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by nickcw | 2026-01-30 20:05:39+00:00
Eneloops are fantastic. I've been using them for 10 years.

They have very low self discharge so you can keep them on the shelf for a year and they will still have 70% charge which is very different to most rechargeable batteries.

They don't leak unlike alkaline batteries and you can run them to 0% charge without damaging them unlike Lion batteries.

The terminal voltage is only 1.2v so there is the occasional thing they don't work well in.

That said my collection of eneloops get much less use than they used to as everything comes with built in lithium batteries and a usb charger nowadays. That is very convenient until the moment the lithium battery dies...

Changing the lithium battery in things sucks. Firstly it's really difficult to get a good one and not a crappy knock off. Secondly modern stuff isn't meant to be repaired. Every time I pick up my kindle I shed a small tear when I see the screen damage I caused changing the battery.

So, I buy stuff with AA or AAA batteries if possible and if I want it to last for more than 3 years.
by kwanbix | 2026-01-30 20:05:40+00:00
25% adoption.

The second worst Windows adoption share ever, just 4 points above Windows 8.

That is the only number you need to see.

It was uterlly complete trash.

Windows 10: ~80%

Windows XP: ~76%

Windows 11: ~55%

Windows 7: ~47%

Windows Vista: ~25%

Windows 8.x: ~21 %

Enough educating you.
by hn_acc1 | 2026-01-30 20:06:10+00:00
It's gotten worse over the course of my life, IMHO. Costco's Kirkland batteries 15 years ago rarely leaked - now they do it in months sometimes. We had leakage a bit back when I was a kid (80s) but I honestly don't remember it happening as often.

It's one of the things that pushed me all-in on Eneloop. We were throwing away 10-20 AAs/month at one point (wife likes electric candles). Recently, it's been 2 or 4 as we discover old remotes or something we hadn't replaced yet. And we have 8-20 AAs and 2-4 AAAs charged and ready to go at any point. Swap, and put the empty ones in the charger is now the standard process at our house.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-30 20:06:18+00:00
Oh nice!! I am 1935. I am thinking of writing less comments haha to get once to 1984 so that I can say "literally 1984" xD. I mean it would be funny but I will still write comments haha.

man I really love this community yes its has its flaws and everything but man do I love it.

I don't write blogs or anything because I feel like many people who are really respectable can come and read my comments in here and give me suggestions and help me learn and other things, Its really just a lovely community! (with sometimes heated discussions) but although I must say that the feeling of community can be a sine wave (sometimes up or down imo) but still I just feel this bond to the community :>

> Oh nice!! I am 1935. I am thinking of writing less comments haha to get once to 1984 so that I can say "literally 1984" xD.

> man I really love this community yes its has its flaws and everything but man do I love it.
by robinhood | 2026-01-30 20:06:44+00:00
Excellent comment. I do agree - current use cases I've seen online are from either people craving attention ("if you don't use this now you are behind"), or from people who need to automate their lives to an extreme degree.

This tool opens the doors to a path where you control the memory you want the LLM to remember and use - you can edit and sync those files on all your machines and it gives you a sense of control. It's also a very nice way to use crons for your LLMs.

We don't need all this - but it's so fun.
by gordonhart | 2026-01-30 20:07:00+00:00
Hinges on whether this new high level -> low level transformation becomes reliable enough to build watertight abstractions on top of it. If AI code becomes good enough that you don't have to worry about the low-level representation 99.9...% of the time, absolutely. But we're pretty far from that at the moment and it's impossible to say where things will be in another 50 years.
by LeoPanthera | 2026-01-30 20:07:00+00:00
The UK did not have emissions regulations at the time, and the most popular computer of the early 80s in the UK, the Acorn BBC Micro, had no shielding whatsoever.

Acorn wanted to break into the US market, and so they had to redesign the computer with a massive metal box inside the outer plastic case.

Their attempt to launch in the US was a huge failure, and most of those computers were shipped back to the UK and "unconverted" to be resold in their home market.

