Hacker News: spicybright

New comment by spicybright in "Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs"

spicybright — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 23:15:41 +0000

One novel part here is every function is required to have tests that run at compile time.

I'm still skeptical of the value add having to teaching a custom language to an LLM instead of using something like lua or python and applying constraints like test requirements onto that.

New comment by spicybright in "ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods"

spicybright — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:01:08 +0000

My only comment is being able to call emergency services wherever you are is very useful. Pre-cell phone times was just hoping there was a landline somewhere. And you weren't able to get instructions from the operator and be with a fallen person at the same time.

New comment by spicybright in "A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'"

spicybright — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:28:14 +0000

I refuse to use reddit with it's modern UI. Once old.reddit.com dies I'm hanging up my spurs

New comment by spicybright in "NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times"

spicybright — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 04:17:48 +0000

Yes, but I'm willing to bet most workers don't follow strict digital life hygiene and cross contaminate all the time.

New comment by spicybright in "Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update"

spicybright — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 21:22:48 +0000

Well, they could easily push a software update to add ads to your TV without a rollback option and disable features if you don't allow it.

If you upgrade your TV on the regular I guess you'd just buy a new one, but treating it as a dumb display guarantees you can keep using it as long as it physically works.

New comment by spicybright in "Starcloud"

spicybright — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:57:02 +0000

The whole thing is bogus, you could plop the hardware in the middle of a desert and have everything perform way better for cheaper.

I'm surprised nvidia put their name on this.

New comment by spicybright in "Knocker, a knock based access control system for your homelab"

spicybright — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:40:34 +0000

I was thinking exactly the same thing. Or maybe a knock on the door before you enter to set stuff in your room to a certain state.

New comment by spicybright in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

spicybright — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:09:56 +0000

It should be! When I was a complete newbie at AWS my first question was why do you have to pick a region, I thought the whole point was you didn't have to worry about that stuff

New comment by spicybright in ""DSEG": Original 7-segment and 14-segment fonts (2014)"

spicybright — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 04:01:08 +0000

What's the purpose of the arrow with line through it for the DSEGWeather?

Well thought out font though, 7segg-chan is cute.

New comment by spicybright in "$2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer"

spicybright — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 11:11:48 +0000

I want one of these but with some kind of color grid showing what's going on in memory in real time

New comment by spicybright in "Man jailed for parole violations after refusing to decrypt his Tor node"

spicybright — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:46:58 +0000

Summary: He was logged doing a search for the "North American Man/Boy Love Association", and then after downloaded some kind of VM access/TOR software the logging ended.

I'm surprised this isn't mentioned much here, there's a lot of reddit comments that picked up on this and the OP (self-identified as the wife) isn't replying to any, only the ones that fit her story.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/1ni5drm/the_fbi_couldn...

The OP here also downplays a lot of what the husband did. He was on probation from DDOSing and then physically damaging company equipment after he was fired. Then on probation from that he smoked weed, ghosted his probation officer, broke the terms.

New comment by spicybright in "Weird CPU architectures, the MOV only CPU (2020)"

spicybright — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 16:12:02 +0000

Unsure why the program wasn't picking up the chips. I just moved the lib folder from the Digital repo into the MOVputer folder and it worked. Thanks!

New comment by spicybright in "Weird CPU architectures, the MOV only CPU (2020)"

spicybright — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 14:39:47 +0000

I've always loved quirky CPU designs like this, and having one layed out in logic gates is amazing.

I'm having trouble running the file though, it's missing a chip, "74181.dig". Can you point me to where to download that or add it to the repo?

New comment by spicybright in "Claude now has access to a server-side container environment"

spicybright — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:54:11 +0000

Glad I'm not crazy. I actually noticed both 4 models are just garbage. I started running my prompts through those, and Sonnet 3.7 comparing the results. Sonnet 3.7 is way better at everything.

New comment by spicybright in "Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG"

spicybright — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 01:04:20 +0000

Same, very laggy on my machine. The spectacular border effects also didn't work for me.

New comment by spicybright in "PlateShapez – Tool for generating adversarially perturbed license plate overlays"

spicybright — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 06:45:56 +0000

If you see the video, the initial iteration just looks like specs of mud on the plate with the letters+numbers still fully readable. His ultimate goal is a custom plate frame that looks normal to the human eye but can block camera readings.

I can see this as being legal because it's still human readable.

Plate readers aren't expected to be 100% reliable as is (angles, lighting, network goes down, etc.) Plates get dirty, sometimes rusty. Also you can't test your own plate for machine readability against all the different types of systems cops use, so how could you reasonably know the issue is on your end and how to fix it?

New comment by spicybright in "Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator"

spicybright — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:01:55 +0000

That shouldn't be too hard actually if you know some soldering!

Hook the speaker and mic up to the phone part, wire the hang up switch or rotary pulser to the musical tone button.

The ring might be a little quiet but this would be real easy to setup quick.

New comment by spicybright in "Show HN: A Minimal Hacker News Reader for Apple Watch Built with SwiftUI"

spicybright — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:52:06 +0000

Could you post a screen shot of the comments view?

New comment by spicybright in "Show HN: 1 Million Rows"

spicybright — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:09:19 +0000

What is it though? Management tool is so vague.

New comment by spicybright in "HRT's Python fork: Leveraging PEP 690 for faster imports"

spicybright — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 18:03:48 +0000

For personal one file utility scripts, I'll sometimes only import a module on a code path that needs it. And make it global if the scope gets in the way.

It's dirty, but speeds things up vs putting all imports at the top.