Hacker News: JonathanRaines

New comment by JonathanRaines in "Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text"

JonathanRaines — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:21:19 +0000

Goodbye chain of thought and observation.

New comment by JonathanRaines in "Cube Type – Isometric Typography Generator"

JonathanRaines — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:41:57 +0000

Really nice! You should add an Penrose Stairs illusion mode.

New comment by JonathanRaines in "Music Theory for Programmers"

JonathanRaines — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:01:11 +0000

Fantastic post. You took a subject that never made sense to me and made it seem simple.

New comment by JonathanRaines in "Fastpotify"

JonathanRaines — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:07:06 +0000

When listening to a podcast on Android, the lock screen skip-15-second buttons are reversed.

New comment by JonathanRaines in "Good Tools Are Invisible"

JonathanRaines — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:28:13 +0000

*not true of hammers (jk, great post)

New comment by JonathanRaines in "Let's Reinvent the Scroll Wheel"

JonathanRaines — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:24:15 +0000

I don't think you mean "Alas, ScrollPods was born". Maybe "And thus,..."?

New comment by JonathanRaines in "The bottleneck might be the air in the room"

JonathanRaines — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:36:41 +0000

Pangram claims to be super accurate. Do you know how? I understood detection is a hard problem.

New comment by JonathanRaines in "Underwater suit-wearing cyborg insect capable of diving and terra-aqua travel"

JonathanRaines — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:17:20 +0000

I hope they don't start bugging our homes.

New comment by JonathanRaines in "3D Printing a Brain (2021)"

JonathanRaines — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:42:39 +0000

I'm setting up my site and (slowly) adding some previous projects. Enjoy.

3D Printing a Brain (2021)

JonathanRaines — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:42:39 +0000

Article URL: https://jonathanraines.github.io/projects/3d-printing-a-brain/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48762384

Points: 4

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New comment by JonathanRaines in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

JonathanRaines — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:31:54 +0000

High altitude balloon launches using weather balloons to get photos of the curvature of the earth.

New comment by JonathanRaines in "Car Seats as Contraception"

JonathanRaines — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:45:39 +0000

> We estimate that these laws prevented fatalities of 57 children in car crashes in 2017 but reduced total births by 8,000 that year

These two options are not equivalent. I will take 8,000 3rd children not being born over 57 kids dying in car crashes every time.

New comment by JonathanRaines in "OpenSCAD is kinda neat"

JonathanRaines — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:40:20 +0000

I've used your library and really like it!

New comment by JonathanRaines in "OpenSCAD is kinda neat"

JonathanRaines — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:59:36 +0000

Also check out CADQuery and or build123d (python equivalents)

New comment by JonathanRaines in "You are the scariest monster in the woods"

JonathanRaines — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:45:26 +0000

I agree with what you're worried about - humans using AI to do bad things. However, have you considered also being worried about what AI can do? (can you ever have too much existential dread?) You cast it as a tool, it may be the first thing we've made that goes beyond that.

New comment by JonathanRaines in "Philosophers must reckon with the meaning of thermodynamics"

JonathanRaines — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 10:14:30 +0000

> "According to the laws of thermodynamics, all that exists does so solely to consume, destroy and extinguish, and in this way to accelerate the slide toward cosmic obliteration"

Bit of a leap from "heat cannon, of itself, pass from one body to a hotter body"?

New comment by JonathanRaines in "Hierarchical Reasoning Model"

JonathanRaines — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 12:51:11 +0000

Nice! They provide trained checkpoints on their GitHub. Repeating their results would be a good start. https://github.com/sapientinc/HRM

New comment by JonathanRaines in "Hierarchical Reasoning Model"

JonathanRaines — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 11:18:31 +0000

I advise scepticism.

This work does have some very interesting ideas, specifically avoiding the costs of backpropagation through time.

However, it does not appear to have been peer reviewed.

The results section is odd. It does not include include details of how they performed the assesments, and the only numerical values are in the figure on the front page. The results for ARC2 are (contrary to that figure) not top of the leaderboard (currently 19% compared to HRMs 5% https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/arc-prize-2025/leaderboa...)

New comment by JonathanRaines in "Leprechauns, root causes, and other fairy tales"

JonathanRaines — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:35:39 +0000

I think you are right that once the exercise becomes hunting for a scapegoat it's pointless.

However, it can be a way for everyone to understand the system better. The goal should be making each of the dominoes less likely to fall. Doing so can simplify rather than add complexity.

New comment by JonathanRaines in "Building better AI tools"

JonathanRaines — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 18:33:01 +0000

> "You seem stuck on X. Do you want to try investigating Y?"

MS Clippy was the AI tool we should all aspire to build