Hacker News: aethrum

New comment by aethrum in "Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)"

aethrum — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:35:24 +0000

do you exercise?

New comment by aethrum in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

aethrum — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:56:07 +0000

The problem is it always hides your voice. Always

New comment by aethrum in "Physicist Astrid Eichhorn is a leader in the field of asymptotic safety"

aethrum — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:08:48 +0000

The

>Surprised this perplexes people

Is just really funny. Peak HN, thank you

New comment by aethrum in "[dead]"

aethrum — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:06:28 +0000

>Velocity without feedback is chaos.

>Direction without oversight is reckless.

>The constraint is no longer tokens. It is cognition.

Can we stop upvoting LLM slop please. Jesus, dead internet theory is so real.

New comment by aethrum in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

aethrum — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:21:15 +0000

4k OLED text is great.

New comment by aethrum in "I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978"

aethrum — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:30:19 +0000

makes me sad nowadays kids just want to watch short form video instead of create

New comment by aethrum in "Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet"

aethrum — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:48:10 +0000

They absolutely help my eyes not be so strained. If its placebo, its a working placebo.

>Are people actually using Night Shift? >Aggravatingly, yes.

What is the authors problem lol? It feels a lot better on eyeballs to use warm light things. Why does he care?

New comment by aethrum in "Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other"

aethrum — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:48:16 +0000

I love magic. Can these do politics or is it just board state?

New comment by aethrum in "LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers"

aethrum — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:47:42 +0000

Can't we just turn the temp down to 0?

New comment by aethrum in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

aethrum — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:24:10 +0000

I'm an audiophile and very happy with one of their portable speakers. I wouldn't buy Bose monitors, though

New comment by aethrum in "Dogalog: A realtime Prolog-based livecoding music environment"

aethrum — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:11:31 +0000

Volume warning on that demo, lol

New comment by aethrum in "My stages of learning to be a socially normal person"

aethrum — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:15:11 +0000

He seems like an odd duck.

New comment by aethrum in "Ask HN: Would you use an app that helps you collect and revisit favorite quotes?"

aethrum — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:16:40 +0000

Woah.

New comment by aethrum in "Bertie the Brain"

aethrum — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:12:27 +0000

Man Canada used to be so impressive. We need to get back there

New comment by aethrum in "Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain"

aethrum — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:12:02 +0000

Probably negatively correlated cause you have someone to interact with in your old age/better chance of community :)

New comment by aethrum in "AI-generated 'poverty porn' fake images being used by aid agencies"

aethrum — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:39:06 +0000

But its not... real.

New comment by aethrum in "Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe"

aethrum — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:47:54 +0000

no it doesn't

New comment by aethrum in "Jane Goodall has died"

aethrum — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 20:11:27 +0000

crazy how you can just be this alive one year and then dead the next. I get 91 is old, but still

New comment by aethrum in "Meta-analysis of 2.2M people: Loneliness increases mortality risk by 32%"

aethrum — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:58:55 +0000

New comment by aethrum in "iPhone dumbphone"

aethrum — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:40:55 +0000

Woah this is nice! And pretty generous free app