Hacker News: bigwheels

New comment by bigwheels in "Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything"

bigwheels — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:43:39 +0000

Yeah, Show HN is kinda wrekt.

DensePose turns commodity WiFi signals into real-time human pose estimation

bigwheels — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:30:17 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ruvnet/RuView

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837703

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Fincept Terminal

bigwheels — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:29:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Fincept-Corporation/FinceptTerminal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837697

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bigwheels in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"

bigwheels — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:21:26 +0000

Previous related discussion:

Trucker built a scale model of NYC over 21 years https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45261877 - 18 comments, 6 months ago

New comment by bigwheels in "Eighteen Years of Greytrapping – Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?"

bigwheels — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:09:19 +0000

OT: This site has another recent article I found even more interesting-

A Major Mail Provider Demonstrate They Likely Do Not Understand Mail At All https://nxdomain.no/~peter/they_do_not_understand_mail_at_al...

Gotta love the email self-hoster holdouts, mad props and respect.

New comment by bigwheels in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

bigwheels — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:31:21 +0000

Thanks a lot, Sam Altman / OpenAI. Their little $100bn war chest being used for obstructive / destructive purposes will wipe out multiples of that amount via economic ripple effects. All in an attempt to keep a stranglehold over AI via competitive resource starvation. Basic.

New comment by bigwheels in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

bigwheels — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:09:57 +0000

"It's not X, it's Y."

A linguistic presentation commonly referred to as constrastive negation.

New comment by bigwheels in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

bigwheels — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:36:41 +0000

Rather than advancing the state of the art, they'll use it to slow down competition by starving them of resources. In the style of a monopoly.

New comment by bigwheels in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

bigwheels — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:38:18 +0000

Also discoverable via:

  strings $(which  claude) | grep 'Swirling'

New comment by bigwheels in "Doom entirely from DNS records"

bigwheels — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:58:20 +0000

Which is more ambitious, targeting the MONIAC platform or ENIAC?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Machine (MONIAC)

I'd say both are looking increasingly doable.

New comment by bigwheels in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

bigwheels — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:53:22 +0000

It's like core-ing out the goody bits from an otherwise bland pint of ice cream. Who would ever do such a disgusting and selfish thing? :-0

New comment by bigwheels in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

bigwheels — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:36:44 +0000

Fascinating culture and raises numerous questions arising from my subsequent confusion:

1. > 返し箸 Kaeshibashi (also known as 逆さ箸 sakasabashi)

> To turn the chopsticks around when serving food so that the tips of the chopsticks that have touched one’s mouth do not touch the food.

Does this mean it is preferable to use the tips that may have touched mouth to then serve more food? Or is this considered fine because it's also taboo to touch the tips to your mouth? (which only a BARBARIAN would do!)

2. > こすり箸 Kosuribashi

> To rub waribashi (disposable chopsticks) together to remove splinters.

Just proceed to eat some splinters, then? What is the good etiquette way to handle low quality el-cheapo chopsticks?

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I have been guilty of the above as well as:

Chigiribashi - Hold one chopstick in each hand and use them like a knife and fork to tear or cut food into smaller pieces.

Soroebashi - Hold chopsticks together and tap them on a dish or the top of the table to align the tips.

Namidabashi - Allow sauce or soup to drip from the tips of the chopsticks when eating. Namida means “tears.”

Nigiribashi - Grip both chopsticks in a fist.

Neburibashi - Lick the chopsticks.

Hashibashi - Place the chopsticks like a bridge across the top of a dish to show one is finished. Chopsticks should be placed on the hashioki (chopstick rest).

Furibashi - Shake off soup, sauce, or small bits of food from the tips of the chopsticks.

Mogibashi - Bite off and eat grains of rice that are stuck to the chopsticks.

Yokobashi - Line the chopsticks up together and use them like a spoon to scoop up food.

.. growing up my mom used to say, "What are you, raised by wolves!?" .. apparently, yes!

New comment by bigwheels in "Java is fast, code might not be"

bigwheels — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:30:57 +0000

What is the ending of your story!? Did you find and fix some bottlenecks?

New comment by bigwheels in "Ask HN: Which router makers do you trust most?"

bigwheels — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:16:50 +0000

Whatever I can install Opnsense on.

Fruity Loops

bigwheels — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:16:26 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FL_Studio

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47432585

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bigwheels in "Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe"

bigwheels — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:18:24 +0000

Can you elaborate beyond the shallow/superficial dismissal?

New comment by bigwheels in "Open AI is actively censoring information about voting today in the US"

bigwheels — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:58:17 +0000

This is not in the spirit of the guideline. OP was trying to help the poster in good faith.

Deep Exploration and Efficient Research Flow

bigwheels — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:57:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/bytedance/deer-flow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47400727

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bigwheels in "Grief and the AI split"

bigwheels — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:37:19 +0000

I was still skeptical at the start of this year, but there seems to be a shift underway. Found the StrongDM Dark Factory docs in Feb and they've netted novel results that have been inspiring enough to keep studying and practicing.

https://factory.strongdm.ai/techniques

https://factory.strongdm.ai/products/attractor

If you've found better or ancillary resources, please share.

New comment by bigwheels in "An old photo of a large BBS"

bigwheels — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:01:04 +0000

Would these machines have been networked with CAT-3? Daisy chained phone cords?