Hacker News: samplifier

New comment by samplifier in "An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation"

samplifier — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:03:56 +0000

These days power both corrupts and causes burnout.

New comment by samplifier in "An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation"

samplifier — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:01:37 +0000

And then there are there dozens (or hundreds?) of influences ignorantly accepting sponsorships.

New comment by samplifier in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

samplifier — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:32:46 +0000

Luanti + Mineclonia is really good.

New comment by samplifier in "Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage"

samplifier — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:28:50 +0000

I've read this before. Marketing?

New comment by samplifier in "Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage"

samplifier — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:25:47 +0000

I'm the opposite. I started out promising myself I'd install all those handy looking plugins (I had like 20 I wanted to try out). But I've been slippery sloped into building my own Pi extensions and reinventing the wheel many, many times. It's been months and I love it. I just keep discovering and learning, and forgetting, and doing it all over again. I've been building my own harnesses since before that word was so common though, even before Aider was released.

New comment by samplifier in "JetZero"

samplifier — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 06:10:23 +0000

Sounds like a race to the bottom. Mmm bad pun.

New comment by samplifier in "JetZero"

samplifier — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 06:08:29 +0000

Might as well iddqd and idkfa at that point. Or grantme all. Pick your flavor.

New comment by samplifier in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

samplifier — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:21:24 +0000

"Dave" seems to be a reference to "2001: A Space Odyssey" where the AI becomes ... cheeky ... and no, not in a Pygmalion kind of way (that's coming soon).

New comment by samplifier in "Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode"

samplifier — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:27:31 +0000

No one here started with Aider? Or even text-generation-webui? Or SillyTavern? Or were they too pseudo-agentic? :)

New comment by samplifier in "Transcribe.cpp"

samplifier — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:28:43 +0000

IIRC that is exactly how Dragon Naturally speaking did it decades ago.

New comment by samplifier in "John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement"

samplifier — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:34:07 +0000

Have you tried SponsorBlock? https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock

New comment by samplifier in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

samplifier — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 05:36:03 +0000

Indeed, and then after school care because both parents are still working until 6 pm, quietly eat dinner, watch cocomelon, and then to bed. Horror.

New comment by samplifier in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

samplifier — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:17:46 +0000

Bullet hell, or rather bullet heaven. TA was the first game where I saw the PC struggle during big battles and it was a pleasant experience, unlike the lag in multiplayer games where I mainly played against people across the pond.

New comment by samplifier in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

samplifier — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:27:34 +0000

Eye opener. Thanks for the warning! GrapheneOS sandboxes all apps including GSF as far as I understand. It would be nice if full capabilities could be exposed or at least shown in the app settings. There is the "All permissions" view which has a "have full network access" item with the following details: `Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.` Does this mean the app has this permission and even without it can fully access the internet? If so the primary "network" permission is very misleading. I wish for a smartphone-like device which installs apps with `cap_drop: ALL` by default. I wish for a government which would support such a standpoint and "assist" companies not able to provide a service which require intrusive data gathering. Either that or we're all just one big happy family with no secrets and no jealousy and no drama. sigh

New comment by samplifier in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

samplifier — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:52:48 +0000

I think rather than "incompatible" the issue lies in equality/equity. Too many people are being manipulated.

New comment by samplifier in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

samplifier — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:26:19 +0000

Are there enough of us to run our own country? It makes me feel dumb, but this is a serious question.

New comment by samplifier in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

samplifier — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:04:30 +0000

Because the concepts of freedom and security are not universal.

New comment by samplifier in "BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth"

samplifier — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:55:19 +0000

Battlestar Galactica opened my eyes to this problem more than electronic warfare in games of the day did. It's freaky (read: terrifying) that we're getting to a point that people are starting to take "embedded information (and decision)" systems serious enough to deploy them into meat space.

New comment by samplifier in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

samplifier — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:06:36 +0000

Duke Nukem 3D had bouncy pixels that made it "tickle down there". Also: monochrome women "eating bananas".

New comment by samplifier in "Men who stare at walls"

samplifier — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:29:53 +0000

Oh this reminds me of The way of Zen by Alan Watts.