<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: chiengineer</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chiengineer</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:53:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=chiengineer" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chiengineer in "Israel Knesset set to vote on death penalty law for Palestinians convicted of"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is already the policy</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:50:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577476</link><dc:creator>chiengineer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577476</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chiengineer in "Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh thats adorable</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:03:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520130</link><dc:creator>chiengineer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520130</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chiengineer in "Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At this point its extremely clear and important to understand<p>It doesnt matter how men, bodies / hours / time / millions and billions you spend building a defensive<p>They will infiltrate with less than 500k<p>And come out on top<p>100% of the time<p>This is a fundamental human problem that needs fixing across the entire planet<p>It does not matter what country or secret groups are involved or how much life or death is truly at stake<p>There is a 100000% chance some dumbass is willing to fuck if all up for a small bribe</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:02:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520123</link><dc:creator>chiengineer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520123</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chiengineer in "Windows native app development is a mess"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I built multiple Avalonia apps with zero previous experience<p>- Windows 11 Hardening utility - made it because all existing ones are not updated to handle all the new AI telemetry + new updates + I made it differently and more powerful than anything that exists currently<p>- Windows Admin/ Security / Networking Utility built for my needs<p>- Windows 11 Anti Virus Nuker - Completely shuts off windows defender without disrupting system performance or zombie files<p>- and more</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:42:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480045</link><dc:creator>chiengineer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480045</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chiengineer in "Ask HN: Are the newest LLMs better than you at programming?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your prompts are zero out of 10 quality<p>Learn how to prompt better you'll be fine</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:24:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446392</link><dc:creator>chiengineer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446392</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chiengineer in "Ask HN: Burning $100K/week on LLM tokens – what are you doing to cut costs?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What the fuck is the point of spamming hacker news with bots<p>? Whats the point?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:37:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422705</link><dc:creator>chiengineer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422705</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chiengineer in "Lawmakers Want DoD Investigated for Biblical 'Armageddon' Claims"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bro its chill WW3 is totally promised to trump 3000 years ago</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:22:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292034</link><dc:creator>chiengineer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292034</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chiengineer in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>why would there be evidence of sarcasm<p>jesus holy mary mother of christ AI bots dont understand sarcasm duh<p>downvotes away!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:59:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215058</link><dc:creator>chiengineer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215058</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chiengineer in "Is GitHub Copilot still relevant in the enterprise?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>its my main platform here - claude / codex and everything else context windows and tooling are not up to speed for me and I cant afford API<p>for 50$ a month for 1500 requests - I use up the entire weeks worth of context for the other platforms in a couple hours with what im coding its annoying as hell and thats if they are working properly setup properly</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:18:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197080</link><dc:creator>chiengineer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197080</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chiengineer in "Solving Impossible Problems for Fun and Profit – Dan Gelbart"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://github.com/zerocool26/Unified-Correctness-Oriented-Programming-Stack" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/zerocool26/Unified-Correctness-Oriented-P...</a><p>- this is a new foundational idea for programming (I attempted) vs current languages<p><a href="https://github.com/zerocool26/Quantum-Observability-Contract-Compilation-QOCC-" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/zerocool26/Quantum-Observability-Contract...</a><p>QOCC is a vendor-agnostic, reproducible, trace-first layer that instruments quantum program workflows end-to-end and supports contract-defined correctness + cost optimization via closed-loop compilation/search.<p>I made these 2 projects very recently to test stuff, test ideas, implementations things that work vs break<p>setup - vs code + github copilot pro plus</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:45:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166808</link><dc:creator>chiengineer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166808</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chiengineer in "Code Is Cheap – Now What?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://github.com/zerocool26/Unified-Correctness-Oriented-Programming-Stack" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/zerocool26/Unified-Correctness-Oriented-P...</a><p>- this is a new foundational idea for programming (I attempted) vs current languages<p><a href="https://github.com/zerocool26/Quantum-Observability-Contract-Compilation-QOCC-" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/zerocool26/Quantum-Observability-Contract...</a><p>QOCC is a vendor-agnostic, reproducible, trace-first layer that instruments quantum program workflows end-to-end and supports contract-defined correctness + cost optimization via closed-loop compilation/search.