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sitkackon I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave

I'd want to know how it compares to https://github.com/phoboslab/qoi

One thing to note when designing a new video codec is to carpet bomb around the idea with research projects to stake claim to any possible feature enhancements.

Anything can have an improvement patent filed against, no matter the license.

sitkackon Claude Code weekly rate limits

Working as Intended.

sitkackon A Photonic SRAM with Embedded XOR Logic for Ultra-Fast In-Memory Computing

I don't understand how that is show stopper.

> bitcell achieves at least 10 GHz read, write, and compute operations entirely in the optical domain

> Validated on GlobalFoundries' 45SPCLO node

> X-pSRAM consumed 13.2 fJ energy per bit for XOR computation

Don't only think about area.

sitkackon What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like?

Is part of the agenda the outcomes desired, some could be a) gather feedback b) broadcast a new thing c) discuss and decide on next course of action ...

It would be nice if agendas explained each persons role in the outcome and what the exit conditions are for the meeting.

sitkackon Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs

> fully immersive environment

Start with a snapshot of what you are envisioning using Blender.

sitkackon Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs

Acceptance criteria describes the thing being accepted, it describes a property of the final state.

There is no prescriptive manner in which to deliver the solution, unless it was built into the acceptance criteria.

You are not talking about the same thing as the parent.

sitkackon High-performance RISC-V processors: UltraRISC UR-DP1000, Zhihe A210, SpacemIT K3

Everyone needs to be focusing on memory controllers. No one has enough main memory bandwidth.

sitkackon Tom Lehrer has died

What a wonderful soul.

> Reflecting on his bicoastal life in a 1981 interview for Newsday, he said he planned to keep his Massachusetts home “until my brain turns completely to Jell-O, at which time I will of course move to California full time.”

To think he is only a couple years younger than Mel Brooks.

sitkackon Claude Code is a slot machine

You ignored what they said, put words in their mouth and made a cheap shot.

sitkackon Claude Code Is a Slot Machine

I got into this industry as a side gig from science, I love solving problems. I am pretty ok at code, but code is a problem in the way of another problem. Sometimes it is easy to get distracted by a cute puzzle or a new game, but my purpose is to solve larger problems not play games (I didn't intend for this to be HN rhetorical combat).

The people most against AI assistance are those that define themselves by what they do, have invested a lot into honing their craft and enjoy the execution of that craft.

I have been getting paid to program for over 35 years, agentic coding is a fresh breeze. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNTARSM-Fjc&list=PLBEB75B6A1...

sitkackon Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees

If "restoring" is tricky, does that mean going in the non-restoring direction is less so?

sitkackon Fast and cheap bulk storage: using LVM to cache HDDs on SSDs

I would hope ZFS has a way to mirror metadata from the pool into an ssd, so it is actually a cache but doesn't increase the probability of dataloss.

sitkackon Intel CEO Letter to Employees

This is just one example. No one is making the argument that Intel would not be failing now had they retained XScale.

Intel has one trick (x86 and a process lead) and actively sabotages all other endeavors. Oh there other trick, because they streamlined certain aspects of production, is that they have a SKU explosion.

sitkackon I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files

To confirm your confirmation, over a month ago I was debugging an issue with Claude Code itself, and it launched another copy of itself in yolo mode which just started tearing up like a powertool at a belt sander race. These coding agents should really only be used in a separate user account.

sitkackon Intel CEO Letter to Employees

They had that product StrongArm from DEC which they sold to Marvell.

sitkackon UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage

They are talking about the OP while doing coke.

sitkackon Electric cars produce far less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars

55k miles on my Leaf. Not even halfway through the first set of brake pads. I cannot say the same thing about the tires.

sitkackon Interactive Programming in C (2014)

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/pidfd_getfd.2.html

https://gist.github.com/kentonv/bc7592af98c68ba2738f44369208...

For those curious research "SCM_RIGHTS" (Socket-Level Control Message) and sendmsg/recvmsg

sitkackon CARA – High precision robot dog using rope

Grab a servo and start playing with it.

sitkackon CARA – High precision robot dog using rope

You just need to start selling supplements, anti-aging creams and time shares.

sitkackon Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom

Oh they know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjPHq-Ez0nc

sitkackon So you think you've awoken ChatGPT

The humans should have definitely put more energy into making sure that models were very rarely exposed to things that cause humans mental harm.

Alignment would mean we are building Bishop and not Ash. But it looks like the models are naturally locking their feedback loops on to Ash. This is alarming.

I do agree on the insane part, I have noticed that it seems like fractal hypocrisy radicalizes the models.

sitkackon When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support?

How can you reconcile this with all of the AAA games that have been shown to work well on Wasm+WebGL ? What is different between your usage and theirs?

sitkackon There's plenty of water for data centers

You mean from aquifers that will never replenish?

> I have no idea if data centers are more likely than other kinds of construction projects to pollute groundwater and destroy neighboring homes’ wells

This article is trash. It is nice to see that Millennials have their very own David Brooks.

sitkackon What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks?

If you look at historic locations of hyperinnovation there are bunch of different things. One of which is density of the activity and the supply chain. Imagine needing a new gearset for a robot, you roll down to Gear Set Alley looking for a used unit, you hit 4 different robot wrecking yards, explaining to 5 people along the way. They eventually point you over to machine shop that has modified an existing part into exactly what you are looking for.

You can solve in a day what might take you a day, what might take you 20 days, 3x the price and a lead time of weeks. These kinds of hyperfocused, super dense innovation zones have existed in many places across all of time.

sitkackon So you think you've awoken ChatGPT

The Anthropic Blackmail work is the best thing (and then Claude Code) that they have done. Fingers crossed it isn't the most infamous thing.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44335519

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44331150

> I feel like Anthropic buried the lede on this one a bit. The really fun part is where models from multiple providers opt to straight up murder the executive who is trying to shut them down by cancelling an emergency services alert after he gets trapped in a server room.

sitkackon So you think you've awoken ChatGPT

And we thought having access to someones internet searches was good intel. Now we have a direct feed to their brain stem along with a way to manipulate it. Good thing that narcissistic sociopaths have such a low expression in the overall population.

sitkackon Death by AI

Right, now search for anything and let the AI slop flow in. Youtube is like the Pacific gyre of AI slop. Make sure the ad blockers are off, enjoy the raw beauty of the modern internet.

sitkackon Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update

I find it serendipitous that Antirez is into LLM based coding, because the attention to detail in Redis means all the LLMs have trained extensively on the Redis codebase.

Something that was meant for humans, has now been consumed by AI and he is being repaid for that openness in a way. It comes full circle. Consistency, clarity and openness win again.

sitkackon Death by AI

You should try youtube logged out. Really.