Hacker News: achr2

New comment by achr2 in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

achr2 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:20:27 +0000

Ding. Ding. Ding. "Provided value to the content author". AI scrapping negatively impacts the content author with zero compensation. There is no mutual benefit.

New comment by achr2 in "A few interesting modern pixel fonts"

achr2 — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:04:11 +0000

I am very fond of Gohu font. I have used it on a recent static blog formatting adventure http://dntbl.ink , converted to woff2. I couldn't be happier with how it renders and gives that VAX feel.

New comment by achr2 in "I built my own hair electrolysis machine"

achr2 — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:29:34 +0000

This is so interesting, thanks for sharing!

New comment by achr2 in "Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad"

achr2 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:21:10 +0000

I enjoyed your post - PCB routing is often an act of 'zen and the art of..' for me and I recently did a similar exercise for an esp32.

New comment by achr2 in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

achr2 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:29:50 +0000

Why not use Claude one single time to create a service that does this? I have this same question with 90% of the 'simple' use cases I see for these task runners, it always seems more efficient (not to mention consistent) to have it generate the service.

New comment by achr2 in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

achr2 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:11:41 +0000

No the shortage goes back to Regan when their justified strike was busted. It ended the PATCO “union” and was a negative turning point for labour unions in general.

New comment by achr2 in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

achr2 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:43:27 +0000

They didn't tweak their prompt styling request enough... The ChatGPT world is depressing.

New comment by achr2 in "Show HN: An LLM-Powered Tool to Catch PCB Schematic Mistakes"

achr2 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 19:30:31 +0000

>> Even if it only catches one small, it could save thousand of dollars down the line.

Or it could send a design team down thousands of dollars in false positives/false negatives. With zero benchmarks provided, it is very fair to question a product that could have material negative impacts on a hardware team.

New comment by achr2 in "It's hard to build an oscillator"

achr2 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:52:45 +0000

This is really great, both from a specific application perspective, but also the approach. Really enjoyed looking through the repo and was inspired by your work.

New comment by achr2 in ".NET 10"

achr2 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:08:21 +0000

C#/dotNet has Ahead of Time compilation that works very well with containerization. Obviously there are still overheads for the AoT runtime, but it is pruned.

New comment by achr2 in "10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea"

achr2 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 21:39:53 +0000

I had an Abloy Protec2 malfunction while locked (PSA don't use them for key-only sashlocks) and the locksmith drilled it out in ~10 seconds. That is the last time I spend that kind of money on a lock!

New comment by achr2 in "Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an Nvidia Spark via brute force with Claude Code"

achr2 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:36:59 +0000

My assumption is that there could be higher dimensional 'token' representations that can be used instead of vision tokens (though obviously not human interpretable). I wonder if there is an optimisation for compression that takes the vector space at a specific level in the network to provide the most context for minimal memory space.

New comment by achr2 in "Apple Shelves Vision Headset Revamp to Prioritize Meta-Like AI Glasses"

achr2 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 01:16:57 +0000

Well said, I would buy them in a heartbeat if it was from a moral company.

New comment by achr2 in "Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?"

achr2 — Thu, 08 May 2025 18:02:04 +0000

This was build originally with WPF and C#, but with an in-house MVVM framework. I have been slowly moving it to Avalonia, which I highly recommend.

New comment by achr2 in "Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?"

achr2 — Thu, 08 May 2025 14:51:29 +0000

This is my own software, but – as a project engineering data exploration tool – high information and functional density was a key goal:

https://engdata.com/

New comment by achr2 in "Piranesi's Perspective Trick (2019)"

achr2 — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:06:40 +0000

This is really interesting, I'd love to see this perspective incorporated into mapping software like google maps/streetview.

New comment by achr2 in "Piranesi's Perspective Trick (2019)"

achr2 — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:05:11 +0000

They mean distorted, not squished for both.

New comment by achr2 in "A love letter to the CSV format"

achr2 — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:08:40 +0000

It’s all a pros and cons.. the benefit of those characters are they are not used anywhere else, hence you never have to worry about escaping/quoting strings. But obviously most of my csv usage is automated in/out.

New comment by achr2 in "A love letter to the CSV format"

achr2 — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 01:40:59 +0000

Using ascii 'US' Unit Separator and 'RS' Record Separator characters would be a far better implementation of a CSV file.

New comment by achr2 in "De-smarting the Marshall Uxbridge"

achr2 — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 02:29:23 +0000

I bought one of these Marshall speakers to use as a practice amp, only to find that the dsp latency is unusably bad. Maybe this is an option…