Hacker News: wincy

New comment by wincy in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"

wincy — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:26:31 +0000

Different person but I’ve been a SWE about ten years now - my favorite work has been improving the CRUD stuff people have left behind. Like the time I took a proprietary document they were using to document their REST apis and wrote a converter to turn those into OpenAI spec compliant yaml files, taking a single tenant application and making it a secure multienant application so instead of 80 different app services we had two, coalescing all their data sources into one normalized DB. There’s a lot of work I’ve done I’m really proud of. I’ve always found myself being the “in the muck” guy fixing up and bettering legacy code, I’ve always felt that was really rewarding and interesting.

New comment by wincy in "Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search"

wincy — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:42:11 +0000

My cat desperately meowed at me this morning to go outside to hang out with her enemies, which I denied her request. She brought a very much alive and unharmed chipmunk home the other day which was booking it around our great room until we corralled him outside with a broom. The live bird incident was even more dramatic. It’s like having a mischievious goblin living in your house. But she does keep the mice from coming in during the winter!

New comment by wincy in "Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age"

wincy — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:40:48 +0000

It’s the trick where people would take two phone books and if you interleave every page you can literally have two cars going each direction and can’t rip them apart. Ropes are this on a smaller scale.

New comment by wincy in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

wincy — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:33:16 +0000

Didn’t people start publishing lists of these and people started applying and these HR departments lost their minds?

New comment by wincy in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"

wincy — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:23:52 +0000

It makes sense they’re doing this - I’ve noticed lately when asking a more complex question involving a lot of nonlinear data using Codex work mode, Astra and Sol will write a fully html document to better display the info with a Cliff’s Notes version in chat.

New comment by wincy in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"

wincy — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:21:17 +0000

I’ve hit model not available limits for GPT 6.1 Sol multiple times over the last week. It’s never for very long, and I can switch to Astra, but it seems like OpenAI is struggling with capacity. This has happened with my personal $200 Pro connection and my Codex enterprise connection.

New comment by wincy in "House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k"

wincy — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:16:22 +0000

If you’re instead interested in a book about a house with 15 million tunnels, read House of Leaves!

New comment by wincy in "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"

wincy — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:22:06 +0000

But nobody will play it? Steam exists and all those games get pirated. You can’t force gamers to buy duds. I have a gigabit connection wired and found a cloud version of Control to be totally unplayable.

New comment by wincy in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

wincy — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:54:33 +0000

I dunno, LLMs also write Rust better than I ever could. If we just tell the LLMs to rewrite everything in Rust we’d save a ton in memory usage.

New comment by wincy in "OpenAI: Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscription"

wincy — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:45:29 +0000

No, you’re grandfathered in until the end of October. It also looks like they’re sending out 62,500 credits to people with the $200 a month plan that have to be used by the end of the year. That’s $2500 cash value I guess.

New comment by wincy in "Ask HN: Any other ChatGPT Pro Subscribers get emailed 62,500 Tokens?"

wincy — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:37:29 +0000

Well, I just figured out it’s because OpenAI is cutting the usage amounts for their $200 a month plan in half. So it’s total bullshit.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pr...

Looks like it was talked about yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889306

Ask HN: Any other ChatGPT Pro Subscribers get emailed 62,500 Tokens?

wincy — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:09:56 +0000

I just got an email from ChatGPT (OpenAI) saying I was given 62,500 credits. Is OpenAI giving out emails to ChatGPT Pro subscribers? I’m on the $200 a month plan. Apparently this is ~$2500 in tokens so that’s pretty cool. Just curious if they’re handing these out to others and why.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49905463

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New comment by wincy in "Pirating the Pirates"

wincy — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:13:54 +0000

Hahah your comment put a mental image in my head of Mando fighting Baby Yoda.

We watched it yesterday at home and it was… a strange movie. It looked like it was shot on the same stage they use for the show, the budget seemed far lower than other Star Wars movies, and the story was confusing and rambling in a way my children had a lot of difficulty following. I’m glad I didn’t see it in theaters.

New comment by wincy in "When did Google get so weird?"

wincy — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:24:57 +0000

Not OP, but if I’m not interested in using Google’s AI, it’s going to just return these weird bad results that it’d be better off if Google just didn’t even include them as they’re factually wrong?

New comment by wincy in "Meta's Muse appears to use an OpenAI model labeled muse-special"

wincy — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:38:44 +0000

I had a totally benign chat with OpenAI and it titled it as “amateur porn” in Chinese characters, it was very alarmed when I pointed the conversation name out to it. It almost never misses these days, but when it does the failure modes are very strange.

New comment by wincy in "Nobody Asked for a Crab Chair"

wincy — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:45:56 +0000

What are they going on about? I showed this to my seven year old who is wheelchair bound and she asked me when she’s getting her robot legs. She’d absolutely love to have a crab leg chair that could get her up and down the stairs without having to transfer from her wheelchair to her stair lift. Move up and down a little so she could reach something out of a cabinet instead of having to ask big sister or mom and dad for help a hundred times a day.

You have to build proof of concepts before you can ever even think about mass producing any sort of product, I feel like that’s obvious?

New comment by wincy in "Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him"

wincy — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:27:25 +0000

What’s wrong with that? Are you more entitled to Warren Buffets billions than his children are?

New comment by wincy in "Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint"

wincy — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:40:51 +0000

With Ninfer and Qwen 3.8 27b it uses a groupwise int mixed quant, and it gets 160 tokens/sec. The mixed quant is between 4 and 6 bits.

New comment by wincy in "LG says we're fake news [video]"

wincy — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 04:15:40 +0000

I updated my LG C5 firmware via USB and my Nintendo Switch 2 now says “Switch 2” on the home page instead of “Unknown Device”. So that’s nice I guess. Also it seemed to fix something with the 120hz HDR 10:10:10 signal when connected to my PC if I recall correctly that before resulted in poor image quality.

New comment by wincy in "P(doom)"

wincy — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 04:09:06 +0000

I think there are plenty of people that like Elon Musk. They just know to keep their mouth shut in front of the people that act like he’s the Antichrist.