Hacker News: shric

New comment by shric in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

shric — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:19:32 +0000

Doesn't excuse it but in case you or other readers are unaware, there are some ways to mitigate it: https://arhan.sh/blog/native-instant-space-switching-on-maco...

New comment by shric in "Now is the best time to write code by hand"

shric — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:28:09 +0000

Yeah, my father is now 70, I do remember he wrote assembly language in the late 80s but not since.

New comment by shric in "AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip"

shric — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 04:59:57 +0000

You had ~160,000 times more storage than I did for my first personal computer.

How Anthropic's Claude Thinks

shric — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:33:20 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/how-anthropics-claude-thinks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523580

Points: 9

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New comment by shric in "Claude Code Cheat Sheet"

shric — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:14:13 +0000

It exists on my work enterprise account but not my personal account which is a monthly flat rate. I assume if I exceed my quota and I choose pay as I go then it will become available.

New comment by shric in "The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)"

shric — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:59:09 +0000

I agree, but I struggle to think of a cleaner way without sacrificing the minimalist and mostly accessible theme.

I love that there are no images, not even Unicode emojis, no ads, no side bars, etc.

New comment by shric in "The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)"

shric — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:02:14 +0000

There is either an unvote or undown option once you’ve hit one

New comment by shric in "Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]"

shric — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:32:51 +0000

Australia

New comment by shric in "Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth"

shric — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:18:58 +0000

It means a straight line that you can see to the other end while still being on the ground.

Long lines of sight are between stuff at high altitudes because at near sea level the horizon becomes a problem after only a few miles/kilometres.

New comment by shric in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

shric — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:27:00 +0000

Anthony Albanese.

New comment by shric in "He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over"

shric — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 23:56:16 +0000

The username literally contains “jester”. I’m surprised anyone took it seriously.

New comment by shric in "Quanta to publish popular math and physics books by Terence Tao and David Tong"

shric — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:22:34 +0000

> The only news site I read

If you haven’t tried it already I highly recommend Hacker News.

New comment by shric in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

shric — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:23:56 +0000

I think it was just to show that the performance is comparable to Windows, implying that it also will be fine for games/settings where fps is in the range that does matter.

New comment by shric in "How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs"

shric — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 02:31:47 +0000

Why is it a bad idea?

New comment by shric in "Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting"

shric — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 07:20:35 +0000

I am very interested.

New comment by shric in "Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding"

shric — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 01:58:14 +0000

It’s fine to not know what it is, but what is the rationale for commenting that you don’t know? Why not just look it up? Or don’t, as you’re too afraid to ask.

New comment by shric in "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)"

shric — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 22:03:28 +0000

I don’t know what interviewing at Google is like now but I interviewed for Google in 2008 (no offer) and 2012 (offer) and the questions on both occasions were not of the nature that leetcode could have helped with much.

New comment by shric in "This Should Not Be Possible"

shric — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 04:11:08 +0000

This is a weird post as the generated program doesn’t even output results.

I tried a similar test using Python and Claude Code and it generated something that outputted a sorted list of directory contents, like ls.

However, unlike the author, this doesn’t lead me to think this is AGI. How many posts are there out there that these models would be trained on have people explaining strace outputs and comparing code to them?

New comment by shric in "NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock"

shric — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 19:33:25 +0000

> Isn’t the second defined as a specific number of cesium transitions?

Yes

> How can anything …

So your cesium counting device will fauthfully provide such a count and depending on their altitude it will be at different rates.

Both clocks are each experiencing time at the usual one second per second but gravity dilates spacetime.

Locally, a second is always a second, but from everywhere there is no such asbsolute, just as there is no universal "now".

New comment by shric in "Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app"

shric — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 22:38:58 +0000

Somehow today (I reached the limit yesterday) the delay has gone away, so I can’t reproduce it.

What happened, from memory:

1. Tap piece at original location

2. Tap piece at destination

3. Piece animation commences

4. Piece animation finishes

5. Move sound occurs

Everything was smooth except there was an approximately half second delay (may have been less) between 2 and 3.