Hacker News: zeafoamrun

New comment by zeafoamrun in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

zeafoamrun — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:21:06 +0000

There goes my plan for the weekend though

New comment by zeafoamrun in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

zeafoamrun — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:17:21 +0000

US employers absolutely do know that, they are required to have proof you can work in the US.

New comment by zeafoamrun in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

zeafoamrun — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:40:00 +0000

I was about to say I haven't hit these yet, and I somehow haven't in my work use so far. But I was asking about tweaking and optimizing my workout routine, and it got flagged as a safety violation. Utter clown show.

New comment by zeafoamrun in "Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents"

zeafoamrun — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:37:21 +0000

It's literally factorio

New comment by zeafoamrun in "Job: Head of Stonehenge"

zeafoamrun — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:44:24 +0000

Yes but you can have a pint down at the pub on a warm summer evening with your colleagues after work. Almost makes up for it.

New comment by zeafoamrun in "Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot"

zeafoamrun — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:35:21 +0000

Companies put a ton of work into proprietary RAM training algorithms that I think would be hard to replicate. I know AMD has open sourced their older pre-Zen BIOS and that has made its way into coreboot, but Zen1+ is all proprietary.

New comment by zeafoamrun in "Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot"

zeafoamrun — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:17:25 +0000

Last time I bought a chromebook it was horribly locked down, I couldn't even install my own OS. Has that changed?

New comment by zeafoamrun in "Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot"

zeafoamrun — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:12:00 +0000

Kudos for getting this done!

Sad that free BIOSes are so far behind modern hardware, but this is very necessary work.

New comment by zeafoamrun in "The Cypherpunk Library"

zeafoamrun — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:03:12 +0000

Lots of "digital cash" books there. I have to say that Bitcoin and Ethereum have not lived up to their cypherpunk ethos.

New comment by zeafoamrun in "Dopamine Fracking"

zeafoamrun — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:27:06 +0000

I was hoping for some examples of dopamine fracking of online communities as they said but was also disappointed.

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

zeafoamrun — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:06:44 +0000

I prefer the 9mm solution

New comment by zeafoamrun in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

zeafoamrun — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:08:52 +0000

No, it's definitely financial. Something along the lines of SpaceX's valuation only making sense if it replaces the entire productivity of white collar workforce of the entire USA with its AI ventures. If it ends up reaching escape velocity anyway, sure they would be disappointed, who isn't at least a little when they miss some opportunity.

New comment by zeafoamrun in "C++: The Documentary"

zeafoamrun — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:24:16 +0000

I have read as much as I can on the history of C++ and I'm looking forward to watch this. I find the process of it's evolution deeply fascinating.

New comment by zeafoamrun in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

zeafoamrun — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:25:53 +0000

Everyone was certain they would. Multiple people I know were rebalancing their portfolios way from the big index funds

New comment by zeafoamrun in "JLink JTAG Access on the Pinecil"

zeafoamrun — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:15:22 +0000

It's been a long time since I messed around with this stuff, proprietary JTAG devices and debuggers used to be leaps and bounds ahead of open source ones. Is it still the same?

New comment by zeafoamrun in "If AI data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"

zeafoamrun — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:53:29 +0000

It was included in what I was talking about. Why would you publicise something that just paints a big target.

New comment by zeafoamrun in "If AI data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"

zeafoamrun — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:42:37 +0000

To stop assholes from bombing them

New comment by zeafoamrun in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

zeafoamrun — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:11:09 +0000

This is out of date, Amazon Go has shut down. RIP to some really cool tech.

New comment by zeafoamrun in "Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks"

zeafoamrun — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:50:35 +0000

2 hours? you don't know how bad it is out there my friend.

New comment by zeafoamrun in "Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity"

zeafoamrun — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:21:50 +0000

That's it, I'm turning off JavaScript for everything non essential from here on out.