<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: sounds</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sounds</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:20:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sounds" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sounds in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is an interesting thought exercise. I immediately thought of the counter argument that Apple's driver quality is worse, especially for laptops nearing end of life (for the sake of argument assume this were true).<p>Could I then submit a warranty claim and demand Apple replace my aging laptop with their latest model?</p>
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<p>Question: did the hints given at <a href="https://frame.work/nextgen" rel="nofollow">https://frame.work/nextgen</a> include any secret messages you want the public to know about? Maybe the secret was missed during the run up to today?</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://community.frame.work/t/oshe-framework-magnetic-charging-connector-card/81798">https://community.frame.work/t/oshe-framework-magnetic-charging-connector-card/81798</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753272">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753272</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:18:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://community.frame.work/t/oshe-framework-magnetic-charging-connector-card/81798</link><dc:creator>sounds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753272</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sounds in "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bank is saying it doesn't want your money, correct?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:43:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491079</link><dc:creator>sounds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491079</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sounds in "Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Didn't they announce they were selling it off a while back? I thought the reason was it's not very much like the other things Google does.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 04:03:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373225</link><dc:creator>sounds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373225</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sounds in "Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I just don't know if the human capital is there.<p>> At my job we use HyperV, and finding someone who actually knows HyperV is difficult and expensive...<p>Try offering significantly higher pay.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:02:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47240352</link><dc:creator>sounds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47240352</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47240352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sounds in "iPhone 16 Best-Selling Smartphone in 2025; Apple Takes 7 Spots in Top Models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Samsung seems to be targetting a sweet spot. "Costs less than Apple, superficially looks like an iPhone, product lineup includes smaller form factors, good enough."<p>It doesn't work for me, but that's because I courageously use my headphone jack.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:00:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46817317</link><dc:creator>sounds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46817317</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46817317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sounds in "What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The US clean energy tax credit is only available for equipment installed on or before Dec 31, 2025 <a href="https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/residential-clean-energy-credit" rel="nofollow">https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/residential-clean-ene...</a><p>As a result, more used solar should become available on ebay. I'm excited to see what I can do on a shoe string budget.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:04:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602803</link><dc:creator>sounds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602803</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sounds in "Texas first state to end American bar association oversight of law schools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Bar Reciprocity" or "Reciprocal Admission" lets a lawyer do something like move to a different state.<p>Example: Maine <a href="https://www.mainebar.org/page/ReciprocalAdmission" rel="nofollow">https://www.mainebar.org/page/ReciprocalAdmission</a><p>Texas State Bar is still a thing. This means that it has split from the American Bar Association, but the legal system of Texas is still part of the US Legal system.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:10:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546520</link><dc:creator>sounds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546520</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sounds in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What I don't understand is how this new type of asset is above reproach.<p>I mean BlackRock and Blackstone creating securities backed by real estate in general, not only single family homes.<p>What if this new type of asset signals to the broader real estate market that regulators favor large investors?<p>Even more likely, what if this new type of asset succeeds at the expense of first time home buyers?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:28:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46539441</link><dc:creator>sounds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46539441</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46539441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sounds in "Singularity Rootkit: SELinux bypass and netlink filter (ss/conntrack hidden)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you think malware creators find out by reading HN or github? I don't understand the vitriol, the request "Github should take a harder stance" could have a chilling effect on security researchers, pushing high impact exploits deeper underground.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:25:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502608</link><dc:creator>sounds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502608</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sounds in "Show HN: ZXC – Asymmetric, +40% decode vs. LZ4 on ARM (C, BSD-3, Fuzzed)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you want to see a comparison against an even broader set of open source compression algos, this is lzbench (it's linked directly from the ZXC github page)<p>lzbench has added ZXC to its suite. This makes a nice apples to apples comparison possible.<p><a href="https://github.com/inikep/lzbench" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/inikep/lzbench</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 04:47:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342329</link><dc:creator>sounds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342329</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sounds in "NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For those of us near Boulder, it's urgent.<p>But the stratum 1 time servers can shrug and route around the damage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:17:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337220</link><dc:creator>sounds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337220</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sounds in "Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>100% this. Wikipedia article on qwerty:<p>"The QWERTY layout became popular with the success of the Remington No. 2 of 1878...<p>"The 0 key was added and standardized in its modern position early in the history of the typewriter, but the 1 and exclamation point were left off some typewriter keyboards into the 1970s."<p>There's always a few oddball variations. But desk work will probably use a qwerty keyboard in the year 2100</p>
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<p>A college level approach could look at the line between Math/Science/Physics and Philosophy. One thing from the article that stood out to me was that the introduction to their approach started with a problem about classifying a traffic light. Is it red or green?<p>But the accompanying XY plot showed samples that overlapped or at least were ambiguous. I immediately lost a lot of my interest in their approach, because traffic lights by design are very clearly red, or green. There aren't mauve or taupe lights that the local populace laughs at and says, "yes, that's mostly red."<p>I like the idea of studying math by using ML examples. I'm guessing this is a first step and future education will have better examples to learn from.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:02:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248920</link><dc:creator>sounds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248920</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46248920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sounds in "Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm switching to DisplayPort</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:09:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223028</link><dc:creator>sounds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223028</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sounds in "First device based on 'optical thermodynamics' can route light without switches"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The writeup on phys.org is troublesome at best. Starting with the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, it buries the rest of that sentence in paragraph 5: USC (University of Southern California) and the Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany.<p>This team has made a nonlinear lattice that relies on something they call "Joule-Thomson-like expansion." The Joule-Thomsen effect is the ideal gas law in beginning science. PV=nRT. Compression heats a gas, expansion cools a gas.<p>Why they're studying the equivalent photonics principle [1] is that it focuses an array of inputs, "causing light to condense at a single spot, regardless of the initial excitation position." Usually the problem is that light is linearly independent: two beams blissfully ignore each other. To do useful switching or compute, one of the beams has to be able to act as a control signal.<p>A photon gas doesn't conserve the number of particles (n) like beginning physics would suggest. This lets the temperature of the gas control the output.<p>The temperature, driven by certain specific inputs, produces the nonlinear response. I didn't see a specific claim what gain they achieved.<p>This paper is more on the theoretical end of photonics research. Practical research such as at UBC Vancouver [2] where a device does "weight update speed of 60 GHz" and for clustering it can do "112 x 112-pixel images" - the tech doesn't compete well against electronics yet.<p>TSMC and NVidia are attempting photonics plays too. But they're only achieving raw I/O with photons. They can attach the fiber directly to the chip to save watts and boost speeds.<p>Basic physics gets in the way too. A photon's wavelength at near UV is 400 nanometers, but the transistors in a smartphone are measured at 7 nanometers ish. Electrical conduction is fundamentally smaller than a waveguide for light. Where light could maybe outshine electrons is in switching speed. But this research paper doesn't claim high switching speed.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_gas" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_gas</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53261-x" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53261-x</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 20:53:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45573233</link><dc:creator>sounds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45573233</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45573233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sounds in "Framework Laptop 16"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I (pre) ordered one. I'd be so excited if the haptic super-wide touchpad made an appearance, even if in some limited form.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:30:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45031143</link><dc:creator>sounds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45031143</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45031143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sounds in "Enigma Crypto Transmission on Saturday August 30, 2025 @ 2000 GMT"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Will there be more such events? I know this one is only a few days away.</p>
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<p>Admittedly, Valorant still has a cheating problem. But cheating is already less successful due to server side sim. Next gen games will have improved cheat detection, eventually leading to cheating drying up.</p>
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