<p>10+ year IT sys admin veteran, bare minimum coding experience never shipped anything before AI<p>I made these 2 projects very recently to test stuff, test ideas, implementations things that work vs break<p>setup - vs code + github copilot pro plus</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:34:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161888</link><dc:creator>chiengineer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161888</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47161888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chiengineer in "QOCC – Quantum Observability and Contract-Based Compilation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>QOCC is a vendor-agnostic, reproducible, trace-first layer that instruments quantum program workflows end-to-end and supports contract-defined correctness + cost optimization via closed-loop compilation/search.<p>showing off my contribution to quantum after prompting for 5 whole minutes coming up with this idea<p>- Why? -<p>- I have always wanted to contribute to quantum for absolutely no good reason at all only because its been the #1 hardest problem to solve for humans that I can think of and read and watched countless hours of material on quantum growing up and I don't even know calculus yet<p>- this is kind of a 50/50 stress test, testing new models + new ideas + new implementations to come up with entirely new things that aren't even thought of yet<p>- Anybody know anyone working in quantum that can review my work please?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:39:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148947</link><dc:creator>chiengineer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[QOCC – Quantum Observability and Contract-Based Compilation]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://github.com/zerocool26/Quantum-Observability-Contract-Compilation-QOCC-">https://github.com/zerocool26/Quantum-Observability-Contract-Compilation-QOCC-</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148946">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148946</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
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<p>Went from rough draft demo with python in the summer of 2025 to testing different frameworks by august landed on a completely custom made<p>Rust game engine with Go built in<p>React, typescript, node js, bun, three.js, rive, tons of other stuff front end<p>And its 1 month away or less from beta<p>need investors help is appreciated</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145569">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145569</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:22:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145569</link><dc:creator>chiengineer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145569</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chiengineer in "Supreme Court strikes down Trump's tariffs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>After handing over 10 billion to the board of peace and throwing away the lawsuit<p>Sure just call the returns office in the east wing im sure theyll oh wait</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:24:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47089177</link><dc:creator>chiengineer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47089177</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47089177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Experimental C# Windows 11 privacy hardening framework(not just an app)]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Introducing Towel Protocol<p>Yes It works / Based on windows 11 enterprise / Has avalonia UI<p>100% created with a couple days work with AI github copilot pro plus with vs code<p>windows 11 introduced lots and lots of AI / new telemetry / the old tools released projects and basically everything released out hasn't caught up so I decided to create over 10+ tools with different ideas implementations and they weren't good enough deleted all of them and made this one with C# and works great so good its now free forever!<p>Individual Policy Selection: Granular control - select exactly which policies to apply<p>Privilege Separation: UI runs as standard user, service runs as LocalSystem<p>Audit Mode: Inspect current system state before making changes<p>Full Reversibility: All changes can be rolled back<p>Drift Detection: Monitors for changes after Windows updates<p>Profiles: Balanced, Hardened, and Maximum Privacy presets<p>Restore Points: Automatic system restore point creation<p>Transparent: Every change is logged and explainable<p>- donations are welcome - helps me digest more gallons of coffee to make more cool stuff</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075262">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075262</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:08:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://github.com/zerocool26/TowelProtocol</link><dc:creator>chiengineer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075262</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chiengineer in "Ask HN: Any AI / Agent power users out there? Do you have any tips?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>you should take the time to watch youtube videos on AI agents and coding in general<p>also vs code + github copilot pro plus for more context</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:33:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47060319</link><dc:creator>chiengineer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47060319</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47060319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chiengineer in "Google Public CA is down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While were all here does anyone want to launch a startup for a cloud security tool I built</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:07:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056210</link><dc:creator>chiengineer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056210</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47056210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chiengineer in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Its because they are in the trump files its not even rhe Epstein files anymore<p>Its very obvious he was the show runner<p>How many tech CEOs you think were at those parties? I bet more than a couple</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 07:31:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751649</link><dc:creator>chiengineer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751649</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chiengineer in "White House Posts Digitally Altered Image of Woman Arrested After ICE Protest"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean you arent wrong but this isnt even considered propaganda<p>It has nothing to do with trying to convince people of anything<p>Its a straight up fabrication of real life its a lie lie lie. Propaganda lies but not this directly<p>This is an attack on free speech and everyone who has a say needs to have their heads examined if this is the new norm</p>
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