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wmfon GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter

Are we supposed to just shrug at the idea of businesses paying 10x more for raw materials than consumers? How long can this go on?

wmfon Ask HN: Why don't we see ARM laptops from China?

Are people in China mostly using Windows? ARM Windows laptops have been pretty poor value.

wmfon The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here

They should really invest in an SLA printer. Everything on their site looks terrible.

wmfon RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better

The article makes the case that RISC-V achieved code density the wrong way. Instead of compressed instructions, ARM has fixed-size instructions with richer semantics.

wmfon Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness

If SA's losses were around $30B does that mean Jane Street owned half?

wmfon Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP

When/if IPv6 is wholeheartedly embraced, then dual-stacking is obsolete. ...dual-stacking is an administrative pain and possibly the source of some really crazy connectivity bugs. A dual-stack system is unnecessarily complex.

I don't think anybody really disagrees with this but it's kind of pointless to mention because there is no alternative. IPv8 would also require a period of dual-stacking.

T-Mobile is already running 99% single-stack IPv6-only so I would say the transition works; it's just a matter of doing it.

wmfon Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations

The first generation was around $500K; due to the DRAM shortage the second generation is probably $1M or more.

wmfon RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better

Better than x86 is a low bar when ARMv8 exists.

wmfon Don't Wipe Your Phone at the Airport [video]

That's theoretical since no mobile OSes support it. And unless your decoy partition has a full life of data in it they will easily tell that it's fake.

wmfon Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP

IPv6 never had flag days and was specifically designed for gradual deployment. In retrospect, overly conservative "ships in the night" routing increased costs and delayed IPv6 deployment though.

wmfon Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP

NAT64 is transparent and requires no support on the client side. The client does need a CLAT to use 464 for apps that connect to IPv4 addresses without using DNS.

wmfon Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP

a protocol or scheme by which an IPv6-only device can seamlessly access IPv4-only devices

NAT64 which is used extensively in cellular networks.

wmfon Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_9

wmfon Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP

For one thing, RIRs are not businesses. If they have less work to do they can have less staff. Worst case they could receive government funding like in the old days.

wmfon How Obama's BlackBerry got secured (2023)

I think the NSA just isn't willing to take Trump's phone away.

wmfon Tether Completes the Largest Inaugural Financial Audit in History

They made enough money from interest in the last few years to cover the losses from earlier.

wmfon Choose Boring Technology (2015)

Node.js has been boring for a while.

wmfon Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations

You would use Oxide if you hate Dell/HPE/Lenovo/Supermicro. Also most people won't run k8s on bare metal because they want to dynamically provision a bunch of clusters.

wmfon The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment

Michael Jackson is the ultimate case study for this.

wmfon Nvidia's Risky Business

Not really. The GPU+LPU combination is going to be pretty good once it comes out.

wmfon Nvidia's Risky Business

RTX Spark already launched.

wmfon The UK's war on anonymity has come to America

There is Ashton Kutcher. And it's conceivable to me that some wannabe-Palantir private companies might back these ideas.

wmfon The UK's war on anonymity has come to America

Yeah, the US is getting the worst version. We can't have federal digital ID because "mark of the beast" but you have to show ID to watch porn so a bunch of private ID verification gatekeepers have shown up.

wmfon NYC, MTA eye first-of-its-kind plan that might keep subway platforms cooler

They need to heat buildings in the summer? Or are they going to store heat for months? There's something I'm missing here.

wmfon Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent

I think the patent literally covers the idea of a camera that records raw video internally. (Still cameras supported raw for years before Red existed.)

wmfon Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent

This is a terrible patent (it's basically a list of features) and unfortunately Red was able to milk it for almost 20 years.

wmfon ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014)

Maybe the microcode is copyrighted.

wmfon Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

The missing primitive for agents is not a browser. It is a portable identity and a spendable balance...

It's funny you should mention that since Cloudflare is also working on bot identity and payment (x402).

wmfon Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals?

That's nothing to do with AI though. Attributing cyber attacks is hard. We know this and people have experience doing it.

wmfon Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals?

Because a coverup would be worse. The labs have been talking about AI safety and transparency for years, so if they start to cover up problems it's asking for (unpredictable) regulation.