Hacker News: aeontech

New comment by aeontech in "A Trampoline"

aeontech — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:05:23 +0000

I was at a trampoline park last weekend (regular kind of place, everything padded for safety, as you'd imagine).

A ten year old kid left in an ambulance, neck injury, one side of the body paralyzed at the time of the event.

I really hope the kid recovers... but I don't think I'll ever forget that image.

Yes, everything in life has risks, but I don't even want to imagine how I'd feel if my kid, or my kids' friend had a life-changing injury on a trampoline at my home.

New comment by aeontech in "Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is false"

aeontech — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:52:36 +0000

AI: "this is a known open problem, I can not solve this, sorry."

Prompt: "Can you try solving it, instead of not solving it?"

AI: "Oh, sure, here you go!"

New comment by aeontech in "Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming"

aeontech — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 05:14:24 +0000

> The tendency of Wikipedia editors is that, when an article is many years old, they would rather flag it for improvement rather than simply throw away years of fellow editors' work.

That's not been my experience, tbh - in my view the deletionist fraction of the editors has essentially "won", if one can put it in those terms. I _think_ there is a (maybe small) group that have decided it is their mission to guard Wikipedia against what they view as cruft or non-notable, regardless of how many years of work these articles may have accumulated. They do not need to be paid for this - they enjoy it. Destroying is always easier than creation.

I seem to recall some study showing that the vast vast majority of edits/deletes on Wikipedia are the work of just a few hundred long-standing editors (citation needed) - which to me confirmed my gut feeling that most new editors bounce off and give up on contribution in short order.

I contributed for a few years, but gave up eventually - it was exhausting to spend time collating sources, collecting information, editing, rewriting, and then having someone come along and propose discarding your work with very little investment from their side.

Stackoverflow has gone through similar calcification - it's nearly impossible to contribute now, or build reputation as a new user, as posts get closed as duplicates or not-relevant.

New comment by aeontech in "The Fall and Rise of Screwworm"

aeontech — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:04:06 +0000

Hmm, that seems to contradict the article directly - insecticides were used to try to battle screwworm initially and were not really effective - the solution was using sterile male flies to stop reproduction - which would work in South America just as well as it did in North (with sufficient scale)

New comment by aeontech in "Wordgard – new rich-text editor by the creator of ProseMirror"

aeontech — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:12:56 +0000

Official site announcement discussion thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772573

Looks very interesting though!

New comment by aeontech in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

aeontech — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:45:43 +0000

Lemma 1: you want to protect your users privacy, and are also beholden to regulation enforcing that commitment (GDPR).

Lemma 2: you are obliged by other regulation to offer equal access to user data to third parties, so others can build equivalent functionality (DMA).

Lemma 3: malicious third parties will absolutely try to abuse the access and trick the user into sharing their data by all means possible. You will be held responsible in court of public opinion at minimum and legally at maximum if/when a malicious third party abuses said access.

This is a hard, possibly technically unsolvable problem no matter how much money you might have, because the root issue is not technical, it's the fact that you legally have to give third parties access and no way to control what they do with it - and as others have mentioned in the threads, it's exacerbated by the fact that the regulation doesn't say "this is okay and this is not", it is vague and judges things "by outcome", so you may spend all the time in the world implementing a solution you think will work, and then get hit by fines/lawsuits because the implementation is judged as not sufficient after the fact.

New comment by aeontech in "Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Query Hints"

aeontech — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:05:07 +0000

Very interesting - I just installed pg_hint_plan [0] extension a few months ago to get around a query that was confusing the planner too much. Edge case, but when you need it you really need it.

Haven't seen pg_plan_advice before, TIL!

New comment by aeontech in "A Family Project (2022)"

aeontech — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:28:03 +0000

This is beautifully written - don't know how this got on HN, but thank you for sharing it.

New comment by aeontech in "Last.fm is now independent"

aeontech — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:05:33 +0000

Time to revive my account... (scrobbling since 2003, heh) - started in audioscrobbler days, before last.fm

My usage has gone way down since switching to streaming services, this made me search for ways to backfill the data...

For anyone using Apple Music, looks like you can request an export of your data from privacy.apple.com, then use https://github.com/nerveband/Apple-Music-Play-History-Conver... to convert it for Last.fm import (haven't tried it yet, but looks promising).

Kevin Graaf: Computerising Hyerogliphic Scripts

aeontech — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:46:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhx-hRyh6BM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904831

Points: 3

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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.