Hacker News: soci

New comment by soci in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

soci — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:19:03 +0000

Back in the day I was a hardcore Mac nerd and became a professional at it too. My best reverse-engineering trophy was building one of the first "iOS" apps when there was not an official appstore for the iPhone.

But man, this is way ahead of what I could do. What this dude accomplished blew my mind. Not only the output (running MacOS on a Wii), but the detailed post itself. A-MA-ZING.

New comment by soci in "Lunar Flyby"

soci — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:54:30 +0000

We already have images from the far side of the moon since the 2009's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter [1].

In theory, LRO is currently flying at lower orbit than Artemis I mission [2]. Shouldn't the LRO images be better? Maybe NASA has not disclosed all images?

Honest question: why the hype with these pictures?

[1] https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4109

[2] Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) -> ~50 km vs. Artemis I -> ~129 km

New comment by soci in "Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++"

soci — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:44:34 +0000

Why is this comment downvoted? I mean, is it downvoted because Rust is bad for embeded systems?

New comment by soci in "Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986"

soci — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 08:01:57 +0000

Reading between the lines, the game logic itself hasn’t been reverse engineered yet, so adding, changing, or fixing logic still means working with the original code that only Michael Jenkins understands to this day. In any case: massive props to Ben. This feels like a strong foundation, and I’m excited to see him continue evolving the game.

New comment by soci in "John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025"

soci — Fri, 23 May 2025 14:33:53 +0000

Thank you. You are right, most likely the ones working in the field haven't switched. But the truth is that big bucks are in pretrained technologies. As Carmack himself said, "there are plenty of people advancing the state of the art there".

New comment by soci in "John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025"

soci — Fri, 23 May 2025 14:09:08 +0000

> Fundamentally, I believe in the importance of learning from a stream of interactive experience, as humans and animals do, which is quite different from the throw-everything-in-a-blender approach of pretraining an LLM. The blender approach can still be world-changingly valuable, but there are plenty of people advancing the state of the art there.

It's a shame that pretrained approach leads to such good enough result. The learning-from-experience, or what should be the "right" approach, will stagnate. I might be wrong, but it seems that aside from Carmack and a small team, "the world" is just not looking/investing on that side of the AI anymore.

However, I find it funny that Carmack is now researching for such approach. At the end of the day, he was the one who invented Portals, an algorithm to circumvent the need to reproduce the whole 3D world and therefore making 3D games computationally possible.

As a side note, I wonder what models are to come once we see the latest state of the art AI Video training technologies, in synch with the joystick movements from a real player. Maybe the results are so astonishing that even Carmack changes his mind on the subject.

EDIT::grammar & typos

New comment by soci in "Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal"

soci — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:40:43 +0000

MasMovil / Orange. Yesterday connection went on and off while the router powered by and UPS. But since last night, the fiber does not sync with the GPON anymore.

New comment by soci in "Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal"

soci — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:33:18 +0000

I'm from Spain, electricity is almost fully restored in my area. But my fiber network is still down, same with the buildin elevators. People do not realise that when the backup supplies (batteries, diesel, whatever...) get drained, a cold start of non electric infrastructure could also be needed because syncornizing a mesh of unstable IT systems is tricky by itself, in some cases needing physical access.

EDIT:: typos

New comment by soci in "macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)"

soci — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:00:09 +0000

> Open/Save Dialogs

> Drag a file or folder from Finder into an open/save dialog to jump directly to that file.

Doesn't work consistently anymore (Sequoia 15.2). Instead of focusing on the file, it moves the file you selected from Finder to the folder shown in the save dialog. It completely breaks the workflow.

Surprisingly, it works as expected one out of ten times. It seems to depend on where on the save dialog you drag the file from Finder. Extremely frustrating!

New comment by soci in "Hotline for modern Apple systems"

soci — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 10:51:18 +0000

I owned a Hotline server back in the day. Fun times! I ran it for three full years from my student shell account at my college’s HP-UX server. It was a T3 connection so it was faaaast as hell. It got completely unnoticed by the sysadmins… until it didn’t! They got so mad when finding out that I got my account suspended for months.

New comment by soci in "Show HN: Documind – Open-source AI tool to turn documents into structured data"

soci — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 23:16:22 +0000

agreed, extracting tables in pdfs using any of the available openAI models has been a waste of prompting time here too.

New comment by soci in "Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in US court ruling"

soci — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:53:32 +0000

> the companies, which use screen-scraping software to find and resell tickets, add additional charges and make it difficult for the airline to contact passengers.

AFAIK, it's impossible to resell flight tickets in EU, they are attached to real names that are checked upon boarding time. If wonder how did Booking manage to resell Ryanair tickets at scale?

New comment by soci in "Gpu.cpp: A lightweight library for portable low-level GPU computation"

soci — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 15:51:09 +0000

I watched the video mentioned in the post [1], but now I’m more confused than before…

What are the benefits, if any, of using gpu.cpp instead of just webgpu.h (webgpu native) directly? Maybe each is tailored for different use cases?

[1] https://youtu.be/qHrx41aOTUQ?si=CehJnYQWCg3XklHj

New comment by soci in "Batteries: How cheap can they get?"

soci — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 05:57:22 +0000

in Spain we call them “chispas”, which literally means sparks. An electrician is someone who knows the home electrical wiring stuff, while a chispas is someone who is skilled in repairing home appliances.

New comment by soci in "Llama-agents: an async-first framework for building production ready agents"

soci — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 21:54:39 +0000

or a stack!

New comment by soci in "Show HN: The Tomb of Nefertari [QV 66] Guided Virtual Tour"

soci — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:40:12 +0000

Amazing, thanks for helping anyone in the world explore Nefertari's tomb. The rest of the site is also amazing!

For Nefertari's, did you just use a camera and tripod to scanned the tomb you have a sort of 3d map of the tomb ? If so, what equipment did you use?

In case it helps the author, it crashes in Safari et when at some point (random) during the visit (v. 17.2.1 on a M1 Pro MBPro). Works perfect on Brave

How to Upgrade Apple M1 SSD (DIY Video)

soci — Mon, 13 May 2024 14:47:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KgQJQdwSEk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40343965

Points: 1

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New comment by soci in "Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'"

soci — Fri, 10 May 2024 14:03:37 +0000

What’s most surprising is how the ad went live without nobody pressing the ”Retry” button to build a new ad idea, neither in the chain of command at Apple nor at the creative agency, if any. It’s like everybody everybody, one after the other in the chain of decisions, eluded their responsability. Why?

New comment by soci in "Show HN: I made an app that helps you find where to stream movies and TV shows"

soci — Wed, 01 May 2024 06:33:13 +0000

hmm, I don’t share the same experience. Works flawless in EU.

New comment by soci in "Show HN: I made an app that helps you find where to stream movies and TV shows"

soci — Wed, 01 May 2024 05:34:04 +0000

At first, I thought you built a justwatch.com clone. But, after a quick inspection I realized you solve a related but different use-case where the user already paid for the streaming service holding the rights to the media, but not necessarily match the user’s country location. By enabling the user to check in what countries the media is available you also unlock a new business model based on VPN affiliation programs (brilliant!) instead of streaming service affiliation programs like justwatch does. I wonder if both revenues models are complementary in the long run.

It’s nuts that watching media from another country for a streaming service I pay for is as easy as changing my IP to the desired country. Does it really work in this way?

Also, I hope you can provide some light on whether you are gaining any traction and unlocking vpn subcriptions revenue.

Suggestion: let the user select from what country it connects And/or automatically detect it. I’m in Europe and it’s confusing it offers me to stream from my own country using a vpn.