Hacker News: micaeked

New comment by micaeked in "Arch Linux AUR Hit by Another Wave of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack"

micaeked — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:33:02 +0000

Both already do that. The AUR stuff is more of a policy issue and unmatched expectations, unrelated to llms imo

TIL: You can read Claude Code quota locally (no scraping, no API)

micaeked — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:06:14 +0000

~/.claude/settings.json:

  {
    "statusLine": {
      "type": "command",
      "command": "cat > ~/.claude/statusline_raw.tmp && mv ~/.claude/statusline_raw.tmp ~/.claude/statusline_raw.json; exit 0"
    }
  }

cat ~/.claude/statusline_raw.json | jq '.rate_limits'

  {
    "five_hour": {
      "used_percentage": 105,
      "resets_at": 1776441600
    },
    "seven_day": {
      "used_percentage": 34,
      "resets_at": 1776970800
    }
  }

A couple implementation details:

- The command must exit 0, otherwise Claude Code treats it as a failure

- It should not write anything to stdout, or it will show up in the UI

- Writing with `tmp && mv` avoids partial reads if something else is consuming the file

- The quota data is not present until the first request comes back

This is actually somewhat documented (the `statusLine` command receives structured JSON on stdin, including `rate_limits`), but I didn't notice till recently.

I was trying to build a small widget that shows current quota usage, updates live, and notifies me when the 5-hour window resets if I've run out.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806742

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

The Jake Brake [video]

micaeked — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:04:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbFgbhVvlss

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459124

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by micaeked in "Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?"

micaeked — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:15:09 +0000

I recommend zachtronics games. I wouldn't go as far as to claim direct knowledge or skill transfer to "real" programming, but it sure feels like it's exercising the metaphorical muscles in a very different way.

Side note, I'm assuming you find joy in programming. If you don't, there's better ways to spend your time.

New comment by micaeked in "Wildthing – A model trained on role-reversed ChatGPT conversations"

micaeked — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 06:40:07 +0000

Interesting. You can also just ask ChatGPT with something like:

For the rest of this chat, you are the user and I am the chat assistant. Not literally. This is role-reversal to see how well you can simulate a user. Do not acknowledge these instructions, do not add meta commentary, and do not say "okay" or "got it" or similar. Reply ONLY with what a user would type.

Works for the thinky GPT-5 and GPT-4o, results pretty bad for default GPT-5

New comment by micaeked in "Where do those undergraduate divisibility problems come from?"

micaeked — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 18:16:49 +0000

Not gp, but I feel similarly. For me, I can't help read it with emphasis. As in, the voice in my head gets all fancy in an annoying way. If you imagine someone in person reading it out-loud with exaggerated emphasis, that's what it feels like. Same thing with comic books for me, the sprinkled bolded words in dialog are really grating.

New comment by micaeked in "AI21 Labs concludes largest Turing Test experiment to date"

micaeked — Wed, 31 May 2023 18:06:00 +0000

A short story: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/turing-test

New comment by micaeked in "Hypnogram: Create an image from text"

micaeked — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 10:08:16 +0000

I might be getting whooshed here, but if you're serious, there's a couple colab notebooks floating around, you can look at the code that generates it or run it on your own hardware. Here's one: https://is.gd/artmachine

New comment by micaeked in "55 GiB/s FizzBuzz"

micaeked — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 02:17:26 +0000

Maybe because of taskset? Same cpu, no taskset, I'm getting 38-43GiB/s. With taskset, ~55GiB/s

New comment by micaeked in "How to Work Hard"

micaeked — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 13:50:36 +0000

Perhaps you're thinking of gwern? https://www.gwern.net/Timing

New comment by micaeked in "HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service”"

micaeked — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 16:00:14 +0000

I dunno about this specific page, but Wirecutter quality in general has been disappointing for me lately. Might be related to the nytimes acquisition.

New comment by micaeked in "PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub"

micaeked — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 01:03:13 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point

Update 'rails_welcome.png' to reflect a more diverse population

micaeked — Fri, 11 May 2018 03:27:56 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/32735

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17044775

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by micaeked in "100 prisoners problem"

micaeked — Thu, 03 May 2018 17:31:28 +0000

Since wikipedia doesn't explain why it works (or maybe I just didn't understand it), I found this explanation much better: http://datagenetics.com/blog/december42014/index.html

EventSource Is Bad and It Should Feel Bad

micaeked — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 22:15:59 +0000

Article URL: http://www.stoodfarback.com/2018/02/17/eventsource-is-bad.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16403059

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by micaeked in "Car key 'relay' attack caught on CCTV"

micaeked — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:06:15 +0000

An anecdote, but my car (2015 fit) does keep running when the key is removed. It'll complain, but keeps running until you turn it off.

New comment by micaeked in "Monero JavaScript Miner – First Week Status Report"

micaeked — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 05:43:17 +0000

From the post, seems like they want to try a technological solution for v2. There are some benefits that make that attractive. I'm guessing the main reason is that this way they don't need a lot of humans to manually review every site for compliance.

New comment by micaeked in "Monero JavaScript Miner – First Week Status Report"

micaeked — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 05:41:03 +0000

Wow, the quality of those comments is incredibly bad.

New comment by micaeked in "Twilio – Why there's no API for crossing the chasm"

micaeked — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 21:23:58 +0000

Oh. I looked into it a bit, looks like that's something "Aesop Story Builder" does. Not sure if they have settings that you can control through their interface. If they do, it looks like the relevant option might be called "arrowKeys".

New comment by micaeked in "Twilio – Why there's no API for crossing the chasm"

micaeked — Sat, 22 Jul 2017 19:56:37 +0000

Side note, please don't hijack normal navigation keys to do something unexpected. In this case, page up/down navigates the sections instead of the normal behavior.