Hacker News: achristmascarl

Protestant Accountability Tracking Database

achristmascarl — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:28:49 +0000

Article URL: https://protestantaccountability.org/purpose/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49472983

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras

achristmascarl — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:06:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/985155/flock-camera-destruction-vigilantes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470487

Points: 34

# Comments: 2

Flock contract cancellations grow among cities, other jurisdictions

achristmascarl — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:19:16 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468115

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by achristmascarl in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

achristmascarl — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:58:48 +0000

I recently added autocomplete to rainfrog, the terminal UI database tool I've been working on: https://github.com/achristmascarl/rainfrog

I initially made it as a lightweight, keyboard-centric alternative to dbeaver/pgadmin, and it now covers 95%+ of the database-related tasks I need to do at my job.

`bun init` automatically creates a Claude.md file by default

achristmascarl — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:02:27 +0000

Article URL: https://bun.com/docs/runtime/templating/init

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089156

Points: 18

# Comments: 16

The US Approves Launch of Mirror Satellite That Can Reflect Sunlight at Night

achristmascarl — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:09:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/reflect-orbital-earendil-mirror-satellite-fcc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908058

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by achristmascarl in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

achristmascarl — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:14:04 +0000

I was fairly skeptical about the rewrite when news about it first started going around, and I still don't plan on switching anything to use the Bun rewrite anytime soon, but I appreciate how detailed and well-written the blog post is; it also seems to be primarily human-authored, in my opinion, which is refreshing.

The most significant revelation for me was that Claude Code has been using the rewrite without much fanfare since June 17th.

How Fear and Social Pressure Are 'Overarming' the U.S.

achristmascarl — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:46:55 +0000

Article URL: https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/06/how-fear-and-social-pressure-are-overarming-us

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48402052

Points: 37

# Comments: 96

New comment by achristmascarl in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

achristmascarl — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:25:05 +0000

Whether or not LLMs are conscious, it does now seem possible to build conscious systems with LLMs as the key enabling component.

Many of the goalposts offered here and elsewhere, like embodiment or emotions, can be and have been emulated or approximated and built around an LLM, with the LLM acting as outsourced intelligence (or cognition, or reasoning, or some other better term). Will this system be conscious? Who knows. It certainly won't be human. But I suspect much of the concern around AI being conscious has less to do with whether an LLM itself is conscious and more to do with the fact that we are now capable of building potentially conscious systems, and the limits to what those potentially conscious systems are capable of keep expanding as the capabilities of LLMs grow.

Also, is "Claude" an LLM? I know Claude Opus 4.8 is an LLM, but Claude is simply a label that Anthropic chose for a series of products and services, many of which are LLMs. Anthropic itself describes Claude as "a next-generation AI assistant" [0]. Right now, we use Anthropic's "Claude" LLMs through various channels, but nothing's stopping them from tacking on various systems to try and make Claude a conscious entity.

[0] https://www.anthropic.com/news/introducing-claude

Modos Flow: A paper-like monitor for reading, writing, and focused work

achristmascarl — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:19:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-flow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313193

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by achristmascarl in "Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust""

achristmascarl — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:25:57 +0000

I wonder if the publicity around this AI-driven rewrite will function as a (unintentional, or perhaps intentional) far-reaching nerd snipe that results in Rust developers flocking to the project to identify and fix issues.