by puzzlingcaptcha in "Raspberry Pi Zero 3W and Pi 4 Model A spotted in device trees"

puzzlingcaptcha — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:16:12 +0000

Products like BananaPi M4 Zero or OrangePi Zero 2W/3W have offered much more competitive hardware in the same form factor for quite a while (if you didn't particularly care for the RaspberryPi "ecosystem"). Let's see if 3W can actually compete - on paper it should be a bit faster than Allwinner H618 and still far behind A733.

New comment by puzzlingcaptcha in "Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations"

puzzlingcaptcha — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:32:02 +0000

That's the e-ink monopoly for you. Though you could probably use a slightly smaller b&w eink display with a second hand raspberry 4 to shave a lot from that number.

Recursion into Madness

puzzlingcaptcha — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 07:30:45 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.coredump.cx/p/recursion-into-madness

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49606781

Points: 16

# Comments: 2

New comment by puzzlingcaptcha in "Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader"

puzzlingcaptcha — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:06:20 +0000

It's great on public transport too.

New comment by puzzlingcaptcha in "M5Stack Launches PaperMono"

puzzlingcaptcha — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:46:49 +0000

As far as I can tell, firmware updates are only via WiFi.

New comment by puzzlingcaptcha in "Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable"

puzzlingcaptcha — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:32:50 +0000

"It's possible to just connect two computers together with Ethernet" - on the front page of hackernews. Incredible. Ethernet over USB4 interdomain protocol at least had some novelty, but this...

New comment by puzzlingcaptcha in "M5Stack Launches PaperMono"

puzzlingcaptcha — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:35:04 +0000

Just to point out the usb-c on the original x4 is for charging only.

New comment by puzzlingcaptcha in "Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)"

puzzlingcaptcha — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:43:10 +0000

What sort of pp/tg speed do you get on a Strix Halo?

New comment by puzzlingcaptcha in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

puzzlingcaptcha — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:32:10 +0000

Or you could get a $50 smartband and have so much more functionality and still recharge only once a week or two.

New comment by puzzlingcaptcha in "Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027"

puzzlingcaptcha — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:02:15 +0000

App support, stable ABI, uniform UI/UX, hardware vendor cooperation...

New comment by puzzlingcaptcha in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

puzzlingcaptcha — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:24:35 +0000

Tribalism is human nature, for better or (usually) worse.

New comment by puzzlingcaptcha in "HMD Touch 4G"

puzzlingcaptcha — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:37:50 +0000

The little print at the end says "Currently only available in India."

Reminds me a bit of HMD's KaiOS feature phones but this is apparently Android?

New comment by puzzlingcaptcha in "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"

puzzlingcaptcha — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:24:30 +0000

Have you tried putting the KV cache on the GPU and running inference from RAM? From what I gather, prompt processing is particularly painful using RAM alone.

New comment by puzzlingcaptcha in "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"

puzzlingcaptcha — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:20:47 +0000

Have you tried with a single CPU to get rid of the NUMA penalty? I understand this likely means halving the memory but I am interested in how much of a difference it makes

New comment by puzzlingcaptcha in "Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer"

puzzlingcaptcha — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:56:35 +0000

Xeon Scalable in general seems like a good idea due to 6-channel (relatively) inexpensive RDIMM memory, but I've been reading that NUMA kills inference performance. Anyone got experience with multi-socket systems? IIRC even within the socket these cpus are divided into sub-numa nodes.

New comment by puzzlingcaptcha in "Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor"

puzzlingcaptcha — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:11:00 +0000

I am still using their Powerline adapters and FWIW they have been very reliable.

New comment by puzzlingcaptcha in "The Disappearance of Japan's Animators"

puzzlingcaptcha — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:35:36 +0000

Akane Banashi was probably the best directed show this season.

New comment by puzzlingcaptcha in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

puzzlingcaptcha — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:04:04 +0000

People consistently perceive louder music as better quality. That's why volume matching is critical in any audio equipment testing.

Under the Trump crypto playbook, the family always wins

puzzlingcaptcha — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:59:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/investigations/under-trump-crypto-playbook-family-always-wins-investors-dont-2026-06-09/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48459954

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by puzzlingcaptcha in "Chuwi Minibook X"

puzzlingcaptcha — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:15:46 +0000

Starlite Mk IV is my favourite "netbook" successor. 0.9 kg, 11.6 1080p IPS display and Linux-first, with coreboot. Unfortunately it is a couple years old by now and you can feel that (Intel N5030 and 8GB of RAM). Sadly the company changed the form factor of Mk V to a detachable but if you can live with that it's also an option.