Hacker News: chaosmachine

New comment by chaosmachine in "Boards of Casio"

chaosmachine — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:45:31 +0000

The original author of the patches (oliveoil22) is on the KeyOsc forum, if you're interested: https://forum.keyosc.com/topic/2293-casio-cz-101-the-90s-key...

Disclaimer: I'm an admin there.

New comment by chaosmachine in "Show HN: I Built a $1 Escalating Internet Billboard – Called Space"

chaosmachine — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:27:17 +0000

Inspired by the million dollar homepage?

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

Talking with ChatGPT, a sane man became convinced he was a superhero

chaosmachine — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:59:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44895657

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Modifying process names in Unix-like systems

chaosmachine — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:55:30 +0000

Article URL: https://haxrob.net/process-name-stomping/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44756899

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by chaosmachine in "I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data"

chaosmachine — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:39:54 +0000

This reminds me of Benford's law[1]

"Benford's law, also known as the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law, is an observation that in many real-life sets of numerical data, the leading digit is likely to be small."

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law

Design Considerations for an Anthropophilic Computer

chaosmachine — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:46:39 +0000

Article URL: https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/bom/anthrophilic.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44511501

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Desktop Pictures taken by Steve Jobs (2020)

chaosmachine — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 17:58:18 +0000

Article URL: https://techreflect.org/2020/05/desktop-pictures-taken-by-steve-jobs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44320955

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

What Happened to Geocities?

chaosmachine — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:45:56 +0000

Article URL: https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-geocities/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43389126

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Two mountains are better than one

chaosmachine — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 04:02:54 +0000

Article URL: https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/2016/12/two-mountains-are-better-than-one.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42038325

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Instant Video Search

chaosmachine — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:42:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.whatpoliticssay.com/#/search?q=hacker

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41522156

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

The Disk

chaosmachine — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 21:28:37 +0000

Article URL: https://biblioklept.org/2019/04/02/the-disk-a-very-short-story-by-jorge-luis-borges/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39596380

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

B-2 Stealth Unveiled (2013)

chaosmachine — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 15:13:23 +0000

Article URL: https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/1988-b-2-stealth-unveiled

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39241027

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Flying a Drone over Mt Everest

chaosmachine — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 19:52:03 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/drones/comments/18e6edj/i_flew_a_stock_mavic_3_over_everest_let_me_know/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38687297

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by chaosmachine in "BrainGPT turns thoughts into text"

chaosmachine — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 17:10:44 +0000

Aside from all the horrific implications, this enables something very cool: two-way telepathic communication.

Think your message, think "send", hear responses via earbud. With voice cloning, you even get the message in the sender's voice. Totally silent and invisible to outside observers.

Steorn

chaosmachine — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 22:03:01 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36885776

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Freedom Downtime (2001)

chaosmachine — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 05:13:44 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36797096

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by chaosmachine in "AWS us-east-1 down"

chaosmachine — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:59:16 +0000

If you're having problems accessing the console, the workaround is just to use a different region, eg:

https://ca-central-1.console.aws.amazon.com/console/home

This assumes you don't actually need anything from us-east-1, though :)

Six-month pause on 'out-of-control' AI experiments

chaosmachine — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 18:26:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/tech-leaders-and-ai-experts-demand-a-six-month-pause-on-out-of-control-ai-experiments-114553864.html

Hacker News: chaosmachine

New comment by chaosmachine in "Boards of Casio"

New comment by chaosmachine in "Show HN: I Built a $1 Escalating Internet Billboard – Called Space"

Talking with ChatGPT, a sane man became convinced he was a superhero

Modifying process names in Unix-like systems

New comment by chaosmachine in "I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data"

Design Considerations for an Anthropophilic Computer

Desktop Pictures taken by Steve Jobs (2020)

What Happened to Geocities?

Two mountains are better than one

Instant Video Search

The Disk

B-2 Stealth Unveiled (2013)

Flying a Drone over Mt Everest

New comment by chaosmachine in "BrainGPT turns thoughts into text"

Steorn

Freedom Downtime (2001)

New comment by chaosmachine in "AWS us-east-1 down"

Six-month pause on 'out-of-control' AI experiments

Negative Concord

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