Hacker News: tstenner

New comment by tstenner in "macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux"

tstenner — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:44:24 +0000

Because gaming consoles are for a very specific purpose (and sold as such – the ruling against Sony for blocking Linux on the PS3 only happened because they advertised Linux compatibility) and Macs are general purpose computers

New comment by tstenner in "Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled"

tstenner — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:44:01 +0000

And having it actually tested

New comment by tstenner in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

tstenner — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:16:04 +0000

"It's not gambling when I can effect the outcome!"

New comment by tstenner in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

tstenner — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:12:54 +0000

Publicly traded stocks‘ reactions to a war are harder to predict and have way less leverage than a bet like "US will launch 527 missiles against Iran between 3 and 5 pm"

New comment by tstenner in "Trade Dollars with other startups. Book it as revenue"

tstenner — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:36:44 +0000

If the expense is tax deductable, it mostly doesn't matter whether you have $10 earnings vs $10 business expenses or $10K.

New comment by tstenner in "Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition"

tstenner — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:52:13 +0000

At 0.1% (which still seems high) you lose out on the entrance fee but still get paid for food, drinks, memorabilia etc. Compare that to the cost for the system and the negative publicity and I'm not sure it's worth it (unless they have another motive they don't want to admit)

New comment by tstenner in "Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition"

tstenner — Thu, 07 May 2026 04:59:51 +0000

You can make this claim for any larger number by asserting a base rate of 1% without evidence.

New comment by tstenner in "ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips"

tstenner — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:23:07 +0000

I asked the ASML rep at KubeCon who they were there for as nobody I knew had a quarter billion to spare. He told me they were just interested customers, but if I didn't want the newest machine I could get one for 70 million euros.

New comment by tstenner in "ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips"

tstenner — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:03:33 +0000

It's hard to qualify Zeiss as a "small business". Also, they pay their own employees wages and deduct taxes and social insurance so it's not like they pretend to be an independent contractor to save some money.

New comment by tstenner in "Do you even need a database?"

tstenner — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:35:20 +0000

In the benchmark Rust is more than 50% faster than the runner up

New comment by tstenner in "Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell)"

tstenner — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:57:47 +0000

Stores are required by law to provide the price per unit/weight/volume alongside the price, so you can directly compare the price of a pint of beer to the 0.33 liter bottle without calculating anything.

New comment by tstenner in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

tstenner — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:47:43 +0000

I use it all the time, but almost always sarcastically (as in "load-bearing tinyproxy instance").

New comment by tstenner in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

tstenner — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:59:55 +0000

Buy a steam deck. It sends a strong signal to Valve to continue supporting Wine and you get a Steam Deck

New comment by tstenner in "Books of the Century by Le Monde"

tstenner — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:36:19 +0000

That makes it sound like 50 shades of grey would have had a 50/50 chance of getting into the top 100 if it only was included in the wider selection

New comment by tstenner in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

tstenner — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:18:54 +0000

The architect should have required Hindu numbers. Same result, but even more confusion.

New comment by tstenner in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

tstenner — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:19:15 +0000

The "small ones" do. The larger P models require a beefy 220W proprietary power supply.

New comment by tstenner in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

tstenner — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:33:13 +0000

That's what I use a 2014 Sony tablet for. The battery last surprisingly long, but heavy websites are an exercise (well, the other form of exercise) in frustration

New comment by tstenner in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

tstenner — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:33:11 +0000

If you were using everything in the toolboxes, it would be absolutely worth it. As it is, you often need an additional toolbox for basic functionality and pay for everything in it.

New comment by tstenner in "OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading"

tstenner — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:17:48 +0000

Your taxi crashes because the driver skipped brake maintenance and his insurance doesn't reimburse you for your hospital costs because commercial transportation isn't covered. Sure would be nice to have some minimum requirements for taxis.

New comment by tstenner in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

tstenner — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:02:25 +0000

Which often means that e.g. loading an image for displaying it increases cost by a few thousands