Hacker News: aeontech

New comment by aeontech in "Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool (just 2 files) to explore the small web"

aeontech — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:32:55 +0000

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427388

LiTo: Surface Light Field Tokenization

aeontech — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 03:32:31 +0000

Article URL: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/lito

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47421344

Points: 3

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Kokoro TTS Hook for Claude Code

aeontech — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:28:40 +0000

Article URL: https://git.sr.ht/~cg/claude-code-tts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46966390

Points: 1

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New comment by aeontech in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

aeontech — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:28:02 +0000

Well, sure - braking is mostly relevant when merging to the slower lane, when merging to faster lane I generally do not need to - since that lane is already moving faster, just need to speed up slightly and time it for the right moment.

My point is, it feels safer and easier to aim to enter a new lane with the aim of "following" someone, rather than trying to rush in "ahead" of someone. But maybe it's just me.

New comment by aeontech in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

aeontech — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:23:31 +0000

I'll tell you what I specifically and intentionally do when I need to change lanes. I brake slightly, signal, and wait for the person on my right or my left to pull ahead of me, then change lanes immediately _behind_ them. Then sit there for a moment until my following distance evens out a bit.

This ensures that

a) I do not cut anyone off accidentally, and minimize the amount of stress in my immediate part of the universe

b) I will (most likely) have plenty of room behind me after I change lanes, reducing chances of anyone else running up on me

c) If there's noticeable traffic, the time I spend signaling and waiting for the person to move slightly ahead of me gives plenty of warning to the people _behind_ them that I'm about to enter the lane.

Ultimately, yes, of course in principle you're right, when I change lanes, I enter the lane in front of someone.... but I _can_ control whether I enter as far as possible ahead of them.

New comment by aeontech in "Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift"

aeontech — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:53:07 +0000

This is awesome, and deserves its own post!

New comment by aeontech in "Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons"

aeontech — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:38:34 +0000

Since people are posting links to alternatives, another awesome source is the noun project. Has a mix of royalty-free, Creative Commons CC-BY-3.0, and paid license icons.

https://thenounproject.com/

Using Marquez as a lineage tool for Celery (2024)

aeontech — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:08:17 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.dataengineerthings.org/a-fun-experiment-using-marquez-as-a-lineage-tool-for-celery-ec15a5bf952f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529034

Points: 1

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New comment by aeontech in "My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award (blog)"

aeontech — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 01:33:26 +0000

This is a very cool app and list of resources for learning Japanese. Does anyone know of similar top recommendations for learning Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese?)

New comment by aeontech in "Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith"

aeontech — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:30:51 +0000

While I agree that the training/learning ecosystem is pretty heavily centered in Python, going from that to "Ruby is awful" seems like a very drastic jump, especially if we are talking about the LLM interaction only.

I probably wouldn't write a training system in Ruby (not because it's not doable, just because it's not a good use of time to rewrite stuff that is already available in python ecosystem)... but hooking up a Ruby system up to LLM's for interaction is eminently doable with very little effort.

I am assuming your situation had some specific constraints that made it harder, but it would be nice to understand what they were - right now your comment describes a more complicated solution and I am curious why you needed it.

New comment by aeontech in "'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs"

aeontech — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:20:19 +0000

You don't need it until you need it, and needing it often comes in the form of a lightning strike from blue sky. The counterargument is that having everyone pay a higher amount makes it feasible to actually have this coverage available, when needed, without bankrupting the insurance companies, because the rare astronomically expensive care is covered by the premiums paid by the vast majority of people who are relatively healthy and are unlikely to need it.

Now whether the on-paper prices for medical care in this country actually have any relationship to objective reality is an entirely separate question of course. In general coming from an outside perspective, combining healthcare and for-profit motives in a single system seems particularly likely to lead to all kinds of perverse incentives, but, it's the system that exists, and it seems unlikely to change any time soon.

New comment by aeontech in "We remain alive also in a dead internet"

aeontech — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:15:35 +0000

Oh my god, that makes the Matrix world make so much more sense :)

New comment by aeontech in "EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages"

aeontech — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:54:12 +0000

> They almost exclusively compare their model to prior models from 2024

As another comment here noted, the title is missing (2024) - this model was released almost a year ago, last December, so it's not surprising that that's the models they compare to.

New comment by aeontech in "Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly"

aeontech — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:46:44 +0000

Yep. You'd be shocked (or maybe not) at how many people I looking at their phones on a freeway.

I wonder if there's any statistics comparing deaths and injuries from drunk driving versus distracted driving over the past 20 years or so. Is it a comparable at all?

New comment by aeontech in "Nisus Writer: Schrödinger's Word Processor"

aeontech — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:45:06 +0000

I hope they find a way to open-source it! Seeing years of hard engineering work disappear into a black hole would be truly sad.

New comment by aeontech in "Ask HN: Second generation of intro to software dev for 3rd graders"

aeontech — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:19:00 +0000

> teacher chose my essay specifically to repro onto a transparency and place on the overhead as an example of bad writing

Oh man, regardless of how "bad" someone's writing is, this is terrible terrible teaching. Public shaming in front of peers, especially on something subjective like this? Some people should not be teachers. I'm sorry you had to go through that.

New comment by aeontech in "Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly"

aeontech — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 17:50:36 +0000

guiltily looks up from HN while stopped at a red light

New comment by aeontech in "How to make a Smith chart"

aeontech — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:35:19 +0000

that's beautiful!

New comment by aeontech in "Show HN: Bringing Tech News from HN to My Community"

aeontech — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:35:42 +0000

Very cool idea. The links are posted to the original source, which is not in Bengali though - is that a barrier?

Or, with the subject matter being tech, most potential readers are fluent anyway?

An LLM Codegen Hero's Journey

aeontech — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:29:56 +0000

Article URL: https://harper.blog/2025/04/17/an-llm-codegen-heros-journey/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44838894

Points: 2

# Comments: 0