Hacker News: PinkMilkshake

New comment by PinkMilkshake in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

PinkMilkshake — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:24:18 +0000

"That is a profound observation, and you are absolutely right..."

With all the money you will save on subscription fees you should be able to afford treatment for your psychosis!

New comment by PinkMilkshake in "Why craft-lovers are losing their craft"

PinkMilkshake — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:22:59 +0000

I think it might depend on where you live. In Australia, tradies make bank.

New comment by PinkMilkshake in "Building an FPGA 3dfx Voodoo with Modern RTL Tools"

PinkMilkshake — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 05:50:00 +0000

Are you sure this is AI? Normally when I read AI written stuff I zone out because it can go entire paragraphs without saying anything. The sentences here seem short and to the point.

Their previous posts published before ChatGPT seem similar enough. Although, they have way more em dashes and this one has none, almost like they were removed on purpose... lol

I don't know what is real anymore.

New comment by PinkMilkshake in "Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions"

PinkMilkshake — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:08:46 +0000

I don't particularly care if vibe coding and the like are used for web apps and mobile apps. The quality there has always been poor and gets worse over time. AI slopware is just the new low and in a few years time I'm sure they will find a way to make things even worse.

But for software infrastructure; Kernels, operating systems, compilers, browsers, etc, it is crazy we are even considering AI at it's current ability. If we are going to do that, we need to switch to Ada/SPARK or some other type of formally verifiable system.

Maybe I'm overreacting, but all I want to do right now is escape. It horrifies me to think that one day I may be driving a car with a braking system vibe coded in C++.

New comment by PinkMilkshake in "Elevated Errors in Claude.ai"

PinkMilkshake — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:47:05 +0000

I won't hate you for downvoting me, but this is heroin-grade schadenfreude.

New comment by PinkMilkshake in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

PinkMilkshake — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:57:33 +0000

> The hype about vibe coding lets everyone think they can now be an engineer.

Programmers are just jealous that they are no longer the only ones that get to play pretend.

I don't know anything about you personally, but most "software engineers" are anything but.

New comment by PinkMilkshake in "Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse"

PinkMilkshake — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:36:44 +0000

> humans cope pretty well over a wide variety of temperatures.

That's not the problem, though. The problem is almost nothing else can. Livestock, staple crops, pollinating insects, etc.

New comment by PinkMilkshake in "Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout"

PinkMilkshake — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:39:14 +0000

I only just learned about SunCable. I think using our vast swathes of empty, sun-drenched land to provide power to our Southeast Asian allies is a great idea.

New comment by PinkMilkshake in "Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books"

PinkMilkshake — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 14:20:00 +0000

I think most engineer types avoid that kind of analysis on purpose.

New comment by PinkMilkshake in "Microsoft Download Center Archive"

PinkMilkshake — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:20:24 +0000

Lots of workshops, factories, university research labs, etc. still use old machinery that would be a huge waste of money to replace just because the computer that controls it runs Windows 95. In some cases it can't be replaced because the company that created the software, drivers, or IO cards is long gone.

New comment by PinkMilkshake in "If Odin Had Macros"

PinkMilkshake — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:07:13 +0000

PUC Lua is supposedly a bit of a pain for ffi, but I havent tried it myself. Luajit is some kind of crazy magic. You can (almost) just copy and paste the c header file into the ffi.cdef function and then start using c functions as if they were lua functions.

New comment by PinkMilkshake in "Go ahead, write the “stupid” code"

PinkMilkshake — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:45:06 +0000

Maybe you don't read much, but it's obvious they weren't making some universal statement about code. They are referring to the code you write when you are just experimenting by yourself, for yourself. The point is to not let irrelevant things like usefulness, quality, conventions, etc. limit just tinkering and learning.

New comment by PinkMilkshake in "Melonking Website"

PinkMilkshake — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 06:53:26 +0000

Wonderful site. How are they sneaking in the auto-playing music? Firefox even displays a little icon saying audio is being blocked.

New comment by PinkMilkshake in "I tried Servo"

PinkMilkshake — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 02:11:06 +0000

> I’m sure Rust started out as something intended to help with their browser work.

It started out as something to make elevators more reliable. Not even joking (mostly).

New comment by PinkMilkshake in "The Rise of the Japanese Toilet"

PinkMilkshake — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 05:38:42 +0000

I have IBS. Sometimes the consistency is like mud/tar. It's completely impossible to get clean without moisture. After a trip to Japan, I swore that if I ever manage to own my own home, I will install a Japanese toilet. I started to wonder how we in the west have accepted for so long that abrading skin with dry paper is cleaning.

New comment by PinkMilkshake in "Shenmue (1999) reverse engineering reveals possible sun position oversight"

PinkMilkshake — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 13:22:26 +0000

> You're implying it's somehow normal to bury it? That sounds like it would be expensive, both to build and to maintain.

Yes, it's normal. It's called undergrounding.

New comment by PinkMilkshake in "A Second Search for Bash Scripting Alternatives"

PinkMilkshake — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:40:53 +0000

PowerShell is sort of two languages, and it looks weird because they are often used together. But if you see them separate first, there isn't much there that is surprising. I do somewhat share your concern about it being built on dotnet, but one advantage is you have access to everything in dotnet, including building GUI apps (Windows only). Though, at that point the syntax does get kinda weird.

New comment by PinkMilkshake in "Building a Game with the Real Engine"

PinkMilkshake — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 05:25:02 +0000

Something similar was done for the 1996 game Creatures. A part of the diorama still survives and is on display at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge (https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/42694/Creatures-Deve...).

New comment by PinkMilkshake in "Uxn"

PinkMilkshake — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 22:45:34 +0000

I really like their ideas, and I love that they follow through with actual implementation.

Given the restrictions on the VM, like 64K of memory, are they going to have issues with more complex written languages like Japanese or Arabic?

New comment by PinkMilkshake in "Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team"

PinkMilkshake — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 04:58:03 +0000

Cool! LSL is such an interesting language. Having an explicit state with entry and exit functions is quite unique I think, and seems like it could be useful outside of SL. Given that scripts are isolated and communicate via messaging over channels (IIRC), was there ever any interest in executing it on the BEAM virtual machine?