Hacker News: zyx321

New comment by zyx321 in "Upload Your RAM"

zyx321 — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:52:46 +0000

It's a reference to the old "download more RAM" meme.

I would be shocked if it did anything at all.

New comment by zyx321 in "Why Sweden is abandoning its cashless society"

zyx321 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:48:45 +0000

It seems melodramatic right until Russia blows up your bank's data center, and their digital payment system goes down for days or weeks just as you're out buying groceries.

New comment by zyx321 in "Nvidia's $750B in Deals Reignite Circular AI Fears"

zyx321 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:37:34 +0000

Some LLM companies paid with stocks instead of cash, or with a mix of cash and stocks. Sometimes Nvidia invested in companies and those companies used that money to buy Nvidia GPUs / NPUs.

Nvidia can lose a lot of money if those companies fail. But even in the absolute worst case, Nvidia can go back to making video game GPUs and they will be fine.

The problem is for everyone else who invested in AI. Especially American "401" retirement funds that always invest in the 100 biggest companies.

New comment by zyx321 in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

zyx321 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:07:19 +0000

Did you... read my post? The first thing I posted in this thread was a direct quote from the Satzung. Did you think "education" was about learning the history of the Ottoman Empire..?

New comment by zyx321 in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

zyx321 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:12:05 +0000

Can one argue with a straight face that people will learn to code better by using a predominantly AI-based workflow? Or even learn by reading vibecode uploaded by someone else?

Hell, I'd argue that Vibecode without the prompt that generated it isn't even real open source.

New comment by zyx321 in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

zyx321 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:26:31 +0000

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the spicy autocomplete.

New comment by zyx321 in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

zyx321 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:24:27 +0000

The resource limit are quite clear: From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs.

New comment by zyx321 in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

zyx321 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:58:20 +0000

A more relevant quote is "to enable equal opportunities regarding the access to knowledge and education." from their mission statement. As a gemeinnütziger Verein (charitable association) their charta is legally binding.

New comment by zyx321 in "Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM"

zyx321 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:24:17 +0000

Predominantly suicide, actually. Which is committed with whatever is conveniently at hand, and reducing convenience reduces incidence.

New comment by zyx321 in "My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault"

zyx321 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:07:20 +0000

It would be less suspicious if the drive advertised 512GB and returned garbage data for any read past 8GB

New comment by zyx321 in "My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault"

zyx321 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:36:22 +0000

It has an SD card because proper flash is expensive. Surely the people making "4TB" flash drives on Temu must be using the same methods, or else they will be soon.

New comment by zyx321 in "Unicode 18.0.0 Beta"

zyx321 — Wed, 27 May 2026 10:01:20 +0000

That list only includes suggestions that were seriously considered and voted on.

Since it's a vote, there is no single official 'reason' for rejection. If I had to guess: it would be confusing to anyone who didn't grow up with American TV shows.

New comment by zyx321 in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

zyx321 — Sun, 10 May 2026 13:02:08 +0000

To prevent this sort of abuse, the server would have to request the `pseudonym` field, which contains a hash across the server identity and the card's secret salt, allowing the server to detect abuse but not to track the user across multiple services.

New comment by zyx321 in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

zyx321 — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:47:55 +0000

OR:

The website sends a request for age verification.

The app[1] on the user's device[2] forwards that request to the chip on the user's ID card. The user authorizes themselves with their 6 digit PIN stored on the card.

The chip produces a signed reply containing the following payload fields: `issuing_country:string` and `over_18:bool`

[1] https://github.com/Governikus/AusweisApp

[2] iPhone, Android, Windows, MacOS, Linux or FreeBSD

New comment by zyx321 in "Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?"

zyx321 — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:27:55 +0000

Audiophile products are a known scam.

This is an enthusiast product, as evidenced by the premise that you care about color-coordinating the inside of your computer.

New comment by zyx321 in "Digitizing photos from the 1998 Game Boy Camera"

zyx321 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:33:52 +0000

Since when is that a thing? I'll presume they're boycotting the new age verification laws?

New comment by zyx321 in "The curious case of retro demo scene graphics"

zyx321 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:58:54 +0000

AI would be helpful for finding innovative solutions?

Are you talking about some sort of hypothetical future Super-AGI?

New comment by zyx321 in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

zyx321 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:12:34 +0000

Not really relevant here, because it's not real 2G/3G, but 4G throttled to 2G speed.

New comment by zyx321 in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

zyx321 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:15:39 +0000

That sounds a lot like "do the thing you've been trying and failing for the past few weeks, but this time succeed instead of failing"

New comment by zyx321 in "The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic"

zyx321 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:39:08 +0000

I'll imagine Grok plays ball because this is an obviously blatantly fascist policy, and Elon did like 2 or 3 SIEG HEILs at the inauguration.