Hacker News: tapoxi

New comment by tapoxi in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

tapoxi — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:19:31 +0000

I don't think Uber was doing $1 trillion in infrastructure spend.

New comment by tapoxi in "Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union"

tapoxi — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:09:46 +0000

Are you sleeping in the back while the Tesla drives? Until you feel comfortable doing so, its stuck in the eternal 90%.

New comment by tapoxi in "Flatpak Will Depend on Systemd"

tapoxi — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:36:41 +0000

Seems reasonable to me, it's a rearchitecture to move things up to the systemd level where it makes sense for the majority of distributions but still allow alternative implementations.

I wouldn't recommend reading that comment thread, it immediately jumps into "this is fascism!" which is why it's hard to take people seriously sometimes.

New comment by tapoxi in "Vivaldi 8.0"

tapoxi — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:27:38 +0000

I love Zen but it doesn't support TouchID passkey auth on macOS. I'm someone who needs to Okta with multiple times a day, and this drove me to use Vivaldi instead.

New comment by tapoxi in "Vivaldi 8.0"

tapoxi — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:25:09 +0000

This has been a lost cause for the past decade or so. Web developers don't target Firefox anymore because a 5% share isn't enough to matter.

Both projects (Chromium and Firefox) are open, so it's like Linux vs FreeBSD, but at least FreeBSD has a clear licensing advantage.

New comment by tapoxi in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

tapoxi — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:34:17 +0000

The difference is in motive. You want to have a cheap energy bill, the energy company wants to make a profit that grows every quarter. Those two goals are eternally at odds.

New comment by tapoxi in "The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"

tapoxi — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:11:25 +0000

Tokenmaxing?

New comment by tapoxi in "Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads"

tapoxi — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:14:13 +0000

Why not just text people? Am I missing something?

New comment by tapoxi in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

tapoxi — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:58:58 +0000

I built a Linux gaming PC a few years ago, running Bazzite.

AMD is much better. Nvidia has been improving but stuff "just works" with AMD because the kernel (amdgpu) and userspace (RADV) drivers are open source. Valve is a major RADV contributor too.

I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything with my 9070 XT. Performance is great.

New comment by tapoxi in "Googlebook"

tapoxi — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:29:11 +0000

GFiber isn't owned by Google anymore, which is why they changed the name. They're now part of Astound.

New comment by tapoxi in "Googlebook"

tapoxi — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:25:54 +0000

Historically the Chromebook target market is students, where this AI will probably be disabled by the school.

Unless these things are much cheaper than a Macbook Neo, I don't see it succeeding.

New comment by tapoxi in "Googlebook"

tapoxi — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:05:46 +0000

Something I appreciate about ChromeOS is that updates are basically invisible. I'm worried they're gonna fuck up and overcomplicate something simple by having it run full-blown Android.

Just think of all the times that you're happily using a browser and now these sites are going to demand you install an app after they detected you can because of the user agent. Ugh.

New comment by tapoxi in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

tapoxi — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:53:28 +0000

I joked about this on HN a few weeks ago and I find it funny that we ended up here already. Goodhart's Law in action.

New comment by tapoxi in "HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression (DSC) Ready for Amdgpu Linux Driver"

tapoxi — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:23:47 +0000

For HDMI 2.0. For HDMI 2.1 and 4K/120hz you're looking at north of $25 and don't get VRR support.

New comment by tapoxi in "HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression (DSC) Ready for Amdgpu Linux Driver"

tapoxi — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:06:59 +0000

Most TVs don't have DisplayPort

New comment by tapoxi in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

tapoxi — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:57:23 +0000

They actually fixed the Gitaly thing a month or two ago

New comment by tapoxi in "Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2"

tapoxi — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:18:17 +0000

Steam Deck starts at almost the same price - $549. The base model was discontinued. The Switch 2 has superior performance, an inferior screen, and comes with the dock + detachable controllers.

New comment by tapoxi in "I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook"

tapoxi — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:13:08 +0000

I really enjoy ChromeOS, though I'm worried a lot of its simplicity will go away as Google transitions to Android-based laptops. My wife and I use an Asus Chromebook Flip as a kitchen/living room computer that we don't need to think about. No software updates, it just surfs the web and we can flip it into tablet mode if we want to.

New comment by tapoxi in "Ted Turner has died"

tapoxi — Thu, 07 May 2026 01:51:51 +0000

I never knew this.

Also if you're in the Boston/Cambridge area, WMBR is a fun and weird listen and clearly sounds like college radio when compared to something like WERS.

New comment by tapoxi in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

tapoxi — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:52:51 +0000

The driver exists in the proprietary Steam client, not in SteamOS itself.