HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

claxo

124 karma · joined June 13, 2020

submissionscomments
claxo··on Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant for 4 days
Gives "Not found." now. Maybe retired?
claxo··on YouTuber Davie504 slapped with ridiculous copyright claim [video]
Claim:

>Hi Davie504, >A copyrigt owner using Content ID has claimed some material in your video. >... >Video title: I Went to the World's Quitest Room Just to Play This. >Copyrighted Content: The Sounds of Silence >...

As a joke he plays the bass while sound is muted, then gets a claim.

I'm speechless.

Shoutout to Davie504, who let me know about a bunch of bands and performers

claxo··on Apple Is Quietly Building the Most Profitable AI Toll Booth
The article is much fluff and few concrete facts, probably can be condensed to "Apple strategy is to be a funnel to AI sevices instead of building it's own SOTA model. It has good reputation on privacy concerns, user apreciation for it's software products and integration, has a toll booth in the app store and it is working on Gemini integration."

No doubt Apple will surf the AI wave, and all of the above are powerfull advantages.

A compelling history to be the chosen way to access AI services will need to offer good sandboxing, secure gatekeeping of credentials, a modern adaptive firewall to control agents communications, skills to access OS services and core applications, and a core agent that can handle all of the previous concerns.

This will be a massive effort. The good news for Apple is that it will not have competition: these needs OS integration, and a comprehensive design.

claxo··on The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine
Excelent read. Xerox field technicians + Xerox PARC, a case of knowledge driven comunities, complete with it's fight with Xerox corporate.
claxo··on OpenJazz is a free, open-source version of the classic Jazz Jackrabbit games
Currently discounted on GOG, at 0.65 usd, with all the media. https://www.gog.com/en/game/jazz_jackrabbit_collection
claxo··on Flow Computing aims to boost CPUs with ‘parallel processing units’
Indeed, a very smart compiler would be necessary, perhaps too much for the current compiler art, like the itaniun.

But...how about specializing to problems with inherent paralelism? LLMs maybe?

claxo··on Nintendo Files Suit for Infringement of Patent Rights Against Pocketpair, Inc
Wonderboy (1986), by Sega has both
claxo··on The Trouble with __all__
A direct benefit of using `__all__` at module A is better intellisense while editing files that imports A, if A has a small intended public API and many internal usage symbols.
claxo··on I redesigned Hacker News (But I used the API this time)
- More legible than HN, a combo of size and color - Too much space below short entries ? - Context menu (rclick) on links hijacked, no 'open in new tab'
claxo··on Nyquest NY8A051H – 1.5 cent microcontroller: weekend die-shot
The page linked to buy the product say 10 pieces in stock, and 'not recomended for new designs'.

Following the link in that page to manufacturer and then to 'microcontroller units' shows 14 products, all 'not recomended for new designs', except for the ones with zero stock.

claxo··on VeroRoute – an open source Veroboard, Perfboard and PCB layout design software
Thanks for the submit and for the links above.

Looks interesting for small prototyping, tempted to try.

Wow, Windows / Linux / Mac / Android !

claxo··on VGA driver using PIO and DMA on the RP2040
A DAC, at least 12 bits
claxo··on Basic Pitch: Spotify’s Open Source Audio-to-MIDI Converter (2022)
They link to the github repo, python based code, pip instalable; there they mention theres also an npm instalable version.
claxo··on KiCad 7.0
>I can’t see people paying thousands of dollars per year for maintenance on tools like AD. It makes no sense at all.

I started to use Kicad at v5. Some interesting projects in v4 did not load clean. v6 was released, it had some problems to load v5 projects. And now v7 seems to not load some v6 projects.

If the AD story for support loading old version projects is good then I think they will do fine.

claxo··on Train Travel in the UK: A Foreigner’s Perspective
Thanks!
claxo··on Train Travel in the UK: A Foreigner’s Perspective
Wait, wait- Any rule you can spell in a few words or a link?
claxo··on NeuralPi: Raspberry Pi guitar pedal using neural networks
Ohhh...

people over chiptunes complains that the Commodore SID is hard to emulate because the analog parts...

claxo··on Over-engineering an RGB LED strip: let’s make a custom programming language
Kudos to the author.

The readme links to a protocol.md that lives in a private repository, any posibility it gets copied to the github repo?

claxo··on Fedora Plans to Drop Support for Legacy BIOS Systems
"Access was denied Error code 1020"
claxo··on Show HN: Surfboard – CodeSandbox for Arduino
A list of libraries would be nice. Also, allow to do a quick squetch, non persistent, without registering.
claxo··on Unicornify
:( code was in a Mercurial repo at bitbucket, now the repo link gives "Repository unavailable Bitbucket no longer supports Mercurial repositories."
claxo··on Building a Search Engine for Programmers
Besides date ranking, which has been requested, maybe ranking code samples and GH issues on some proxy for code quality? Meaning, I would prefer to see a snippet of django or numpy before some aadwark repo