Hacker News: effnorwood

New comment by effnorwood in "How My Images Are Dithered"

effnorwood — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:49:39 +0000

slowly. then all at once.

New comment by effnorwood in "Harddrive Is Probably Full"

effnorwood — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:49:04 +0000

probably. wish there was a way to find out. hint: not logs or updates.

New comment by effnorwood in "Scanwheel is a drum style mechanical television you can build yourself"

effnorwood — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:46:45 +0000

eat it hdmi

New comment by effnorwood in "Task-centered iproute2 user guide"

effnorwood — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:45:36 +0000

what? man

New comment by effnorwood in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

effnorwood — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:58:10 +0000

Bad drivers and middle management inventions like scrum. Is why.

New comment by effnorwood in "Designing an Ethernet Switch ASIC"

effnorwood — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:56:54 +0000

Make it into a company. Name it Sanfran.

New comment by effnorwood in "I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year"

effnorwood — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:07:09 +0000

Copilot isn't very good, you're right.

New comment by effnorwood in "It's getting harder to focus every day"

effnorwood — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:46:36 +0000

This article is SO long.

New comment by effnorwood in "Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?"

effnorwood — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:11:10 +0000

floppinux latest

New comment by effnorwood in "10 REM"_(C2SLFF4"

effnorwood — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:39:49 +0000

Hi Beej! Super helpful for my back port of Geos to Vic-20 with ram expander.

New comment by effnorwood in "Why do you suck at juggling now?"

effnorwood — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:35:11 +0000

Was I good at it before?

New comment by effnorwood in "Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth"

effnorwood — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:26:41 +0000

I do. As much as they will pay.

New comment by effnorwood in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

effnorwood — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:05:25 +0000

My perl re-write is not very good.

New comment by effnorwood in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

effnorwood — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:04:17 +0000

Much love and respect. Nerd on and may the strikes be with you.

New comment by effnorwood in "Heavy TV watching associated with smaller brain structures, study finds"

effnorwood — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:02:41 +0000

Heavy study reading associated with heavy TV watching a landmark study finds

New comment by effnorwood in "Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS"

effnorwood — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:51:43 +0000

hey Siri, what's a vm?

New comment by effnorwood in "Concentration of power in AI is a risk, by Andy Konwinski"

effnorwood — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:26:02 +0000

yes of course. this is same thing as second amendment. everyone needs their own local AI models. otherwise yes, tyranny results. these guns are models. get one and learn how to use it. today.

New comment by effnorwood in "Can you build a recognizable World Map in under 500 bytes?"

effnorwood — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 22:46:07 +0000

heck yea! 499 tera. no problem.

New comment by effnorwood in "Do LLMs pass the mirror test?"

effnorwood — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:01:50 +0000

if it's dark enough

New comment by effnorwood in "Rejection Emails Should Be Written Like Error Messages"

effnorwood — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:00:50 +0000

totally! 404 your job.