Hacker News: robinwhg

New comment by robinwhg in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

robinwhg — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:53:56 +0000

Is there a performance hit for cs 2 compared to windows with an rtx card? That‘s pretty much the only thing holding me back.

New comment by robinwhg in "MacBook Neo"

robinwhg — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:23:52 +0000

So people like you spend more

New comment by robinwhg in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

robinwhg — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:59:16 +0000

He was on a podcast recently where he talked about that a little. It’s on Youtube.

New comment by robinwhg in "What Claude Code chooses"

robinwhg — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:14:34 +0000

In two projects I used Claude for it included Github Actions without me ever mentioning I needed it. I didn't realize before I pushed the code, because my Neovim config hides folders with a '.' prefix and I must have missed it in the git diff. Luckily it only cost me 4 cents, but it's still concerning.

New comment by robinwhg in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

robinwhg — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:47:00 +0000

I‘m not too knowledgeable about this, but couldn’t you just provide a government issued key to every citizen and give a service provider that key and it‘s only valid if you’re above a certain age?

New comment by robinwhg in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

robinwhg — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:45:15 +0000

The first steam engine was invented by a Turk and he used it solely to make kebab spin. Never thought about using it for anything else.

New comment by robinwhg in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

robinwhg — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:40:55 +0000

But there already is cheaper competition? Open models may be behind, but only ~6 months for every new generation.

New comment by robinwhg in "Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD"

robinwhg — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:18:59 +0000

It's still absolutely fascinating to me that basically the whole modern tech industry and the economic growth from it rests on the shoulders of a single company that has all of their important factories on a single island that's under constant threat of invasion. On top of that they themselves are reliant on a single company that's able to produce the machine required to print the wafers.

I don't know if TSMC has anything to do with hard drive production, but the reliance on very few players is also a problem in that industry.

New comment by robinwhg in "Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD"

robinwhg — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:14:01 +0000

I believe the TSMC CEO said that in a recent interview. They're aware that their now biggest customer Nvidia has a less broad product portfolio than Apple and the high volumes they buy propably won't last. It's too much of a risk to plan more Fabs based on that.

New comment by robinwhg in "TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan"

robinwhg — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 06:42:25 +0000

Have you ever heard of Tibet?

New comment by robinwhg in "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"

robinwhg — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:16:55 +0000

I think you could convert her account to a child account. That way, you have to approve the purchases first.