Hacker News: fho

New comment by fho in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

fho — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:21:29 +0000

Can't confirm. We had students at university (18-20-ish) that had not used a mouse prior to our courses. That was at least 3-4 years ago now and not a single case.

New comment by fho in "How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?"

fho — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:28:49 +0000

My "only" experience here is designing ASICs for Neuromorphic Chips. We used sub-threshold exclusively for linearity and energy reduction. No standard cells for us

New comment by fho in "How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?"

fho — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:24:40 +0000

I think their "4-bit multiplier with a single transistor" bit is hinting at them using transistors in the sun-threshold regime.

New comment by fho in "Ardour 9.0"

fho — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:43:38 +0000

Just wanted to say thanks one note time!

We have been running Ardour 9 for a while now during band rehearsals. Currently 12 channels that we record and monitor in realtime with some effects on top.

New comment by fho in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

fho — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 12:15:04 +0000

Then let me quickly say: thank you! I used that algorithm three times in different projects during my academic "career" :-)

New comment by fho in "Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB"

fho — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:30:04 +0000

You might be interested in RWKV: https://www.rwkv.com/

Not exactly "minimal viable", but a "what if RNNs where good for LLMs" case study.

-> insanely fast on CPUs

New comment by fho in "I program on the subway"

fho — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:43:27 +0000

Started a comment to write basically what you said. I've been commuting like that for five years. At the end I didn't bother trying anything productive anymore.

Losing 2-3h per day commuting is not something I am gone miss anytime soon.

New comment by fho in "Marble Fountain"

fho — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 06:47:06 +0000

Just nitpicking, but there is at least one ball next to his contraption in his video :-)

Doesn't make the whole thing less remarkable.

New comment by fho in "It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts"

fho — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 05:21:43 +0000

Don't Github have emoji reactions? I would assume that those tie "PR" and "needs emojis" closely together.

New comment by fho in "Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction?"

fho — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 08:36:02 +0000

> On the ground, we know that creating CLAUDE.md or cursorrules basically does nothing.

I don't agree with this. LLMs will go out of their way to follow any instruction they find in their context.

(E.g. i have "I love napkin math" in my kagi Agent Context, and every LLM will try to shoehorn some kind of napkin math into every answer.)

Cursor and Co do not follow these instructions because they:

(a) never make it into the context in the first place, or (b) fall out of the context window.

New comment by fho in "Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server"

fho — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:24:36 +0000

I still remember when Google (and Facebook?) used XMPP for their chat functions. You could log into any XMPP client and chat with people using Google infrastructure.

Good times, I feel old now.

New comment by fho in "Learn to play Go"

fho — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:52:23 +0000

"two or three stones" sound huge. We are 20k vs 14k, iirc that does not justify a three stone handicap.

Our games feel relatively close, it's just evident that he is always ahead.

New comment by fho in "Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing"

fho — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:20:58 +0000

Plus at least one motor plus sun tracking controller. All of that has to operate 24/7, all year.

Depending on your local climate, that has to be sun and rain proof. (Most Nema 7 "3D printer" motors are not waterproof... Ask me now I know )

Nothing a quick hack job can't solve for you, but if you want to sell it (and make sure your customers will be satisfied for decades) it quickly adds up in price.

New comment by fho in "Learn to play Go"

fho — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 08:12:59 +0000

I've been playing Go with my spouses brother for a while. He had a lot of free time to studyGo back then, I didn't. I couldn't get a single win out of him, still I enjoyed every single game.

We rarely play anymore, I should invite him over sometime :-)

New comment by fho in "I’m Not a Robot"

fho — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 17:02:53 +0000

Am I the only one who apparently can't count the dots in 24: Eye Exam?

I know about the optical illusion, but no idea how to count them.

New comment by fho in "Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?"

fho — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:21:18 +0000

Second this, if you have the time to assemble everything that is.

On the plus side your Voron won't become obsolete as you can just upgrade it to the next version.

I just upgraded my Voron 2.1 to have direct drive. Having build everything myself in the first place, the decision was easy.

Meanwhile we have a Bambu X1 at work and some of the time I just have no idea why it does not work.

New comment by fho in "Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver"

fho — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 09:12:47 +0000

I wonder if the author could now go one step further and wrote some code to interface the take drive with an ESP32, thereby removing the floppy drive from the equation and going straight to USB.

New comment by fho in "Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room"

fho — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 05:53:26 +0000

Thanks for the invite :-)

Had been decades since I've been to Paris. But with a life and kid, I guess coming back isn't too high on the priority list ;-)

New comment by fho in "YouTube's sneaky AI 'experiment'"

fho — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 05:50:53 +0000

YouTube's automatic title translation (English to German in my case) is surprisingly bad.

I often stumble over translations that are technically correct, but plain wrong in the context of the video.

(Just tried to find some examples, but could not find any. Maybe Google does not force autotranslated titles on me anymore?)

New comment by fho in "Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room"

fho — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:05:57 +0000

Been there for 10+ years as well. Recently decided that it has gotten too money grabby and started our own privat festival :-/