Hacker News: simpleintheory

New comment by simpleintheory in "The browser's main thread is expensive"

simpleintheory — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:22:23 +0000

I made a project a while back to port Minecraft's desktop version to the web and it runs decently-ish on a good computer with WebGPU (but takes a really long time to load)

[1]: https://owlcraft.raymondjxu.net

Meta bricked the cameras on its AI glasses

simpleintheory — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:13:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-glasses-camera-disabled-tampering-recording-light-update-2026-9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540175

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by simpleintheory in "Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext"

simpleintheory — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:04:53 +0000

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156231

New comment by simpleintheory in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex"

simpleintheory — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:44:59 +0000

They're already doing this under the name "fast answers"

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1stsxvc/new_feature...

New comment by simpleintheory in "Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]"

simpleintheory — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:00:06 +0000

https://developers.meta.com/horizon/blog/unlocking-oculus-go...

New comment by simpleintheory in "GenCAD"

simpleintheory — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:22:46 +0000

Yeah, TIL, turns out they changed the license: it used to be under https://fonts.google.com/license/productsans

New comment by simpleintheory in "GenCAD"

simpleintheory — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:09:54 +0000

Is this Google-affiliated? The heading font is Product/Google Sans which IIRC only Alphabet is allowed to use and the entire webpage seems to be Google-style but neither of the two named researchers seem to be employed by Google?

New comment by simpleintheory in "Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors"

simpleintheory — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:55:56 +0000

Are you sure it wasn’t one of these? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito

Hair Dryer Used to Manipulate Polymarket

simpleintheory — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:19:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/someone-allegedly-used-a-hairdryer-to-rig-polymarket-weather-bets-155312411.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905149

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Australia Mandates Encryption Backdoors

simpleintheory — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 02:39:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/australia-encryption-law-global-impact/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45830772

Points: 32

# Comments: 6

New comment by simpleintheory in "Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time"

simpleintheory — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:35:14 +0000

I'm not sure whether to be amused or annoyed by this comment (generated in the style of ChatGPT).

New comment by simpleintheory in "Apple rumored to be working on a smart home operating system version"

simpleintheory — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 18:02:18 +0000

It’s supported for iPads, just locked by software [1].

1: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/deployment/dep9a34c2ba...

New comment by simpleintheory in "ChatGPT-5 Can't Do Basic Math"

simpleintheory — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 19:42:13 +0000

Can confirm this is happening with the same prompt -- it even tries to justify that 5.9 is less than 5.11 when asked further.

[1] https://chatgpt.com/share/689652e0-c2ac-8004-811b-0856a76fe2...

New comment by simpleintheory in "Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs"

simpleintheory — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 11:54:35 +0000

That’s because it’s intended as a workstation GPU not one used in servers

New comment by simpleintheory in "TSMC says employees tried to steal trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process"

simpleintheory — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:58:41 +0000

The original link from Nikkei Asia that the 9to5mac article is a repost of has some more information and less generic filler:

Link: https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/tsmc-fires-worke...

Archive: https://archive.ph/ta1kq

TikTok prepares US app with its own algorithm and user data

simpleintheory — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:29:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/tiktok-prepares-us-app-with-its-own-algorithm-user-data-2025-07-09/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44531911

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Thefacebook (2004)

simpleintheory — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:55:12 +0000

Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20040212031928/https://www.thefacebook.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229961

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by simpleintheory in "Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996)"

simpleintheory — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:50:39 +0000

Previously discussed:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16299441 (2018)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5387052 (2013)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3274335 (2011)

New comment by simpleintheory in "Next stop: Miami"

simpleintheory — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:44:48 +0000

I think the most interesting part is that the article says that Waymo's handing its operations to Moove. It seems like Waymo's trying to become a software provider while having other companies handle the capital-intensive parts.

Reducing Instagram's basic video compute time by 94 percent

simpleintheory — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:20:27 +0000

Article URL: https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/04/video-engineering/instagram-video-processing-encoding-reduction/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41192476

Points: 2

# Comments: 0