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New comment by sabas123 in "What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard"

sabas123 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:07:15 +0000

> except in some special circumstances (e.g. childrens' toys)

Don't nearly all electronics fall under it too, this is the second item after children toys in the link you posted.

> Here is a non-exhaustive list of products that are included in EU laws about CE marking:

> Toys, drones, electrical and electronic equipment, pyrotechnic products, recreational crafts and watercraft

New comment by sabas123 in "To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system"

sabas123 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:41:42 +0000

I actually do a phd in a closely related area. Creating better tools to do research with is definitely part of the research process. While there is a lot of work in general operating systems, those aimed to specifically do a lot of microarchitectural experiments is still undiscovered ground.

New comment by sabas123 in "The Emacsification of Software"

sabas123 — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:50:36 +0000

> It wouldn't stop people from feeding them into the Show HN stream, which is the problem. If we had a good enough way to tell them apart, we could factor them into two streams, but we don't yet.

But it would allow for a culture to grow where the posters would self-contain their submissions into those threads.

New comment by sabas123 in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"

sabas123 — Mon, 04 May 2026 05:58:51 +0000

> Do you really believe that year after year game developers and game engines get worse and worse at performance? Of course not.

If you strictly want to blame Denuvo then that assumes game developers cannot think of a way to spend their extra performance either. Which is obviously not the case.

New comment by sabas123 in "The Social Edge of Intelligence: Individual Gain, Collective Loss"

sabas123 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:53:07 +0000

It is the average of sub sets of humans, which can be vastly better than just entire population.

Example it can easily do moderately advanced calculus, that is way better than the average human.

New comment by sabas123 in "Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary"

sabas123 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:03:47 +0000

This is even the official OpenAI guideline too.

New comment by sabas123 in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

sabas123 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:47:31 +0000

We also have had a significant rise inglobal population. Making for an unfair comparison.

New comment by sabas123 in "Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'"

sabas123 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:30:34 +0000

> It's an entirely new class of vulnerability, as far as I can tell.

It is know as voltage glitching. If you're interested our research group applies to Intel CPUs. https://download.vusec.net/papers/microspark_uasc26.pdf

New comment by sabas123 in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"

sabas123 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:24:44 +0000

What is the point of having this if code generation is not functional yet? That is the entire point of this app.

New comment by sabas123 in "Ghidra by NSA"

sabas123 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:12:30 +0000

Without providing any proof that either this or SELinux is backdoored.

New comment by sabas123 in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

sabas123 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:36:38 +0000

> No, we get applications so hideously inefficient that your $3000 developer machine feels like it it's running a Pentium II with 256 MB of RAM.

> We get software that's as slow as it was 30 years ago, for no reason other than our own arrogance and apathy.

I feel like I read this exact same take on this site for the past 15 years.

New comment by sabas123 in "Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?"

sabas123 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:57:58 +0000

The problem is that we already can provide an alternative, but we don't switch to them. Which might be even worse.

New comment by sabas123 in "Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML"

sabas123 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:53:48 +0000

Exception

New comment by sabas123 in "Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war"

sabas123 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:03:29 +0000

Is it really such a pivot when they invested a lot in AI already?

They bought DeepMind in 2014 and always showed of a ton of AI research.

New comment by sabas123 in "Do Things That Don't Scale (2013)"

sabas123 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 17:04:48 +0000

If I list you 10x many cases which failed, would you switch your opinion then?

New comment by sabas123 in "Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you"

sabas123 — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 08:35:46 +0000

You make it sound like security is a binary thing, which is not true.

New comment by sabas123 in "Never write your own date parsing library"

sabas123 — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 11:43:10 +0000

> We don't want a world where only three old bearded guys can write a compiler or a physic engine.

Don't write your own OS does not mean do not contribute to something like the linux kernel.

New comment by sabas123 in "The behavior of LLMs in hiring decisions: Systemic biases in candidate selection"

sabas123 — Tue, 20 May 2025 12:41:10 +0000

I asked ChatGPT, gemini and both answered 3, with various levels of explainations. Was this a long time ago by any chance?

New comment by sabas123 in "BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)"

sabas123 — Fri, 16 May 2025 07:32:08 +0000

Which is not necessarily a good thing.

New comment by sabas123 in "Why Bell Labs Worked"

sabas123 — Mon, 12 May 2025 08:41:26 +0000

> Today we have a huge oversupply of scientists, however there's too many of them to allow judging for potential, and many are not actually capable of dramatic impact.

Realistically speaking it's also much harder to achieve the same level of impact back then as most, not just low-hanging, fruits have been plucked.