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New comment by RationPhantoms in "The Aperiodic Table"

RationPhantoms — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:56:32 +0000

> I just don’t care for a cool quirky thing if an AI made it.

While I understand the knee-jerk reaction, especially to writing, people make about AI, it's starting to have a counter-effect on me.

A brush can destroy (sweep) or create (paint) but it's still a tool.

New comment by RationPhantoms in "Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE"

RationPhantoms — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:22:35 +0000

Yep, couple Open WebUI for general chats and OpenCode for software-specific tasks and it feels close to Claude Desktop and Claude Code.

New comment by RationPhantoms in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

RationPhantoms — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:52:14 +0000

I don't think the majority of people have given it a passing thought to be fair. For folks that grew up with the advent of being the "designated family googler" (and rested the success of their careers on such), it is an incredible time for information.

You're telling me there is a faceless, non-judgemental, never exhausted tutor just sitting there waiting for my curiosity to strike up a conversation? How absolutely fantastic. We're spoiled with information.

New comment by RationPhantoms in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"

RationPhantoms — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:58:18 +0000

They just released their enterprise agentic platform today so my expectation is that might be the gravity well for the Fortune 500's to park their inference on.

New comment by RationPhantoms in "The Last Quiet Thing"

RationPhantoms — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:46:23 +0000

Does your physical environment change that much that it requires cognitive load for you to decide on what cables to use? For myself, I bought two wireless charge "base" stations that handle my spouse's and my phone/watch/airpods. That's it. One place, bedside, where I need to put things.

Sure, for new equipment or in a pinch (that becomes cumbersome) but even traveling, you know what equipment you have, charge rate and things needing to get charged from what connector type. So you purchase the variants that you need.

New comment by RationPhantoms in "AI agents over SSH from your phone. Starting to think this is where dev is going"

RationPhantoms — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:40:25 +0000

It honestly feels like a segue to just talking to the agents that won't really have much of a long time horizon. People who either prefer or are professionally required to maintain control over software aren't going to be working from a 5-inch screen while people who use the iPhone as a dev environment just want a simpler interaction with their agentic fleet for creation.

New comment by RationPhantoms in "Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once"

RationPhantoms — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:54:52 +0000

Doesn't seem accurate considering GovDeals has auctions in NY, NJ and CT listed but your website has nothing.

New comment by RationPhantoms in "Anyone else having a terrible experience with Claude Code's remote control?"

RationPhantoms — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:14:58 +0000

I have not tried it but prior to them releasing that feature, I used an iOS terminal with SSH mosh capabilities + Tailscale + Tmux session mounted to see what the output of my home machine's Claude conversation was doing.

New comment by RationPhantoms in "Ask HN: Where are all the disruptive software that AI promised?"

RationPhantoms — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:12:31 +0000

The signals are there but the usefulness/blast radius is being limited to "I'm not a software developer but I have this specific issue I need to write software to solve. I've done that and here is a Linkedin post explaining what it is and how I did it."

I think we're looking at the wrong demographic/professional sector and throwing up our hands. You have to look at people who don't have as much professional experience with it because everyone you didn't write software in the 2010's is writing it now.

New comment by RationPhantoms in "Cherri – programming language that compiles to an Apple Shortuct"

RationPhantoms — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:01:44 +0000

Still confused on why there is no social component of this? What is the best place to find examples of actual useful Apple Shortcuts?

New comment by RationPhantoms in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

RationPhantoms — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:46:49 +0000

I mean the answer to underground facilities is you just keep bombing the entrance which is exactly what they've done. Iran still has insane supply levels of ballistic missiles so the US/Israel are eradicating their tele-launcher fleet.

New comment by RationPhantoms in "Hurricane Electric (HE.NET) IPv6 tunnelbroker page offline due to expired domain"

RationPhantoms — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:13:15 +0000

Comcast has a very strict peering policy as well. They, like Deutsche Telekom, like to hold their proverbial customers hostage to make other networks pay to peer.

New comment by RationPhantoms in "Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon"

RationPhantoms — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:24:41 +0000

This doesn't work on any of the methods I've tried.

New comment by RationPhantoms in "Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages"

RationPhantoms — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:06:47 +0000

This is an absolute wealth of information about gravitational mechanics but quite a few of the diagrams were so alien to me that they became undecipherable.

New comment by RationPhantoms in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

RationPhantoms — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:29:19 +0000

Competition always is. I think there was a real fear that their core product was going to be replaced. They're already cannibalizing it internally so it was THE wake up call.

New comment by RationPhantoms in "Ask HN: Why are electronics still so unrecyclable?"

RationPhantoms — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:10:16 +0000

If my grandmother had wheels, she would've been a bike.

New comment by RationPhantoms in "Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism"

RationPhantoms — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:32:10 +0000

You should see some of the work from their PaperBanana papers. Really solid.

New comment by RationPhantoms in "Qwen3-Coder-Next"

RationPhantoms — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:25:20 +0000

There is weaponized malaise employed by these frontier model providers and I feel like that dark-pattern, what you pointed out, and others are employed to rate-limit certain subscriptions.

New comment by RationPhantoms in "The age of Pump and Dump software"

RationPhantoms — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:38:45 +0000

I would likely not touch the product because of the implications of providing an LLM full system access. With the pump-and-dump coin chumps, it's possible they use the carapace of software as a hype-vehicle with no relation to the dev.

New comment by RationPhantoms in "The age of Pump and Dump software"

RationPhantoms — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:36:41 +0000

That has been a thing prior to the rise of LLMs. Tech-bros with their "astonished" faces look with the sub-title of "You need to learn kubernetes, docker, swarm!" etc.

It's just par for the course in our attention economy. Like another poster had said, quite a bit of this is just simple experimentation that occurs.