Hacker News: SwtCyber

New comment by SwtCyber in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

SwtCyber — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:07:09 +0000

Whatever system you design (market, regulated, hybrid) it still ends up creating incentives that shape behavior

New comment by SwtCyber in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

SwtCyber — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:04:42 +0000

Most real-world work sits somewhere in the middle

New comment by SwtCyber in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

SwtCyber — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:03:42 +0000

I'm not convinced "token efficiency" maps cleanly to "good code". You can have very compact code that's extremely hard to understand or modify

New comment by SwtCyber in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

SwtCyber — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:42:05 +0000

Studio for desks, something rackable for scale

New comment by SwtCyber in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

SwtCyber — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:40:56 +0000

But I think the Mac Pro was never really trying to be on your desk in the first place. For a lot of its target users, it lived under the desk or in a rack, and the size wasn't about aesthetics so much as airflow, expansion, and serviceability

New comment by SwtCyber in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

SwtCyber — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:37:21 +0000

The interesting question is whether they'll lean into it intentionally (better tooling, more ML-focused APIs) or just keep treating it as a side effect of their silicon design

New comment by SwtCyber in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

SwtCyber — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:35:38 +0000

It totally makes sense. Mac Studio basically ate the Mac Pro's lunch. But it's still kind of sad. The Mac Pro used to represent this idea that Apple cared about the absolute high-end, no-compromises workstation crowd

New comment by SwtCyber in "Home Assistant waters my plants"

SwtCyber — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:23:16 +0000

Ten years ago a lot of this would have required expensive proprietary systems or a lot of custom engineering

New comment by SwtCyber in "Home Assistant waters my plants"

SwtCyber — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:20:36 +0000

This feels like one of those cases where DIY ends up being simpler than waiting for the perfect product to exist

New comment by SwtCyber in "Home Assistant waters my plants"

SwtCyber — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:18:21 +0000

There's a difference between automation for reliability and automation for tinkering

New comment by SwtCyber in "Home Assistant waters my plants"

SwtCyber — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:16:33 +0000

This is a pretty common experience with Home Assistant

New comment by SwtCyber in "Home Assistant waters my plants"

SwtCyber — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:15:04 +0000

"Find a problem for Home Assistant" is a dangerous starting point. Next thing you know you've built a small distributed system to water parsley.

New comment by SwtCyber in "Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times"

SwtCyber — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:03:47 +0000

E-ink feels weirdly well-suited to generative art

New comment by SwtCyber in "Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times"

SwtCyber — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:02:40 +0000

There's something very satisfying about solving the whole problem with a couple of scripts instead of building a full framework around it

New comment by SwtCyber in "Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times"

SwtCyber — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:00:14 +0000

Makes me wonder why there isn't a whole category of "public display-friendly" e-ink devices with first-class APIs...

New comment by SwtCyber in "14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight"

SwtCyber — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:18:33 +0000

IKEA moment is a perfect real-world demo of how much the outer geometry and boundary conditions matter

New comment by SwtCyber in "14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight"

SwtCyber — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:17:26 +0000

I suspect the connection isn't "paper roof holding weight" so much as "geometry that can turn thin sheet material into a stiff, self-supporting form"

New comment by SwtCyber in "14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight"

SwtCyber — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:14:11 +0000

I've noticed that learning something like advanced math as an adult feels slower, but the understanding tends to be more intentional

New comment by SwtCyber in "14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight"

SwtCyber — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:12:23 +0000

The age makes for a catchy headline, but the real signal is the time investment and sustained curiosity

New comment by SwtCyber in "14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight"

SwtCyber — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:11:16 +0000

Pretty impressive work for 14 and more importantly, a great example of curiosity turning into real engineering thinking