<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: 16bitvoid</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=16bitvoid</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:55:57 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=16bitvoid" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 16bitvoid in "Codex for almost everything"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Codex <i>CLI</i> is a TUI app, but Codex <i>App</i> is an actual desktop GUI app. If you actually look at the TFA, you'll see that all of the videos are of the desktop app.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:14:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798883</link><dc:creator>16bitvoid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798883</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 16bitvoid in "Pretty Fish: A better mermaid diagram editor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Scale AI is a different Alex. Their first names are spelled slightly different. Alexandr vs Alexander</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:24:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788647</link><dc:creator>16bitvoid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788647</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 16bitvoid in "Pretty Fish: A better mermaid diagram editor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the founder/lead developer, Alexander Wang, works at OpenAI now.<p>Plus, according to this comment on an issue, folks in their discord say it's not being actively maintained.<p><a href="https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/2735#issuecomment-4214818821" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/2735#issuecomment-4...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:18:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783048</link><dc:creator>16bitvoid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783048</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 16bitvoid in "Write less code, be more responsible"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I admire you for what you've created wrt Sumatra. It's an excellent piece of software. But, as a matter of principle, I refuse to knowingly contribute to codebases using AI to generate code, including drive-by hints, suggestions, etc.<p>You, or rather Claude, are not the first to solve this problem and there are examples of better solutions out there. Since you're willing to let Claude regurgitate other people's work, feel free to look it up yourself or have Claude do it for you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:01:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768224</link><dc:creator>16bitvoid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768224</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 16bitvoid in "AI will never be ethical or safe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think they're arguing against Anthropic et al. claiming their models are "ethical" and "safe". The point being that it can't be <i>absolutely in all circumstances</i> ethical or safe because even seemingly benign information can be used to cause harm, hence it requiring knowing the user's intent to actually make an ethical and safe choice of whether to provide information or not.<p>When Anthropic et al. say that their AI is ethical and safe, they are saying so in absolute terms, same as the title. Just one instance of unethical or unsafe behavior is enough to prove that it's not ethical or safe.<p>No one would say a knife or a gun is safe because we're all aware of the harm it could cause, thus requires care and diligence in use. The term "ethical" doesn't apply in this analogy because an inanimate object cannot act, but an LLM can.</p>
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<p>Of course there is, but slop generators be slopping</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:57:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47766504</link><dc:creator>16bitvoid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47766504</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47766504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 16bitvoid in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On iOS, if you open the App Store and click on the Today tab (it's the default tab if you kill and reopen), there's ads interspersed with curations.<p>For me, the second tile is an ad for Upside, some cashback app</p>
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<p>At least the slop is fast and jitter-free, and not using React in a terminal.</p>
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<p>Reasonable? That's subjective. I don't think it is, personally. Normal? Unfortunately, yes.</p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono/blob/main/AGENTS.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono/blob/main/AGENTS.md</a></p>
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<p>If your codebase is entirely vibe coded, I feel it only appropriate to permit issues being vibed as well. It's hypocritical otherwise.</p>
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<p>It's right there in the README.<p>> Monty avoids the cost, latency, complexity and general faff of using full container based sandbox for running LLM generated code.<p>> Instead, it let's you safely run Python code written by an LLM embedded in your agent, with startup times measured in single digit microseconds not hundreds of milliseconds.</p>
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<p>I'm with you. It scares me how quickly some of my peers' critical thinking and architectural understanding have noticeably atrophied over the last year and a half.</p>
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<p>I'd argue that employers shouldn't have access to employee's home addresses either, outside of situations where it's needed (e.g., employee chooses to get paycheck by mail instead of direct deposit). Most employers keep access to personal employee information (PII) restricted to HR/timekeeping/payroll departments anyway.<p>Why would my direct supervisor need my home address?</p>
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<p>I don't see how that's incongruent. It says <i>many</i> early Unix variants never became popular, not <i>all</i> early Unix variants.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:55:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852570</link><dc:creator>16bitvoid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852570</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by 16bitvoid in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think a lot of people are conflating depression with "bad thoughts". That's just one possible symptom, usually as a result of a combination of both anxiety and depression.<p>I didn't have anxiety, just depression. I rarely thought. I existed on autopilot. I was physically exhausted on a daily basis as a division 1 athlete in college. Often went days without eating either because I simply forgot to eat or forgot to make time for it between classes and training. Didn't change anything.<p>I think something people are forgetting is that motivation is either driving you toward something you want <i>or</i> driving you away from things you specifically don't want. A complete lack of motivation means I wasn't motivated to do anything to get something, <i>but also</i> I wasn't motivated to anything to avoid something either. I wasn't motivated to eat to avoid hunger pangs. I wasn't motivated to quit my sport to avoid routine physical exhaustion. Instead, my empty autopilot existence just freely acted on the expectations of those around me as a proxy for motivation.</p>
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<p>Who said I'm looking for meaning? I'm not.<p>It's not as liberating as you might think. A joyless existence is either suffering or nothingness. A life without meaning, either internal or external, is one where nothing is meaningful with no motivation thus one of crippling catatonia til death.<p>All I can say is just that it doesn't feel good and if you can't feel good about anything, your calculus of your life inevitably leads to the conclusion that existence isn't worth it.</p>
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<p>That's incredibly reductive. I'm sure some people's depression can boil down to a matter of perspective, but it's naive to extrapolate that to everyone with depression.<p>I'm incredibly optimistic and am content with my position in life. My default state is being mindful of the present and I don't think about things too far into the future. I very rarely ever feel stressed out over things in life.<p>However, none of that changes the fact that I feel completely empty and find no joy in things. Interests are nearly non-existent, emotions dialed to 1, and the only thing I'm motivated to do is lay in bed staring at the ceiling... unless I'm on sertraline.<p>Admittedly that's just anecdotal, but I worked in a clinical neuroscience lab researching treatments for severe treatment-resistant depression (read: people who tried so many options including CBT that they even tried electroshock therapy). The <i>only</i> thing that helped those subjects was a regimen of personalized neuroimaging-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation for 10 minutes every hour for 10 hours every day for a week. Even then, it wasn't permanent. Some saw improvement for months, others only weeks.<p>For some people, it's not just a matter of "perspective".</p>
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<p>I don't really like serif fonts, but the two that immediately come to mind are Noto Serif and IBM Plex Serif. Both are open source. I know Noto Serif is variable, but not sure about IBM Plex.</p>
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<p>1. It'll become open-source with 1.0, as the article mentions.<p>2. Just requires someone (or you) to write a kernel for your GPU, which is done in Mojo itself. I'd double check the supported GPUs or if someone else has already done it.</p>
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