Hacker News: SoMomentary

New comment by SoMomentary in "Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem"

SoMomentary — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:05:17 +0000

They said 6 billion tokens, which isn't as much as I thought it might be.

New comment by SoMomentary in "Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem"

SoMomentary — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:03:11 +0000

Unfortunately I don't see this particular view paying off in the age of AI, as many prove they have nothing at all to say but say it anyways. Which isn't to say people shouldn't write if they enjoy writing, but I for one will stay a discerning reader.

New comment by SoMomentary in "Disruption with Some GitHub Services"

SoMomentary — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:47:11 +0000

At this point it feels like it would be more honest for this to be titled "Disruption with Some GitHub Service".

New comment by SoMomentary in "WebMCP: Teaching Your Website to Talk to AI Agents"

SoMomentary — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:20:17 +0000

This isn't for when you are looking at the restaurant booking page, it's for when your agent is on that page. Personally I don't need an agent to help me with this specific problem, but I could see it being a real boon for people with accessibility needs.

Sometimes it helps to not think of why we should reject things but instead to think of why someone might accept them.

New comment by SoMomentary in "A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux"

SoMomentary — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:37:50 +0000

I still use it everyday, but it is definitely a love/hate relationship. I imagine I'll switch to an ergonomic keyboard with trackpoint someday soon.

New comment by SoMomentary in "A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux"

SoMomentary — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:39:53 +0000

I'm unfortunately really unimpressed with the Trackpoints coming out of Lenovo today. I have a brand new ThinkPad that suffers from drift everyday, so it's easy for me to see why other companies aren't including Trackpoints on their products.

New comment by SoMomentary in "Cerebras CS-4"

SoMomentary — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:53:48 +0000

Sometimes I wonder if mistakes are now used to indicate the possibility that a human actually wrote it.

New comment by SoMomentary in "Degraded performance for multiple models"

SoMomentary — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:05:56 +0000

AWS? Cloudflare? Your imagination is the only limit!

New comment by SoMomentary in "Incident with Github.com"

SoMomentary — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:58:29 +0000

I'm not sure I understand the significance of them having almost no American born engineers. Do we think it would be meaningfully different if they were? I tend to believe that Americans can be just as incompetent as the next guy!

New comment by SoMomentary in "Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions"

SoMomentary — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:11:03 +0000

That makes sense to me. The output styles work the same way.

New comment by SoMomentary in "Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2"

SoMomentary — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:03:34 +0000

Sometimes even cheaper if you can score a locked one. They are fairly trivial to unlock if you know what you're doing.

New comment by SoMomentary in "Replacing the Kobo Libra H2O Battery"

SoMomentary — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:24:38 +0000

I just set up Bookbridge (https://github.com/cporcellijr/bookbridge) to do this. It's so new that I can't even endorse it as I just don't know if it works well yet, but this is at least one solution.

New comment by SoMomentary in "Anime User Interfaces"

SoMomentary — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:31:38 +0000

I think it's still showing an absurd UI if it is flashing like that, and it certainly does show the monitor.

New comment by SoMomentary in "Drug reverses autism-like brain changes in adult mice within hours"

SoMomentary — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:13:49 +0000

Doesn't the "potential for toxicity from repeated doses" make this sort of doubtful?

New comment by SoMomentary in "Elevators"

SoMomentary — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:38:24 +0000

Sometimes I think "stupid" questions like these are just a way to break the ice, something that gets used to kindly acknowledge the momentary existence of others in our lives before we continue down our separate paths.

New comment by SoMomentary in "Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English"

SoMomentary — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:49:48 +0000

Anyone tried this as an output style and not just as a skill?

New comment by SoMomentary in "They Stole Your Attention"

SoMomentary — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:36:34 +0000

Right? It's strange to me to have an article that seems set to rail against attention span bankruptcy, but then is written by AI in a way that just feeds right back into it.

New comment by SoMomentary in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

SoMomentary — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:02:40 +0000

I'm personally extremely confident. Those Remarkable tablets are very hackable. I pay for their sub, but I've also whipped up my own app for syncing content between my RM2 and my home server so that I can send news articles to it, mark them up as I see fit and archive them.

New comment by SoMomentary in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

SoMomentary — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:26:59 +0000

I thought the Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite response was quite telling myself. I personally like the Pelican SVG test, to me it is still a charming snapshot of model performance anecdata. No one would argue it's rigorous but I don't think it was ever intended to be.

I get people burning out on the pelican SVG test alongside the rest of the AI burnout, but I guess for myself I'm just choosing to keep enjoying it while I still can.

New comment by SoMomentary in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

SoMomentary — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:27:16 +0000

Why not go direct to the source instead of paying an extra 5.5%? Seems like it'd be trivial to have AI wire up connections to your preferred inference providers and save yourself some money over time.