Hacker News: dazhbog

New comment by dazhbog in "Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?"

dazhbog — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 08:38:23 +0000

I run 2 old Juki pick and place machines. They run DOS 6.22 on a 486 I think. My biggest pain points are, 1) booting them up without errors, and 2) transferring files to them wirelessly without any floppies. (without installing any DOS software)

Closest I got was with a GOTEK and an ESP32 emulating a USB. But it was flaky so I dropped it for now.

New comment by dazhbog in "Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue"

dazhbog — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:20:26 +0000

PTSD 9000.. I miss the old days, less load bearing BS and more in the zone coding..

Arch Linux on a OnePlus 12R, Powered by Denial Wayland and Flutter Compositor

dazhbog — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:08:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/mobilelinux/comments/1w80kvt/arch_linux_on_a_oneplus_12r_powered_by_the_denial/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49607677

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dazhbog in "The Llama.cpp Fork That Enables Qwen 3.8 27B Large Contexts for 16GB VRAM GPU"

dazhbog — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:50:58 +0000

A video I found covering the improvements

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_ggLjIgRcM

The Llama.cpp Fork That Enables Qwen 3.8 27B Large Contexts for 16GB VRAM GPU

dazhbog — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:49:59 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/RaymondHuang210129/llama.cpp-adaptive-kv-streaming

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511882

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

Syria's president pays for coffee with Visa card, Damascus rejoins financial net

dazhbog — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:16:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/08/27/syrias-president-pays-for-coffee-with-visa-card-as-damascus-rejoins-global-financial-syste

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49462405

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds

dazhbog — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:15:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0j3z6147jo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446984

Points: 94

# Comments: 59

New comment by dazhbog in "Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years"

dazhbog — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:01:08 +0000

Can you elaborate more on how you use it or do you recommend any codebase to learn more?

I remember evaluating Kermit and ymodem for my embedded work too, but didn't end up using them. Maybe I didn't understand Kermit fully. I wanted something to connect over serial (usb cdc and ble) via the browser and manage files and the state of the device.

I always end up writing something worse and half-baked in the end..

New comment by dazhbog in "PostgreSQL Benchmark: AWS RDS vs. Self-Hosted on Hetzner (2026)"

dazhbog — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:19:40 +0000

So a managed database provider doing comparisons of hosting databases.. what could go wrong..

New comment by dazhbog in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

dazhbog — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:45:12 +0000

You should always be getting a second or third opinion from real doctors for matters like surgeries, radiology, etc.

One doctor diagnosis + LLM is gonna throw you off. You need more datapoints.

New comment by dazhbog in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

dazhbog — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:17:21 +0000

Agree, but their prices are still bad.. I use Rpi vs. Rockchip/Allwinner, etc. on commercial products. Rpi software is a bit better but after the chip shortage their prices have been artificially inflated..

New comment by dazhbog in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

dazhbog — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:40:40 +0000

I got an i5 Thinkpad T480 for 100usd.. Rpi is a joke

New comment by dazhbog in "Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox"

dazhbog — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:16:01 +0000

Im sure its also negative for WebBLE but we are hoping that one day we can have it on Firefox too.. We use WebBLE for talking and programming NRF52 chips and it works great compared to plugging a wire every time.

New comment by dazhbog in "The Serial TTL connector we deserve"

dazhbog — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:33:23 +0000

They are ok, put them into production for around 250units. Was very excited about them, but plugging and unplugging is not as graceful, and sometimes you stab yourself with their sharp pins. I'm going back to mounting a usb-c connector on the pcb me thinks.

New comment by dazhbog in "The Serial TTL connector we deserve"

dazhbog — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:38:16 +0000

I cannot count how many PCBs I did with various quick connect ideas to have a fast way to debug..

- Chop a PCI connector and have edge fingers on the PCB

- Skedd connectors

- Micro usb with a toggle switch or solder blob to switch between SWD/UART or USB

- Low profile usb-c and have D+/- as normal, and RX/TX over the accessory pins (like audio)

- Pogo pin clips

- GH1.25 connectors

- Tag-connect meh

- If thickness of pcb allows, your PCB can plug directly into a USB-A port (Thicc pcb) or if its too thin, it can plug into a male usb-c connector from a charger cable(might bend some pins though)

etc. etc.

So just like the author, anything but Dupont connectors ;)

New comment by dazhbog in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

dazhbog — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:05:36 +0000

Yay, let's burn the planet computing more slopium..

Bill banning people born after 2008 from buying tobacco clears UK parliament

dazhbog — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:58:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/21/bill-banning-people-born-after-2008-from-buying-tobacco-clears-uk-parliament

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855868

Points: 21

# Comments: 9

New comment by dazhbog in "447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane"

dazhbog — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:49:50 +0000

Looks interesting but cant take it seriously when there are so many red flags of LLM style writing. The author continues to use AI to even reply to comments in this thread. (its not X its Y, Em Dashes, etc.)

Do You Need a CMS?

dazhbog — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:15:56 +0000

Article URL: https://joost.blog/do-you-need-a-cms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650293

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dazhbog in "We mourn our craft"

dazhbog — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:52:52 +0000

I dont get the hype.. And I dont think we will reach peak AI coding performance any time soon.

Yes, watching an LLM spit out lots of code is for sure mesmerizing. Small tasks usually work ok, code kinda compiles, so for some scenarios it can work out.. BUT anyone serious about software development can see how piece of CRAP the code is.

LLMs are great tools overall, great to bounce ideas, great to get shit done. If you have a side project and no time, awesome.. If your boss/company has a shitty culture and you just want to get the task done, great. Got a mundane coding task, hate coding, or your code wont run in a critical environment? please, LLM that shit over 9000..

Remember though, an LLM is just a predictor, a noisy, glorified text predictor. Only when AI reaches a point of not optimizing for short term gains and has built-in long term memory architecture (similar to humans) AND can produce some linux kernel level code and size, then we can talk..