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RickHullon Show HN: I discovered roads in the US across > 1000 themes

Agreed. I chose Robot Names, and it gave me a Mars Orbital Mission for Mom Lane, and Cygnus was a Deke Slayton reference. It seemed more about space and satellites than robots with personalities. And the thumbnail number (over 9000!) did not match the clicked result. And the segmented sections were hard to follow and navigate.

RickHullon I am often wrong

Define, identify, name

RickHullon Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust

Is Jensen Huang still all-in on OpenClaw? That moment feels more like a flash in the pan.

RickHullon Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months

> or just an excuse to fleece regular buyers

In a market with healthy competition (no collusion), this generally can't happen. Every single vendor is incentivized to lower their prices slightly at all times, with a floor at cost plus margin.

RickHullon Turn And Face The Strange

I've been reading these comments and finally read the "Nuts" blog post. I guess I understand the butthurt, but I really appreciate this style of writing. Curt, forceful, to the point, fronting any internal conflict the reader may hold. This is clearly painful for conflicted readers. For the unconflicted, it is satisfying to merely agree or disagree.

RickHullon An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation

This seems nonsensical. Care to elaborate?

RickHullon Grok 4.5

Do you outsource all of your thinking and argumentation to LLMs and other people?

RickHullon The IBM Granite 4.1 family of models

What is an enterprise workload?

RickHullon No Taco: This Is Complete US Strategic Failure

TACO is misleading. TASAD: Trump Always Seeks A Deal.

RickHullon Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard

This reminds me of the various visualizations in WinAmp, and there was no shortage of creativity there! Geiss (sp?) anyone? It really whips the llama's ass!

RickHullon Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence

Is there a gentler intro to this topic?

RickHullon The Importance of Being Idle

The jargon term, slack, comes to mind, in the concept-cluster of the old Google 20%-time, Slackware Linux, and Church of the SubGenius.

RickHullon Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example

Very interesting perspective. I will be reviewing in depth. Much appreciated.

RickHullon Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example

I recently (~6 mo ago) made it a goal to understand and implement a useful Kalman filter, but I realized that they are very tightly coupled to their domain and application. I got about half as far as I wanted, and took a pause. I expect your work here will get me to the finish line, so I am psyched! Thank you!

RickHullon Git commands I run before reading any code

Thanks for this. My updated relevant portion of ~/.gitconfig:

    [alias]
        st = status
        ci = commit
        co = checkout
        br = branch
        df = diff
        dfs = diff --stat
        dfc = diff --cached
        dfh = diff --histogram
        dfn = diff --name-status
        rs = restore
        rsc = restore --staged
        last = log -1 HEAD
        lg = log --graph --decorate --oneline --abbrev-commit
        cm = commit -m
        ca = commit --amend
        cane = commit --amend --no-edit
        who = shortlog -sn --no-merges HEAD
        dmg = log --oneline -i -E --grep='(incident|outage|downtime|rollback|revert|mitigate|mitigation|hotfix|broke|prod)' --since='1 year ago'
        bugs = log --oneline -i -E --grep='(bug|bugfix|fix|fixed|fixes|defect|regression|hotfix|broke)' --since='1 year ago'
        bugfiles = !git log --name-only --format='' -i -E --grep='(bug|bugfix|fix|fixed|fixes|defect|regression|hotfix|broke)' --since='1 year ago' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
        monthly = !git log --since='1 year ago' --format='%ad' --date=format:'%Y-%m' | sort | uniq -c
        churn = !git log --format='' --name-only --diff-filter=AM --since='1 year ago' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20

RickHullon "The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge"

Plucked betwixt mine cheeks

RickHullon GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks

I am on their "Coding Lite" plan, which I got a lot of use out of for a few months, but it has been seriously gimped now. Obvious quantization issues, going in circles, flipping from X to !X, injecting chinese characters. It is useless now for any serious coding work.

RickHullon Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw

I have been very disappointed in the Lite plan over the last few months. It started great, but they are obviously quantizing and cutting costs on the low end plans. The agents go into bad loops and contradict themselves, inject chinese characters, etc. There is obvious compression happening which makes it unreliable and unsuitable for serious work.

RickHullon Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

Super cool, I was not aware of novasolver.com. You can reach me via HN username at the midpoint between fmail and hmail.

RickHullon Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

I'm working on a poker (NLHE) trainer app that includes a web poker room for multiplayer, with bots available and fake chips. Using Event Sourcing with some CQRS in Elixir and Phoenix. The player view is a projection of House Events, suitable for hand history, for feeding to solvers or LLMs for real time advice or post hoc analysis.

The idea is to get tons of reps in, across varied situations, with excellent advice to build good intuitions and decision making abilities. Or to stop making bad or terrible decisions. Or just play poker for free.

I'd like to monetize with at least the hand history format open sourced. Ping me if you would like to get involved with GTM and the revenue side of things.

RickHullon Some C habits I employ for the modern day

I think that D meets Walter Bright's requirements.

RickHullon GLM-4.7-Flash

Same, I got 12 months of subscription for $28 total (promo offer), with 5x the usage limits of the $20/month Claude Pro plan. I have only used it with claude code so far.

RickHullon Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak

https://ghostty.org/docs/about

> Ghostty is a terminal emulator that differentiates itself by being fast, feature-rich, and native. While there are many excellent terminal emulators available, they all force you to choose between speed, features, or native UIs. Ghostty provides all three.

> In all categories, I am not trying to claim that Ghostty is the best (i.e. the fastest, most feature-rich, or most native). But when I set out to create Ghostty, I felt all terminals made you choose at most two of these categories. I wanted to create a terminal that was competitive in all three categories and I believe Ghostty achieves that goal.

> Before diving into the details, I also want to note that Ghostty is a passion project started by Mitchell Hashimoto (that's me!). It's something I work on in my free time and is a labor of love. Please don't forget this when interacting with the project. I'm doing my best to make something great along with the lovely contributors, but it's not a full-time job for any of us.

RickHullon Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)

I like: "In Ether words" and "Example Given"

RickHullon Claude Haiku 4.5

Super helpful, thanks!

RickHullon Claude Haiku 4.5

If I'm close to weekly limits on Claude Code with Anthropic Pro, does that go away or stretch out if I switch to Haiku?

RickHullon The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers

I had never picked up on the nuance of the V-K test. Somehow I missed the salience of the animal extinction. The questions all seemed strange to me, but in a very Dickian sort of way. This discussion was very enlightening.

RickHullon How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack

My understanding is that insults are illegal as well as certain expressions of Naziism.

RickHullon Solitaire

I never played Angband but got into the closely related Sil. Totally agree on your characterization (and a fan of your HN posts for well over a decade).

RickHullon Rethinking the C Time API

The Art of Unix Programming