Hacker News: djmips

New comment by djmips in "AI isn't killing consulting. It's killing time as a proxy for value"

djmips — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:18:48 +0000

Interestingly using AI is priced by tokens rather than outcomes.

New comment by djmips in "Did they ghost you?"

djmips — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 02:55:51 +0000

Last year I interviewed with Epic Games and I didn't get the job but they arranged a meeting to let me down easily, encourage me to apply for other positions. I really appreciated that!

New comment by djmips in "Building a Tiny 3D Renderer for a Tiny Handheld"

djmips — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:14:45 +0000

This is more interesting since it's actually 3D

New comment by djmips in "The Visual 6502"

djmips — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:25:05 +0000

I'm seeing 34 Hz on a Ryzen 7 3600X 3.6 Ghz with Chrome. 47 Hz in Firefox.

New comment by djmips in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

djmips — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:22:57 +0000

That may be true of a lot of posts on programming and other topics, nevertheless they are still interesting.

New comment by djmips in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

djmips — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:20:51 +0000

firefox has a built in VPN now. I wonder if it would work for you.

New comment by djmips in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

djmips — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:19:55 +0000

have you experimente with https://huggingface.co/HauhauCS/Qwen3.5-9B-Uncensored-Hauhau... to test that conjecture? It's very easy to try.

New comment by djmips in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

djmips — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:48:15 +0000

for hacking I assume that would be the case

New comment by djmips in "Show HN: A new kind of FPS aim trainer"

djmips — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:44:59 +0000

Can right mouse escape during calibration as well as ESC please. Make it easier to re-calibrate

New comment by djmips in "Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco"

djmips — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:52:58 +0000

Do you see potential for automation based on what you learned from your hand tuning?

New comment by djmips in "Cross sectioning insects in an electron microscope with a femtosecond laser [video]"

djmips — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:14:58 +0000

He's into all kinds of things!

New comment by djmips in "The Zilog Z80 has turned 50"

djmips — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 07:59:03 +0000

Sharp SM83 assembly. ;-)

New comment by djmips in "The Zilog Z80 has turned 50"

djmips — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 07:58:01 +0000

Are you sure about that anecdote around the GBA? It would make more sense that they used the Sharp SM83 core - which is pretty far from a Z80 considering it's missing IX, IY and the entire alternate register set. It certainly does have some Z80 instructions and even some SM83 specific instructions. On the dial between 8080 and Z80 it feels closer to 8080 to me.

New comment by djmips in "The Zilog Z80 has turned 50"

djmips — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 07:51:38 +0000

RISC-V has no overflow flag? That's fascinating. I'll have to dig into that!

New comment by djmips in "The Zilog Z80 has turned 50"

djmips — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 07:50:09 +0000

It feels a bit like a first language. That's the one that really sticks with you.

New comment by djmips in "Tiny Emulators"

djmips — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:58:29 +0000

Hacker NEWS

Maybe at least include the date

New comment by djmips in "Fixed three bugs that made Qwen3.5-122B a daily driver on Mac Studio"

djmips — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 07:22:21 +0000

fascinating! That's a useful thing to know.

New comment by djmips in "Fixed three bugs that made Qwen3.5-122B a daily driver on Mac Studio"

djmips — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 07:18:25 +0000

I was thinking to myself as I was reading the post that here we go again - it's like how much can a man take. It's not that it's unclear... because it is easy to read. I also long for regular old human writing, warts and all.

New comment by djmips in "Taiwan's Lost 8-Bit Computer [video]"

djmips — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:50:44 +0000

It used Microsoft Basic (unlicensed) which came from the Apple II variant! It had impotent Apple II graphics commands from such. Unfortunately they did not add commands to directly support the NES / Famicom graphics hardware.

New comment by djmips in "AI Can't Recreate the Thrust Game (But It Can Help You Understand It)"

djmips — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:44:55 +0000

It might not have been to the exacting taste of someone who wanted the exact BBC micro version however...