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kingo55··on In Vietnam, an unlikely outpost for Chicano culture
When a buddy and I used to go out to bars, he would dress and act Mexican too. I think he enjoyed the style but, on some level, also the attention when girls would mistake him for being Mexican rather than his Chinese heritage.
kingo55··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
I like the personal touch your site provides with the producers' images. How did you source your data?
kingo55··on Show HN: Zli – A Batteries-Included CLI Framework for Zig
I stand corrected — Very unusual given how "similar" your accents are and your proximity to the states.
kingo55··on Show HN: Zli – A Batteries-Included CLI Framework for Zig
Cool name - I bet it sounds great with an American/Canadian accent. Using the UK/Australia/NZ accent, it's pronounced "zed-ell-aye", so I didn't grok it instantly like most of the audience here would.
kingo55··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
I'm trying out vibe coding a bit on my olive oil index site — building a full website with 11ty, tailwind and LLMs. The LLMs also serve as a data pipeline to watch and update content as new information is published online: https://www.extravirginvault.com/

I've always enjoyed the farm-to-table concept, but I find it really hard to identify trustworthy companies. Wine has been done to death, but I feel extra virgin olive oil is currently underserved.

kingo55··on Show HN: Open Codex – OpenAI Codex CLI with open-source LLMs
Does it work for local though? It's my understanding this is still missing.
kingo55··on [dead]
I'm a DIYer (building my own router and application servers and other PCs), but one thing I never built myself was a NAS because Synology was so good. This news might see me building my own NAS in future.

It's a slippery slope when companies pull tricks like this to force customers hands into buying more of their products.

kingo55··on How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
Combining the various "tells" of an LLM (em dashes, delve, grammatical signs etc) with the context (Reddit comments vs professional setting), you could establish a rough probability it was AI generated. At this point, it's the best we can hope for.
kingo55··on How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
More sophisticated clients require we use dashes correctly. I first encountered it pre-pandemic, so in professional contexts it's not a sure-fire signal of LLM use — Should you see em dashes correctly used in the Hacker News comments or Reddit, for that matter, then it's pretty reliable tell... Usually. ;)
kingo55··on Scoping a Local-First Image Archive
I love the idea of having access to your own personal data in plain formats like this. Just like with plain text note taking, and being able to run local AI models against your personal notes, I imagine one day running local AI models over your image data.
kingo55··on Towards a test suite for TOTP codes
This is the sole reason I'm avoiding passkey setup. How big of a worry is it?
kingo55··on Why can't we screenshot frames from DRM-protected video on Apple devices?
I would assume Linux wouldn't implement this but has this been verified somewhere?

It's my understanding this limits the quality of content streamers permit to run on Linux:

https://linuxcommunity.io/t/drm-the-final-barrier-to-linux-d...

kingo55··on My Life in Weeks
It's me, your manager, quit slacking on Hacker News and get back to work. /s
kingo55··on DeepScaleR: Surpassing O1-Preview with a 1.5B Model by Scaling RL
I speculate we'll just see classes of models developed. Ones with lots of knowledge (even domain specific) and models with reasoning capabilities.
kingo55··on OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
He's talking about EA's remastered product rather than Open RA.
kingo55··on OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
It was posted below: https://github.com/OpenRA/ra2

It works, but it's not an official release yet. Fwiw I haven't played this myself.

kingo55··on OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
Based on this open source project, modders have created an expanded universe encapsulating RA, RA2, Tiberian Sun, Tiberian Dawn and other lore into Combined Arms mod:

https://www.moddb.com/mods/command-conquer-combined-arms

Worth a look for a new fan made entry into the C&C universe. The scale of the mod is huge...

kingo55··on OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
There have been plans to bring RA2 to OpenRA for some time now. I second this.

It'd be nice to also see support for Tiberian Sun and the C&C Remastered collection.

kingo55··on OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era
I love how faithful this is to the original games but at the same time they've modernised the gameplay so that it doesn't feel it's age.

When you go back and play the originals (even Red Alert remastered) the modernised gameplay added by Open RA becomes very apparent. I can't go back to the originals now.

kingo55··on IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine
Thank god for that, VBA gives me nightmares.
kingo55··on Plain Text Accounting (PTA)
I've wanted to explore this so that I've got records of all my transactions which I can feed to generative AI when it eventually becomes capable enough.

E.g. "Using my financial records, help me set a budget which allows me to do XYZ within ABC bounds."

I wonder if anyone else has done this yet?

kingo55··on Apollo DN10000: Quad CPU/128Mb RAM workstation from 1988 [pdf]
Yes, I remember getting my Tualatin Celeron in 2003 with 256mb RAM. It was a beast compared to my friends machines at the time. :P
kingo55··on Apollo DN10000: Quad CPU/128Mb RAM workstation from 1988 [pdf]
Even 10-15 years later, multiple CPUs and 128Mb RAM was quite uncommon.

How much did this beast cost back in the 80s?

Edit: Max configs were up to $250,000 ($663,937.02 today) back then according to this price list: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/apollo/Apollo_Price_List_Jul88....

kingo55··on Use a work journal
You can have images alongside text in VS Code extensions too. Yes there's still bloat but you may already have VS Code open.
kingo55··on Use a work journal
Would you have an LLM summarise it for you instead?
kingo55··on Air Canada is responsible for chatbot's mistake: B.C. tribunal
Judge, I'll refer you to my legal chatbot. I rest my case.
kingo55··on Netgear Nighthawk M6 Pro 5G MmWave WiFi 6E Mobile Hotspot Router and Antenna
I've been burned enough times buying Netgear devices that I'd need a lot of good reviews to switch away from my much simpler TP Link travel router.

Plus, it seems a little pricey for the task. Why not just use a decent smartphone?

kingo55··on Using ChatGPT for home automation
Brilliant idea. I hadn't thought of that, but it would save me some API quota and give me a little more control over the outcome.

I might struggle matching colours to the music playing a little, but there are so many other factors that it probably doesn't matter.

kingo55··on Using ChatGPT for home automation
Haha, probably not. The logic for my activities and the complexity for the complimentary colours made it a little tough to maintain and extend. Plus there's a nice warming feeling knowing an LLM is busy designing my lighting throughout the day.
kingo55··on Using ChatGPT for home automation
I like the idea of storing the colours locally - better for privacy too! Definitely a novelty factor that AI is "designing" my apartment's colours.

Here's a snapshot of how it works in my office - bedroom and living room have similar setups and draw from the same colours:

https://ibb.co/ysxY3Lf https://ibb.co/9VgYVTb

And details on the setup in Node Red/Home Assistant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36018291

Prompt:

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