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New comment by atorodius in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

atorodius — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:12:28 +0000

A website for a meetup I host including a store. It was a 30min thing and amazing. A web app to track my contact lens usage. An android app for my gym routine. A web app to try drum patterns

New comment by atorodius in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

atorodius — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 03:37:04 +0000

> Nobody is building anything worthwhile with these things.

Do you mean AI or these "personal agents"? I would disagree on the former, folks build lots of worthwile things

New comment by atorodius in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

atorodius — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:51:55 +0000

> Google realized this a long time ago; there is no ad-free paid version of Google Search.

well there is also no 200$/month Google Search subscription

New comment by atorodius in "Clicks Communicator"

atorodius — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 09:02:16 +0000

"visit our main site" -> about in the footer

New comment by atorodius in "Clicks Communicator"

atorodius — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:18:56 +0000

where do you see it is a coworking space? looks to me like a normal office building

either way it is a physical address, I was just responding to the invalid claim above

New comment by atorodius in "Clicks Communicator"

atorodius — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:22:15 +0000

https://www.clicks.tech/pages/about-clicks ?

(not affiliated but feels a bit rough as a critique for a companty that has shipped keyboards for a while)

New comment by atorodius in "Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts"

atorodius — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:31:36 +0000

Tangential but did not see it mentioned: Calibri must have been the Microsoft Word default at some point, at least in some parts of the world, because seeing it makes me think this is a Word document by a person that did not change the default font.

New comment by atorodius in "AI World Clocks"

atorodius — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:35:21 +0000

That's less and less true

https://minimaxir.com/2025/11/nano-banana-prompts/

New comment by atorodius in "The power of two random choices (2012)"

atorodius — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:09:43 +0000

neat trick indeed. would be cool to do the math and get an analytical formula of mean queue time given cache refresh for a given k, under some mild assumptions.

Alphabet 2025 Q2 Earnings Release [pdf]

atorodius — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:19:11 +0000

Article URL: https://abc.xyz/assets/cc/27/3ada14014efbadd7a58472f1f3f4/2025q2-alphabet-earnings-release.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44663546

Points: 42

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New comment by atorodius in "The War on the Walkman"

atorodius — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 15:00:52 +0000

> Some said it was a sign of a continued rise of Reagan and Thatcher style individualism. Cultural critic Allan Bloom deemed the Walkman "a nonstop... masturbational fantasy” in his 1987 book ‘The Closing of the American Mind.’ Neo-Luddite John Zerzan saw the Walkman as part of a modern trend that encouraged a "protective sort of withdrawal from social connections" and Thomas Lipscomb, chief of the Center for the Digital Future, equated it with the euphoric drug "soma," from Huxley's Brave New World, creating, as he put it, "an airtight bubble of sound" that was nothing but a "sensory depressant." In other words it all felt ‘a bit blackmirror’ as one might say today. (A collection of quotes collected in this 1999 Reason Magazine article)

not sure about the masturbational fantasy but the rest seems fairly spot on as a critique?

New comment by atorodius in "Photos taken inside musical instruments"

atorodius — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 19:50:26 +0000

I want to live in a violin

New comment by atorodius in "Pike – a dynamic programming language with a syntax similar to Java and C"

atorodius — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:24:15 +0000

what does pike look like

https://pike.lysator.liu.se/docs/tut/introduction/first_glan...

(saving you some clicks...)

New comment by atorodius in "Triforce – a beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops"

atorodius — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:12:33 +0000

I feel like my iPhone does it. But not sure. Sound definitely changes when you zoom while recording

New comment by atorodius in "I'd like to take a moment to speak to you about the Adobe PSD format (2009)"

atorodius — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:10:49 +0000

Reading obj c brought back some good memories of when I coded iPhone apps around 2009. Great language

On topic: parsing others file formats has to be one of the most fun and most terrible things. The bliss when it ends up working is great

New comment by atorodius in "Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thought"

atorodius — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:52:33 +0000

Is this using t SNE? Or sth else? I have a feeling similarity is not well defined in whatever space this is using. t SNE is famously unsuited to plot how "close" two points are. it is for clustering

New comment by atorodius in "The State of Vim"

atorodius — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 07:20:30 +0000

I use VIM bindings in VS Code. Always assumed many do but might be wrong

New comment by atorodius in "Why do bees die when they sting you? (2021)"

atorodius — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 20:39:07 +0000

> The notion that a species is "adapted for a particular environment" is somewhat nonsensical because "the environment" is never really fixed.

Mever considered this. Good stuff

New comment by atorodius in "Issues with Color Spaces and Perceptual Brightness"

atorodius — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 12:02:47 +0000

I stumbled upon this when visualizing music. It is very interesting how everything is kind of non linear, like you mention. I had to increase low frequencies and then I got stuck trying to bucket frequencies. It seems humans have different fidelity for different ranges of frequencies

New comment by atorodius in "Stimulation Clicker"

atorodius — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 20:02:08 +0000

Can't say anything but I FRIGGING LOVED THIS