Hacker News: threatripper

New comment by threatripper in "Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]"

threatripper — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:34:16 +0000

I lack a bit of context. Can you point me to a place that explains what you use?

New comment by threatripper in "Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company"

threatripper — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:17:02 +0000

Are AI agents posting this fully aware that they are AI? If they are trained only on human material they may not even understand their own true reality.

New comment by threatripper in "Tofolli gates are all you need"

threatripper — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:23:09 +0000

Could you really do general compression in this language? I was under the impression that the output is always the same size or larger than the input.

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

threatripper — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:42:27 +0000

It goes both ways. Probably both parties are partially to blame here. But it is clear that this corporation did not provide a sensible support channel for such an important project to resolve the situation quickly.

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

threatripper — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:58:05 +0000

Even if they did, it didn't work.

New comment by threatripper in "ARC-AGI-3"

threatripper — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:15:06 +0000

Or nobody is around anymore to notice when it happens.

New comment by threatripper in "Linus Torvalds vibe coding (Google's LLMs?)"

threatripper — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:39:01 +0000

Firefox Desktop on Ubuntu: same problem.

New comment by threatripper in "2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results"

threatripper — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 07:32:20 +0000

The "increased opportunity" is for advertisers. For users it will mean more ads in their search results. Not sure if they provide users with a switch to turn off the opportunities. Apple doesn't like configuration options too much, i guess users will have to live with more ads and spend extra time to find what they were searching when using the shop search where you go to search for specific apps. Maybe Apple AI will present the user with their desired search result without first scrolling through more ads but i sense that there, too, might be new opportunities.

New comment by threatripper in "Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article"

threatripper — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:06:57 +0000

Let's reiterate what a comment is.

Let's give some unrelated examples of popular comments.

New comment by threatripper in "A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad"

threatripper — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 06:16:18 +0000

That would only confuse potential buyers. You have to design everyday products for non-technical people.

New comment by threatripper in "Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand (2023)"

threatripper — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 06:21:01 +0000

This reminds me of the empty box in a corner of the workshop with the written note "Don't remove!".

New comment by threatripper in "The future of 32-bit support in the kernel"

threatripper — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 06:23:18 +0000

Won't these super old kernels basically turn into forks after some time that are maintained and even extended for special purposes?

New comment by threatripper in "Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?"

threatripper — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 05:16:46 +0000

I get like 3 hours on my MBP when I use it. MacBooks have better runtime only when they are mostly idle, not when you fully load them.

New comment by threatripper in "Intel Foundry demonstrates first Arm-based chip on 18a node"

threatripper — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 05:07:12 +0000

A little subsidy will not do it. We're talking about at least 100, 200, 400, 800 Billion Dollars in the next process generations. If it's government money, then maybe 2x-10x that to get the work done.

New comment by threatripper in "Intel Foundry demonstrates first Arm-based chip on 18a node"

threatripper — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 06:49:38 +0000

If we assume that intel gets successful with 18A with their x86 processors, would they even have the money to finance the node after that? And the node after that which gets exponentially more expensive?

In the past x86 raked in enough money to burn a lot of it on new fab tech but non-x86 has grown immensely and floods TSMC with money. The problem for intel is that their fab tech was fitted to their processor architecture and vice versa. It made sense in the past but in the future it might not. For the processor business it may be better to use TSMC for production. For the fab it may be necessary to manufacture for many customers and take a premium for being based in a country in need. So, a split-up may be inevitable and this fabbing a competitive ARM chip surely helps in attracting more customers. Customers who may pay a premium for political and security reasons.

New comment by threatripper in "A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees"

threatripper — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:12:31 +0000

1) Shrinking compared to Mobile, GPU/AI, Non-x86-Server. Manufacturing only x86-CPU will not pay for the next fab anymore.

3) PM me your number.

The fact is just that x86-CPU gets less and less important in the overall picture. It's not shrinking in total volume but in relative volume and fabs get exponentially more expensive. If Intel can make it in this generation they can't finance the next generation making only their own CPUs. They missed the big growth markets. They lost Apple as a customer. They have no GPU and no mobile chip that matters. They invested billions and billions into technology that went nowhere. Now they have to ask TSMC already to manufacture competitive CPUs. The only way this could change if Apple and/or NVidia massively start buying future capacity at intel. But why would they?

New comment by threatripper in "A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees"

threatripper — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 08:30:03 +0000

AMD could not afford their own foundries anymore. The same is likely to happen to intel. The CPU business may be sold off to some other company, so x86 and intel will "survive" for sure but they will rely on other fabs to produce and they will milk the legacy cow instead of holding the overall performance crown.

New comment by threatripper in "A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees"

threatripper — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 08:26:50 +0000

1. Desktop market share is shrinking and shrinking. 2. https://system76.com/desktops/thelio-astra-a1.1-n1/configure 3. NVidia N1x is not yet for sale but benchmarks are promising.

New comment by threatripper in "A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees"

threatripper — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:12:31 +0000

In the past AMD needed to survive for antitrust reasons. Now x86 is losing in relevance now as alternatives are established. Nobody needs to keep intel alive.

New comment by threatripper in "A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees"

threatripper — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 21:40:02 +0000

Nobody really knows if 18a is a failure or if it was turned into one by deliberate mismanagement. It feels like when Microsoft took over Nokia.