Hacker News: richstokes

New comment by richstokes in "I used Fable to rewrite 65kLoC of Go in Rust. It cost $400"

richstokes — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:29:03 +0000

Is code being converted to / represented in maths that much more helpful for an LLM that deals in language primarily, by definition? I have no idea, interesting though!

New comment by richstokes in "GPT-6 Astra"

richstokes — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:22:12 +0000

I feel the same sometimes. I don’t see how this doesn’t lead to massive job losses. The thing we spent our lives/careers learning is now worth basically nothing in comparison.

AI is only going to get better and do more with less humans in the loop over time.

That said, I do also relate to the "coding was never the hard part"-type arguments, and much of my day is spent on the stuff in between writing code.. but still.

New comment by richstokes in "I used Fable to rewrite 65kLoC of Go in Rust. It cost $400"

richstokes — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:54:55 +0000

Do we think that was necessary? What would have happened if OP had just asked it to rewrite and test/validate each piece as it went until everything is verified and complete?

My gut feeling is this is doing way too much, and it would've figured it out.

New comment by richstokes in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

richstokes — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 03:38:43 +0000

Having the LLM run the proprietary app through ghidra (which I think even has an MCP now), would likely give it some useful clues too

New comment by richstokes in "Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states"

richstokes — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:40:22 +0000

First thought; this could be turned into a really cool password generator

New comment by richstokes in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

richstokes — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:58:39 +0000

Had a moment of nostalgia and started building an IRC client for macOS. It’s totally free/open source. And has been fun to customize / add the features I like to see while avoiding the ones I don’t.

https://github.com/richstokes/Netsplit

New comment by richstokes in "Show HN: Watch random code typed out on an MS-DOS IDE"

richstokes — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:48:53 +0000

Idea: Support providing it the URL to your own / arbitrary git repo, so you can see it type out whatever code you like :-)

New comment by richstokes in "Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds"

richstokes — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:29:32 +0000

If the AI could understand the save file format for Minecraft, it could manipulate that

New comment by richstokes in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

richstokes — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:48:43 +0000

Device-bound would be a nightmare. I don’t want to have to think about different credential for phone vs. laptop, etc.

New comment by richstokes in "Steam Machine: Between 12k and 15k Units Sold per week"

richstokes — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:50:08 +0000

I got steamos working on my nvidia PC with a bit of messing about. I really like it, it’s a fun experience and after this initial hack, everything has worked great.

https://github.com/richstokes/SteamOS-Nvidia-Drivers

New comment by richstokes in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

richstokes — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:12:22 +0000

Is it a nightmare? I pasted the first, zoomed out, image of the shirt into ChatGPT, and it decoded it / let me know what the bash script does in one shot

New comment by richstokes in "Ask HN: What do people think of Apple's Siri?"

richstokes — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:05:22 +0000

Pretty bad. It seems to have very limited context, and it mostly cant follow up on things if you have additional things to ask. It was ~fine when it first came out, but seems to have made basically zero progress since then, and frankly feels pretty dumb compared to talking with modern LLM-type apps.

New comment by richstokes in "The American World Cup Introduced Ad Breaks–and Everyone Hates It"

richstokes — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:26:24 +0000

American football is unwatchable to me for that reason. It’s so stop-start. 30 seconds of play followed by 3 mins of ads. It’s just insane. Feels like the entire game was designed around maximizing commercial sales heh

New comment by richstokes in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

richstokes — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:06:24 +0000

Andddd now everyone knows that an arbitrary text string in a device hostname is enough to ground a flight.

New comment by richstokes in "The solution the supply chain problems is removing your deps from .gitignore"

richstokes — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:02:23 +0000

What if you deploy to a different CPU architecture than you develop with? Some languages/libraries use pre-compiled binaries as part of their packages.

New comment by richstokes in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

richstokes — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:40:22 +0000

I wonder if you could repurpose the cars SIM card (eSIM or otherwise) / cellular modem for your own use? Like presumably the manufacturer is paying a data plan to a cell provider. If the connection is not locked down to specific traffic I wonder if it could be reused

New comment by richstokes in "A sentimental tour of late 1990s and early 2000s hacking tools"

richstokes — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:40:27 +0000

It was the Wild West back then. Good times!

New comment by richstokes in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

richstokes — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:06:03 +0000

Kinda related but I used to practice guitar in my dreams. If I had been learning something I’d often dream about playing it over and over again, and even going beyond that and figuring out “solos” and melodies and stuff over the chord. Can’t be sure if it translated into any real life skill, but it felt like I was actually learning or at least strongly reinforcing what I’d been practicing.

New comment by richstokes in "GitHub is having issues now"

richstokes — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:15:37 +0000

Was thinking the same honestly. GH is very sticky though, especially when you have actions and all kinds of other integrations set up. But it’s just kind of absurd at this point how many outages they have.

New comment by richstokes in "Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model"

richstokes — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:15:15 +0000

Are there benchmarks of this / what’s the best way to compare it against paid models? With all the rate limiting in Claude/Copilot/etc, running locally is more and more appealing.