Hacker News: winocm

New comment by winocm in "Page Table Memory Consumption"

winocm — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:18:13 +0000

Rest in peace, IBAT and DBAT...

And good riddance to the 603's software managed TLB (and associated interrupt handlers).

New comment by winocm in "How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?"

winocm — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 03:02:35 +0000

I am one of those "humans", allegedly. ;)

New comment by winocm in "'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online"

winocm — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:16:48 +0000

That is such a good show.

New comment by winocm in "Everyone says assembly is untyped—everyone is wrong"

winocm — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 03:48:52 +0000

Oh man, #pragma aux.

New comment by winocm in "My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup"

winocm — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:04:13 +0000

Same.

New comment by winocm in "Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386"

winocm — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:09:31 +0000

Random inconsistencies such as using push/pop for individual registers instead of pusha/popa for space constrained bits or setting the same register to the same value twice in a row.

Not to even mention that random WORDS are capitalized for some REASON as well.

New comment by winocm in "Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386"

winocm — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 06:35:04 +0000

The assembly really, really hurts to read.

New comment by winocm in "'It's like having a dumb friend': Young San Franciscans hate AI"

winocm — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:54:11 +0000

Honestly, me too.

New comment by winocm in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

winocm — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:08:59 +0000

Honestly, I agree.

I just can’t bring myself to trust an organization that allows these types of underhanded things to happen in the first place. The fact that this behavior even got to customers raises a lot of red flags for me.

New comment by winocm in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

winocm — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:48:23 +0000

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/06/25/micron-locks-...

New comment by winocm in "San Francisco Weighs PG&E Takeover Amid Soaring Utility Costs"

winocm — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:58:29 +0000

On the note of PG&E, my electric bill averages to about $750 despite only running an air conditioner, several device chargers, a router, some lights and a fridge...

Thanks PG&E.

New comment by winocm in "Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated"

winocm — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:42:39 +0000

Don't forget the word "epic" (in terms of the literary definition).

New comment by winocm in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

winocm — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:22:59 +0000

Perhaps I am the odd one out here, but a small part of me wants to see what happens when you run a proprietary SOTA model on a laptop.

New comment by winocm in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"

winocm — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:50:35 +0000

https://halupedia.com/2048-united-states-presidential-electi...

Amazing.

New comment by winocm in "Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview claimed he was a sex offender"

winocm — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:22:45 +0000

"AI can make mistakes, so double-check responses."

New comment by winocm in "Networking changes coming in macOS 27"

winocm — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:44:32 +0000

That just ended up inadvertently reminding me, Windows Vista is actually almost old enough to be at the minimum legal drinking age in the US.

Windows 8 is nearly a decade and a half old as well.

Time really does fly.

New comment by winocm in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

winocm — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:59:04 +0000

This almost sounds like The Monkey's Paw by Jacobs.

How to Fingerprint Users

winocm — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:03:51 +0000

Article URL: https://paradisefacade.com/blog/2026/3/9/how-to-fingerprint-users

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47596281

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by winocm in "System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4"

winocm — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 09:36:38 +0000

Kinda sorts. The systems that the "MacOS on CHRP" thing ran on had a very strange looking device tree, with some bizarre combination of PC and Mac peripherals.

  Apple Cobra Open Firmware CHRP 1.1 B3 built on 08/18/97 at 13:04:24
  Copyright Apple Computer 1994,1996,1997
  Copyright IBM Corporation 1996
  All rights reserved.
   ok
  0 > dev / ls 
  ff82ec18: /cpus
  ff82ee08:   /PowerPC,604e@0
  ff82f600: /chosen
  ff82f750: /memory@0
  ff82f8d8: /memory-controller@fec00000
  ff82f9d8: /openprom
  ff82fab8: /rom@ff000000
  ff82ff48:   /boot-rom@fff00000
  ff830060: /options
  ff830828: /aliases
  ff830c78: /packages
  ff830d00:   /deblocker
  ff8314c8:   /disk-label
  ff832090:   /obp-tftp
  ff835db8:   /mac-parts
  ff836578:   /mac-files
  ff837de0:   /fat-files
  ff839700:   /iso-9660-files
  ff83a148:   /bootinfo-loader
  ff83b7d0:   /xcoff-loader
  ff83c060:   /pe-loader
  ff83c7d0:   /elf-loader
  ff83da18:   /terminal-emulator
  ff83dab0: /rtas
  ff83dc70: /pci@80000000
  ff83ff38:   /isa@b
  ff8414e0:     /nvram@i74
  ff841ad0:     /rtc@i70
  ff842500:     /parallel@i378
  ff842988:     /serial@i3f8
  ff843020:     /serial@i2f8
  ff8436b8:     /sound@i534
  ff850288:     /8042@i60
  ff8515f8:       /keyboard@0
  ff854b88:       /mouse@1
  ff8554c0:     /fdc@i3f0
  ff858730:       /disk@1
  ff85bac0:     /op-panel@i808
  ff85bba0:     /pwr-mgmt@i82a
  ff85bed8:     /timer@i40
  ff85c070:     /interrupt-controller@i20
  ff85c250:     /dma-controller@i0
  ff85c738:   /pci-ide@b,1
  ff85d028:     /ide@0
  ff85db78:     /ide@1
  ff85e6c8:       /cdrom@0
  ff862e60:   /mac-io@d
  ff863468:     /scsi@10000
  ff865298:       /disk
  ff8660c8:       /tape
  ff8671b8:     /adb@11000
  ff867cb0:       /keyboard@2
  ff8685a0:       /mouse@3
  ff8687c0:     /escc-legacy@12000
  ff8689b8:       /ch-a@12002
  ff868b08:       /ch-b@12000
  ff868c58:     /escc@13000
  ff868e40:       /ch-a@13020
  ff869500:       /ch-b@13000
  ff869bc0:     /via@16000
  ff869cb0:     /interrupt-controller@40000
  ff869e70:   /cirrus@e
  ff86e2c8:   /pci1022,2000@f
   ok
  0 >

Refer to the "Macintosh Technology in the Common Hardware Reference Platform" book for more information, if you're curious about the Mac IO pieces.

The Motorola Yellowknife board seems remarkably similar to this system, as well as the IBM Long Trail system (albeit with Long Trail using a VLSI Golden Gate versus a MPC106 memory controller). Both of them use W83C553 southbridges and PC87307 Super I/O controllers.

The architecture is kind of weird, but the schematics on NXP's website can probably elucidate a bit more on the system's design.

New comment by winocm in "Recursive macros in C, demystified (once the ugly crying stops)"

winocm — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 06:57:57 +0000

Mildly related, sort of, one can prevent expansion of variadic macros as follows:

   #define printf(...)

   int (printf)(const char *, ...);

I keep on seeing many random code bases just resort to #undef instead...