Hacker News: chocrates

New comment by chocrates in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

chocrates — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:04:32 +0000

GitHub uptime is cyclical. It's bad because they won't focus on the core, and then the right users complain and GitHub focuses on core again before it repeats. This is just the latest round exacerbated by vibe coding

New comment by chocrates in ""Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023)"

chocrates — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:11:08 +0000

I like function names like that. If your function name is obnoxiously long then you might be doing too much in your function.

I'm a bad programmer though and nothing I do is particularly important enough to optimize.

New comment by chocrates in "CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches"

chocrates — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:20:12 +0000

It feels more like a fork scraping a sunburn for me, than repeatedly stabbed with a needle

New comment by chocrates in "GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization"

chocrates — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:25:14 +0000

Practically I would need to wait for hugging face models to adopt this? My harness tokenizer is just an estimate since the model tokenizes on my api calls?

New comment by chocrates in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"

chocrates — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:54:53 +0000

Why do we need these? I have sunshine streaming headless to my laptop without issues

New comment by chocrates in "So you want to learn physics (second edition, 2021)"

chocrates — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:36:32 +0000

I try every couple years. I even got myself to relearn the first part of calculus once.

Of course I've never used it and it's gone again

New comment by chocrates in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

chocrates — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:15:01 +0000

Have you looked at gitlab lately? They have a ton of ai features built in.

I'm not a gitlab user, just learning it, so I can't say how half baked they are or not.

At a high level though it seems like a huge step forward than GitHub

New comment by chocrates in "Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?"

chocrates — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:03:05 +0000

My engineers write better code when we enforce types.

It's easier to do this then retrain everyone on Go and rewrite all our code.

New stuff is often in Go now, but prototyping quickly in Python and then enforcing types when we have to get it ready for production has been working decently

New comment by chocrates in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

chocrates — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:11:48 +0000

A reverse funnel

New comment by chocrates in "Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe"

chocrates — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:03:15 +0000

Weren't we promised that quantum dead reckoning was right around the corner?

New comment by chocrates in "Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other"

chocrates — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:47:03 +0000

Asking it why it did something will not get you usable data. It will read what it did in the context and hallucinate a reason.

New comment by chocrates in "Tesla retroactively added 'supervised' to FSD contracts owners signed years ago"

chocrates — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:36:30 +0000

Porque no los dos?

New comment by chocrates in "DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic "Air-Muscles" Instead of Motors"

chocrates — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:32:15 +0000

Liquid seems like a better approach from an engineering standpoint because it is non compressible. But then I imagine dealing with liquid is more of a pain than air.

New comment by chocrates in "Incident with Actions and Pages"

chocrates — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:19:49 +0000

Someone said GitHub is racing to the mythical "zero nines of availability" and I love it

New comment by chocrates in "Dehydration's role in learning and memory"

chocrates — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:14:40 +0000

Tl;Dr blame Gatorade marketing.

The book "waterlogged" does a good takedown of the myth. Basically only you need to drink when you are thirsty.

New comment by chocrates in "Dehydration's role in learning and memory"

chocrates — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:13:29 +0000

Americans don't eat vegetables though

New comment by chocrates in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

chocrates — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:06:56 +0000

On a task by task basis the code Claude generates is pretty good these days. The biggest issue I see is that it wants to rearchitect the code constantly and I have no faith in my tests anymore because Claude will just "fix" them

New comment by chocrates in "BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth"

chocrates — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:18:04 +0000

Heh nice, I have 4 openmanet nodes on HaLow right now

New comment by chocrates in "BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth"

chocrates — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:12:48 +0000

Assuming you mean mesh in general: Meshtastic like projects

- emergency communication

- low power data transfer for sensors

- low data rate data transfer for mobile groups. Air softers use it to transmit information to each other while playing.

HaLow:

- "high" data rate over shorter range, though much higher range than 2.4 wifi - data sharing between mobile groups like above, but high enough bandwidth for low quality video

- large area wifi deployments

New comment by chocrates in "BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth"

chocrates — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:08:09 +0000

Is there a better designed mesh project like those two getting built that you know of? Reticulum?