Hacker News: chr15m

New comment by chr15m in "The Closing of the Frontier"

chr15m — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:04:01 +0000

> most people would rather pay a utility bill

What? All evidence points in the opposite direction.

New comment by chr15m in "The Closing of the Frontier"

chr15m — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:56:45 +0000

What kind of context size and speeds are you getting?

New comment by chr15m in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"

chr15m — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:15:54 +0000

A difference with Mastodon is your account is independent of any relay.

> scale well

It is up and it is growing.

New comment by chr15m in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"

chr15m — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:11:58 +0000

"decentralized"

New comment by chr15m in "Shooting down ideas is not a skill"

chr15m — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:16:38 +0000

The best systems incorporate an adversarial element because this makes them robust to problems and attacks. Science, democracy, freedom of expression culture, etc. are antifragile because of this.

Rejecting criticism makes systems more fragile.

Of course it's a balance and you also need to nurture new ideas.

New comment by chr15m in "Teenage Engineering's PO-32 acoustic modem and synth implementation"

chr15m — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:52:40 +0000

Me too, have been trying to crack this for so long!

New comment by chr15m in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

chr15m — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:37:59 +0000

If your instructions are being ignored you may need a new model or harness.

New comment by chr15m in "What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math?"

chr15m — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:37:07 +0000

Yes but the optimisation described has not right?

New comment by chr15m in "What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math?"

chr15m — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:54:31 +0000

Is this something that will show up in Ollama any time soon to increase context size of local models?

New comment by chr15m in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

chr15m — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:22:10 +0000

As well as pair programming with the AI, you can explicitly put those principles in AGENTS.md and the stochastic code generator will pay attention and be less verbose.

New comment by chr15m in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

chr15m — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:12:09 +0000

Thanks for writing this piece - devs need to hear it!

New comment by chr15m in "The next generation of electricity is almost here"

chr15m — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:08:00 +0000

Many advanced economies have seen declining energy use per capita, and flat energy use overall, in the last few decades. It is not unreasonable to assume this trend will continue and spread as more countries become wealthy.

New comment by chr15m in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

chr15m — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:47:58 +0000

"I don't like people who prepare for the worst, but I now realise I should have prepared for the worst."

Why cringe at something people do privately in their own time that doesn't affect you? Why cringe at people who want to be prepared, even if you think their preparations are misplaced or nonsense? People deserve to be incorrect without being judged.

New comment by chr15m in "A Markdown textfile based Kanban board in a single HTML file"

chr15m — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:47:53 +0000

Hey HN! I got tired of waiting for one particular GitHub Projects feature, so I built my own mini replacement for solo projects. It's a Kanban implementation in a single HTML file that operates out of a single Markdown text file on your local drive.

Hope you find it useful!

A Markdown textfile based Kanban board in a single HTML file

chr15m — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:47:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/chr15m/kanban-todo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47465881

Points: 20

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New comment by chr15m in "Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout"

chr15m — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:34:31 +0000

That's epic, congratulations on your foresight!

New comment by chr15m in "Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout"

chr15m — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:21:55 +0000

Rumour huh.

New comment by chr15m in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

chr15m — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:52:03 +0000

Probably true. Asking a tech company to stay good is like asking a lion to stay vegetarian.

New comment by chr15m in "Kanban TODO: a textfile based Kanban board in a single HTML file"

chr15m — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:49:58 +0000

Will update it, thanks!

New comment by chr15m in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

chr15m — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:07:56 +0000

In addition to a enabling it in this onerous way, this should be a thing you can set when you first set up the phone after factory default: "I am technologically literate and I accept the risks of side loading indefinitely." If it's set once during set up then none of the vulnerable people will have it set for the lifetime of their phone. A scammer would have to factory reset their phone which would defeat the purpose of gaining access.