Hacker News: cheschire

New comment by cheschire in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

cheschire — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:40:12 +0000

What drives people to cheat at competitive games? I imagine it’s the same genes.

New comment by cheschire in "It's How You Ask: Gender-Associated Linguistic Bias in LLMs"

cheschire — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 02:47:04 +0000

I wonder if romance novels being such a large bulk of modern fiction had any influence on this. Proportion of training data must influence model performance in some way, right?

https://shelflovepodcast.substack.com/p/actually-romance-nov...

New comment by cheschire in "Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE"

cheschire — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:13:41 +0000

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

Basically it’s rewinding a process so you can observe changes or twiddle the knobs.

New comment by cheschire in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"

cheschire — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:03:03 +0000

Don't you remember how they recovered from this after 2008? That's when they started selling "family size" options that are bigger, but with a not-so-obvious price increase where you can't really tell if it's more or less expensive per oz.

Price-conscious shoppers still buy the smaller thing if it's cheaper per oz (and only if the stores show the price per oz on the shelf), but most people just get the bigger size because that's how much they want to consume, and they can't really tell that the 15% increase in size does not equate to 19% increase in cost.

Many stores would stock the family size separate from the regular size so the shoppers couldnt easily compare price per oz.

Eventually the family size just becomes the regular size, but now at the higher price. Then the shrinking happens again.

New comment by cheschire in "Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt"

cheschire — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:45:46 +0000

Yep there are links as far back as 11 years ago posted here. But I’m saying why suddenly in four days is this GitHub profile linked in lots of front page threads?

Is it just that one thread brought attention and several people are slowly digesting the other repos on that profile? Or is there another meta reason?

New comment by cheschire in "Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt"

cheschire — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:40:35 +0000

Almost nothing from this GitHub profile posted until the last four days.

From a meta perspective what is going on? What am I missing? Why is this GitHub profile suddenly getting massive attention and making front page so frequently?

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

cheschire — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:08:10 +0000

I remember about twenty years ago reading a method on a forum somewhere for dealing with tinnitus to create temporary relief. Many folks claimed to experience relief from trying it. Maybe it will help you?

It was text back then but nowadays there are videos. Here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YyT9ZwWy5Jc

New comment by cheschire in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

cheschire — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:01:49 +0000

There are dozens of us!

New comment by cheschire in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

cheschire — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:03:55 +0000

Were you chasing the feeling of successfully solving a problem? Have you replaced problem solving with LLM chats?

Maybe instead of engineering, you’ve been subtly shifted into project management and hate that career.

But it’s tough to engineer much these days. Instead I find I’m PM’ing the bots more than solving problems.

New comment by cheschire in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

cheschire — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:57:48 +0000

I did the remote thing before Covid and rejected it for many of the same reasons. Then Covid happened and so many people got to experience it and loved it. But I still hated it while I was forced to.

Every time I told anyone that I personally didn’t like working from home, and was excited about the return to office that would inevitably come, I got SHOUTED at. Absolutely flayed for not being 110% in support of this thing that made their lives worth living or whatever.

When it first happened I thought it was a weird interpersonal conflict situation. Maybe I had broached it wrong. But it kept happening! So many people were so upset when megacorp said they had to return or find other employment.

But I’m an extrovert and working from home was suffocating.

New comment by cheschire in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

cheschire — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:48:32 +0000

I feel like you skipped the next sentence from GP. This type of award might not balance the equation the way you think it does.

New comment by cheschire in "Trump again tries to limit US birthright citizenship with new executive orders"

cheschire — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:18:08 +0000

It’s how you signal to your faithful that you haven’t given over to the AI yet.

New comment by cheschire in "New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software"

cheschire — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:15:02 +0000

We call him Little Bobby Tables

New comment by cheschire in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

cheschire — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:13:38 +0000

You can go download it again here:

https://archive.org/details/q3DemoTEST

There were multiple test releases. You can find the older ones out on the web.

New comment by cheschire in "Data shows just how hard Tesla's Cybertruck has flopped"

cheschire — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 01:25:02 +0000

Is it a good anything?

New comment by cheschire in "Discovery Loop"

cheschire — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:37:50 +0000

When one of them dies, they want to leave behind a puzzle so complex that entire groups of the population dedicate their lives to solving it within the virtual world. They look old enough to have a lot of favorite 1980’s and 90’s pop culture references, so those will probably be the clues.

New comment by cheschire in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

cheschire — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:14:22 +0000

Factorio. And… yep.

New comment by cheschire in "Is the Industrial Revolution a good precedent for explosive growth today?"

cheschire — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:25:39 +0000

The growth will be in stocks and capital gains, in the consolidation of wealth by a few individuals.

If GDP increases, that’s just money left on the table by the ultra wealthy.

New comment by cheschire in "I Have Thoughts on the iPhone Air"

cheschire — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:02:57 +0000

You can try to go even smaller. Hold the world icon in the lower left of your keyboard. Then at the bottom of the pop up, select a left or right side preference and it will squish the keyboard to that side.

Makes one-handed swipe typing much easier, and feels a bit more accurate with swiping too.

New comment by cheschire in "Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data"

cheschire — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:08:19 +0000

There was a time...