Hacker News: rickcarlino

New comment by rickcarlino in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

rickcarlino — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:35:29 +0000

I’ve been using LLMs to create readable rewrites of RFCs and specs that interest me. It is not precise enough for implementation use, but it has increased my understanding of the underlying RFC.

Another useful approach has been asking Codex to implement complex things, like a Kademlia DHT or BitTorrent client in a literate style with the explicit purpose to increase understanding by reviewing the source code.

Examples: https://rickcarlino.com/notes/note-dump-and-ai-summaries/ind...

https://github.com/RickCarlino/tiny-bt

New comment by rickcarlino in "Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386"

rickcarlino — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:52:43 +0000

The website explicitly states a lack of networking. Any interest in pursuing that in a future version?

I have a Pocket 8086 - I would love to give this a try next weekend.

New comment by rickcarlino in "QRiosity Killed the Cat"

rickcarlino — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:20:22 +0000

“URLs are bad” sometimes does feel like an underhanded way to say “stay in our app at all times”.

New comment by rickcarlino in "Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old"

rickcarlino — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:14:25 +0000

I need to tell my IRC friends ASAP.

Browser-Based QBasic Environment

rickcarlino — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:15:13 +0000

Article URL: https://kavak.run/studio/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062977

Points: 6

# Comments: 7

8086 Emulator Inside Scratch

rickcarlino — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:54:46 +0000

Article URL: https://turbowarp.org/1248315967?size=640x400

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49016303

Points: 45

# Comments: 1

Layoffs.FYI Adds new AI attribution layoff chart

rickcarlino — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:13:36 +0000

Article URL: https://layoffs.fyi/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009071

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by rickcarlino in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

rickcarlino — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:39:45 +0000

The only solution is to ban all open source models and create a certification process under the auspices of OpenAI. /s

How Gnutella Scaled to Handle Query Traffic

rickcarlino — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:39:35 +0000

Article URL: https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/how-gnutella-scaled-to-handle-query-traffic.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974735

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rickcarlino in "PersonalDrive: Personal Cloud Storage"

rickcarlino — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:17:21 +0000

Live demo has a lot of lag and redirects to a login page

New comment by rickcarlino in "Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite"

rickcarlino — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:07:02 +0000

Invitation-only is the future of online communities. Lobsters still has a pulse because you need to know someone to get in and it’s a bad look if you invite annoying people.

New comment by rickcarlino in "Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media"

rickcarlino — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:13:53 +0000

Social media companies became so obsessed about maximizing ROI on short form video content that they stopped being a platform to share with friends and turned into Temu Youtube. You won’t see your friends stuff on any of them because it’s designed to work that way. Group chats are the only way to have a meaningful conversation if you a casual non-technical Internet dweller.

InternNav – Navigation Toolbox

rickcarlino — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:54:09 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/InternRobotics/InternNav

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855572

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Internet Radio Station Directory

rickcarlino — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:39:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.radio-browser.info/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48852717

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by rickcarlino in "Cloudflare Drop"

rickcarlino — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:43:19 +0000

It will work for documents and the most simple TODO apps. It actually will not work for anything useful. There are a number of security policies in place explicitly to prevent things in file:// from accessing features available over real HTTPS. You will not have access to anything that requires a network connection, local storage, location services, WebRTC, etc. This is why things like Electron exist and why experiments like Active Desktop, HTA, the thing linked to in this article, that other project that had the same name as this one, and Adobe AIR were tried.