Hacker News: chorizo

New comment by chorizo in "eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear"

chorizo — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 02:25:32 +0000

A lot of computer hacker types get a ham license because it’s relatively easy to do with a bit of studying. Then you have more flexibility around working with radios and also learn how to stay out of trouble. Like there’s a lot of interesting digital signal projects you can do with a raspberry pi and an sdr.

New comment by chorizo in "LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents"

chorizo — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:32:15 +0000

Completely agree with you. I primarily use AI coding agents within a container on a dedicated computer. I’d be annoyed if it somehow broke out of its container and managed to rm -rf /. I’d probably lose the last uncommitted changes, and have this setup the dev environment again. Nbd, but annoying.

New comment by chorizo in "LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents"

chorizo — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:55:55 +0000

I use small local models regularly for coding. Worst I've seen is destructive git checkouts (can be fixed with git history) and maybe overwriting results of long regression tests unprompted.

New comment by chorizo in "Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat"

chorizo — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:45:56 +0000

My actual ham radio club mostly chats on discord and email. We don't even show up much at the weekly nets. Radio is mostly for participating in events like pota, contesting and emmcomm.

New comment by chorizo in "Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity"

chorizo — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:15:59 +0000

Eggs do not lay eggs. The goose was not valued.

New comment by chorizo in "Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity"

chorizo — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:00:27 +0000

Yes, but given the 3-5 year lifespan of the server infra capex, the separation becomes less meaningful. Better to count the entire TCO or discounted cashflow accounting for the rapid asset depreciation.

New comment by chorizo in "Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion"

chorizo — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:19:04 +0000

I’m Canadian and work in healthcare. I have a dedicated travel phone that I move my SIM card to whenever I travel to the US.

I carry a letter from my work explaining that I’m not allowed to travel with electronic devices potentially containing confidential patient information in case a recently wiped phone raises any flags

New comment by chorizo in "Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion"

chorizo — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:09:38 +0000

I haven’t done that since around 2012. But it’s rough since you get cut off from family and friends who exclusively use social media to stay in touch. Because I don’t use Instagram or fb, there are so many local events and opportunities I keep missing out on.

New comment by chorizo in "IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]"

chorizo — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:36:27 +0000

Ah, but this clearly falls under parody. No reasonable person would assume this depicts a genuine ikea store. That said, ikea could’ve just granted permission to use their trademark in a horror parody game. That would’ve been a fun ikea promotion rather than stoke animosity

New comment by chorizo in "IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]"

chorizo — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:32:16 +0000

Yes it unfortunately was. Because the SCP lore this game recreates refers to a horror scenario set inside an infinite inescapable ikea store.

New comment by chorizo in "Fuck it, make it anyway"

chorizo — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:04:40 +0000

Honestly, enjoying the craft hasn’t resulted in a career related to it. My real job and chores take up most of my capacity, leaving little to enjoy the craft. But now with AI, I can play with crafting as if it was a video game. The end results, which nowhere near is satisfying, is better than nothing. Coding with AI feels gamified and simulated, but still somehow creates useful outcomes.

New comment by chorizo in "RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree"

chorizo — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:23:11 +0000

Surprised this is so far down. A subagent with a cheap model like haiku or similar is the way to go instead of dumping tool output directly into the main agent context

New comment by chorizo in "iPhone Duo"

chorizo — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:30:05 +0000

It’s the size of a passport, which does fit in most pockets.

New comment by chorizo in "Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI"

chorizo — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:51:27 +0000

These open problem solutions often reveal tighter bounds on prior conjectures. Even if the solutions produced are far from elegant and only machine verifiable, we do learn new information. But I agree that just like writing prose and code, brainstorming frontier math proofs is a perishable skill

New comment by chorizo in "LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby"

chorizo — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:58:08 +0000

Firewall rule that prevents the tv from accessing the internet (by mac address if using dhcp, or set a static ip for the tv). Or stick it in separate quarantined IoT subnet with your devices.

New comment by chorizo in "LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby"

chorizo — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:44:37 +0000

There is no obligation to be truthful when it comes to providing PII for advertising. Register using a throwaway email. If an app install is mandatory, use an android emulator (set an uuid if needed). Ideally, the tv won't have ongoing internet access beyond what's required for initial setup. If not possible, at least use PiHole or similar to block telemetry.

New comment by chorizo in "Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome Atlas"

chorizo — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:24:48 +0000

Because 23andme does not sequence your genome, only substring matches linked to specific gene variants.

New comment by chorizo in "Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive"

chorizo — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:07:47 +0000

Fair. Hence it makes sense to engage a third party vendor to handle this project. Both the media provider and Mets stands to gain here

New comment by chorizo in "Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive"

chorizo — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:06:19 +0000

Meta wants to make their service compatible with meta vr headsets. They don’t require ongoing access to the content. The media vendor would also benefit from this, so an agreement is in the interest of both parties.

New comment by chorizo in "Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive"

chorizo — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:43:18 +0000

Why was torrenting needed anyway? Meta could’ve easily reached out to adult media providers to work on VR headset compatibility under an NDA. Or hired a third party contractor to do it.