Hacker News: rcgy

New comment by rcgy in "Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?"

rcgy — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:47:48 +0000

Would love for sources / prior case law around this? I'm Australian and involved in reverse engineering insulin pumps and CGMs, and we are constantly worried about getting our butts DMCA'd.

New comment by rcgy in "Music Theory for Programmers"

rcgy — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:54:30 +0000

This is... Not a good article.

New comment by rcgy in "Is it a slop if it's not sloppy?"

rcgy — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:09:25 +0000

The bun "rewrite" is almost the definition of slop. Careless, unthinking, and wasteful. A huge architectural shift, with the claimed benefits already being available within Zig. It's not a rewrite, it's a port, with almost 1:1 mappings in unsafe blocks. It wasn't idiomatic Zig, and it certainly isn't idiomatic Rust.

New comment by rcgy in "Is it a slop if it's not sloppy?"

rcgy — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:49:10 +0000

This is a pretty lazy post. Sure, the quality of code that AI produces has gone up. "Sloppy" means so much more than just "incorrect", though; it's bloating tests with additions that don't meaningfully add anything or actually test the code. Code used to be slow to write, quick to read. With AI, it's quick to write, slow to read. Thing is, that has never been the bottleneck. Often, it's a feature- you want to think before committing to an approach. If there is no barrier to putting pen to paper, you get... Slop.

New comment by rcgy in "Show HN: The New Cyborgs Don't Have Implants"

rcgy — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:09:57 +0000

I agree that there is no hiding behind the excuse that "it was a robot, not me" anymore. However, the author saying that this is an authentic reproduction of their writing style is not the brag that they think it is.

New comment by rcgy in "Fable 5 wrote a Windows kernel in 38 minutes"

rcgy — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:04:51 +0000

Thinking quickly, Dave constructs a homemade megaphone using only some string, a squirrel, and a megaphone.

New comment by rcgy in "Th0rgal/open_oura: a Rust toolkit for the Oura Ring (Gen 3/4/5)"

rcgy — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 10:12:08 +0000

Finally. I love the idea of the Oura hardware, but hate the idea of shelling out $400 for a ring and also lock myself into a perpetual subscription. Now just to find the pytorch models, and I'll be a happy chap...

New comment by rcgy in "Why Entertainmentindustry.ai Will Not Be Developed in Australia"

rcgy — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 01:11:09 +0000

...what?

New comment by rcgy in "Microsoft Activation Scripts – Activate Windows / Office / ESUs"

rcgy — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:22:44 +0000

They've been on GitHub for 7+ years. Microsoft clearly don't mind too much.

New comment by rcgy in "Identity verification on Claude"

rcgy — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:49:31 +0000

Can't get a refund if you're not a new subscriber.

New comment by rcgy in "The Omnipod 5 insulin pump has been cracked by open source developers"

rcgy — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 06:22:41 +0000

Big news for the open source diabetes community; the Omnipod 5 has been cracked, enabling its use with opensource applications Loop and Trio, with AndroidAPS coming soon. This is no small technical feat, and is a lifeline since the old Omnipod Dash is being phased out in many countries. Other modern insulin pumps like the Ypsopump remain unhackable due to strong integrity, unfortunately.

The Omnipod 5 insulin pump has been cracked by open source developers

rcgy — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 06:22:41 +0000

Article URL: https://nightscout.github.io/omnipod-five/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48616167

Points: 22

# Comments: 1

New comment by rcgy in "Board: New game console recognizes physical pieces, with an open SDK"

rcgy — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:57:46 +0000

Very very snazzy tech. Get Foundry VTT on it, and you'd do quite well with the TTRPG crowd.

New comment by rcgy in "Voronoi map generation in Civilization VII"

rcgy — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 23:03:45 +0000

Kinda surprised that it's taken this long. Voronoi for map generation is not a new concept, and it produces excellent results.

New comment by rcgy in "[dead]"

rcgy — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 05:58:34 +0000

Awesome. The more accessible air quality sensors are, the better. They're currently quite expensive, which is a damn shame.

New comment by rcgy in "Gene-edited pancreatic cells transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes"

rcgy — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 23:35:24 +0000

That's really exciting news. There's a couple non-immunosuppressed solutions being tested, hopefully one pans out.

An open source TTRPG town generator that outputs text ready to read out

rcgy — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 07:38:58 +0000

Article URL: https://eigengrausgenerator.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26978400

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

An open source TTRPG town generator that outputs paragraphs of legible text

rcgy — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 02:41:02 +0000

Article URL: https://eigengrausgenerator.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24694277

Points: 2

# Comments: 0