But they didn't remove the metal box. So Brits could always tell when they had an ex-US BBC Micro because it weighed twice as much and had a huge metal box inside it.
by bityard | 2026-01-30 20:07:47+00:00
Were the old Rayovac batteries alkaline or zinc-carbon? Zinc-carbon batteries use a "dry cell" chemistry that will never leak, have a low self-discharge rate, and are very cheap to make and buy. You typically find them marketed as "heavy duty." The trade-off with those are that they have a lower energy capacity compared to alkaline.

I use NiMH in almost everything but for things like TV remotes and clocks that sip power AND you can't be arsed to change them all the time, they work great. I buy a pack of 4 at the dollar store.
by wang_li | 2026-01-30 20:08:34+00:00
Except if they back out of the deal after getting what they want, they'll never be able to make this kind of deal ever again.

Regardless, the revolving door is well known. It's been talked about since the 1800s. There's a wikipedia page for it. Pretending it doesn't happen doesn't change the fact that it happens and is quite common.
by fluoridation | 2026-01-30 20:08:35+00:00
That's not what GP said, what they said is one doesn't feel _older_ than the other, not that they don't feel different at all.

That aside, is innovation (technological or otherwise) the goal of video games? If past a certain year the best games of every don't seem to be any better than any other, but just different kinds of good, to me that's not stagnation, but rather that the designers collectively figured out how fun games that are not constrained by the hardware. There's a reason, for example, that past a certain point lives systems just about went away, or autosaving nearly completely replaced manual saving.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-30 20:09:02+00:00
So basically I was making this for myself but then searched dang (I first searched myself, then pg then dang)

So Dang once again,Thank you dang for your moderation and moderation efforts!

Hope my project can make you smile or just about anything haha. Cheers & also let me know how funny is the cat video. (wanted to prove I am human because literally people sometimes comment how I sound like AI & sometimes accuse me of such in HN which is yeahh.. beep boop)
by mjr00 | 2026-01-30 20:09:08+00:00
> Will AI games be good? [...] The market will be flooded with garbage, and so per capita games will become worse, even if the absolute number of good games rises.

Funny you use "will be" here, because this is already happening. Have you looked at daily Steam releases lately? It's 90% AI-generated hentai games, asset flips, or AI-generated hentai asset flip games.

Right now the limitations of genAI tech are limiting the types of games that can be pumped out, but Genie is just going to be more of the same; instead of a clearly AI-generated, painfully uninteresting hentai game, you're going to get clearly AI-generated, painfully uninteresting Call of Duty clones. You can ask the developers of Concord, Highguard, Marathon, etc. how successful bland shooters are these days.
by cleandreams | 2026-01-30 20:10:01+00:00
I'm anxious about code quality in critical infrastructure in 5 years or so.

Also my mastery of code starts with design and implementation that results in deep, intuitive understanding. Then I can do good code reviews and fix bugs fast fast fast.

Now engineers leap from AI assisted or even dominated implementation to code reviews. Lots of reading code without that deep level of mastery. With this approach I have less confidence in the humans who are in the loop.
by KolmogorovComp | 2026-01-30 20:10:05+00:00
To save everyone a click

> The 1.8-bit (UD-TQ1_0) quant will run on a single 24GB GPU if you offload all MoE layers to system RAM (or a fast SSD). With ~256GB RAM, expect ~10 tokens/s. The full Kimi K2.5 model is 630GB and typically requires at least 4× H200 GPUs.
If the model fits, you will get >40 tokens/s when using a B200.
To run the model in near full precision, you can use the 4-bit or 5-bit quants. You can use any higher just to be safe.
For strong performance, aim for >240GB of unified memory (or combined RAM+VRAM) to reach 10+ tokens/s. If you’re below that, it'll work but speed will drop (llama.cpp can still run via mmap/disk offload) and may fall from ~10 tokens/s to <2 token/s.
We recommend UD-Q2_K_XL (375GB) as a good size/quality balance. Best rule of thumb: RAM+VRAM ≈ the quant size; otherwise it’ll still work, just slower due to offloading.
by 2III7 | 2026-01-30 20:10:22+00:00
Without LIDAR and/or additional sensors, Tesla will never be able to provide "real" FSD, no matter how wonderful their software controlling the car is.

