Hacker News: ChicagoBoy11

New comment by ChicagoBoy11 in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

ChicagoBoy11 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:52:07 +0000

This person Claude's!

New comment by ChicagoBoy11 in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

ChicagoBoy11 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:13:47 +0000

What is the recommended way to watch this? Watch the movie first AND THEN try to see the YouTube content, or vice-versa?

New comment by ChicagoBoy11 in "Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?"

ChicagoBoy11 — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:18:40 +0000

To help with seed rounds before revenue /s

New comment by ChicagoBoy11 in "Cursor Camp"

ChicagoBoy11 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:44:03 +0000

This is utterly delightful. Thank you.

New comment by ChicagoBoy11 in "Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session"

ChicagoBoy11 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:00:39 +0000

How are you able to track this as you use it? A bit stumped atm

New comment by ChicagoBoy11 in "Shares in shoe brand Allbirds rise 580% after it pivots from footwear to AI"

ChicagoBoy11 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:28:42 +0000

Am I the only one who couldn't tell whether this was real or not for a good long while? I legitimately wondered whether the BBC site might have been hacked. I just simply cannot find a way to make sense of just about anything in the news story; I had just assumed it would go under and that's that. Why would someone who has that kind of money to invest put it into this pivot as opposed to a completely fresh, new effort? What's the efficiency I'm not seeing?

New comment by ChicagoBoy11 in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

ChicagoBoy11 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:06:20 +0000

For anyone who liked this, I highly suggest you take a look at the CuriousMarc youtube channel, where he chronicles lots of efforts to preserve and understand several parts of the Apollo AGC, with a team of really technically competent and passionate collaborators.

One of the more interesting things they have been working on, is a potential re-interpretation of the infamous 1202 alarm. It is, as of current writing, popularly described as something related to nonsensical readings of a sensor which could (and were) safely ignored in the actual moon landing. However, if I remember correctly, some of their investigation revealed that actually there were many conditions which would cause that error to have been extremely critical and would've likely doomed the astronauts. It is super fascinating.

New comment by ChicagoBoy11 in "The Brand Age"

ChicagoBoy11 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:00:29 +0000

His point of Omega doubling-down on the things that would progressively harder to establish a moat on made me think about what we have been seeing with higher ed. It seems the "smart ones" definitely read the book that making the "education better," in a world where it is mostly free, was a fool's errand, and now the margins that they all compete it stray far, far away from the quality of the schooling. I work in K-12, and see the same things happening here too.

P.S.: It is odd to me to have such a length pg essay been up for such a long time with just a handful of comments. Did something happen? I would've expected a wealth of discussion on a post like this by now.

New comment by ChicagoBoy11 in "iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information"

ChicagoBoy11 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:36:35 +0000

Why are you sure it was an accident? Couldn't the people who rose up the ranks around his orbit have learned the right lessons, and this having been very intentional?

New comment by ChicagoBoy11 in "That's not how email works"

ChicagoBoy11 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:30:26 +0000

I had a demo for some high-school students for an ethics and tech class that successfully demonstrated these with a GMail account, so when this started happening I got very upset lol.

New comment by ChicagoBoy11 in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

ChicagoBoy11 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:47:38 +0000

Did you build an enclosure for this?

New comment by ChicagoBoy11 in "Crash clock says satellites in orbit are three days from disaster"

ChicagoBoy11 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:16:25 +0000

Wait, are you saying each Starlink sateline is 16 thousand square miles large?

New comment by ChicagoBoy11 in "AI agents are starting to eat SaaS"

ChicagoBoy11 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:39:43 +0000

I'll add another obvious one: No rule that the SaaS, with its obviously much deeper technical expertise, can itself then leverage these tools to achieve even greater velocity, thereby exacerbating the problem for "internal teams"

New comment by ChicagoBoy11 in "Terence Tao: At the Erdos problem website, AI assistance now becoming routine"

ChicagoBoy11 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:26:25 +0000

I suspect there is a great joke embedded in here, but sadly it went over my head. Any help?

New comment by ChicagoBoy11 in "Steam Frame"

ChicagoBoy11 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:32:12 +0000

Driving sims with the right setup are truly breathtaking gaming experiences. For driving, especially, even things like the weight of a headset almost add to the experience since in the real thing you are wearing a helmet. But it is a way to have a legit, e-sports level gaming experience with real-to-life controls with total VR immersion.

New comment by ChicagoBoy11 in "Steam Frame"

ChicagoBoy11 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:30:11 +0000

There was a lot of discussion about some work they've done to minimize compression artifacts... that's the biggest drawback for me in terms of ALVR + AVP... I suppose time will tell.

New comment by ChicagoBoy11 in "My Truck Desk"

ChicagoBoy11 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:35:27 +0000

I had a friend in college who was the ultimate expression of this. If he was in a line, waiting for someone, outside a professor's office hours, etc., he was working on SOMETHING, usually getting ahead of some reading for class. I asked him later, and he gave quite a compelling account of how if you truly added it all up, it had a pretty huge effect in how long it took him to get through his work. He was incredibly bright, went onto a PhD at MIT, and was also very sociable, which I suspect was helped by this strategy of aggressively seizing on these little breaks of time.

I need a good chunk of time to settle into "productive" work, even if it is just reading. I suspect that what is needed is a little bit more discipline at first and slowly it gets easier, but I just never had the ethic to stick to it, and because of this friend I don't even have the ability to claim any doubt as to how impactful it would be.

New comment by ChicagoBoy11 in "In orbit you have to slow down to speed up"

ChicagoBoy11 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:19:30 +0000

For anyone who is remotely interested in this, a considerable chunk of the Gemini program was all about solving some of the practicalities involved with Rendezvous, and it is quite interesting even hearing some of the astronauts come to grips with some of the physics while orbiting in space trying the various types of rendezvous and docking maneuvers that were attempted.

New comment by ChicagoBoy11 in "We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3""

ChicagoBoy11 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:09:39 +0000

Thank you so much!

New comment by ChicagoBoy11 in "Why I'm teaching kids to hack computers"

ChicagoBoy11 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:58:57 +0000

In defense of the parent comment, I don't know that he suggested that it wasn't effective, but it is a dark pattern that probably should be avoided if the gist of the effort is to truly be an educational game that you'd want to enthusiastically support.