<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: chippiewill</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chippiewill</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 04:42:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=chippiewill" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chippiewill in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Alternatively they'll just wreck it down a bit so it beats a competitor but isn't unsafe.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:48:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679662</link><dc:creator>chippiewill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679662</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chippiewill in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They didn't update them last October is why.<p>I think at this point Apple will just release new versions of laptops whenever new CPU revisions and yields allow. M5 Pro wasn't ready for October so delayed until now.</p>
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<p>IIRC Marcan mentioned something he found that had been deliberately put into the Mac boot loader that made booting alternative operating systems easier and perhaps making it possible altogether.</p>
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<p>It doesn't work for transitive dependencies, so you're reliant on third party composite actions doing their own SHA locking.</p>
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<p>The company I used to work for was developing a self driving car with stereo depth on a wide baseline.<p>It's not all sunshine and roses to be honest - it was one of the weakest links in the perception system. The video had to run at way higher resolutions than it would otherwise and it was incredibly sensitive to calibration accuracy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 10:51:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46922830</link><dc:creator>chippiewill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46922830</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46922830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chippiewill in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The UK doesn't need to put restrictions in for 3d printing guns because the viable approaches for 3d printing them usually require _some_ off the shelf gun parts not to mention actual ammunition which you can't feasibly acquire in the UK to begin with.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:08:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46883411</link><dc:creator>chippiewill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46883411</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46883411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chippiewill in "Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But no one forces pre-commit hooks onto you? You can just not install the hook into git and run the tool manually instead.</p>
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<p>No one forces you to install the pre-commit hook on your local checkout so what you're suggesting is universally the case. You're perfectly free to just run it manually or let it fail in CI or use `--no-verify` when committing to skip the hook if you install it.</p>
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<p>It depends on the hooks you're using and how many of them.<p>For some languages there are some rather slow hooks, and using it on a big monorepo can take a while (a full run across my work's main repo takes minutes). If you update python based hooks all the time then installing and creating the virtualenvs can be slow too which prek speeds up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:54:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46879233</link><dc:creator>chippiewill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46879233</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46879233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chippiewill in "Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The pre-commit tool (which prek is based on) has a large ecosystem of off the shelf checks for various language linters and other checks and a convenient way of writing them (including working out which files have changed and which checks to run based off of that)<p>The benefit to many of having them as a hook is that you discover it's broken before you pushed your changes, and not when you finally get around to checking the CI on your branch and realising it failed after 30s.<p>There is of course no reason why you have to have it installed as a precommit hook - many people prefer to run it manually, and the pre-commit tool/prek allows for that.</p>
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<p>Ground stations would be the major problem.<p>Maybe if Elon launched himself and the dev team into orbit and didn't use any ground stations and just Starlink terminals he could start getting into legal loopholes.</p>
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<p>Sony have actually been fairly chill about emulators etc. so I'd be surprised if lawyers got involved here.<p>They actually used an open source Playstation emulator when they released the "Playstation Classic" in 2018.</p>
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<p>In the UK we have a convenient way of observing this phenomenon.<p>The FTSE100 is mostly multinational companies valued in pounds. The FTSE250 is mostly British companies valued in pounds. If the FTSE100 goes up while the FTSE250 stays flat or falls then it means the currency got devalued and there's no real growth.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:46:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698709</link><dc:creator>chippiewill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698709</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chippiewill in "Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd definitely recommend popping to an Apple store at some point and looking at a nano display in person. It's really kind of freaky, it has a paper-like quality to it that I've not seen with any other laptop display. I'm not sure a picture or a description is ever going to cut it.</p>
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<p>I thought Intel was too far behind on their process nodes?</p>
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<p>This line of chatter has been going around UK-centric online discussions and it's such a braindead line of thinking. Marginal pricing is used in a gazillion countries and is tried and tested.<p>You do marginal pricing because otherwise providers will simply bid what they think the crossover price will be - marginal prices lower prices in the long run because providers try to improve their margins and lower their bids.<p>Also renewables bid on the spot and day ahead markets really low because their cost is almost entirely capex (and also most are under CfD anyway so may as well bid 0) - the spread isn't nearly as good as the data would imply. If you didn't use marginal pricing you'd have them bidding higher to cover their capex.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:11:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46640102</link><dc:creator>chippiewill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46640102</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46640102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chippiewill in "Government drops plans for mandatory digital ID to work in UK"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, it's not as crazy as they make it sound. They're also technically a Commonwealth citizen and previously an EU citizen.<p>Not exactly two citizenships of the same country.</p>
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<p>Wrong way round. She was born in the UK and was a British Citizen at birth and had a British passport<p>She is (maybe) entitled to Bangladeshi citizenship which is why the UK government was allowed under UK law to remove her British citizenship because British courts didn't consider her to be stateless.<p>The only people who can't have British citizenship removed are British citizens with no other citizenship or entitlement to a citizenship. I think in theory that means the British government is legally allowed to remove citizenship from any person from Northern Ireland if they justify it (since they're allowed to claim Irish citizenship under the Good Friday agreement).</p>
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<p>It's to remove a syntax ambiguity with c-style function declarations <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse</a><p>The syntax ambiguity adds a lot of complexity to the grammar that makes parsing a lot more complicated than it needs to be.<p>Sticking `fn` in front fixes a lot of problems.</p>
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<p>> beside that my internal ip's are changing every day to bring more confusion into my internal net. nice!<p>You can set it up so your devices can have two IPv6 addresses. The shifting address for external traffic, and a static one for local traffic. I think this is the default in many linux distros now.</p>
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