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trympet

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I develop apps. Founder at https://swishfinance.app

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trympet··on Cerebras CS-4
> We'll see exponential improvements in energy efficiency and speed over the next decade. Exponential, not linear.

Why? Make your case.

trympet··on Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs
Yes. This reads like a LinkedIn post rehashing old news. I’m not even in the industry.
trympet··on An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight
GP is talking out of his ass - he’s probably not up to speed on meth economics like you and me.
trympet··on Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
My understanding is that it’s got a bespoke 20 core Nvidia Vera CPU - unified RTX Vera Rubin Spark chip. Seems like Nvidia trying to copy Apple M-series chip
trympet··on Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected
Do any of the legit scene groups sign their binaries? How do you know a release isn’t tainted?
trympet··on The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands
On a modern OS, doesn’t the kernel (eventually) take care of the cleanup anyways?
trympet··on The beauty and terror of modding Windows
Did you also have a windows 8 laptop with touch screen?
trympet··on The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)
I tend to agree, but the FMC on Boeing aircraft sure leave something to be desired.. I do not find the menu/tab system very ergonomic (and the non-QWERTY key layout)
trympet··on Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
Love the transparency - someone should make you VP of ..uhm dev rel or something! I was being quite hyperbolic in my original comment, however, I _do_ think you are doing the right thing, and you are definitely not the bad guy.

Having said that, there are big corps who have been known to use the CFAA as a way to coerce the long arm of the law upon teenagers and geeks hacking away - not always a great thing either IMO.

trympet··on Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
Nice, thank you Martin. How do you punish the fraudsters? Do you send them to prison over CFAA violation terms of service?
trympet··on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
Security through ..rarity? Maybe not for nation state actors though.
trympet··on Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]
I have 2 or 3 yubikeys associated with my account. I think apple does a decent job at communicating the importance of having recovery keys to the point where they deter those who can’t be bothered.

Yubikeys are great

trympet··on The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video]
> C# doesn't depend on a VM these days when it is AOT compiled

Maybe I’m being pedantic, but this is an oxymoron. Also the premise is incorrect. It’s not like the VM is gone. Merely baked into the code at compile time. It compiles IL to native code. Same for IL2CPP. The VM is still there.

The term “virtual machine” is confusing. I think you meant to say JIT compiler :-)

trympet··on Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]
Why?
trympet··on Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]
> Apple’s solution affects your whole digital life

I don’t know if that’s generally true. I could lose my apple account and not really give a a damn. Not that I see how such a thing would happen, save for apple burning down all their datacenters. I’m running ADP

trympet··on Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]
> because of the serious (potentially destructive) consequences

Huh? What are you talking about? I don’t see anything destructive about it.

trympet··on Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
How do you work on the go? I use personal hotspot quite often. Not only when on the go, but if there is unstable WiFi. It’s saved me on multiple occasions - both for live-site incidents and for random meetings.
trympet··on Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases (2010)
As someone not very deep into databases, these papers were fun to read.
trympet··on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out
Today's Yap score is 8192.
trympet··on Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries
It uses a Unix keyboard layout where the caps lock is swapped out with the ctrl key. I think it’s much more ergonomic to have the ctrl on the home row. The arrow keys are behind a fn modifier resting on the right pinky. Also accessible without moving your fingers from the home row. It’s frankly the best keyboard I ever had from an ergonomic POV. Key feel is also great, but the layout has a bit of a learning curve.
trympet··on Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries
Dunno why I’m getting downvoted. Is it because you disagree with my statement? Is it because I’m off topic? Do you think I’m a shill?
trympet··on Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries
> Just wait until you get a group of nerds talking about keyboards

Don’t get me started on the HHKB [1] with Topre membrane keyswitches. It is simply put the best keyboard on the market. Buy this. (No, Fujitsu didn’t pay me to say this)

[1] - https://hhkeyboard.us/hhkb/

trympet··on Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems
I prefer using MS Exchange mailboxes for my message queue.
trympet··on When employees feel slighted, they work less
What about a farm worker who tills the land? Is every farmer/farm worker achieving business goals through _cooperation_? What about seasonal farm workers? I guess the farmer can set up incentive payments, but even so, are you saying there no adversarial component to the relationship?
trympet··on When employees feel slighted, they work less
Does your company have a culture of recognizing work anniversaries? To me it feels very arbitrary. Maybe I’m jaded by big tech.
trympet··on Perfectly Replicating Coca Cola [video]
Do you have fountain soda in your convenience store? I've usually only seen that in fast food places (am european)
trympet··on Dell admits it made a mistake when it abandoned XPS
> If you are a UI developer you want 200% scaling

Isn’t it good to test your UI on different scale factors? I run several non-uniform scale factors concurrently for that exact reason.

trympet··on Dell admits it made a mistake when it abandoned XPS
Additional anecdata: my top of the line XPS 15 had to be repaired twice due to a "stuck" trackpad issue. It seems to me like they crammed as much compute as they could into that tiny chassis while their manufacturing tolerances really weren't up to the task.
trympet··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
I'm building https://swishfinance.app - minimalistic and simple stock widgets for your PC. That way I no longer have to make a conscious effort to check my portfolio — it's just there on my desktop.
trympet··on Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs
Yep, hyperscalers go on and on about the "fungible" datacenter capacity in their earning calls as a hedge for a sudden decrease in demand. I could see a scenario where there would be an abundance of GPU capacity, but I’m sure we’d find uses for those too. For instance, there are classic data retrieval workloads that can be accelerated using GPUs.
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