Hacker News: richstokes

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.

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

richstokes — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:14:20 +0000

Do you use it with ollama? Or something else?

New comment by richstokes in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

richstokes — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:24:01 +0000

My personal Claude sub (Pro), I can burn through my limit in a couple of hours when using Opus. It's borderline unusable unless you're willing to pay for extended usage or artificially slow yourself down.

New comment by richstokes in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

richstokes — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:13:47 +0000

The problem is half the time you don't know you need the better model until the lesser model has made a massive mess. Then you have to do it again on the good model, wasting money. The "auto" modes don't seem to do a good job at picking a model IME.

New comment by richstokes in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

richstokes — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:18:36 +0000

Agreed. What network are they forgetting here? Pretty sure I've only ever seen that apply to wifi. Are they trying to say you might need to re-pair a bluetooth speaker on a date? I don't get it.

Show HN: ChaosDrive – Virtually Circuit Bend a Sega Genesis/Megadrive

richstokes — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:51:23 +0000

Hey HN! I built ChaosDrive to simulate what happens when you corrupt a running game console's hardware. For some reason it's always been interesting to me how these old consoles glitch when something goes wrong.

Load any Sega Genesis ROM and use keyboard shortcuts to manipulate VRAM, color palettes, sprite tables, FM audio registers, CPU memory, and more in real-time.

You get glitched graphics, cursed music, broken physics, and occasionally even reveals hidden sections of games and unused content. It can be interesting to see how some games show debug info when they crash, also.

Repo is here, and contributions are welcome if you can think of anything interesting we should add! https://github.com/richstokes/ChaosDrive

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47378545

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New comment by richstokes in "An old photo of a large BBS (2022)"

richstokes — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:14:44 +0000

Probably not. That would slow them down. The turbo button under-clocked CPUs :-)

New comment by richstokes in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

richstokes — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:06:56 +0000

“Like carfax but for your home” is a really interesting idea. So many homes are bought with little-to-no history beyond an inspection of questionable thoroughness.

If this became the norm, somehow, it would be a really helpful tool for both buyers and sellers.

New comment by richstokes in "Gradient.horse"

richstokes — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:19:26 +0000

Easily one of the top 25 horse drawing sites of 2026

New comment by richstokes in "Claude Code for Infrastructure"

richstokes — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:23:53 +0000

Same. I’ve had good results with read only accounts / tokens and let the agent have at it. Also works with terraform, aws cli, etc.

One does not need a new/separate tool to do any of this, just include it in your agents instructions.

New comment by richstokes in "Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out"

richstokes — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:25:24 +0000

This. It's a false economy if you value your time even slightly, pay for the extra tokens and use the premium models.

New comment by richstokes in "In praise of –dry-run"

richstokes — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:57:12 +0000

I think it's configurable, but my experience with terraform is that by default when you `terraform apply` it refreshes state, which seems to be tantamount to running a new plan. i.e. its not simply executing whats in the plan, its effectively running a fresh plan and using that. The plan is more like a preview.

New comment by richstokes in "I have to give Fortnite my passport to use Bluesky"

richstokes — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:57:05 +0000

Why?

New comment by richstokes in "Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models"

richstokes — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 17:52:31 +0000

Is there a way to use this on models downloaded locally with ollama?