Hacker News: sitkack

New comment by sitkack in "Marc Andreessen's dangerously unexamined life"

sitkack — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:14:23 +0000

Fitting that he was such a good friend of Epstein.

New comment by sitkack in "Claude wrote a full FreeBSD remote kernel RCE with root shell"

sitkack — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:03:22 +0000

You also need a valid Kerberos ticket to get to the point where you can exploit.

New comment by sitkack in "The bespoke software revolution? I'm not buying it"

sitkack — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:43:19 +0000

I am +5 on browser extensions just for me.

New comment by sitkack in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

sitkack — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:16:00 +0000

Python is the blub language now.

New comment by sitkack in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

sitkack — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:11:41 +0000

Israelis have a plan for that in Gaza.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-israel-floods-...

New comment by sitkack in "70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)"

sitkack — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:57:46 +0000

Some dude was giving away books after his talk at the CPP Users Group in Redmond, got some good sci-fi.

New comment by sitkack in "Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language"

sitkack — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:11:08 +0000

Will Wright gave at least one great lecture at SIGGRAPH. Wonderful thinker and communicator. #ACM plz unlock this culture.

Ants have fascinated me from a young age, I’d construct a viewing platform so I could watch the hive at work.

My favorite were the carpenter ants, so smart. It feels like they have a theory of mind. I didn’t hurt them, but if you disturbe their nest under a board, the efficiency and expediency they would exhibit while collecting their young was fascinating.

*edit, I meant to ask if you had any other book recommendations?

New comment by sitkack in "Trump fires Homeland Security Secretary Noem after criticism"

sitkack — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:45:27 +0000

Not fired, moved. This part of the plan of ratcheting open the Overton window.

New comment by sitkack in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

sitkack — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:13:47 +0000

The ECC in DDR5 is there just to make it work because of the errors caused by the density and the data rates. The ECC isn’t there for you, it is for the manufacturers.

New comment by sitkack in "zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32"

sitkack — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:23:27 +0000

It was only opaquely supported by GCC, no LLVM, so no Rust.

It is a cool design, but it was a major PITA for awhile. Xtensa is parametric so every instance of a cpu has a custom instruction set.

New comment by sitkack in "How did Joann Fabrics die while Best Buy survived? It wasn't Amazon"

sitkack — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:56:45 +0000

Joann Fabrics had decent foot traffic and the margins were good. My kid and I averaged probably 3 trips a month.

They sold a whole lot more than fabric.

New comment by sitkack in "Aqua: A CLI message tool for AI agents"

sitkack — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 05:17:16 +0000

It is a fun problem to play with, but it turns out you can use anything. I use a directory per recipient and throw anything I want in there. Works fine, LLMs are 1000x more flexible than any human mind.

New comment by sitkack in "Attention Media ≠ Social Networks"

sitkack — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:27:09 +0000

How long until Claude has noprocrast?

New comment by sitkack in "zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32"

sitkack — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:10:06 +0000

The ESP32 pre-RISCV ISA is from Tensilica, this IP they purchased.

New comment by sitkack in "Attention Media ≠ Social Networks"

sitkack — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:53:07 +0000

Does that include HN?

New comment by sitkack in "Attention Media ≠ Social Networks"

sitkack — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:50:32 +0000

What does that mean exactly, how do you see that manifesting itself? Would we even be aware of these networks, sounds like email

New comment by sitkack in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

sitkack — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:42:57 +0000

I now code for fun with AI because it can handle the boring parts. 80% of anything is mostly drudge. And while we can’t subsist on frosting alone, having assistant that can keep you in the zone is very rewarding.

Three major iterations from now this whole conversation will be quaint and everyone will have always thought this.

New comment by sitkack in "Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete"

sitkack — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:11:30 +0000

I am curious about how both of you think Jetbrains is dropping the ball so much that you are no longer buying the tool.

You are still using it but no longer getting updates?

New comment by sitkack in "Show HN: GlyphLang – An AI-first programming language"

sitkack — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:49:39 +0000

If context disambiguates, then you have to use attention which is even more resource intensive.

You want to be as state free as possible. Your tokenizer should match your vocab and be unambiguous. I think your goal is sound, but golfing for the wrong metric.

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

sitkack — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:11:35 +0000

You can tell the kind of person by what they write.