Hacker News: ta988

Asm.fm – just the CPU and 44100 numbers a second

ta988 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:20:02 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/whispem/asm.fm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922866

Points: 1

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New comment by ta988 in "Behold the pawpaw"

ta988 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:20:42 +0000

I am surprised it died with the mower, I had one snapped in half, put the up part in the soil, now two pawpaws...

New comment by ta988 in "Tokens too cheap to meter"

ta988 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:44:22 +0000

I read that log graph with a different conclusion, there are no more "small GPUs" and the focus is only on big ones? or is that just an artifact of the data selection?

New comment by ta988 in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"

ta988 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:53:30 +0000

Decidedly not the ones who approved the design of those fridges...

New comment by ta988 in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"

ta988 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:52:31 +0000

or at the very least go back to safe default when the computer part fails which is (should be) design 101. designing failsafe systems was one of the first thing we learned in engineering class (that was a while ago but still)...

New comment by ta988 in "Why agent harnesses need plans – and why you shouldn't compact context"

ta988 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:23:03 +0000

compact with instructions to keep the plan...

How the cocktail got its name

ta988 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:17:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.saveur.com/how-the-cocktail-got-its-name/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828167

Points: 1

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New comment by ta988 in "There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy"

ta988 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:44:50 +0000

Most of them of the B group for various reasons. Addition of vit C is not that common.

New comment by ta988 in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

ta988 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:50:23 +0000

They have had that with Apple Music ln MacOS when pressing play on BT headsets... Can't be removed on locked down machines...

New comment by ta988 in "Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service"

ta988 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:53:16 +0000

It will simply teach them how to go around those "protections". And put them at risk of using shaddy services to do so. Exactly like what happened with the war on drugs...

New comment by ta988 in "Wax motor"

ta988 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:57:12 +0000

As you seem to know how to explain that would you mind fixing it? You don't even need an account.

New comment by ta988 in "Introducing System One Models and Jev"

ta988 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:12:31 +0000

Current models go beyond the simple embedding because you start to encode groups of concepts in the context-aware part of the model (attention heads or any other method). So it is never simply words/tokens in isolation anymore.

New comment by ta988 in "Eating Fruit Skins"

ta988 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:45:36 +0000

This is what everyone poisoned with them say. And really often why they don't make the link between those and their illness.

New comment by ta988 in "Site Is Closed on Sundays"

ta988 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:44:17 +0000

They are also competitively priced for computer stuff and you are sure they are not counterfeit which is not the case on amazon (especially but not only sdcards).

New comment by ta988 in "How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret"

ta988 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 06:36:37 +0000

the value of the shares would drop anyway for the first group.

New comment by ta988 in "How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret"

ta988 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:08:08 +0000

x% of the money distributed to shareholders for how long this was going on taken from current revenue, not benefits. That should also push shareholders to do the right choices in who they support.

NetworkManager Works to Enforce AI Policy by Tricking AI Agents to Add a Canary

ta988 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:00:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetworkManager-AI-Canary

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568736

Points: 5

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New comment by ta988 in "Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)"

ta988 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:53:29 +0000

yeah they don't talk about cleaning them either... that's a massive problem in this kind of ion separation techniques, things splatter and stick everywhere.

New comment by ta988 in "Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)"

ta988 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:40:33 +0000

they can absolutely see uranium. It ionizes and thus get separated like many other things https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7470433/

Calutrons are using the same principle of separating ions by their mass/charge ratio, just in a preparative scale (you want to collect what is separated) rather than analytical (you just want to know how much of what).

New comment by ta988 in "Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)"

ta988 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:58:31 +0000

We know that intelligence tests and tests in general can be impacted by motivation and potential monetary gains (the article brushes on that). Maybe they can also be impacted by the happiness and other emotional states of the test taker.