Hacker News: knicholes

New comment by knicholes in "Reviving Papers with Code"

knicholes — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:04:05 +0000

I just don't see how you could have read the title (and comments) and not figured out that PwC was Papers With Code as a human, especially as it's mentioned in the comment with that acronym.

New comment by knicholes in "Reviving Papers with Code"

knicholes — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:03:26 +0000

Are you a bot? Look in the title. Papers with code.

New comment by knicholes in "Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world"

knicholes — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:46:19 +0000

Everyone is criticizing the number of lines of code and the lack of attention that must certainly have been applied to generate that code and push it into production. What is being ignored is this awesome prompt that is almost certainly better than having no agents.md or plans.md or whatever you've come up with, to add validation steps for committed changes. You're still free to look at your code, the changes, and ask the agent to clean up. Try it. It's really nice.

New comment by knicholes in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

knicholes — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:20:57 +0000

He didn't consider the possibility of renting it out during the downtime to Vast.ai to make some money back.

New comment by knicholes in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

knicholes — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:54:36 +0000

Getting to Mars, it would seem.

New comment by knicholes in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"

knicholes — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:09:51 +0000

Oh yeah, I bought a few different types of ear plugs to test them out. The silicone putty and the loops left my ears sweaty. I'd pull them out at night to dry them out. Tmi, I know, sorry, but yeah, I tried 'em.

New comment by knicholes in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"

knicholes — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:40:51 +0000

My suspicion from regular use of ear plugs is that the wax sticks to the plug every night. I use a new set every night. Pretty wasteful, but man, I need my sleep.

New comment by knicholes in "Grok 4.3"

knicholes — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:14:46 +0000

At work, I've found a strong moral resistance within my colleagues against anything involving Elon Musk and which data he allows to be used to train his models.

Look at the comments. They're here, too. "So, we have: - claude for corps and gov - codex for devs - grok for what, roleplay, racism? Those are the two things I've ever heard grok associated with around me."

New comment by knicholes in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

knicholes — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:05:47 +0000

I'm sorry. I meant to say "refurbished." https://www.dell.com/en-us/dfh/lp/outlet

New comment by knicholes in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

knicholes — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:31:20 +0000

Are you otherwise well off? How do you define "big?"

New comment by knicholes in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

knicholes — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:25:44 +0000

After discovering Dell Alienware clearance and graphics card availability in those Alienware computers, I haven't felt the need to build a computer for the last five years.

New comment by knicholes in "AI for American-produced cement and concrete"

knicholes — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:20:50 +0000

Yikes, what a flippant comment. The mix composition (meta's AI is helping with this) is separate from the wet concrete product. The parent is suggesting a way to test that the mix is properly mixed before pouring, not suggesting a way for construction workers to determine that the chemical properties of the mix will be correct on site. Furthermore, they're not even using LLMs, so it's not "AGI".

New comment by knicholes in "90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars"

knicholes — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:12:18 +0000

So wait, 10% is going to repos w>2 stars?

New comment by knicholes in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

knicholes — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:46:09 +0000

Why?

New comment by knicholes in "I built a programming language using Claude Code"

knicholes — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:22:16 +0000

Honestly some of the most fun I had playing Ultima Online was writing scripts to play it for me.

New comment by knicholes in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"

knicholes — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:27:00 +0000

Can you make it so multiple computers can connect from the same IP address? I really want to play with my kids!

New comment by knicholes in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"

knicholes — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:41:15 +0000

Por Ort Grav, of course! Never saw meteor swarm being used.

New comment by knicholes in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"

knicholes — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:28:29 +0000

Oh, lol, not a literal dragon. "Chasing the dragon" refers to inhaling vaporized drugs (like heroin or fentanyl) from heated aluminum foil, creating a moving, "dragon-like" trail of smoke. It is also an idiom for the elusive, futile pursuit of a high that matches the initial, intense experience, which becomes impossible due to tolerance.

New comment by knicholes in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"

knicholes — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:22:10 +0000

Right!? Skill loss for dying while red ruined everything for me. Ganking and being ganked is what gave that adrenaline rush.

New comment by knicholes in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"

knicholes — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:21:17 +0000

Stealing black pearl was great because it prevented recall AND energy bolt!