Hacker News: thrownawaysz

New comment by thrownawaysz in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"

thrownawaysz — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:34:39 +0000

I am not using any of these AI tools. I thought it was basically given that any single thing you write in these systems also used by the companies. On the other hand now I understand why there are so much projects about hosting AI systems locally.

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf]"

thrownawaysz — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:01:41 +0000

"FILE WILL BE DELETED AFTER PRINTING"

hah I've never seen that before but reminds me to roguelike games.

"permadeath coding" would be actually fun. IF compiler error THEN erase code repository or something like this

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10"

thrownawaysz — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:41:27 +0000

This is what I meant by my last sentence.

Easy Anti cheat works as a software but doesn't work as an anti cheat system.

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10"

thrownawaysz — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:29:04 +0000

But they are not selling the game for Linux. Only for Windows. It's another story that it works because of Proton but technically they don't support the platform at all.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/304390/FOR_HONOR/

https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/help/for-honor/article/system-...

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10"

thrownawaysz — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:28:09 +0000

Valve can't even make their own anti cheat system work (VAC) on Windows let alone on Linux so not surprised that 3rd party publishers with 3rd party anti cheat system is giving up. I mean they technically work as a software but they don't fullfil their purpose, to block cheaters.

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Overcooked? Why robotic pizza makers are failing"

thrownawaysz — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:34:30 +0000

I've had my fair share of shitty human made pizza so this kind of sounds like the autonomous taxi news cycle to me

Thousands of car crashes a day > not a news

A Waymo crashed > national news

Humans making shitty pizza is not a news. But robots burning a pizza is a news. It'll get better.

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us"

thrownawaysz — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:52:45 +0000

I'm too small brain to understand the whole monopoly in my own business aspect. Because they are not arguing about game exclusivity, you can buy the same game most of the time on Xbox, Switch, PC (and if not that's an entirely different story) but the fact they want to buy on that platform (Playstation) but from a different store (not Sony). Can't wrap my head around that logic.

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices"

thrownawaysz — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:04:47 +0000

I use Klarna all the time but I always felt that it’s more suited for fast fashion, Shein, Aliexpress etc kind of like sites. Apple giving them a huge business here selling millions of iPhones.

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)"

thrownawaysz — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:39:59 +0000

I'd never call someone from the Netherlands north European, it's western Europe

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July"

thrownawaysz — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:06:55 +0000

In another news the sales of +10 years old diesel cars are not dropping in Romania and Bulgaria and Hungary and the Balkan countries

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Donate to GrapheneOS"

thrownawaysz — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:11:37 +0000

I always found it funny that the first step of leaving the Google smartphone ecosystem is to buy a Google phone

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Geekbench 7"

thrownawaysz — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:20:11 +0000

Never really liked Geekbench. Synthetic benchmarks are easy to use and easy to understand but borderline useless. 1000 is better than 990 but it literally doesn't mean anything at all. Just an example: the 2017 Intel Xeon gets more points than an Apple M1 on multicore but everyone knows that they are incomparable. And no one should get a 2017 Intel Xeon because it's scoring higher yet that's the whole point of Geekbench, higher score is better.

Benchmarks like 7Zip compression/decompression, LAME encoding, Blackmagic RAW video encoding, Cinebench, x265 encoding, Blender encoding, Y Cruncher, and any of the built-in video game benchmarks make much more sense than Geekbench.

Some good benchmark options here https://hwbot.org/benchmarks

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_with_built-i...

New comment by thrownawaysz in "RISC-V Is Inevitable: State of the Union Keynote Argues"

thrownawaysz — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:18:47 +0000

If we go by Apple's architecture history we will get a new one, maybe RISC-V, in 2036.

m68k (1984) > PPC (1994) - 10 years

PPC (1994) > x86 (2006) - 12 years

x86 (2006) > ARM64 (2020) - 14 years

ARM64 (2020) > ??? (2036) - 16 years

New comment by thrownawaysz in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

thrownawaysz — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:39:59 +0000

>the difficulty of transporting extremely heavy 155-millimeter artillery shells and guided multiple-launch rocket system pods across contested oceans and degraded theater road networks

I found it interesting that not even this article thinks about it that the US mainland ever can be attacked

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Grok 4.5"

thrownawaysz — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:04:55 +0000

Is there a reason the AI companies usually announce new products so close to each other. Like not just the same day but literally hours apart. GPT Live then an hour later Grok 4.5. As if they try to one up. I expect something new from Anhtropic as well today.

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020)"

thrownawaysz — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:22:09 +0000

>with a healthy dose of orientalism added on top

Also known as 'Thing, Japan'. HN eats up articles like this every single week.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/thing-japan

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

thrownawaysz — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:39:32 +0000

>Meet Mike. Mike is a college freshman who is exposed to crypto through social media. He downloads Coinbase, buys ten dollars of CumRocket because his friend group is in on it, watches the price move, and feels for the first time the dopamine rush of gambling on non-economic random walks. By his sophomore year he is onto harder drugs: 0DTE options on triple-leveraged single-stock ETFs he does not understand, traded on a gamified brokerage built to look like a video game. By twenty-two he has a Kalshi account, because betting on the outcome of a presidential primary or a reality television show winner has been reframed as participation in financial markets. By twenty-four he has hit rock bottom in the sportsbook, firing off ten-leg parlays on Tibetan ping-pong and third-division water polo at two in the morning because the games he has actually heard of no longer move fast enough to feel like anything. Mike believes he is investing. Mike is gambling. Mike is on the express train to a gambling addiction, and he is meaningfully poorer at every stop along the way.

tbh that reads a bit like the war on drugs propaganda we got in school back then. You don't want to try the devil's lettuce cause in 2 years you will be a homeless heroin addict in San Francisco, or worse!

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

thrownawaysz — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:32:00 +0000

I wish I have the means to travel to Japan right now because prices never been cheaper, especially food. Feels like missing out on a great opportunity

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes"

thrownawaysz — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:27:30 +0000

> All of the German car makers

The basic Seat Leon combi is currently 22.000€ on promotion. And that's a spacious family car. No EV car exist at that price point in that size with a range that most people would be comfortable with it.

Yes they will exist in the future but we are still a decade away from that at least.

New comment by thrownawaysz in "Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS"

thrownawaysz — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:44:58 +0000

That's a regional feature not available everywhere