Hacker News: officialchicken

New comment by officialchicken in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

officialchicken — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:57:04 +0000

The investors are their customers - not the users of the end-product.

New comment by officialchicken in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

officialchicken — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:15:58 +0000

> What damage is that? (excluding the present case)

That seems to be an introspective question.

New comment by officialchicken in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

officialchicken — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:38:12 +0000

I must have a really really outdated version of K+R C.

New comment by officialchicken in "RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one"

officialchicken — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:32:29 +0000

Think of it as RGB lighting in DIMM format and it makes a lot more nonsense.

New comment by officialchicken in "Stop prompting. Let the AI interview you to build specs"

officialchicken — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:31:11 +0000

I'm excited! Almost everyone here is looking forward to big future payouts of gigs that require cleaning up during emergency slop outages that impact the loss of a critical line of business.

New comment by officialchicken in "GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks"

officialchicken — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:22:09 +0000

And the odds are good you use the models and understand them in detail while the CEO is just buying the hype, ill informed or not.

New comment by officialchicken in "Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees"

officialchicken — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:51:24 +0000

Except, there is correlation.

You're holding the statistics wrong - the chart you're looking at is upside-down.

New comment by officialchicken in "Show HN: BPU – An embedded scheduler for stable UART pipelines"

officialchicken — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:44:28 +0000

I have been porting an existing pub-sub to Rust (no_std) that runs over serial UART. The published serial protocol is very similar as this one: COBS encoding with CRC32 checksum not CRC16. These docs have a great reference on backpressure for any micro and will be helpful.

New comment by officialchicken in "Why I don't have fun with Claude Code"

officialchicken — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:28:03 +0000

Given the amount of Arduino code that existed at the time LLM's were trained, I would have to agree that AVR-8 might be fine. For now it's on the Cortex-M struggle bus.

New comment by officialchicken in "Why I don't have fun with Claude Code"

officialchicken — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:22:46 +0000

That's an app (running ML), not a protocol.

New comment by officialchicken in "Why I don't have fun with Claude Code"

officialchicken — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:15:33 +0000

It works fine for webapps and other slop-adjacent projects.

If you try to do anything outside of typical n-tiered apps (e.g. implement a well documented wire protocol with several reference implementations on a microcontroller) it all falls apart very very quickly.

If the protocol is even slightly complex then the docs/reqs won't fit in the context with the code. Bootstrapping / initial bring-up of a protocol should be really easy but Claude struggles immensely.

New comment by officialchicken in "On the slow death of scaling"

officialchicken — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:18:37 +0000

Let's not forget about the myriad of basic problems that still remain - like deploying data, caching/distribution, and server resilience.

There is absolutely NO reason why that PDF shouldn't load today.

New comment by officialchicken in "Can I start using Wayland in 2026?"

officialchicken — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 10:43:42 +0000

2026 is starting with half-baked NVidia drivers and missing functionality on linux? I am so surprised... did you try 17 different previous versions to get it running in true NV-Linux fashion?

This stuff has been flawless on AMD systems for a while a couple of years now, with the exception of the occasional archaic app that only runs on X11 (thus shoved in a container).

New comment by officialchicken in "Sabotaging Bitcoin"

officialchicken — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:08:10 +0000

Rewards are also a permanent infinite money glitch that last in perpetuity? Or won't be changed in the future?

New comment by officialchicken in "Sabotaging Bitcoin"

officialchicken — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:06:09 +0000

> It's puzzling to me why some still don't understand the systemic incentives...

Then I guess you're the type who will be really surprised to learn that with diminishing rewards comes increasing consolidation.

> ... that make all this work as it has for 16 years and counting...

That's convenient way to memory hole the market flash crashes, network forks, the blocks mined without consensus, and everything bad that happened over that timeframe.

New comment by officialchicken in "Seven diabetes patients die due to undisclosed bug in Abbott's glucose monitors"

officialchicken — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 10:48:33 +0000

The OP is hardly anywhere near as sensational as the latest AI generated github something-or-another typically posted here. I found the article extremely useful and would not be aware that it effected MORE THAN ONE product line. Please don't let @dang bury this IMO. If you have an alternative URL please post it!

New comment by officialchicken in "Seven diabetes patients die due to undisclosed bug in Abbott's glucose monitors"

officialchicken — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 10:13:40 +0000

Not only that, but the symptoms for hypoglycemia do change over your life, so that what is felt today (e.g. excessive sweating, blurred vision) may be totally different in the future (e.g. confusion, tingling thighs). Or you lose that sense of feeling entirely and never notice a problem until it's way too late to easily remedy.

New comment by officialchicken in "Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem"

officialchicken — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:40:22 +0000

XML Config? Can someone explain that decision?

New comment by officialchicken in "Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem"

officialchicken — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:38:15 +0000

AutoCAD had LISP from the beginning.

https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/

New comment by officialchicken in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

officialchicken — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:27:14 +0000

The existing online mass is what attracted the VC in the first place, same as it ever was. It was mostly privately funded and very much a confederacy (AOL vs Prodigy vs BBS) at the time, much like now.