Hacker News: RicoElectrico

New comment by RicoElectrico in "They Lied to you about the Virtual Fly Brain [video]"

RicoElectrico — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:27:43 +0000

Really that's the point, the issue is that people take "I made a fly brain do X" as more than mere shitposts they are.

They Lied to you about the Virtual Fly Brain [video]

RicoElectrico — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:18:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n3YHf4_Qtk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151496

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by RicoElectrico in "Google Data Centers around the world"

RicoElectrico — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:54:45 +0000

    me-central2 (Doing business with Saudi Arabia supports slavery and atrocities.)  119 ms ▶
    me-west1 (Doing business with Israel supports atrocities.)  85 ms

Extremely based.

AXI Stream is broken (2022)

RicoElectrico — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:14:03 +0000

Article URL: https://zipcpu.com/blog/2022/02/23/axis-abort.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50003990

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by RicoElectrico in "ESP32-C3 Adblock"

RicoElectrico — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:54:19 +0000

You mean chip antenna (one that looks like a big SMD resistor)? Yes, they're garbage. But this is orthogonal to the chip itself.

Also, PCB antennas are reasonably good for most indoor situations.

New comment by RicoElectrico in "Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family"

RicoElectrico — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:11:29 +0000

Interesting they ignored the micro-reader trend that XTEINK started.

New comment by RicoElectrico in "Redditor buys used CPU, turns out it was banned on Valorant and they are SoL"

RicoElectrico — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:26:34 +0000

When tryhards flocked to ranked games; more broadly in the world with no opportunity for the young people e-sports emerged and they saw it as one.

New comment by RicoElectrico in "Grok is obsessed with our docs. Just not the parts we built for it"

RicoElectrico — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:42:26 +0000

Another example of uselessness of llms.txt.

New comment by RicoElectrico in "Intel patent embedding MicroLEDs directly into CPU as an 'aesthetic component'"

RicoElectrico — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:48:52 +0000

Intel Pentium II used to have a hologram of the die shot.

New comment by RicoElectrico in "F-Droid 2.0"

RicoElectrico — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:51:04 +0000

Repo timestamp expected blah blah... toast coming out of nowhere is such a bad design. Really, the architecture in which you absolutely have to download the multi-MB index is as well.

New comment by RicoElectrico in "Socialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time"

RicoElectrico — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:12:07 +0000

The diverging life expectancy says otherwise. The point is, in other countries where far-right fucks up in a way that materially affects their voter base, it gets voted out in no time. But somehow, in USA, that's not the case.

New comment by RicoElectrico in "Socialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time"

RicoElectrico — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:56:18 +0000

USA is approximately the only developed country in which people consistently vote against their interest.

For what it's worth, apart from the migrant scare, PiS, the far-right friends of Trump, made a comeback in Poland in 2016 by promising and delivering 500+ which was an unconditional payout for parents.

And what Trump did give Americans? Half-assed tariffs which destroyed many businesses and individuals, and which were overturned anyway. Destruction of many jobs in the federal sector. Expensive fuel. And so on.

New comment by RicoElectrico in "AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?"

RicoElectrico — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:06:34 +0000

Me too. Hardware bugs that arise out of unanticipated module interactions are understandable. But this is a "you had one job" moment.

New comment by RicoElectrico in "Uncanny and unappetizing: appetites spoil as AI images take over food menus"

RicoElectrico — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:36:48 +0000

This is everywhere now and I updated a classic XKCD: https://wykop.pl/cdn/c3201142/ff8a54cc85baff6d988770edf500dc...

New comment by RicoElectrico in "The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week"

RicoElectrico — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:43:59 +0000

Same happened for CoMaps (which unfortunately does not have 12+ years of presence going for it)

New comment by RicoElectrico in "Let's make quality the norm again"

RicoElectrico — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:30:12 +0000

There's an interesting paper about expectations of quality:

The LL game: the curious preference for low quality and its norms

https://diegogambetta.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/the_ll_...

New comment by RicoElectrico in "Making Startups Powerful"

RicoElectrico — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:30:26 +0000

Google Search Console can give you those.

New comment by RicoElectrico in "Balrogg: Demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor"

RicoElectrico — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:37:10 +0000

There is a long history of compressors that replace the entropy coding layer of a codec with something else entirely. This is exactly it.

New comment by RicoElectrico in "Balrogg: Demonically compacting (up to 15%) lossless Vorbis/Opus recompressor"

RicoElectrico — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:35:30 +0000

> I like the code style, this is pretty nice C.

Or is it? https://github.com/iczelia/balrogg/blob/7008bdc10ff25ad87105...

New comment by RicoElectrico in "Tgrep: Trigram-Indexed Grep"

RicoElectrico — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:51:07 +0000

Weird that the prior art of https://github.com/sc0ty/grip was not mentioned.