Hacker News: Cyan488

New comment by Cyan488 in "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"

Cyan488 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:52:02 +0000

> Windows, Teams and Copilot

"Fine. Please no. I'm out..." in that order

New comment by Cyan488 in "Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model"

Cyan488 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:10:21 +0000

I've always hated interfaces that try to complete my sentences for me. It started with suggested replies in email and IM apps. I sure noticed it when they started showing up in the llm chat interfaces and it really bugs me.

New comment by Cyan488 in "Apple Confirms iPhone 18 Pro Max AT&T Issues, Devices Require Replacement"

Cyan488 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:52:15 +0000

Maybe the hardware damage is due to a misconfigured SDR frontend causing antenna impedance mismatch?

That could explain why a firmware update can prevent bricks, but not restore devices already damaged.

New comment by Cyan488 in "Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase"

Cyan488 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:46:14 +0000

I found your commit and your usage of AI seemed reasonable. It seems to me like your PR itself and the subsequent comments and correspondence was also human written.

I think a PR "in flight" shouldn't have been closed like that.

All this will do is push out developers like you that honestly disclose, and instead people will now just lie.

New comment by Cyan488 in "Vx – One Language, Every Chip"

Cyan488 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:29:55 +0000

> Heterogeneity belongs in the type system, not in the runtime.

Is the intent that applications developed with this are compiled for target hardware on a machine-specific basis?

e.g. I define a machine file for my i5 and GTX3080, and another machine file for my gnarly datacenter rack, and the compiler compiles specifically for each?

That way the same source file is "provable" for different hardware configurations without relying on a runtime to be identicallu implemented?

New comment by Cyan488 in "Consumer AI Fatigue Is Overwhelming, Local Businesses Should Reconsider Use"

Cyan488 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:39:04 +0000

People that think using AI for basic stuff like promotional posters and menus is a good idea have no idea there's a large(?) subset of the population who is instantly repulsed by it.

Before AI, such designs were neutral to positive. AI versions can create extreme negative polarization.

Why take the risk?

New comment by Cyan488 in "Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots"

Cyan488 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:14:22 +0000

The Reddit team talks about RSS like it got hit by a truck or something.

> Sorry about this - we're sad too, RSS feeds have had a great long life on the open web.

> We know RSS feeds have been a beloved open web tool.

Correction: RSS HAS a great life on the open web, RSS IS a beloved open web tool.

New comment by Cyan488 in "America.gov"

Cyan488 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:45:14 +0000

The cynic in me thinks this will end up being a honeypot for anyone asking sensitive immigration or tax questions.

New comment by Cyan488 in "Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market"

Cyan488 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:30:53 +0000

Isn't it the case that public companies owe a primary legal/fiduciary duty to shareholders over customers?

The question of choice between a profitable vs unprofitable venture is easy. But yeah, to what extent is choosing profitable instead of VERY profitable a breach of duty to shareholders?

New comment by Cyan488 in "Windows 11½"

Cyan488 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:34:05 +0000

I don't know about you but after a few seconds, I wanted to get out of there as fast as possible.

I'm glad I didn't have to spam the back button to do it.

New comment by Cyan488 in "The Copilot+ PC brand is dead"

Cyan488 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:30:13 +0000

When these came out, I thought, what is the average PC user going to get out of this? Faster image touchups, and...? You can't run an LLM chatbot of any comparison to free cloud models.

Oh yeah, and Recall. That worked out well.

New comment by Cyan488 in "2DWillNeverDie"

Cyan488 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 02:54:34 +0000

Maybe there's something to be said for allowing the art style to make room for imagination.

New comment by Cyan488 in "Meta VR Glasses"

Cyan488 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 02:52:43 +0000

Plus when you talk into a phone, your voice bouncing off the glass causes natural tendency to control vocal volume.

With buds, people just shout into the void... Or the bus...

New comment by Cyan488 in "Meta VR Glasses"

Cyan488 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 02:47:00 +0000

Not the parent commenter but I've found RSS feeds have replaced most of my desire to browse reddit, and other social media. You can even paste a YouTube channel into a feed reader to get a true channel subscriptions feed.

New comment by Cyan488 in "Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude"

Cyan488 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:49:05 +0000

Someone I know does this, and seems to think it's a flex, because he bragged about it being "the first time I've actually seen this presentation" a few times during the presentation.

It was all awful.

New comment by Cyan488 in "A Vacuum Diode for Make: Magazine"

Cyan488 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:29:13 +0000

You'll find a similar thing in vacuum fluorescent displays as well [0].

[0]: https://ibb.co/XZHWLD3x

New comment by Cyan488 in "This PCB is brought to you by Fable 5"

Cyan488 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:07:09 +0000

I built a project nearly identical to this one so knowing the level of complexity required, I'm not surprised it worked. AI is indeed raising the floor. Even simple hobby designs were once out of reach, but now we can "YOLO it and build stuff fast without necessarily knowing about the details" as the author puts it.

That said, without experience it's easy to pierce the veil of "simple circuitry" by accident, just like in XKCD: Tasks[1].

Looking at preview of the author's next project at the end of the article, I'm not so sure the same strategy will work. The board is probably two orders of magnitude more complex. Without knowing the circuit details, I see many red flags (randomly placed ics and decoupling, likely wrong length matching, random thick traces indicating lack of foresight on power distribution, backwards connectors, the probably unnecessary use of BGA footprints, etc).

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1425/

New comment by Cyan488 in "PCB is brought to you by Fable 5"

Cyan488 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:37:53 +0000

> For five fully assembled boards I paid 130 Euros, ordered the E-ink displays from a local shop

I built a project board nearly identical to this one a few years ago, and this seems about right. I don't think the displays themselves are included in the 130 euros. They can vary a lot in price depending on spec and supplier.

New comment by Cyan488 in "Built a Lego minifigure configurator. Shuffle until something makes you laugh"

Cyan488 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 23:21:23 +0000

Fun! Open in a new tab to make it easier to return here afterwards.

New comment by Cyan488 in "How to buy a good car for $1000"

Cyan488 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:24:33 +0000

Huberman also said it was good to gargle and swallow a glass of water in the morning before brushing your teeth.

I think that was the last episode I listened to...