Hacker News: nchie

New comment by nchie in "Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad"

nchie — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:34:36 +0000

I haven't made a ESP32 design, but I recently learnt KiCad and PCB design enough to do a RP235x board with a non-reference design choice (1.8v VDDIO). I only used the official hardware guide + LLMs for questions, and had it work on the first try - it wasn't too hard!

New comment by nchie in "nowhere: an entire website encoded in a URL"

nchie — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:57:32 +0000

But dependencies are part of a website? It literally says "Still here when the internet isn't." - but I can't go on there without an internet connection?

New comment by nchie in "How will OpenAI compete?"

nchie — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:37:38 +0000

I use Claude for work and Codex for private use due to already having a Plus subscription.

I can't say that I have noticed that 5.3-Codex is much better, but it's definitely on par with Opus 4.6, and its limits for $25/months is comparable to Max x5 at 1/4th of the cost (not to mention pay-per-token which we use at work). Claude Code is generally a much better experience though.

New comment by nchie in "Ask HN: Intel Mac Pro Users with > 192GB of RAM, Views on New Machine?"

nchie — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:35:43 +0000

Bandwidth doesn't tell us about how many clock cycles it's waiting for the data though (latency), does it?

For example with paging, I don't think those bandwidths make much difference and it's instead the latency which matters. Or am I wrong?

New comment by nchie in "Blizzard developers say return-to-office policy 'cost us some amazing people'"

nchie — Mon, 15 May 2023 21:20:49 +0000

Not during office hours, no. Do you?

New comment by nchie in "The Swedish Pandemic Approach: Now we know the results"

nchie — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 12:08:21 +0000

The interesting part is mostly comparing the nordic countries against each other. Sweden seemed to be doing much much worse early on due to the chosen strategy, but that no longer seems to be the case.

New comment by nchie in "Update to Kagi Search Pricing"

nchie — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 10:19:44 +0000

I won't be cancelling now as I seem to be averaging a bit more than 1000, meaning pricing will stay about the same since I should get the early adopter subscription.

However, the "average amount of searches" they're stating really can't be accurate for any tech savvy user who is using it professionally and privately. It really has to become cheaper, if it doesn't I sadly don't see myself using it long-term.

New comment by nchie in "Gen Z Netiquettes"

nchie — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 19:55:49 +0000

This is as accurate in Europe, and much of it has been for the last 15 years at the very least.

New comment by nchie in "Gen Z Netiquettes"

nchie — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 19:49:34 +0000

So, people should stop being humans? Are you also offended when you hear that the clothes you wear give off an impression?

New comment by nchie in "Gen Z Netiquettes"

nchie — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 19:46:38 +0000

I'm really surprised at how defensive some people in this thread are getting regarding this.

New comment by nchie in "Gen Z Netiquettes"

nchie — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 19:42:39 +0000

Not everyone follows the "netiquette" though. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Most of these rules rang very true to me at least. For example, capitalizing letters in _informal_ chats does give off a formal tone. This doesn't mean no one does it, but it's definitely a thing.

New comment by nchie in "Chess is booming and our servers are struggling"

nchie — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 09:20:44 +0000

So I posted this without finishing (probably managed to fat finger it somehow). I meant to say that I thought 2400 meant quite a bit more than 99.9%.

New comment by nchie in "Chess is booming and our servers are struggling"

nchie — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 21:52:25 +0000

"People" on the planet? If that's accurate it's not super impressive, considering that probably 95-99% (or more) of people don't take chess very seriously. I used to be the top 99-99.5% of Counter-Strike players (_very_ roughly obviously), and that wasn't very impressive at all even though it's way past top 99.9% of "people on the planet".

(that being said,

New comment by nchie in "Switching to an N95 mask gives a 75x boost in Covid protection"

nchie — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 15:37:48 +0000

I don't get what the point of that quiz is. All of the example countries in it instituted their mask mandates between the first and second wave. None of them did not?

New comment by nchie in "Switching to an N95 mask gives a 75x boost in Covid protection"

nchie — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 15:32:41 +0000

He's doesn't seem very credible though. For example, there's a lot of very obvious reasons which could help explain this[1].

1: https://twitter.com/ianmSC/status/1481042778293358593

New comment by nchie in "I Don't Want to Be on Call Anymore"

nchie — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 15:39:23 +0000

Is it really abusive if it's up to you to choose "Work at company X, make ~10% more but you have to be on-call for 1 week every 8 weeks" vs. "Work at company Y, make ~10% less, but never be on-call"?

Honestly, I'm not even sure how it's even remotely possible to draw a parallel between slavery and that. When negotiating a salary you'll have to take these things into account. Not worth it for the pay? Find another place to work. Jobs do grow on trees for people in our industry.

New comment by nchie in "Playstation 5 root keys obtained"

nchie — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 09:40:52 +0000

Most people use a laptop (or even tablet) for their everyday needs nowadays, and they likely don't want a heavy and hot gaming laptop for that.

New comment by nchie in "M1 Pro First Impressions: Core Management and CPU Performance"

nchie — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 09:34:11 +0000

>Much was made about the M1 Max taking the single thread performance crown; for less than a month.

This is quite misleading in multiple ways.

The M1 Max has the same single thread performance as the M1, which has been out for around a year.

You're also comparing Intel's latest desktop CPU to a laptop CPU. Before the M1, a laptop CPU competing with the highest-end consumer desktop CPU in multi-core OR single-core was unthinkable and had never happened. Yes, there have been leaks in which Alder Lake's mobile CPU beats the M1, but we don't know whether these benchmarks are representing the numbers we'll be seeing in consumer laptops with laptop cooling.

That being said, I hope there will be competition!

New comment by nchie in "Tencent deploys facial recognition to detect minors gaming at night"

nchie — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 10:31:41 +0000

No, that's true, but it's definitely possible. I know of plenty of engineering students in my home country who came here from China (and India) to do their masters, and ended up staying for work.

But yeah, it definitely requires certain circumstances, and it's not realistic for everyone.

New comment by nchie in "Tencent deploys facial recognition to detect minors gaming at night"

nchie — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 07:05:35 +0000

Well, you can..?