Hacker News: deckar01

New comment by deckar01 in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

deckar01 — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:47:07 +0000

> this is not a ransom … Send your offers … we are not interested in under 50k…

It is a blind auction with a $50k minimum bid.

New comment by deckar01 in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

deckar01 — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:18:45 +0000

Ford is replacing their Lightning EV with an “EREV” gas generator.

New comment by deckar01 in "I 3D Printed Origami [video]"

deckar01 — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:49:17 +0000

I wonder how their slicer is handling the infill angles. I suspect the bridge detection is only kicking in on the top layer, which ensures the infill angle is perpendicular to the gap. The bottom layer is going to follow a global angle and eventually run parallel to a hinge as the design gets complex (hence a later design failing and requiring thick hinges).

Painting infill angles would be tedious. I bet with concentric infill and some clever zero width cuts you could make all of the hinges perfectly perpendicular.

New comment by deckar01 in "3D Gaussian Splatting in a Weekend"

deckar01 — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:36:09 +0000

After seeing the fixed 3rd order spherical harmonics I was curious how that might be optimized. DropAnSH-GS (Feb 2026) drops out high order SH coefficients to force low frequency color into low order coefficients (3.4. Spherical Harmonics Dropout). They conclude that high order coefficients can be discarded to trade off speed/size for detail. They don’t seem to have considered encoding as sparse coefficients post training to discard all near zero coefficients.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20933

New comment by deckar01 in "Redistricting and the Supreme Court have cut voters out of US House races"

deckar01 — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:57:39 +0000

I don’t remember it being covered in any of my government classes, and I had not considered alternatives to electoral representation until it started being so openly corrupted. Sortition USA looks interesting.

https://sortitionusa.org/

New comment by deckar01 in "Googlebook"

deckar01 — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:45:51 +0000

> Most people don't really seem to care about data collection when it comes to AI usage.

That assumes you intended to use AI. People are going to accidentally upload random private content to google.

New comment by deckar01 in "Googlebook"

deckar01 — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:40:55 +0000

Wiggling the mouse is what people do involuntarily when the computer isn’t working right. They are setting themselves up for Gemini to be the uninvited Clippy, except this will send everything you are working on to Google to harvest data from.

New comment by deckar01 in "Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors"

deckar01 — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:54:01 +0000

I have a suspicion the room reverb of anything other than that guy’s lab is enough to break it.

New comment by deckar01 in "NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address"

deckar01 — Wed, 06 May 2026 01:08:40 +0000

> there was no sign of Polymarket, nor the entity it does business as

The law firm at that address was not their registered agent. Their ToS mandated arbitration with an entity that doesn’t exist.

New comment by deckar01 in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

deckar01 — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:31:30 +0000

That Vagabond Builds video... They edited it, but left in a claim it had a frunk. The commentary felt like engagement optimized stream of consciousness blather. They cut out shots of the car being moved and never showed it being driven.

New comment by deckar01 in "Redistricting and the Supreme Court have cut voters out of US House races"

deckar01 — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:28:36 +0000

Mainly participation. Voter participation is already very low. It would be interesting if voting was more like jury duty and a random sample of the population was selected to vote per issue. That way there are no termed representatives to corrupt and participation is always significant and uniform.

New comment by deckar01 in "Minimal Fab Promoting Organization"

deckar01 — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:42:23 +0000

I am surprised US prototyping companies don’t have more regional facilities. It costs ~10x more to have an Oklahoma machine shop cut a sheet metal pattern than to get it shipped from California. The difference seems to just be letting the customer make mistakes rather than requiring manual design verification. I probably would not have purchased a CNC machine if they offered 2 day shipping for <10% of the part cost.

New comment by deckar01 in "Redistricting and the Supreme Court have cut voters out of US House races"

deckar01 — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:37:01 +0000

State ballot measures allow passing laws directly by citizen vote. Peaceful change is possible.

New comment by deckar01 in "Redistricting and the Supreme Court have cut voters out of US House races"

deckar01 — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:18:17 +0000

I’m ready for a modern form of representation that isn’t constrained by how many people an old building can hold. I wish small groups could have a representative with a proportionally small fraction of voting power.

New comment by deckar01 in "Welcome to Hell Developer"

deckar01 — Sun, 03 May 2026 02:25:39 +0000

I think about troubleshooting like OBST with test cost. Systems are a linear chain of points of failure. The more knowledge you have about how hard components are to test and which components break more often, the easier it is to choose the tests that optimize your time.

New comment by deckar01 in "Ti-84 Evo"

deckar01 — Sat, 02 May 2026 02:05:32 +0000

They let you write python programs as long as it’s from memory though. I wonder what the code golf looks like for a rudimentary python CAS. If you could evaluate the equation without needing to parse it, I bet you could get a lot of mileage out of a black box gradient decent routine. The analog circuit solver I wrote for my nSpire (without CAS) was ~11kB. https://github.com/deckar01/pylacc

New comment by deckar01 in "Warp is now open-source"

deckar01 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:38:40 +0000

> Why now

I am skeptical that they decided human input is their bottleneck just as the cost per token spiked from some AI providers. I see this as a way to reduce their compute spend (offloaded to the community), but I doubt they are going to give up any creative control, so their employee review bottleneck probably won’t change.

New comment by deckar01 in "Coffee with a splash of physics: how to make the most out of your brew"

deckar01 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:02:27 +0000

There is another solution: Get a machine with flow control and a pressure gauge on the group head. You can saturate the puck at low pressure to avoid dry pockets, then ramp the flow rate up until the group head pressure peaks. If the pressure starts to drop you can increase the flow to maintain the group head pressure.

As for the 6 bar course grind theory: You may maximize the extraction of soluble coffee mass, but the concentration will be lower. It does not take very much extra water to ruin the taste and texture of a latte.

New comment by deckar01 in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

deckar01 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:18:16 +0000

I am using Copilot in VSCode and it does stream the thinking output to me. At some point it will say something like "Implementing changes..." similar to "Thinking...", but there is no content to expand. ChatGPT and local models always push the code changes in small chunks. Claude used to and at some point changed.

New comment by deckar01 in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

deckar01 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:45:05 +0000

They changed it do all of the changes in a virtual cloud environment, then dump the final result at the end of the response. Before it would stream changes, so if it made a minimal fix, then decided to go off on a tangent you could stop it quickly. Now you have to wait 5+ minutes to get a single line of code out of it just to find out it also refactored everything and burned a stack of tokens. No amount of prompting seems to force it to make incremental changes locally.