Hacker News: toxik

New comment by toxik in "Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM"

toxik — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:20:21 +0000

This competition will be great for us consumers for a while. Until China undercuts everybody else for long enough to essentially monopolize the market. This pattern has repeated itself across many markets already.

New comment by toxik in "Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP"

toxik — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:26:45 +0000

And you just know Canonical thinks this is feasible because they can just copyright wash it with an LLM. "Write GNU coreutils in rust" is all you need to say.

New comment by toxik in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

toxik — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:45:35 +0000

Thanks kind stranger, genuinely appreciate the info. I had my suspicions.

New comment by toxik in "Artificial intelligence now beats some of the best human forecasters"

toxik — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:06:33 +0000

How about: forecasting is something you can do by modeling, AI is just modeling with a computer.

New comment by toxik in "The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week"

toxik — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:57:18 +0000

Haha, oh the poor mega tech companies?! As if. Google sees a market, it wants to capture it. Same as Apple did.

New comment by toxik in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

toxik — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:27:38 +0000

I run iOS 18 and have no problems with my battery, it is at 73%. iPhone 14 Pro. Don't think I'm going to install 27 either.

New comment by toxik in "iPhone Duo"

toxik — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:07:01 +0000

$2000 is crazy talk

New comment by toxik in "AirPods 5"

toxik — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:07:39 +0000

Yep, I wonder why the ANC socialt is so fragile. Turns me off from buying new ones.

New comment by toxik in "Vim's UserGettingBored Autocmd"

toxik — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:09:45 +0000

What an absolute AI slop post.

New comment by toxik in "Olo (Color)"

toxik — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:24:26 +0000

This was very interesting, thank you for the link.

New comment by toxik in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

toxik — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:02:48 +0000

In program code? Unlikely, surely¡

New comment by toxik in "Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper"

toxik — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:14:43 +0000

I have noticed this too. I have been playing it quite a bit. There is no reason to have one unique solution per board though.

Some thoughts:

Insane is not harder than Hard. Often times the opposite seems true.

Scratch mode auto-committing on win is a bit too nice.

Dark mode is whack, terrible contrast.

I would like a player profile with stats and so on.

Random Insane seems to play like one of 50 levels. I recognize them often. Seems not so with hard. Now I just enter the puzzle IDs in turn...

Some puzzles seem to have no prior solutions as my time is often exactly the global average.

I would like to know how many solved a puzzle. Also if I did.

Overall great job and I love this. I would like it to be an app or something that can be bookmarked.

New comment by toxik in "Show HN: Elevators"

toxik — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:57:49 +0000

> Robot motion planning is basically just elevator scheduling with more degrees of freedom.

Certainly a take, ChatGPT. Not a very good one, but a take nonetheless.

New comment by toxik in "Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper"

toxik — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:15:28 +0000

Well it is different, you can have multiple solutions in this variant. Classical minesweeper is not like that. Imagine a grid with just a 1 and the rest is empty. There are then eight different solutions. The same situation can't happen in classical, it is simply going to reveal everything except the predetermined mine.

Because of this ambiguity, the search space is much larger here. Source : I play A LOT of Minesweeper.

New comment by toxik in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

toxik — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:05:10 +0000

... or cargo culted a site that did. I think this is far more common. It's almost like you're not a serious web site if you don't have a cookie popup of some kind.

New comment by toxik in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

toxik — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:03:19 +0000

I'm not sure why, but apparently my experience is unwelcome enough to be downvoted. Drive by changes are really annoying, IMO, and as the GP shows, the formatting tool outcome differs. So there are many "valid" versions of the same program logic. You have therefore not do what these formatters pretend to do, namely take this variable out of the equation. Rather, the wrong auto format can look much worse than the original.

I'm not sure why people felt formatters were necessary. but now they're part of the zeitgeist and there is no going back.

New comment by toxik in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

toxik — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:37:45 +0000

I have never discussed code formatting and drive-by changes more than in projects with auto formatters.

New comment by toxik in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

toxik — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:25:55 +0000

Well, they showed better performance if the AI had full state observation... Not very practical.

New comment by toxik in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

toxik — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:08:49 +0000

I think I would write mirrored. Especially in this day and age, there is no reason to write LTR over RTL by hand. You basically never have to write legibly for official reasons.

New comment by toxik in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

toxik — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:06:40 +0000

My big problem with the fountain pens is that the ink evaporates over a few weeks. Like bone dry, needs a refill.