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New comment by aappleby in "I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]"

aappleby — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:33:34 +0000

I've had tinnitus for 25+ years after neglecting an ear infection while I was working overtime.

It's never disappeared, but the "rain on a tent" sounds from mynoise.net, fan noise, and having a Twitch stream on in the background masks it enough that it's not bothersome during the day.

"Befriending" it though? Naah, I don't think so.

New comment by aappleby in "Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?"

aappleby — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:24:29 +0000

I reverse engineered the Game Boy from pictures of the die - https://github.com/aappleby/metroboy - so yes, it's totally doable. It is also incredibly tedious and frustrating.

Not sure if that gives me an advantage in this challenge, but I have too many things to do already. :D

New comment by aappleby in "Parsers don't have to be complicated"

aappleby — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:49:49 +0000

If this is "simple", then I don't think the author has tried a good parser combinator library yet.

New comment by aappleby in "Lines of code. 1,596 BTC gone"

aappleby — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:33:48 +0000

Get a human to write it or GTFO

New comment by aappleby in "Schmitt Trigger: Robust Comparator Design with Hysteresis"

aappleby — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:05:55 +0000

Slop

New comment by aappleby in "Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates"

aappleby — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:54:44 +0000

Oh lord, I went to the "ALU" example, did absolutely nothing, clicked "Run Tests" - YOU WIN

You didn't test this thing at all, did you?

New comment by aappleby in "Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates"

aappleby — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:52:10 +0000

Why does "Browse" at the top take me to what looks like a scam shopping site?

The "Pipelining" level is completely broken - big completely empty grid, no components to place, and you actually think you're going to learn _pipelining_ in a _schematic editor_?

This is a vibe-coded slop project. Not interested.

New comment by aappleby in "[dead]"

aappleby — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:10:32 +0000

yeah crap article :P

New comment by aappleby in "Tesler's Law"

aappleby — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:37:40 +0000

Most complexity can be transformed into a set of interlocking simple systems, but getting there is haaaaard.

New comment by aappleby in "MemoryPack: Zero encoding extreme performance binary serializer for C#"

aappleby — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:10:12 +0000

XTREEEEM

New comment by aappleby in "Atomic Physics in Pure Anglo-Saxon"

aappleby — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:09:55 +0000

This was lovely.

New comment by aappleby in "GPT-5.6"

aappleby — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:29:11 +0000

Surely "how to draw a SVG pelican on a bike" has made it into the training data by now ...

New comment by aappleby in "1.38 Millimeter Microcontroller"

aappleby — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:28:51 +0000

tiny coin cell, would run for about six hours

New comment by aappleby in "1.38 Millimeter Microcontroller"

aappleby — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:25:03 +0000

You might enjoy this dime-sized earring I designed ~13 years ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyBhdRp_5rY

New comment by aappleby in "Never Give Them Your Face"

aappleby — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:15:18 +0000

this would be more convincing if it wasn't ai written.

New comment by aappleby in "Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction (2016)"

aappleby — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:10:26 +0000

The smallest amount of simple code that solves the problem wins. Everything else is irrelevant.

New comment by aappleby in "FP8 Is All You Need (Part 1): Debunking Hardware FP64 as the HPC Holy Grail"

aappleby — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:29:38 +0000

I feel like there's gotta be a catch in there somewhere, like "fails catastrophically when computing logarithms" or something. skeptical

New comment by aappleby in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

aappleby — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:38:57 +0000

Are you sure you're asking the right questions?

New comment by aappleby in "I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab"

aappleby — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:01:31 +0000

Glad I bought a JetKVM, it's been great (other than the HDMI adapter, lol)

New comment by aappleby in "My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo"

aappleby — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:34:30 +0000

No benchmarks?