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New comment by schmorptron in "Germany’s RobCo hits $1B valuation"

schmorptron — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:59:45 +0000

Coming right up: Belgian Hybrid shower curtain and defense startup Aperture Science raises 780M Euros, while biotech unicorn Umbrella in on the verge of coming out of stealth and releasing a vaccine for cancer.

New comment by schmorptron in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

schmorptron — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:55:00 +0000

FYI, virtual desktop (and steam link) on quest 3 recently got beta updates for wired modes (they just tunnel ethernet afaik, but its better than nothing for your usecase probably) since the OS has seemingly recently unblocked this.

New comment by schmorptron in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

schmorptron — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:44:12 +0000

You can already do a lot of it with ReShade shaders like the aforementioned SuperDepth3D, but it requires a game profile, tons of fiddling and non-incompatibility from the game. Having that shipped as dev-tested profiles with games would be the exact sort of thing that makes proton nice to use on the steam deck

New comment by schmorptron in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

schmorptron — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:43:07 +0000

But sadly not (officially) in 3D! SuperDepth3D is such a cool concept, I don't need most of my games to be full VR immersive camera experiences, but a nice big virtual full no-limits 3D monitor would be sick.

New comment by schmorptron in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

schmorptron — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:42:02 +0000

Oh, that'd make sense. I think the quest 3 has a depth sensor, but they mostly use that for room setup. I don't even think it has IR emitters for low light. But that's the age old question about patents, if they're being granted too much they stifle innovation and competition instead of the opposite... (which is the point you were making as well).

On the quest 3, I've felt like the screen is just a bit too low res to use comfortably as a monitor anyways, so I imagine the Frame won't be much different. The better weight distribution should help a lot though.

New comment by schmorptron in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

schmorptron — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:29:15 +0000

That makes sense. I always wondered why nobody copied their gaze + tap interactions. That seems way too basic to grant a patent for...

New comment by schmorptron in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

schmorptron — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:59:45 +0000

It's absolutely wild to me that they didn't include, and have devs ship profiles for some of their games, SuperDepth3D or some other depth map shader officially in some form in the Steam UI for this. If a big focus is playing your pancake library on a huge screen (due to there not being not many native VR games), having that huge screen be 3D would be a huge value add. And they're big enough to get some developers to ship profiles for their games officially guaranteeing some form of workingness(?).

New comment by schmorptron in "Rivian's gambit for full autonomy"

schmorptron — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:59:25 +0000

They seem to be getting pretty far with only vision, to be fair. Same with openpilot. Still, I cant help but agree. If you have access to beyond-human sensors and are able to do sensor fusion, then please do it. What's the point otherwise? saving a few hundred bucks per car?

New comment by schmorptron in "Rivian's gambit for full autonomy"

schmorptron — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:57:38 +0000

"here at waymo we hire a list of fall guys who will go to jail if one of our cars hits someone. its a great job, just like being oncall"

New comment by schmorptron in "Extracting Steering Vectors from J space"

schmorptron — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:43:13 +0000

Awesome, thanks!

New comment by schmorptron in "Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs"

schmorptron — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:15:59 +0000

It's kind of insane how having this tech at this speed 5 years ago would have probably still been seen as insanely useful and revolutionary. If LLMs were more capable but dramatically slower, I wonder how it would impact how we use it? Dramatically more thought being put into prompts, much more preparation probably

The Ripgrep of AI Context

schmorptron — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:39:12 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/redhat-et/ripwire

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611931

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by schmorptron in "Extracting Steering Vectors from J space"

schmorptron — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:18:57 +0000

I'm not the author, but I would like! Is it feasible to run on the same hardware as the 27b model itself?

New comment by schmorptron in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

schmorptron — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:45:05 +0000

A reminder that google is the only major lab without a meaningful opt-out of training on your data. The only way to opt out is to disable message history entirely, which seems like a darkest of dark patterns to get users to leave "opt in" to training on, because next to nobody wants to use it without message history.

New comment by schmorptron in "Understanding ChatGPT Work"

schmorptron — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:24:31 +0000

Within the general theme of token subsidies slowing down, this seems like the logical step. In my mind the timeline goes something like this product wise:

- Pepole figure out that having a general purpose not-just-coding agent actually works with newer models, openclaw and its buddies spawn

- How do you get this to the general consumer? Offer integration with services even stronger than before and give the chat a cloud vm with persistent storage as one path, claude computer use as the other.

- - Perplexity computer releases, and they slowly start nudging users from plan-included chat usage to more stongly limit using or even extra credit usage billed computer tasks

- - chatgpt and other main labs do the same with work, but they can afford to subsidize it a bit more still by just having it use codex quota

We'll see where it goes from here, but i do see the general trend of pushing people towards strongly billed features without explicitly taking away the previous chat experience because that'd make them look bad

New comment by schmorptron in "Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak"

schmorptron — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:21:09 +0000

I'd prefer that too. Preferrably with permission popups for requesting folder access outside of it. Shared libraries / whatever flatpak calls them could live at a central symlinked location?

New comment by schmorptron in "Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM"

schmorptron — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:03:50 +0000

Agreed. I've run into this way too many times, and now with a super aggressive oom killer config it still slows down until vscode or firefox just get closed. I wish it was similar to how it seems to be on MacOS from what I see on friends' screens, where theres some kind of hypervisor running that pops up a nice responsive GUI window saying "hey, xyz is using too much memory, close it or something else" while not locking up. But maybe that's also just the grass being greener on the other side?

New comment by schmorptron in "Tess's Android Wayland Compositor"

schmorptron — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:23:11 +0000

This is what the author showed off on Twitter at least, with Desktop chromium I think.

Tess's Android Wayland Compositor

schmorptron — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:34:26 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/wmww/tawc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313068

Points: 86

# Comments: 17

New comment by schmorptron in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"

schmorptron — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:05:32 +0000

The past DeepSeek models and now these new checkpoints score very badly on the ArtificialAnalysis AA-Omniscience and hallucination rate benchmarks. I wonder where that's from? Maybe they're overindexing on coding even more than others? I can't say I've noticed it in my (coding) usage so far, has anyone seen it make up potential root causes or other speculative stuff more than other models?