Hacker News: ta988

New comment by ta988 in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

ta988 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:31:19 +0000

I warned them about the risk of those things and showed them what I found, they continued buying the next generation (that person and his two >40yo kids). They NEEDED to watch those soccer games more than they cared about security...

New comment by ta988 in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

ta988 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:19:15 +0000

A familly member had one of those (he had to pay a yearly subscription in addition to the stick). Network would be unusable as soon as it was on for anyone else, and it also tried to scan things on the local network. It was indeed connecting to all kind of services all over the world (and saturating some tables in the router doing so which blocked other clients). Definitely evil, definitely on purpose.

New comment by ta988 in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

ta988 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:40:39 +0000

Windows is malware that pulls other malware.

Ableton Live 12, Max for Live and Push on Linux

ta988 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:57:01 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/shibco/ableton-linux

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953098

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by ta988 in "Unlimited OCR: One-Shot Long-Horizon Parsing"

ta988 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:29:26 +0000

This is already used in OCR, tesseract uses that.

New comment by ta988 in "Unlimited OCR: One-Shot Long-Horizon Parsing"

ta988 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:28:45 +0000

I don't think that's a universal statement that aplies to every kind of documents and languages. Mistral OCR is able to do things no "traditional" OCR was ever able to.

New comment by ta988 in "Unlimited OCR: One-Shot Long-Horizon Parsing"

ta988 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:21:18 +0000

Cost, throughput, latency...

New comment by ta988 in "Biohub releases a world model of protein biology"

ta988 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:02:56 +0000

Boltz (they likely have private ones with their company now), ESM are MIT licensed as well. Alphafold older versions were Apache. In this specific subfield, it looks like open is more common than not.

New comment by ta988 in "Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute"

ta988 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:25:45 +0000

Didn't Anthropic pull the same in both ways? you pull me up I pull you up kind of deal? Sounds like SpaceX bought themselves some time up to Q4, which is not the case of Anthropic and even worse for OpenAI. Not counting that none of them got their S&P500 fast-track ticket.

New comment by ta988 in "Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day"

ta988 — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:06:10 +0000

the volume of CO2 is negliglible (ppms) and it uses often Oxygen from the air.

New comment by ta988 in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

ta988 — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:42:32 +0000

search for eminent domain in the us, it can be much worse than just $100

New comment by ta988 in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

ta988 — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:40:58 +0000

and pensions...

I, robe-ot: the Android monk working to reboot the faith of S. Korea's Buddhists

ta988 — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:03:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/08/jogyesa-temple-south-korea-humanoid-ai-robot-gabi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060097

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Canonical Under Attack

ta988 — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:03:54 +0000

Article URL: https://status.canonical.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989372

Points: 69

# Comments: 29

New comment by ta988 in "Ti-84 Evo"

ta988 — Sat, 02 May 2026 09:22:22 +0000

rigidity

New comment by ta988 in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

ta988 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:49:28 +0000

The question is, do they wear faster than they become obsolete, as in much more expensive to run than buying a new one with higher compute/watt. (and you can also factor in the ability to run latest models at usable speed)

New comment by ta988 in "Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects"

ta988 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:10:15 +0000

Apple has done the exact same with its iphone app store, lots of companies got shut down because of their app not beeing available anymore with no explanation. The problem is with exclusive app stores.

New comment by ta988 in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

ta988 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:07:01 +0000

Word on the street is that Anthropic is roughly at half that. Hard to know what they include and not, and what their real, non-subsidized costs are.

New comment by ta988 in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

ta988 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:03:57 +0000

yup and begging for retailers money.

New comment by ta988 in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

ta988 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:02:09 +0000

that's why they have to open through banks and other less valuable more sliced share system.