Hacker News: Quitschquathttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=QuitschquatHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:13:05 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by Quitschquat in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"]]>"I" code impressive shit with the LLM, but after the initial push to github, I find I hate myself and I'm deeply miserable with what it produced since it was not mine. My "ah-ha" moment has been that misery.

]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:36:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419771Quitschquathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419771https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419771<![CDATA[New comment by Quitschquat in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"]]>Recently started an embedded hardware/software job. Shipping firmware to the manufacturer feels like that for the device classes that have no internet.

]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:34:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413954Quitschquathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413954https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413954<![CDATA[New comment by Quitschquat in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"]]>> I don't churn out code quickly enough

Curious what industry that is.

]]>Sun, 24 May 2026 16:24:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258598Quitschquathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258598https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258598<![CDATA[New comment by Quitschquat in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"]]>Even xterm on a sun sparcstation running openlook was sluggish at the time. cde made it hopeless.

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 20:18:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113930Quitschquathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113930https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113930<![CDATA[New comment by Quitschquat in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"]]>> I called this out back in 2023

People have been "calling this out" for decades. Yet the most productive languages are still dynamic/strongly typed.

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 19:50:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113499Quitschquathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113499https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113499<![CDATA[New comment by Quitschquat in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"]]>You might be looking at these old Unix GUIs thinking they're shit compared to now, but actually, at the time, they were shit too.

]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 19:42:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113391Quitschquathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113391https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113391<![CDATA[New comment by Quitschquat in "Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica"]]>Read the sections on nebula since this book predates the discovery of galaxies

]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:40:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854258Quitschquathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854258https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854258<![CDATA[New comment by Quitschquat in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"]]>What's PHM

]]>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:46:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565919Quitschquathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565919https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565919<![CDATA[In Defense of Death Caps]]>Article URL: https://northspore.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-death-caps

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311150

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

]]>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:22:52 +0000https://northspore.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-death-capsQuitschquathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311150https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311150<![CDATA[New comment by Quitschquat in "Facebook is cooked"]]>I’m there for the T’n’A too

]]>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:11:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095356Quitschquathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095356https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095356<![CDATA[New comment by Quitschquat in "MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk"]]>I wish my MBP M3 Max was snappy like that

]]>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 04:33:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46909160Quitschquathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46909160https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46909160<![CDATA[New comment by Quitschquat in "Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster"]]>Tbh, 15% faster than slow AF is still slow AF

]]>Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:36:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46385829Quitschquathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46385829https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46385829<![CDATA[New comment by Quitschquat in "Why xor eax, eax?"]]>At some point I could disassemble 8086 (16 bit x86/real mode) as a kid. Byte sequences like 31 C9 or 31 C0 were a sure way to know if a loop of some kind was being initialized. Even simple compilers at the time made the mov xx, 0 → xor xx, xx optimization.

]]>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:28:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110184Quitschquathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110184https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110184<![CDATA[New comment by Quitschquat in "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1987) [pdf]"]]>Needs a section on Performance Stupidity. “The January 6 people where tourists taking a guided tour”

]]>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:02:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45836035Quitschquathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45836035https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45836035<![CDATA[New comment by Quitschquat in "Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not"]]>> Second rule of Twitter is why are you on Twitter,

It was a short affair.

No longer on Twitter. I can't see how anyone would want to be. It's a veritable cesspool.

]]>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:17:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45814141Quitschquathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45814141https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45814141<![CDATA[New comment by Quitschquat in "First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)"]]>I usually discard studies with sample sizes of 1

]]>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:48:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45813052Quitschquathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45813052https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45813052<![CDATA[New comment by Quitschquat in "Show HN: Yourshoesmells.com – Find the most smelly boulder gym"]]>I would like to filter via Smells Like Ass vs Smells Like Balls. I have a different tolerance for each

]]>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:41:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45812966Quitschquathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45812966https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45812966<![CDATA[New comment by Quitschquat in "Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not"]]>I don’t know what everyone gets out of Twitter/X. I signed up recently to see what the fuss is about,

I think I selected science and music as starting interests. Within 10 minutes I was getting lots of right wing borderline Nazi bullshit.

Tries it all again in incognito mode. Roughly same thing. WTF

]]>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:14:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45812630Quitschquathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45812630https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45812630<![CDATA[New comment by Quitschquat in "Judge orders administration to distribute SNAP contingency money amid shutdown"]]>Bro, you need to encounter someone barely surviving on SNAP out there. It will totally change your perspective.

]]>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 05:58:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45779545Quitschquathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45779545https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45779545<![CDATA[New comment by Quitschquat in "Lenses in Julia"]]>Is this like setf in lisp?

]]>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 01:44:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45767485Quitschquathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45767485https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45767485