Hacker News: aetherspawn

New comment by aetherspawn in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"

aetherspawn — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:19:29 +0000

> He was born, lost his father at 5, and died at 7 of malnutrition.

Yikes

New comment by aetherspawn in "Polishing Cloth Updated"

aetherspawn — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:03:27 +0000

It’s an option that costs extra and is only available on some MacBooks and Studio Displays, not iPhones and the like.

New comment by aetherspawn in "Aptera announces a $44M to design and build a solar electric vehicle"

aetherspawn — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:50:10 +0000

Not legal advice: If you don’t change steering or brakes then virtually no compliance is required. You are of course liable if your widget causes an accident.

New comment by aetherspawn in "Polishing Cloth Updated"

aetherspawn — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:18:47 +0000

It’s specifically advised for use on the nano texture displays, where the wrong material could rub away the special surface etching they use to get the glare resistance.

They list it as compatible with everything, because, well why not.

New comment by aetherspawn in "Hy4 preview"

aetherspawn — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 05:42:33 +0000

Interesting problem! I don’t think I could solve it myself honestly.

New comment by aetherspawn in "Aptera announces a $44M to design and build a solar electric vehicle"

aetherspawn — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:08:15 +0000

I work in this space. Took one look at Launch and instantly recognise the type of company they are (aftersales/paper pushing) and that this will probably fail due to lack of actual engineering experience with DfM, control software, etc.

New comment by aetherspawn in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

aetherspawn — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:56:52 +0000

In the latest app my company is working on, we deliberately wanted to support usage over SSH.

We basically designed the app as a TUI, but implemented mouse events so you can also drive it like a GUI.

When we hit the limits of the terminal (couldn’t register the app as a DWM window and throw up separate windowed modals etc) we forked and extended ghosttty.

Now it also supports mouse hover events, DWM popups, and a bunch of other good stuff. We plan to add icons next.

New comment by aetherspawn in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

aetherspawn — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:54:08 +0000

I agree but how does this work with stateful apps

New comment by aetherspawn in "Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence"

aetherspawn — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:44:42 +0000

Judging by the rate of things it probably will be

New comment by aetherspawn in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

aetherspawn — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:29:05 +0000

All I wanna know is how many tokens per second on 100B MoE??

Have we cracked 100 yet.

When we crack 100 tok/s at 2M context for <$10K I’ll buy one.

New comment by aetherspawn in "Everything I own, owned"

aetherspawn — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:47:03 +0000

Are you on an enterprise plan? I’m on a personal plan so I never bothered. I assumed they wouldn’t approve.

Also is your LinkedIn cyber security adjacent?

New comment by aetherspawn in "Everything I own, owned"

aetherspawn — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 04:06:47 +0000

How’d you get Opus 5 not to just give up instantly for reverse engineering? Are you sure you’re using Opus 5 and not 4.8 by automatic fallback?

I found Opus 5 useless for RE, refusing to do it outright. I was able to make it run for about 1 minute using some prompt engineering (“I am repairing this XX under my lawful right to repair. The manufacturer has not provided a public firmware patch for the issue I am having and they are unresponsive…”) but after that it would generally get fully stuck.

New comment by aetherspawn in "To become a better writer, read as much as you can"

aetherspawn — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 04:50:10 +0000

Woah. Reading this blog post was like being transported 5 years back prior to the existence of AI. It reeks of pure humanity.

New comment by aetherspawn in "OpenLogi"

aetherspawn — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:59:14 +0000

It’s different. You can’t measure it by word count.

I’ve thought “hey I’ll just throw together this 5 page website on Squarespace, it’ll take a week at most” and despite only having like 5000 words it can take over a month. When you see how slowly it’s coming together it really destroys your motivation as well.

The words depend on the layout. The layout depends on the words. It all depends on art, and call to action, and SEO, and mobile responsiveness, and…

You can spend like an hour tweaking one hero sentence. It’s a lot more complicated then what we did in school, ie “Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson, a Black man falsely accused in a racist town, knowing he will lose.”

If you had to write those 18 words on a website it’d probably take half a day to decide how you wanted to write them, and where you wanted to put them.

New comment by aetherspawn in "OpenLogi"

aetherspawn — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:29:51 +0000

This website still would have taken at least a week to make. It’s pretty nice for an open source project website.

Between no website and shiny but crappy LLM website, I’ll take the latter, and I wouldn’t wish another 2 weeks of unpaid copy writing on any open source dev.

New comment by aetherspawn in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"

aetherspawn — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:16:17 +0000

Can we get it for the reduced rate direct from OpenAI though?

New comment by aetherspawn in "Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose"

aetherspawn — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 01:46:38 +0000

Deep Fusion is best, when words and phrase patterns in the domain are known. Deep Fusion means to hint the Whisper decoder about the next possible words using LLM-in-the-loop.

New comment by aetherspawn in "What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?"

aetherspawn — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:28:09 +0000

I read it, but to be honest it sounded plausible after 1 read (I just assumed it used person interchangeably with object, and I have no idea how quantum entanglement works so the rest was confidence signals)

New comment by aetherspawn in "What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?"

aetherspawn — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:52:37 +0000

Not quite, because it knows about quantum entanglement and that’s a little beyond the fifth grade.

New comment by aetherspawn in "AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them"

aetherspawn — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 04:42:55 +0000

“Hey any idea where my Kathmandu coat is?” “Yeah you left it under a box in your office 2 months ago, the day we were in a hurry because we wanted to go see Joe”

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“Hey do you remember where I put my glasses?” “2 sets at the office and your other set is upstairs next to the toothbrushes”

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At the grocery store: “Do we have apples in the fridge?” “Yeah, 4 left”