Hacker News: scott01

New comment by scott01 in "Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?"

scott01 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:34:54 +0000

I have to say, I prefer dongles lately. There are many inexpensive hifi dongles that sound great with in-ears. They’re also USB class-compliant audio devices and work everywhere. Obviously a preference, but as other commenters have mentioned, 3.5 jacks do break, and I’ve personally broken plenty.

New comment by scott01 in "Ask HN: What can I do with a single R9700?"

scott01 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:31:00 +0000

Interesting, how did the fault happen for you? Was the PSU underpowered? I have a 850W unit, so you think it’ll be enough?

New comment by scott01 in "Ask HN: What can I do with a single R9700?"

scott01 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:38:30 +0000

With this amount of VRAM, do you happen to be using a Strix Halo or a Mac?

Ask HN: What can I do with a single R9700?

scott01 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:18:07 +0000

Hi HN,

I’m considering getting an R9700, budget only for one unit currently. Is there anything useful I can do with local LLMs within its 32G VRAM? I’m also thinking to try and learn building a simple inference engine. Any thoughts?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222031

Points: 4

# Comments: 7

12 Boards One Script

scott01 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:17:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.atomic14.com/2026/08/03/twelve-dev-boards-from-one

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154248

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by scott01 in "Banning AI will not make it go away"

scott01 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:23:54 +0000

In my experience, using chats merely as stack overflow replacement, e.g. for providing obscure API usage examples, is a huge time saver — otherwise I would’ve had to lurk around game engine sources, examples, comments, sometimes forum posts, etc. AI code reviews definitely help finding issues, especially when I work on something for more than a week and inevitably forgetting things.

New comment by scott01 in "Don't Take the Black Pill [video]"

scott01 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 10:47:55 +0000

This was a prelude to his argument for needing a set of moral standards.

New comment by scott01 in "Don't Take the Black Pill [video]"

scott01 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 10:46:49 +0000

This is an amazing and inspiring talk. Humanising and empathetic, especially when compared to the vast majority of other related content.

New comment by scott01 in "Writing a Debugger from Scratch"

scott01 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:54:26 +0000

There’s a relevant book from No Starch, highly recommend. The author also has a series of blog posts on the topic.

https://nostarch.com/building-a-debugger

New comment by scott01 in "Understanding the Odin programming language"

scott01 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:30:46 +0000

Thanks for this, I’m actually learning Rust (albeit slowly) atm, and still can’t wrap my head around how arena allocs would fit the borrow checker

New comment by scott01 in "Understanding the Odin programming language"

scott01 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:33:23 +0000

From what I understood, their critique of RAII is twofold: coupling of allocation and initialisation, and enforcement of deallocation. The ease of use of smart pointers makes it tempting to allocate/free of temporary structures even within one single function. Given enough number of such occurrences, it kills performance by a thousand cuts. Also I remember they mentioned it’s not necessary to free memory if you’re about to close your program, because the OS will take the memory back. Obviously you need to gracefully deinitialise some things, like audio or other devices, but that’s beyond the discussion.

As on some references, Ryan Fleury did an episode on Wookash podcast on RAD debugger showing ECS like approach.

IMO, their RAII critique is a but nuanced, but because of their personality the discourse often gets polarising.

Edit: the sibling comment just proved my last point.

New comment by scott01 in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

scott01 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:29:45 +0000

Projection. Your account posts mostly negative or passive aggressive comments.

New comment by scott01 in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

scott01 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:54:24 +0000

Can you elaborate?

New comment by scott01 in "Steam Machine launches today"

scott01 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:10:12 +0000

Yep, and I feel many commenters in this thread are comparing value propositions only in terms of specs. I’ve built a number of Mini-ITX cases, from 5L to 20L, and they are a pain to work with and maintain. In some cases it’s impossible to make a reasonable filtered airflow, so dust builds up very fast, and a teardown to do clean up is pretty annoying. Steam Machine looks very straightforward to maintain. And it’s also tiny and quiet.

New comment by scott01 in "SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable"

scott01 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:53:47 +0000

I believe the tools like Resolve are built around VFX reference platform specs. I doubt anyone will standardise on the basis of a rolling distro where you can’t pin glibc version. https://vfxplatform.com

New comment by scott01 in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

scott01 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:47:36 +0000

Honestly, I completely missed the quotes on the first read. I agree with the sentiment that crimes should be called out as crimes and not, e.g., ‘oopsies’.

New comment by scott01 in "The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++"

scott01 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:14:24 +0000

For type erasure (it’s sometimes useful), custom allocators, I/O, for example.

New comment by scott01 in "C++: The Documentary"

scott01 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:29:28 +0000

I agree. His negativity has probably detracted quite a few people from him that otherwise are quite aligned. Still, his historical remark is rather peculiar.

As for the language, yes, sadly, it’s with us seemingly to stay. I code it professionally and I can’t find a single interesting, or even good, thing about it. Apart from wide adoption of course. Everything about it feels extremely badly designed from the user perspective (though it’s probably technically very impressive) with many details, that probably the sanest strategy is to use a small subset of the language. At least I don’t have to use STL at work, that’s something positive, I guess :)

New comment by scott01 in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

scott01 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:28:12 +0000

Same. Also the “russophile” part sounds kinda racist.

New comment by scott01 in "Improving C# Memory Safety"

scott01 — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:59:26 +0000

I respectfully disagree — a lot of conveniences that C# provides produce GC trash which will cause frame spikes. I remember having had to add a non-allocation string.contains alternative at one project. Lambdas and linq also have this problem, or if a string is passed through native-c# boundary. Language itself is really nice though :)