Hacker News: calebm

New comment by calebm in "Fermented foods shaped human biology"

calebm — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:09:54 +0000

I've had this hypothesis that human bodies are kind of like cruise ships built by microbes. The larger body is not necessarily the one in control (like in the cruise ship metaphor). Maybe at some point, the vessel being built gains some control of its own - maybe this will happen with AI.

New comment by calebm in "I Quit Editing Photos"

calebm — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:10:28 +0000

Pixelmator Pro is great and affordable.

New comment by calebm in "US commercial insurers pay 254% of Medicare for the same hospital procedures"

calebm — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:07:30 +0000

"We've negotiated special rates on your behalf."

New comment by calebm in "Willingness to look stupid"

calebm — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:51:26 +0000

"Failure is the mother of success."

New comment by calebm in "MacBook Neo"

calebm — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:22:59 +0000

Came here to ask this - seems like the most important question.

New comment by calebm in "iPhone 17e"

calebm — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:51:46 +0000

I've still got my 12 mini. Just got a new battery replacement too. Back in my day, phones were cooler if they were smaller.

New comment by calebm in "Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor"

calebm — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:30:45 +0000

This seems like a great idea. Tools like video editors (and CAD) often impose a big learning curve - there is a big differential between "I want to do X" and actually knowing all the right buttons to press to do X. Good luck.

New comment by calebm in "Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format"

calebm — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:49:22 +0000

Very cool idea. I think single-file HTML web apps are the most durable form of computer software. A few examples of Single-File Web Apps that I wrote are: https://fuzzygraph.com and https://hypervault.github.io/.

New comment by calebm in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

calebm — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:30:56 +0000

Small lenticular holograms of math equations: https://gods.art/store.html

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

calebm — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:48:38 +0000

My biggest AI win so far was using ChatGPT as a transpiler to convert from vanilla JS code to GLSL. It took 7 prompts and about 1.5 hours, but without the AI, I would have been thrilled to have completed the project in a week.

New comment by calebm in "The Codex App"

calebm — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:09:44 +0000

Thanks for asking this - I had the same question.

New comment by calebm in "Kiki – Accountability monster for people who are easily distracted"

calebm — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:27:03 +0000

For those unfamiliar, the name is based on the Kiki/Bouba effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

New comment by calebm in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

calebm — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:26:44 +0000

http://gods.art

New comment by calebm in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

calebm — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 02:10:54 +0000

https://fuzzygraph.com - aspires to be the most beautiful equation graphing app

New comment by calebm in "Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20"

calebm — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:39:35 +0000

It's interesting to consider that the same phenomenon may also hold true for humanity's psychological software.

New comment by calebm in "Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations"

calebm — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 05:04:50 +0000

I feel like the natural test to do is: do experiments, and see if different people see the same little people doing the same things. That would move the observations from subjective to objective perspective.

New comment by calebm in "Always bet on text (2014)"

calebm — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 01:27:04 +0000

I just recently intentionally made the decision to keep the equation input in FuzzyGraph (https://fuzzygraph.com) plain text (instead of something like stylized latex like Desmos has) in order to make it easy to copy and paste equations.

New comment by calebm in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

calebm — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 02:59:05 +0000

Happy Christmas, and Merry New Year!

New comment by calebm in "The Rise of SQL:the second programming language everyone needs to know"

calebm — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:16:59 +0000

With LLMs, you should be able to just query in English and have LLMs transpile from English to SQL.

New comment by calebm in "Show HN: I Ching simulator with accurate Yarrow Stalk probabilities"

calebm — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:51:08 +0000

The I Ching contains all 6-bit patterns.