Hacker News: knicholes

New comment by knicholes in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

knicholes — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:22:53 +0000

I think I mentioned the need for them to have committed a sufficiently egregious crime before imprisonment. You're jumping to a lot of extreme conclusions in a very short period of time.

New comment by knicholes in "DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years"

knicholes — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:05:02 +0000

Why not rent those out on vast.ai and make a little money each month?

New comment by knicholes in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

knicholes — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:04:09 +0000

How long have you been working in tech?

New comment by knicholes in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

knicholes — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:00:38 +0000

I didn't say kill. Not sure if I believe we should go all Hunger Games on them. Prison works just fine for me when they commit crimes sufficiently egregious.

New comment by knicholes in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

knicholes — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:58:52 +0000

Sounds simple to me. Remove them from society.

New comment by knicholes in "MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video"

knicholes — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:12:41 +0000

Whoah, could this mean we can treat layers like a jpg, where we come up with a formula that estimates the weight values of a layer instead of storing all of the weights?

New comment by knicholes in "Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling"

knicholes — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:33:30 +0000

We're getting new models every three months. They'd have to work quickly to get those chips made and installed.

New comment by knicholes in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

knicholes — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:40:31 +0000

I'll update it this weekend with the updated AI-generated fun (and correct the flat-out ai-generated lies in the README). Meanwhile, you can see the project here. https://github.com/knicholes/ah-my-groin-button

New comment by knicholes in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

knicholes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:36:22 +0000

Ohhhhhh! Yes, that's exactly the problem. It all makes sense now. I was just piecing together an existing microcontroller and a mp3 module by printing a custom circuit board.

New comment by knicholes in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

knicholes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:19:51 +0000

I'll acknowledge that I don't know what I'm talking about. I really appreciated the clarity! Surely you find value in knowing that creating your own custom chips is almost doable by someone who doesn't know what they're talking about! (also, I am a troll, but in this case, just clueless)

New comment by knicholes in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

knicholes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:04:57 +0000

Right. KiCAD for PCB design. Blender for 3D CAD. Oh, are you saying I should have used something other than the KiCAD MCP server for better results?

New comment by knicholes in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

knicholes — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:52:33 +0000

I tried making a button using Claude entirely (including the 3D printed enclosure) and it effed up pretty hard with the traces and the header spacing. The project was a big red arcade button that plays the "ah-my-groin.mp3" when pushed (from Simpsons). It did cool work on saving battery life, and the 3d enclosure was awesome, but yeah, I'm convinced I'd have to do another version or two of the custom chip until it came back right. I used a Blender MCP for the 3d modeling. I used a KiCAD MCP server for the chip design/validation.

I think we're not there yet. I've been meaning to look at this flux.ai to see if it has the prompts/workflow worked out better than what I was able to cobble together in a few hours. Maybe Alteryx's MCP server would have been better. I'll try that this weekend for another board I've got.

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."