Also, self driving is a feature of a vehicle someone owns, I don't understand how that should exempt anyone from insuring their property.

Waymo and others are providing a taxi service where the driver is not a human. You don't pay insurance when you ride Uber or Bolt or any other regular taxi service.
by ralferoo | 2026-01-30 20:10:48+00:00
It's fairly easy to get triangle rasterisation performant if you think about the problem hard enough.

Here's an implementation I wrote for the PS3 SPU many moons ago: https://github.com/ralferoo/spugl/blob/master/pixelshaders/t...

That does perspective correct texture mapping, and from a quick count of the instructions in the main loop is approximately 44 cycles per 8 pixels.

The process of solving the half-line equation used also doesn't suffer from any overlapping pixel or gaps, as long as both points are the same and you use fixed point arithmetic.

The key trick is to rework each line equation such that it's effectively x.dx+y.dy+C=0. You can then evaluate A=x.dx+y.dy+C at the top left of the square that encloses the triangle. Every pixel to the right, you can just add dx, and every pixel down, you can just add dy. The sign bit indicates whether the pixel is or isn't inside that side of the triangle, and you can and/or the 3 side's sign bits together to determine whether a pixel is inside or outside the triangle. (Whether to use and or or depends on how you've decided to interpret the sign bit)

The calculation for the all the values consumed by the rasteriser (C,dx,dy) for all 3 sides of a triangle, given the 3 coordinates is here: https://github.com/ralferoo/spugl/blob/db6e22e18fdf3b4338390...

Some of the explanations I wrote down while trying to understand Barycentric coordinates (from which this stuff kind of just falls out of), ended up here: https://github.com/ralferoo/spugl/blob/master/doc/ideas.txt

(Apologies if my memory/terminology is a bit hazy on this - it was a very long time ago now!)

IIRC in terms of performance, this software implementation filling a 720p screen with perspective-correct texture mapped triangles could hit 60Hz using only 1 of the the 7 SPUs, although they weren't overlapping so there was no overdraw. The biggest problem was actually saturating the memory bandwidth, because I wasn't caching the texture data as an unconditional DMA fetch from main memory always completed before the values were needed later in the loop.
by kremi | 2026-01-30 20:10:55+00:00
To understand whether AI world models could replace traditional video games, it might be useful to compare this to how LLMs have affected old-school role-playing games. LLMs are more mature and have been around longer than AI world models so we should've seen the shift there first.

I don’t personally know anyone who role-plays, so candid question: have LLMs changed the way people play tabletop RPGs?
by tastyface | 2026-01-30 20:11:32+00:00
Whenever you point out the hypocricy of so-called MAGA Christians on this site, you get downvoted. Never any replies with a counterargument.

I have to imagine it's people with a Christian identity who sense on some base level that this is all deeply wrong, but can't reconcile their politics with the actual tenants of their faith. So they just fume and try to hide the uncomfortable truth from view. (I say this as a Christian who is utterly aghast at the state of the country. At least the Catholic leadership has the right idea.)
by digiown | 2026-01-30 20:11:40+00:00
GrapheneOS has a nice feature where you can use both the fingerprint and a short passcode to avoid having to type out your longer/more valuable password all the time. Seems like a good solution to the problem.

Also, iirc iphones have this feature where if you appear to be under duress, it will refuse to unlock and disable face id. Is this true?
by shevy-java | 2026-01-30 20:11:52+00:00
Microsoft is really dropping everything lately. First the Win11 disaster; this one is even making it in the heads of german news sites such as here:

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000306516/windows-11-is...

"Windows ist kaputt" = "Windows is broken"

And now 365 tracking people. So the whole company seems to now just be about
sniffing after people. In the past it alleged at the least to enable folks,
say, Win95 perhaps up to WinXP. Now somehow the customer became the enemy.
It's really strange to see.
by dangets | 2026-01-30 20:11:57+00:00
It is definitely a new frontier. How do you review a game that isn't reproducible? Similarly how do you do play testing? You don't get the same "shared experience" outside of multiplayer and people experiencing it together. It is taking current generation procedurally generated games to the next step, but where do you find a threshold of "this blob of constraints is _the_ game"?

