Hacker News: hoten

New comment by hoten in "NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates"

hoten — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:57:34 +0000

First thing I tried was "double-click: fly to this latch". Didn't work. AI slop?

edit: press tab first.

New comment by hoten in "Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave"

hoten — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:20:45 +0000

Didn't they craft themselves a nice golden parachute if fired? Then proceeded to kick off events that would guarantee their dismissal?

That's less fiduciary duty and more hacking a payday.

New comment by hoten in "Windows 95 released August 24, 1995"

hoten — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:42:02 +0000

Why does the URL say 20th

New comment by hoten in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

hoten — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:12:17 +0000

I mean, it's just the same problem. The machine still has Internet access. It doesn't need to.

The entire package manager repository could just be in an offline cache. They don't need Internet to give their agents access to tons of software.

New comment by hoten in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

hoten — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:08:07 +0000

That's how I interpreted it, but now I'm wondering if they mean "this model gives up far less often"..

New comment by hoten in "Elevators"

hoten — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:54:21 +0000

Elevatorpedia is a fun read. I particularly enjoy reading about service modes, such as the Sabbath service (hands-free operation).

https://elevation.fandom.com/wiki/Sabbath_service_(SHO)

New comment by hoten in "Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9"

hoten — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:16:43 +0000

"unsustainable" is an odd word to use for a hobby. They aren't trying to hit productivity goals. Maybe they just still like programming.

New comment by hoten in "Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings"

hoten — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:30:13 +0000

(that's 1 John 2:15 - John 2:15 is the one where Jesus attacks the money changers)

The next line is critical for context, as it defines what "things in the world" means.

> [...] For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.

Seems clear to me this isn't about creation (ie not saying don't cherish nature / animals).

New comment by hoten in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

hoten — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:39:59 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by hoten in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

hoten — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:22:33 +0000

Because Anthropic's subscriptions come with X amount of tokens / week, and divided by the subscription cost it is WAY less than what they charge per-token (the "API price") beyond that.

So these resellers get a ton of accounts on subscriptions and sell the cheaper tokens.

New comment by hoten in "As a result of a US Government directive, we are suspending access to Fable 5"

hoten — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:31:00 +0000

claude has auto mode. do shift+tab a few times. it uses a classifier to ask for permission far less often

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/auto-mode-config

New comment by hoten in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

hoten — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:52:54 +0000

I think they are open about it. John Oliver did a piece on it last month and I recall an interview where the founder of one of these prediction markets shared this as a beneficial effect of the product.

New comment by hoten in "Ruby for Good"

hoten — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:31:51 +0000

They started that migration years ago. I don't remember them citing agentic coding as a reason. Do you have a source?

New comment by hoten in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

hoten — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:42:47 +0000

That's the one, thanks!

New comment by hoten in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

hoten — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:13:42 +0000

The Halloween trick-or-treating maze-type game was my favorite from CN.

The summer resort games (iirc one big trade quest) were nice too.

New comment by hoten in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

hoten — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:49:32 +0000

Wonderful write up, thank you for sharing!

> In the end, I learned (and accomplished) far more than I ever expected - and perhaps more importantly, I was reminded that the projects that seem just out of reach are exactly the ones worth pursuing.

Couldn't agree more. I've had my own experience porting something that seemed like an intractable problem (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31251004), and when it finally comes together the feeling of accomplishment (and relief!) is great.

New comment by hoten in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

hoten — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:47:51 +0000

Why is there no cancel copilot subscription option here?. Docs say there should be...

Mobile

https://github.com/settings/billing/licensing

EDIT:

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/manage-your-accou...

> If you have been granted a free access to Copilot as a verified student, teacher, or maintainer of a popular open source project, you won’t be able to cancel your plan.

Oh. jeez.

New comment by hoten in "ZJIT removes redundant object loads and stores"

hoten — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 05:28:34 +0000

I used asmjit to implement JIT compilation. Highly recommend it.

Maybe you'll find the resources I link to in the documentation for my project helpful.

https://github.com/ZQuestClassic/ZQuestClassic/blob/main/doc...

Or perhaps you'd find reviewing my usage of asmjit helpful:

https://github.com/ZQuestClassic/ZQuestClassic/blob/main/src...

My main high-level advice would be to have an extensive set of behavioral tests (lots of scripts with assertions on the output). This helps ensure correctness when you flip on your JIT compilation.

You'll eventually run into hard to diagnose bugs - so be able to conditionally JIT parts of your code (per-function control - or even better, per-basic block) to help narrow down problem areas.

The other debugging trick I did was spit out the full state of the runtime after every instruction, and ensure that the same state is seen after every instruction even w/ JIT enabled.

Good luck!

New comment by hoten in "This time is different"

hoten — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:52:03 +0000

this just looks like someone hearing about tons of hyped things from people across the internet (which almost by definition, is full of false signals and grifters), imagining they are coming from the same person, then arguing with how wrong that person always is. how is that interesting?

New comment by hoten in "Nearby Glasses"

hoten — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:38:58 +0000

Right. God help you in such a society if the power goes out.