<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: sspiff</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sspiff</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 18:49:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sspiff" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I have yet to see a documented example of a system prompt leak that was NOT the real system prompt. Have you seen one?<p>I have yet to see a convincing proof that there is a teapot in an orbit around the sun between earth and mars.<p>The people who can debunk these system prompts claims have zero incentive to do so.<p>The fact that a lot of these "leaks" happen yet non of the prompts are the same or even seem to be different iterations of the same family of system prompts, should tell you all you need to know.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 05:58:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263850</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263850</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Posts like these happen every other week with people thinking they've got some magic sauce.<p>Every time it turns out to be hallucinations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 13:21:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222198</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222198</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "StarFighter 16-Inch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To consumers. You can sell to businesses.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 06:08:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032834</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OP, the Badger Badger link is leading to a wiki page about the dead Internet theory.<p>Here's the correct link for all to enjoy: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI</a><p>Used to be just a Flash animation on Weebl's stuff, but preserved on YouTube by the OG :)</p>
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<p>There is precedent for this kind of trickery being played.<p>For example, Honeywell acquired Garrett AiResearch, a well known manufacturer of turbochargers for combustion engines, through a series of mergers.<p>Later on, it loaded them up with debt (over $1.5 billion, mostly asbestos related indemnity obligations from other parts of the business), before spinning them out as an independent entity again. Two years later, Garrett filed for bankruptcy claiming it was succumbing to the unsustainable debt burden placed upon it by its former owner.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 11:35:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007383</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007383</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "Show HN: ctx – an Agentic Development Environment (ADE)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is the point of hosting a GitHub repo[0] with nothing in it but some links to your domain? There's no code, no license, no nothing.<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/ctxrs/ctx" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ctxrs/ctx</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:41:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628051</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628051</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's wild that none of these are set by default.<p>I know 90% of people I've worked with will never know these options exist.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:26:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584770</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584770</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The controllers which support ECC are usually a lot better and able to handle more channels. They also typically require active cooling.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:44:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566506</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566506</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a common issue on consumer boards with DDR5 and more than two DIMMs installed.<p>Doesn’t affect soldered memory or lower speed memory (like DDR4). Many memory controllers fail to achieve good speeds and timings at all on 4 DDR5 DIMMs, and fall back to running DDR5 at 3600MHz instead.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 05:56:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47560733</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47560733</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47560733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I bought 192GB (4x 48GB) of DDR5-6400 for 299 euro in September but returned it because I couldn't get 4 DIMMS to run at decent speeds in the system.<p>6 or so weeks after I returned it the kit was listed at 1499.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:33:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47552410</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47552410</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47552410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "Swift 6.3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's been a long time since I came across Nim. I thought it was really interesting about 12 years ago. What made you land on Nim instead of any of the more obvious alternatives?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:21:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533166</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533166</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I haven't bought an 8GB laptop since probably 2012 when I got a Sony Vaio that they upgrade to 12GB for free because of a delivery delay. I wouldn't buy an 8GB device in 2026, but this device isn't targeted at either of us.<p>For a lot of people who are looking at sub $800 laptops, the option to get an Apple will probably be enough to convince them. And apart from the limited memory, it really isn't a bad buy.<p>I also fully expect most budget devices to ship with 8GB of memory until the end of the DDR5 crisis anyway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:19:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47371847</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47371847</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47371847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "FrameBook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kristoffer Ericson was the driving force behind JLime Linux.<p>Along with OpenZaurus, these early hobbyist efforts to run Linux on embedded devices formed the basis of what became OpenEmbedded and has since been renamed Yocto, still one of the most commonly used embedded Linux development platforms.<p>I miss those days.</p>
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<p>I used to run Linux (JLime Linux) and NetBSD on those. I did prefer the bigger NEC MobilePro competitors though, but I spent so much time on those Jornadas in college.</p>
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<p>Same. I was on macOS for work for about 3 years. Never gelled with me.<p>I was on an M2 Macbook Pro with Asahi and it was great. It's really hard to fault Apple's hardware for most use cases.<p>I'm currently on a Strix Halo laptop (HP Zbook), which is about as expensive, and the hardware is great, but power efficiency and build quality lag leagues behind by Apple. A 4000 euro laptop still feels like a cheap toy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:42:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234064</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234064</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm fine with providing my identity for online banking and other finance platforms for legal & taxation purposes.<p>I can't think of a single other use case in which I'd be willing to verify my identity. I'd rather go back to hosting email myself, and am fine with circumventing content access control for all other platforms for personal use.<p>We're seeing the world slide towards authoritarian strongmen, and we want to give them a massive index of who we are and what we do? I'd rather not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:39:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234026</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234026</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "LineageOS 23.2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most modern manufacturers disallow unlocking the bootloader and flashing unsigned firmware, which is a requirement for this kind of thing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 08:21:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46932417</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46932417</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46932417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It turns of any features that introduce latency - it will still mess up the colour space/brightness/saturation/... on most TVs.</p>
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<p>Add to that a case, PSU and monitor and you're realitically over $1000</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 07:28:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252780</link><dc:creator>sspiff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252780</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sspiff in "macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is no way to achieve a high throughput low latency connection between 25 Strix Halo systems. After accounting for storage and network, there are barely any PCIe lanes left to link two of them together.<p>You might be able to use USB4 but unsure how the latency is for that.</p>
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