I'm not saying that video games should be confined to today's paradigms, I'm just happily curious to see what will happen with it.
by fragmede | 2026-01-30 20:12:57+00:00
Because it's still relatively new. Gambling's been around forever, and so has addiction. What hasn't been around is gambling your life away on the same device(s) you do everything else in today's modern society on. If you had an unlimited supply of whatever monkey is on your back, right at your fingertips, you'd be dead before the week is out from an overdose. It's the normalization of this level of access to gambling which gives me great fear for the future. Giving drugs to minors is a bigger crime than to adults for a reason. Without regulation and strong cultural push back, it's gonna get way worse, unless we make huge leaps in addiction treatment (which I am hopeful for. GLP-1s aren't yet scientifically proven to help with that, but there's a large body of anecdotal evidence to suggest it does.
by BarryMilo | 2026-01-30 20:13:14+00:00
Imagine this for a whole neighborhood! Maybe it'd be more efficient for the transport to come at regular intervals though. And while we're at it, let's pick up other people along the way, you'll need a bigger vehicle though, perhaps bus-sized...

Half-jokes aside, if you don't own it, you'll end up paying more to the robotaxi company than you would have paid to own the car. This is all but guaranteed based on all SaaS services so far.
by Stratoscope | 2026-01-30 20:13:22+00:00
> Unfortunately, this might become something like the em-dash—where artists start tweaking their work to look less like the AI’s that are copying them.

So true! (And yes—I see what you did there.)

It's even happening to photos now. A few months ago I posted a "Bot alert!" on Nextdoor warning people about the latest scambot.

One person replied "It's funny to see a bot reporting a bot."

I asked how they discovered I was a bot.

"It's your profile photo. The facial expression is too good, and the smoothness of the background is too perfect. Has to be AI."

For the curious, it's the same photo as on my LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelgeary/

What they didn't know was how I took that selfie. I set up my Micro Four Thirds camera on a tripod in the front yard, with the world's best portrait lens: the Olympus 75mm f/1.8. I stood some 10-15 feet from it (this lens is equivalent to a 150mm lens on a full frame camera, i.e. a moderate telephoto) and used the remote control to take a few dozen shots as I let my face relax into various expressions.

I picked out 4-5 favorites and asked a friend about them. She said "This one. It has gravitas."

I don't even think it's that great a photo. But I suppose the "gravitas" makes it look like AI.

For a photo that really shows off what that 75mm lens can do, check out this one of our late dog Brownie, titled Pumpkin Brownie:

https://geary.smugmug.com/Pets/Dogs/i-dNMQW2v/A
by askonomm | 2026-01-30 20:13:31+00:00
As a Clojure developer I have the opposite experience. The more they ignore my open source work, the more they never call up any of my references, the more they give me useless test jobs and assignments unrelated to the actual work, the more it's a signal of a place with poor engineering culture and generally also not that great salaries.

However the places that actually do read my open source work, do contact my references, and where the interview has had no tech assignments of any kind other than a simple discussion about a variety of topics, perhaps just going over some of my OSS projects, the higher the salary has been.

This is in Northern Europe though, your mileage may vary.
by awesan | 2026-01-30 20:13:39+00:00
I have done the monte carlo thing in practice with a team and it works well under some conditions.

The most important is that the team needs to actually use the task board (or whatever data source you use to get your inputs) to track their work actively. It cannot be an afterthought that gets looked at every now and then, it actually needs to be something the team uses.

My current team kind of doesn't like task boards because people tend to work in small groups on projects where they can keep that stuff in their own heads. This requires some more communication but that happens naturally anyway. They are still productive, but this kind of forecasting doesn't work then.
by dleslie | 2026-01-30 20:13:48+00:00
Yes, they absolutely have. The use of AI chat bots for role playing is now fairly commonplace, and not just for sex chat. Silly Tavern and Kobold are major tools for running those locally.

