Hacker News: BrokenCogshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BrokenCogsHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 03 Aug 2026 01:45:08 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by BrokenCogs in "Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built"]]>Yes but not a single software engineer or other engineer in my field has a professional engineer designation. It's not required to practice in most fields outside of civil/structural engineering.

]]>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:56:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145237BrokenCogshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145237https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145237<![CDATA[New comment by BrokenCogs in "I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation"]]>What are you expecting with a name like anal_reactor?

]]>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:45:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49020046BrokenCogshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49020046https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49020046<![CDATA[New comment by BrokenCogs in "The unreasonable difficulty of time series forecasting"]]>Not at all unreasonable, why should predicting the future be easy for those of us living in the simulation?

]]>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:13:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995194BrokenCogshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995194https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48995194<![CDATA[New comment by BrokenCogs in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"]]>That does sound pretty neat, thanks for sharing

]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:40:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983876BrokenCogshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983876https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983876<![CDATA[New comment by BrokenCogs in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"]]>What issues are you having with Sunshine? It works on Linux (Ubuntu desktop) for me out of the box

]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:49:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979657BrokenCogshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979657https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979657<![CDATA[New comment by BrokenCogs in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"]]>I don't quite understand the difference between this, sunshine, and apollo?

Is this basically Apollo but for Linux?

]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:44:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974450BrokenCogshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974450https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974450<![CDATA[New comment by BrokenCogs in "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"]]>Language model?

Large model?

Learning machine?

]]>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:55:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48937897BrokenCogshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48937897https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48937897<![CDATA[New comment by BrokenCogs in "Grok Build is open source"]]>Our employer (fortune 100) uses enterprise Cursor and they asked for the grok models to be removed for "security" reasons

]]>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:08:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48929603BrokenCogshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48929603https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48929603<![CDATA[New comment by BrokenCogs in "GPT-5.6"]]>holy moly it's in THREE dimensions!

AGI solved

]]>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:26:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849445BrokenCogshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849445https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849445<![CDATA[New comment by BrokenCogs in "GPT-5.6"]]>yikes - looks like you need to go back to stats school

gemini - 13 hits

opus - 18 hits

So they are more threatened by opus than fable, or are they almost as threatened by gemini as they are by fable?

]]>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:18:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849308BrokenCogshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849308https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849308<![CDATA[New comment by BrokenCogs in "A better way to tie your gym shorts. (Or any drawstring) [video]"]]>Does this also work for full length pants?

]]>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:33:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820159BrokenCogshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820159https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820159<![CDATA[New comment by BrokenCogs in "Acronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms"]]>IFHA

]]>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:08:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48812893BrokenCogshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48812893https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48812893<![CDATA[Where Does the Tone Come from in a Microphone Preamp? [video]]]>Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-vIeA7yy6Q

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734533

Points: 1

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]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:54:12 +0000https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-vIeA7yy6QBrokenCogshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734533https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734533<![CDATA[New comment by BrokenCogs in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"]]>This comment sounds like it's written by someone who doesn't interact with real people very often

]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:26:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48714100BrokenCogshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48714100https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48714100<![CDATA[New comment by BrokenCogs in "My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable"]]>Yes it really does. I use both Linux and Windows daily and for most office and gaming tasks windows is much much easier to setup and get going in. I say this as a technical/person/engineer and not just an average user.

]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:22:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48714077BrokenCogshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48714077https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48714077<![CDATA[New comment by BrokenCogs in "My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable"]]>Look into Apollo, which is a fork of Sunshine. This works flawlessly for monitors plugged into the host, and clients using a different resolution

]]>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:24:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694829BrokenCogshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694829https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694829<![CDATA[New comment by BrokenCogs in "My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable"]]>Why not just dual boot into windows for your gaming needs? It works out of the box more than Linux (if you ignore all the ads, windows updates, and so on). Alternatively stream over local wired connection using apollo

]]>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:23:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694822BrokenCogshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694822https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694822<![CDATA[New comment by BrokenCogs in "Midjourney Medical"]]>Wait is this just an ultrasound tomographic scanner?

]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:59:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580650BrokenCogshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580650https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580650<![CDATA[New comment by BrokenCogs in "Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity"]]>It's clear from the comics that Calvin's dad is just having a bit of fun with his son by telling him funny lies about how the world works. It's not about tricking kids, it rather about playing a mostly harmless prank on them.

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:48:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572141BrokenCogshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572141https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572141<![CDATA[New comment by BrokenCogs in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"]]>Very cool! I was thinking of doing this. One question, what made you choose polychrome dsp over something like neuraldsp?

]]>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:23:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466310BrokenCogshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466310https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466310