Hacker News: cmod

Meditation, Language, and LLMs

cmod — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:57:04 +0000

Article URL: https://craigmod.com/roden/112/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491251

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Chinese Batteries Will Run the World

cmod — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 04:21:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/opinion/trump-energy-china-future.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46687883

Points: 10

# Comments: 4

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

cmod — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:03:44 +0000

https://craigmod.com

AGI Is Here

cmod — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 02:55:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.robinsloan.com/winter-garden/agi-is-here/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494830

Points: 17

# Comments: 27

New comment by cmod in "Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers"

cmod — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 01:26:01 +0000

In Japan I’ve seen at Starbucks: a guy bring in a giant power supply and plop it down on top of the table to power his tower and monitor like it wasn’t the most sociopathic thing in the world. And another guy used to set up six or seven screens at his table to “daytrade” — turns out he wasn’t day trading at all, they were all running videos of fake daytrading / stock tickers. (I had a friend at that Starbucks who would give me all the details; they had to ban him eventually for disrupting / getting surly with other customers).

What Happens When the Intelligence Goes Out?

cmod — Tue, 27 May 2025 17:57:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/brittle-intelligence/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44109211

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by cmod in "Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp"

cmod — Tue, 27 May 2025 17:10:45 +0000

Hacker News is the url I use to test most fussy connections because it's so light, and will load under even the slightest trickle of data. When I was doing research in Ghana, it was the only site I could get to reliably load for news in the field, and thus spent a month reading only HN (good luck getting the _New York Times_ to load without a gigabit connection). Appreciate how it stays — and has stayed — svelte and fast throughout the years.

iPod modded with USB-C and Bluetooth

cmod — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 07:02:17 +0000

Article URL: https://player-mods.com/products/bluetooth-ipod-classic-black-5th-generation-upgraded-with-sdxc-card

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43543684

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Garbage in Japan

cmod — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:51:25 +0000

Article URL: https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/203/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43124413

Points: 71

# Comments: 43

Is It OK? (Are LLMs Morally OK?)

cmod — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:39:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/is-it-okay/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43012093

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Six Years of Running a Membership Program

cmod — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 03:15:39 +0000

Article URL: https://craigmod.com/essays/membership_rules/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42958579

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by cmod in "Ask HN: Do you know travel blogs that have animated SVG maps of their travels?"

cmod — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 02:32:03 +0000

Thank you for building this; over the years the bus animation has gone a bit wonky, but otherwise the page holds up really well. It’s a great library you built.

A low-tech solution for storing carbon

cmod — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:50:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/09/26/carbon-atmosphere-burying-wood/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41667476

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by cmod in "Boox Palma Review: A Phone-Sized E-Ink Android Device That Isn't a Phone"

cmod — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 01:13:05 +0000

I've been using this thing daily for about five months and really adore it. I use it as a Kindle replacement and with Readwise Reader as a longform article dump. I've read more longform pieces in the last few months than last few years combined. The device is incredibly light, and maintains battery even if you leave it idle all day (unlike my kindles which often drained themselves). Anyway, it's been a nice surprise, the palma.[0]

[0]: https://craigmod.com/roden/091/#digital-reading-in-2024

Pavel Durov's arrest linked to inability to moderate 'child sex crimes'

cmod — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 16:17:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/08/26/pavel-durov-telegram-france-detention/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41358722

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Five Years of Memberships

cmod — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 03:38:14 +0000

Article URL: https://craigmod.com/essays/memberships_year_five/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39449875

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by cmod in "Modeless Vim"

cmod — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 01:54:18 +0000

Is Micro[0] not a better, more purpose-fit solution to these issues? (Syntax highlighting quality, etc)

Prev discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37171294

[0]: https://micro-editor.github.io/

New comment by cmod in "Ask HN: Has your YouTube usage decreased?"

cmod — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 04:37:51 +0000

YouTube Premium has to be the best pay-for deal of any service. I'm frankly surprised by how much adblocking talk there is when YouTube comes up on HN. YouTube is doing what I want all services to do: total elimination of ads as part of Premium. The result is it's one of my favorite spaces online, and feels miraculous in the quality and quantity of content (docs, interviews, how-tos, history, music, archival footage).

Grateful for YouTube and enthusiastic to pay for premium.

The Inter Typeface Family

cmod — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 15:09:26 +0000

Article URL: https://rsms.me/inter/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38393525

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Walking 150km Across Tokyo-To

cmod — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 15:21:24 +0000

Article URL: https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/173/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38141852

Points: 1

# Comments: 0