There are numerous guides for integrating an LLM as a sort of automatic game master when _also_ following solo play variants of major TTRPGs. You can find these on reddit and drivethrurpg.
by tjkoury | 2026-01-30 20:14:03+00:00
Congrats, I think.

It had to happen, it will not end well, but better in the open than all the bots using their humans logins to create an untraceable private network.

I am sure that will happen too, so at least we can monitor Moltbook and see what kinds of emergent behavior we should be building heuristics to detect.
Show HN: A Local OS for LLMs. MIT License. Zero Hallucinations. Infinite Memory
by MohskiBroskiAI | 2026-01-30 20:14:43+00:00
The problem with LLMs isn't intelligence; it's amnesia and dishonesty. Hey HN, I’ve spent the last few months building Remember-Me, an open-source "Sovereign Brain" stack designed to run entirely offline on consumer hardware. The core thesis is simple: Don't rent your cognition.
Most RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) implementations are just "grep for embeddings." They are messy, imprecise, and prone to hallucination. I wanted to solve the "Context integrity" problem at the architectural layer.

The Tech Stack (How it works):

QDMA (Quantum Dream Memory Architecture): instead of a flat vector DB, it uses a hierarchical projection engine. It separates "Hot" (Recall) from "Cold" (Storage) memory, allowing for effectively infinite context window management via compression.

CSNP (Context Switching Neural Protocol) - The Hallucination Killer: This is the most important part. Every memory fragment is hashed into a Merkle Chain. When the LLM retrieves context, the system cryptographically verifies the retrieval against the immutable ledger.

If the hash doesn't match the chain: The retrieval is rejected.

Result: The AI visually cannot "make things up" about your past because it is mathematically constrained to the ledger. Local Inference: Built on top of llama.cpp server. It runs Llama-3 (or any GGUF) locally. No API keys. No data leaving your machine.

Features:

Zero-Dependency: Runs on Windows/Linux with just Python and a GPU (or CPU).

Visual Interface: Includes a Streamlit-based "Cognitive Interface" to visualize memory states. Open Source: MIT License. This is an attempt to give "Agency" back to the user. I believe that if we want AGI, it needs to be owned by us, not rented via an API.

Repository: https://github.com/merchantmoh-debug/Remember-Me-AI

I’d love to hear your feedback on the Merkle-verification approach. Does constraining the context window effectively solve the "trust" issue for you?

It's fully working - Fully tested. If you tried to Git Clone before without luck - As this is not my first Show HN on this - Feel free to try again.

To everyone who HATES AI slop; Greedy corporations and having their private data stuck on cloud servers.

You're welcome.

Cheers, Mohamad
by everdrive | 2026-01-30 20:14:49+00:00
>Wouldn't tech that could significantly shorten the timeline back to something closer to a few years like it was 20 years ago - while at the same time massively expanding the scope of the game relative to those - seen as a boost to share value?

Games are already too big and too bloated. I'm not excited for anything along these lines. The best outcome would have been if ballooning game budgets required people to dial back projects and spending so that games were smaller in scope.

If this plays out, we'll see the opposite. LLMs are used to offset the costs of games while they become bigger and dumber than they already are.
by sgtaylor5 | 2026-01-30 20:15:00+00:00
Remember "always coming home"? the book by Ursula Le Guin, describing a far future matriarchal Native American society near the flooded Bay Area.

There was a computer network called TOK that the communities of earth used to communicate with each other. It was run by the computers themselves and the men were the human link with the rest of the community. The computers were even sending out space probes.

We're getting there...
by CRConrad | 2026-01-30 20:15:45+00:00
So you're "fully aware" that you're supposed to pay attention, but you still think "making driving more chill" is somehow desirable (or at least supposed to be desirable, for marketing purposes)...

I think you -- and everyone else -- should not only be "distrustful" of these purported "autopilots" or "copilots" or WETF the marketeers call the contraptions, but actively avoid ever buyin any vehicle equipped with them. Just refuse, and do your own damn driving. For everyone's sake, including your own.