Hacker News: trympet

New comment by trympet in "Epic Games Inc v Apple Inc"

trympet — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:35:23 +0000

Why? How in the world is hwaccel gated behind an entitlement??

New comment by trympet in "Cerebras CS-4"

trympet — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 22:09:21 +0000

> We'll see exponential improvements in energy efficiency and speed over the next decade. Exponential, not linear.

Why? Make your case.

New comment by trympet in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

trympet — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:31:00 +0000

Yes. This reads like a LinkedIn post rehashing old news. I’m not even in the industry.

New comment by trympet in "An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight"

trympet — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:51:50 +0000

GP is talking out of his ass - he’s probably not up to speed on meth economics like you and me.

New comment by trympet in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

trympet — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:06:46 +0000

My understanding is that it’s got a bespoke 20 core Nvidia Vera CPU - unified RTX Vera Rubin Spark chip. Seems like Nvidia trying to copy Apple M-series chip

New comment by trympet in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"

trympet — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:23:05 +0000

Do any of the legit scene groups sign their binaries? How do you know a release isn’t tainted?

New comment by trympet in "The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands"

trympet — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:01:27 +0000

On a modern OS, doesn’t the kernel (eventually) take care of the cleanup anyways?

New comment by trympet in "The beauty and terror of modding Windows"

trympet — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:27:47 +0000

Did you also have a windows 8 laptop with touch screen?

New comment by trympet in "The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)"

trympet — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:03:56 +0000

I tend to agree, but the FMC on Boeing aircraft sure leave something to be desired.. I do not find the menu/tab system very ergonomic (and the non-QWERTY key layout)

New comment by trympet in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

trympet — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:14:39 +0000

Love the transparency - someone should make you VP of ..uhm dev rel or something! I was being quite hyperbolic in my original comment, however, I _do_ think you are doing the right thing, and you are definitely not the bad guy.

Having said that, there are big corps who have been known to use the CFAA as a way to coerce the long arm of the law upon teenagers and geeks hacking away - not always a great thing either IMO.

New comment by trympet in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

trympet — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:19:13 +0000

Nice, thank you Martin. How do you punish the fraudsters? Do you send them to prison over CFAA violation terms of service?

New comment by trympet in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

trympet — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:59:00 +0000

Security through ..rarity? Maybe not for nation state actors though.

New comment by trympet in "Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]"

trympet — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:33:08 +0000

I have 2 or 3 yubikeys associated with my account. I think apple does a decent job at communicating the importance of having recovery keys to the point where they deter those who can’t be bothered.

Yubikeys are great

New comment by trympet in "The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video]"

trympet — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:26:22 +0000

> C# doesn't depend on a VM these days when it is AOT compiled

Maybe I’m being pedantic, but this is an oxymoron. Also the premise is incorrect. It’s not like the VM is gone. Merely baked into the code at compile time. It compiles IL to native code. Same for IL2CPP. The VM is still there.

The term “virtual machine” is confusing. I think you meant to say JIT compiler :-)

New comment by trympet in "Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]"

trympet — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:17:30 +0000

Why?

New comment by trympet in "Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]"

trympet — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:16:32 +0000

> Apple’s solution affects your whole digital life

I don’t know if that’s generally true. I could lose my apple account and not really give a a damn. Not that I see how such a thing would happen, save for apple burning down all their datacenters. I’m running ADP

New comment by trympet in "Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]"

trympet — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:13:28 +0000

> because of the serious (potentially destructive) consequences

Huh? What are you talking about? I don’t see anything destructive about it.

New comment by trympet in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

trympet — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:13:37 +0000

How do you work on the go? I use personal hotspot quite often. Not only when on the go, but if there is unstable WiFi. It’s saved me on multiple occasions - both for live-site incidents and for random meetings.

New comment by trympet in "Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases (2010)"

trympet — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:08:42 +0000

As someone not very deep into databases, these papers were fun to read.

New comment by trympet in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

trympet — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:58:11 +0000

Today's Yap score is 8192.