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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?

New comment by richstokes in "Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?"

richstokes — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 18:42:36 +0000

It garbles up the formatting when importing / exporting. You can’t collaborate with people on office in a meaningful way.

New comment by richstokes in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

richstokes — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:57:15 +0000

I recently discovered you can use uv to run code direct from a git repo.

No need to clone/manually install packages first. E.g. `uvx --from "git+https://github.com/richstokes/meshtastic_terminal.git" meshtastic-tui`

New comment by richstokes in "macOS Tahoe"

richstokes — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 03:15:41 +0000

It’s like a crap Linux theme pretending to be windows vista or something. I don’t get it.

Show HN: ZeroConfigDNLA – Easy to run media server in Python

richstokes — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 22:16:15 +0000

The goal was to be able to serve videos from my laptop in one command.

Give it a go and let me know if it works for you!

If you run into issues, please provide log output and the source and destination device info (make/model/etc)