Hacker News: pockybum522

New comment by pockybum522 in "ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol"

pockybum522 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:34:36 +0000

Looks like an extremely cool concept, but I'm wary about how many bugs I'd run into trying to use it if the code has had as little effort put into it as the website.

I think I'll keep just making up basic sketches when I need to work with one of these protocols - it's also nice that if I do that, when I see it work, I know I can expand functionality from there into what I need.

New comment by pockybum522 in "Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?"

pockybum522 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:31:05 +0000

There is a big difference between intellisense and LLMs. I've never used intellisense to input something I wasn't already looking for/about to type out. It just saved me remembering the exact wording and/or keystrokes.

New comment by pockybum522 in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

pockybum522 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:52:10 +0000

Damn. But hopefully they improve on that. I would absolutely be considering one if this wasn't the case

New comment by pockybum522 in "AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region"

pockybum522 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:39:23 +0000

Inventing Snow Crash. Neat.

New comment by pockybum522 in "LibreCAD in the Browser"

pockybum522 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:46:21 +0000

Hmmm. I select "line > 2 points" and attempt to draw a line. I see nothing when I move my mouse over the canvas or click.

In a default native install, I get a crosshair and grid dots, and when I select "line > 2 points" I can click on the canvas twice and I get a line between those locations.

Edit: All tools appear to be broken and clicking on the canvas after selecting a tool doesn't draw anything.

Google Chrome Version 150.0.7871.46 (Official Build) (64-bit)

I also tried in an incognito tab in case it was an extension or cache issue, still nothing.

New comment by pockybum522 in "Half-Baked Product"

pockybum522 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:21:11 +0000

Small ones, too!

New comment by pockybum522 in "Half-Baked Product"

pockybum522 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:20:47 +0000

Agreed, I have no experience with VC anything, but I was still nodding along the whole time as I was reading.

New comment by pockybum522 in "Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs"

pockybum522 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:31:28 +0000

This is extremely useful and cool. I dream of having visualizations like this for anything I buy that has specifications.

New comment by pockybum522 in "Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs"

pockybum522 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:29:21 +0000

Kind of crazy to me that anyone would block an entire TLD. This timeline is bizarre. How often and with what services do you find zip blocked? Genuinely curious

New comment by pockybum522 in "Show HN: MiniPCs.zip – Charting the Pareto frontier of Mini PCs"

pockybum522 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 11:27:41 +0000

Yeah. It was so obvious to me I didn't think about it until I read the comments. Makes sense that it would trip some people up, though.

New comment by pockybum522 in "Everything Is BOM: Bill of Materials Encyclopedia"

pockybum522 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:28:04 +0000

What is the point of this? Apparently a minivan can be built using 170 parts.

At that level of abstraction, this is useless.

New comment by pockybum522 in "Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?"

pockybum522 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:07:12 +0000

https://computer.rip/

One of my favorites.

New comment by pockybum522 in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

pockybum522 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:41:46 +0000

It's really funny that the first thing in the article is a graph showing a long downward trend with a tiny, brief uptick circled at the end and then the entire article appears to be written about that.

New comment by pockybum522 in "Boats crash/break and can kill their passengers when falling certain distances"

pockybum522 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:59:08 +0000

Oh dang, they fixed it? Nice!

New comment by pockybum522 in "Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow"

pockybum522 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:30:20 +0000

The browser extension "DeArrow" is well worth a look.

New comment by pockybum522 in "Red Robin Died by Spreadsheet. Don't Make the Same Mistake"

pockybum522 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:42:39 +0000

I'm getting browser not supported for the latest version of opera on Android.

New comment by pockybum522 in "Something Big Is Happening"

pockybum522 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:03:39 +0000

Every once in a while, I try LLMs just to see how improvement is going.

Yesterday I had to explain to Opus what the color white is and what "bottom right" means after it declared problems fixed, repeatedly, that a literal preschooler would have been able to tell were absolutely unchanged from the original problem description.

I am still waiting for this world of redundant programmers I've been hearing about for years.

New comment by pockybum522 in "Why is it legal and ok when big corp. straight tries to scam a user?"

pockybum522 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:44:55 +0000

Because we made society wrong.

New comment by pockybum522 in "NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew"

pockybum522 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:46:41 +0000

What a strange take. Does this also apply to every soldier in the armed forces? Seems your criteria is equally applicable there.

The relevant people that can do the research and write future policies based on the data obviously will have the information. Not sure what good you think that you personally having it can do.

New comment by pockybum522 in "The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves"

pockybum522 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:57:00 +0000

I'm so confused. I've resin printed DnD minis for everyone in several of the campaigns I've played in. They all love them. Yes, there were gloves. Yes, there was alcohol baths, but I just dropped them in the automatic washer and walked away for ten minutes.

The entire manual involvement for me from hitting go on the printer to handing out their minis to my friends, ready to be painted, I would estimate at just over five minutes per mini. This includes removing supports. This reads like it was written in 2010, not 2025.