<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: boutell</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=boutell</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 09:52:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=boutell" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boutell in "Show HN: TikTok but for Scientific Papers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a bit like discovering punk rock for the first time and rolling your eyes and saying "yeah, we really need more rock"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 17:32:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097979</link><dc:creator>boutell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097979</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boutell in "Show HN: TikTok but for Scientific Papers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Already "too many signups" at 13 votes, ruh roh<p>This looks amazing. I hope Android will be an option.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 17:31:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097967</link><dc:creator>boutell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097967</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boutell in "All elementary functions from a single binary operator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Halfway through I was imagining aliens to whom this operator comes naturally and our math is weird. By the end I found out that we might be those aliens.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:34:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754553</link><dc:creator>boutell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754553</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boutell in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love this! Dijkstra's Algorithm is always a fun time</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:28:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744714</link><dc:creator>boutell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744714</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boutell in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been busy adding postgres and sqlite support to apostrophecms:<p><a href="https://apostrophecms.com" rel="nofollow">https://apostrophecms.com</a><p>Six months ago, that would have been unrealistic, because we're heavily committed to the mongodb API and we make it part of our own API.<p>Starting in December though, Opus 4.6 made it perfectly realistic to pursue this with Claude Code as a series of personal weekend projects.<p>Now, despite not having any official resources on this until the last week or so, it should land in May.<p>This doesn't work for everything. It absolutely helps that the problem I'm solving is an "adapter pattern" problem: "make X talk like Y." And that we have a massive test suite, at multiple levels. That combination makes "here's the problem, go solve it, grind until the tests pass, don't bother me for a few hours" a realistic AI agent request.<p>But it's a little mind-blowing all the same. The hype around AI is so out of control, it can be easy to miss genuine "holy crap" moments.<p>Along the way I've written a fair bit about how to run Claude Code autonomously on your household server in a reasonably secure manner:<p><a href="https://apostrophecms.com/blog/how-to-be-more-productive-with-claude-code-part-1" rel="nofollow">https://apostrophecms.com/blog/how-to-be-more-productive-wit...</a>)<p>Also general Claude Code tips and thoughts on workflows that help and workflows that ultimately just speed your burnout:<p><a href="https://apostrophecms.com/blog/claude-code-part-2-making-the-leap-without-shipping-slop" rel="nofollow">https://apostrophecms.com/blog/claude-code-part-2-making-the...</a><p>I know, everybody's writing this stuff, but the desire to share is natural.<p>(Disclaimer: I'm part of the demographic AI was trained on. If I tried not to sound like a bot, I'd have to sound like... well, somebody else)</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://apostrophecms.com/blog/how-to-be-more-productive-with-claude-code-part-2-making-the-mental-leap">https://apostrophecms.com/blog/how-to-be-more-productive-with-claude-code-part-2-making-the-mental-leap</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704474">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704474</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:46:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://apostrophecms.com/blog/how-to-be-more-productive-with-claude-code-part-2-making-the-mental-leap</link><dc:creator>boutell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704474</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boutell in "AWS has climbed on the AI-in-space bandwagon with more bad science"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Correct link:<p><a href="https://pages.awscloud.com/aws-reaction-ai-space-orbit.html" rel="nofollow">https://pages.awscloud.com/aws-reaction-ai-space-orbit.html</a><p>I don't know how this gets messed up every time I try to share it here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:43:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691768</link><dc:creator>boutell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691768</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boutell in "AWS has climbed on the AI-in-space bandwagon with more bad science"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AWS just dropped this blog post describing the glories of AI data centers in space.<p>Most companies hyping this ignore the cooling problem: in space, you only have radiative cooling to rely on. Even though the temperature outside is absolute zero, radiative cooling is so inefficient that getting rid of heat is a major engineering requirement for every spacecraft.<p>But AWS is doubling down. They describe "natural cooling through radiators that dissipate heat into an environment hovering around minus 270 degrees" as a BENEFIT of space-based Ai datacenters.<p>Obviously, AWS engineers are smarter than this. And AWS is a solid business with a future, AI or no AI.<p>So why does AWS, a credible company with an established reputation, feel the need to echo the hype? Is there anyone left who doesn't know this is greenwashing?<p>[Reposted due to bad link in my original post]</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/">https://aws.amazon.com/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691757">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691757</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
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<p>Whoops thanks, made a fresh post.</p>
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<p>"The vacuum of space provides natural cooling through radiators that dissipate heat into an environment hovering around minus 270 degrees..."
This is not how physics works. The lack of convection in space makes cooling harder, not easier. This isn't the only nonsense in the article but it's the worst part. How do we make it prohibitively embarrassing for companies to keep making this claim that AI data center cooling in space will just magically work?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:11:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677510</link><dc:creator>boutell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677510</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boutell in "AWS joins mass delusion that space based data centers make sense"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"The vacuum of space provides natural cooling through radiators that dissipate heat into an environment hovering around minus 270 degrees..."<p>This is not how physics works. The lack of convection in space makes cooling harder, not easier. This isn't the only nonsense in the article but it's the worst part. How do we make it prohibitively embarrassing for companies to keep making this claim that AI data center cooling in space will just magically work?</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/">https://aws.amazon.com/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676541">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676541</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 3</p>
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<p>I found the article itself very informative and not particularly ai-tastic. But then I got to that infographic at the end. Holy smokes was that disappointing. It seems clear they didn't even bother to read the captions the AI scribbled.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:46:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655170</link><dc:creator>boutell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655170</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boutell in "April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Last night I had to install the VO.20 pre-release of ollama to use this model. So I'm wondering if these instructions are accurate.</p>
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<p>That's interesting man, that's pretty f***' interesting. I don't think I've seen it though. I've let it run for hours making changes overnight and I only do git operations manually.<p>Oh, but maybe allowing it to do remote git operations is a necessary trigger.</p>
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<p>OK, so maybe we're headed for a dark forest scenario as far as profit driven startups go.<p>But if your goal is simply for the thing to exist, there is a strong incentive to share.</p>
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<p>Plain old Unix permissions can get it done. One account for you, one account for AI. A shared folder belonging to a group that both are in. umask and setgid to get the story right for new files. <a href="https://apostrophecms.com/blog/how-to-be-more-productive-with-claude-code-part-1" rel="nofollow">https://apostrophecms.com/blog/how-to-be-more-productive-wit...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:59:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553450</link><dc:creator>boutell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553450</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47553450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boutell in "Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I get that they could do this in a future update, but if you never connect it to the Internet, a TV that doesn't require it today isn't going to just start. (Unless they pregamed to do it on such-and-such-a-date, but that would be a nightmare for their legal department if the rules change)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:54:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533580</link><dc:creator>boutell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533580</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boutell in "Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm interested in pushing the envelope a bit on the raspberry Pi to do personal assistant projects with it. The pi zero 2 is a surprisingly powerful little device, it is comparable to a pi 3B, except it has less RAM.</p>
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