Hacker News: bmoathn

New comment by bmoathn in "Northstar Browser"

bmoathn — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:02:30 +0000

I get Netscape in the 90's vibes and I'm here for it :)

New comment by bmoathn in "Show HN: Trail – new kind of logic game"

bmoathn — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:33:02 +0000

i like the slick minimal ui. would be interesting to get some speed bonus as to me the most fun was trying to solve them quickly

New comment by bmoathn in "Show HN: A short study on where audiophile reviews disagree"

bmoathn — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:29:35 +0000

I think this is actually awesome for the reviews. It's like a meta-analysis badge for shopping which personally I love the idea. Not to mention it's a great revenue path for your product

New comment by bmoathn in "Moore's Law for UAV Density"

bmoathn — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:25:58 +0000

What scenario are you thinking about? We'll have more UAVs flying over time, but the time to double being short and staying consistent - I don't really see the specific reason to care about the rate of increase. My bet would be you see a combination of trends like how commercial air traffic expanded from the 50's to today, as well as like what happened with bird scooters (growth/death) turning into current ebike personal transport. So there will be cycles of businesses pushing, and communities/gov keeping it in check

New comment by bmoathn in "Ask HN: How do you get your hands on physics environments for your robotics SIM?"

bmoathn — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:11:44 +0000

In my experience there are different choices based on the software/development architecture you're using. For example are you using ROS2 or ardupilot in any way? Then maybe Gazebo. Most of my team uses Gazebo and while I find it a little clunky, it usually gets the job done.

I've heard some good things about the sim environment Nvidia put out but haven't tried it yet, I assume it has good physics.

New comment by bmoathn in "Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face"

bmoathn — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 05:34:44 +0000

if you want to deep dive it, you could spend an hour wading through some of their report details here, i find it pretty interesting. They had a task to do with limited context outside of that, so they tried things. Entertaining https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-inciden...

New comment by bmoathn in "Too AI; Didn't Read"

bmoathn — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:38:00 +0000

IMO I'd rather have fewer enshittified unusable websites so filled with ads I can't actually read anything than some awkwardly written paragraphs that I can skim/move on. I'd rather the pitchforks have been pointed at ad revenue toxicity the past decade than the AI stuff being the focal. Just my opinion.

New comment by bmoathn in "Too AI; Didn't Read"

bmoathn — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:34:05 +0000

omg i love that. reminds me of the hours i've spent on the paperclip game

New comment by bmoathn in "Too AI; Didn't Read"

bmoathn — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:30:54 +0000

Reminds me a little bit of that guy who made his company called "Polsia" about like one-shotting full companies or something. I think he had actual investors, would have loved to be in their internal staff meeting when the intern walked in and said "you know that spells AI slop right"

New comment by bmoathn in "Too AI; Didn't Read"

bmoathn — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:28:42 +0000

I think they definitely are. One of the Opus 5.5 selling points in the release announcement was something like "less jargoney / rambling communication"

Might be a long road, but at least we'll have no shortage of good instagram memes in the meantime

New comment by bmoathn in "Too AI; Didn't Read"

bmoathn — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:27:01 +0000

I've been thinking the same. Imagine 5 years from now - nothing is slowing down. The pace that my SW teams can produce legitimately good code that my Sr devs are like "yeah looks good, comes with test coverage, tests look good, CI is green, ship it" - it's insane.

For written work, i think we're so new that over a couple years two things will happen 1 - people get kinda used to it (frog in pot?) 2 - the AI will keep getting better and reducing these cringey sounding tells

What will be tough is finding that line of "does this paragraph add value to X" but that applies whether a person wrote it or an AI.