Hacker News: topato

New comment by topato in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

topato — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:48:48 +0000

“DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA OF THE PRICE FOR THE PARTS AND LABOR TO REPLACE A SINGLE, GENUINE, APPLE-BRAND, 2021, MACBOOK PRO KEYCAP?!?! CALL THE ACCOUNTANTS, WE WONT BE PAYING TAXES FOR A FEW YEARS!!!”

New comment by topato in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

topato — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:39:50 +0000

DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS. DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS. WHOOOOOOOOOO!!!

also, where is the new version of Visual Basic, Ballmer? Your sweaty chants can only distract me for so long…. Wait….. ITS BEEN TWENTY YEARS!?!?

New comment by topato in "GPT-5.2"

topato — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 02:50:48 +0000

yeah, the best Ive seen is like 1.99 for two months, then back to normal pricing....

New comment by topato in "GPT-5.2"

topato — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 02:47:43 +0000

now I kind of HAVE to know... what was the aforementioned bad advice was?! So mysterious!

New comment by topato in "Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data"

topato — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 01:14:19 +0000

I'D love to be paying $2/minute!

New comment by topato in "Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data"

topato — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 01:07:26 +0000

pretty accurate username

New comment by topato in "Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?"

topato — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 04:19:43 +0000

That's a pretty hefty accusation to level at one of the most prolific Ai/LLM bloggers on HN lol

New comment by topato in "Compiling Ruby to machine language"

topato — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 02:14:06 +0000

whoa, the man himself! I second the praise, an all around excellent writer!

New comment by topato in "When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts"

topato — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 01:38:58 +0000

Its scary how many things Trump says, claims that are roughly equivalent to, "1 + 2 = 4", which people just eat up as truth!

It feels like all the deficets in our education system (going back decades) are finally coming to roost... so many people lack critical thinking skills and media savvy/awareness. I think its too late to fix it, now that a sufficient majority of people are susceptible to this deception, and a sufficient chunk of politicians are willing to deceive them... there is too much motivation to keep them dumb. The hatred towards the "Intellectual Elite" is scary, and really is reminicent of Pol Pot.

New comment by topato in "GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients"

topato — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:27:24 +0000

The popularity of these drugs is specifically from the FDA-approved "weight loss" indication. You're at least a few years behind. I would also think the many many years when it was only prescribed for diabetes would have yielded some data about negative effects, (other than the ocular issue) if there were any. Glp-1s were so unprofitable, Novo Nordisk let their Canadian patent lapse almost a decade ago, rather than pay the upkeep fee lol. So I dont think anyone is protecting them from bad press.

New comment by topato in "Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated"

topato — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:09:02 +0000

there is a lot of disdain for vibe coding/coders, as Im sure you already know. I was going to post something similar as soon as I read a week and a half of prompts. I pray that any gainfully employed expert coders don't spend 10 days prompting, rather than coding lol

New comment by topato in "Btop: A better modern alternative of htop with a gamified interface"

topato — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:00:43 +0000

haha, triple simultaneous posts.... but that doom kill game isn't really the same as gamifying resource management. I would really want to see a gamified process monitor as well.

New comment by topato in "Introducing architecture variants"

topato — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:38:47 +0000

correct, it just sets the repository in the pacman.conf to either cachyos, -v3, or -v4 during install time based on hardware probe

New comment by topato in "Digg.com is back"

topato — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:39:24 +0000

Wow, I was trying to remember his username, but I wasn't even getting close. Quite impressive haha.

New comment by topato in "Digg.com is back"

topato — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:36:02 +0000

Whoa Kevin Rose bought it back? Interesting.

Also... bring back TechTV lol

New comment by topato in "My Dream Productivity Device Is Done – and It's Becoming a Kit [video]"

topato — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 03:18:56 +0000

Haha, now that's DEFINITELY true. The amount of machines some people own, especially machines that revolve entirely around sampling, but amount to being essentially 500 dollar toys is astonishing....

New comment by topato in "Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification""

topato — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 06:22:31 +0000

Considering this is a post from NextDNS themselves, showing off a NEW and awesome feature.... It doesn't seem abandoned? You don't seem to have even looked at the description lol

New comment by topato in "Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification""

topato — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 06:18:16 +0000

Ive had massive amounts of trouble convincing people that pornography is just the tip of the iceberg. That's why it's such an effective tool for broaching massive-scale surveillance: the architects of these laws have said that they want to be able to police all content with these laws, and anyone who tries to speak out against them can be painted as a pervert who hates the safety of kids.

New comment by topato in "Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification""

topato — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 06:13:19 +0000

Oh yeah, that IS a good point, this verification technique is even stupider than CC number validation in the late 90s!

Then again, these laws aren't about censoring children's access, they're about censoring EVERYONE'S access (and it blows my mind that conservative leaders will come right out and say it, but the average layperson doesn't seem to care or comprehend what a massive slippery slope censorship is -- porn is just the start)

New comment by topato in "LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers"

topato — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 01:10:33 +0000

Haha, despite the 1000s of instances where it DOESNT simulate correctly. Very specifically chosen 10000-shot generated videos show somewhat impressive fluid physics... And even then, it MUST be something it's seen before. Diffusion is in NO way modeling physics in a realistic matter, there is not an infinite amount of training data to show all fluid dynamics...

Now I know you're too far down the hype rabbit hole. Either that, or you lack a cursory understanding of diffusion models.