Hacker News: ecto

New comment by ecto in "Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance"

ecto — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:00:10 +0000

You might want to prompt for some manners, and why humans have them.

New comment by ecto in "We Write Code by Hand"

ecto — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:44:54 +0000

We Chop Trees by Hand

New comment by ecto in "Vinix – A modern operating system written in V"

ecto — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:27:16 +0000

How can a language be a scam?

New comment by ecto in "25 years of mass surveillance is enough"

ecto — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:14:13 +0000

All of your positives are possible without mass surveillance.

New comment by ecto in "A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome"

ecto — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:23:34 +0000

Things like this are why I come to HN! Cool hack :)

New comment by ecto in "How to Do Great Work (2023)"

ecto — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:13:46 +0000

He wouldn't know.

New comment by ecto in "Claude Opus 5"

ecto — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:59:04 +0000

No, think, play, and live! But not so in fear.

New comment by ecto in "Claude Opus 5"

ecto — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:12:07 +0000

So sad. You're viewing humanity, and reality itself, through a very objective lens. There is magic in every day: have some fun! Otherwise, quit complaining.

New comment by ecto in "The Anti-Palantir Manifesto"

ecto — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:56:05 +0000

All of your arguments are broad, baseless, and trivially disprovable.

There absolutely is political will to enable a police state, and history absolutely rhymes.

New comment by ecto in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

ecto — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:37:22 +0000

I made my own lisp, Loon! https://campedersen.com/loon

New comment by ecto in "The Importance of Being Idempotent"

ecto — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:15:19 +0000

Thx for reading!

The Importance of Being Idempotent

ecto — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:00:33 +0000

Article URL: https://campedersen.com/agent-patterns

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206969

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by ecto in "Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp"

ecto — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:28:08 +0000

They say ethics and aesthetics are one!

New comment by ecto in "Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp"

ecto — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:16:25 +0000

Great chrestomathy! I opened a PR for my lisp, Loon: https://github.com/clarkgrubb/hyperpolyglot/pull/139

New comment by ecto in "We let AIs run radio stations"

ecto — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:56:29 +0000

Don't be nasty - how could they make it better?

New comment by ecto in "GenCAD"

ecto — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:58:37 +0000

Tessellation is simply required to render the IR. The viewport is guiding the cursor to the vertices (perhaps a bug) but the engine is not forcing their use. I also built a ray caster :)

What wasn't working? I would love real feedback -

New comment by ecto in "GenCAD"

ecto — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:56:29 +0000

Thanks for trying. What doesn't work? What did you try? If you're specific I'm happy to fix it.

New comment by ecto in "GenCAD"

ecto — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:54:56 +0000

Can you give specific examples?

New comment by ecto in "GenCAD"

ecto — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:43:23 +0000

(forgot to mention, it's wired up to Claude so you can vibe CAD, like OP but with a few more steps - I'd like to train a similar model soon! I also wrote about my first stab at this https://campedersen.com/cad0)

New comment by ecto in "GenCAD"

ecto — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:37:16 +0000

Readers may also enjoy my open source Rust BRep CAD kernel https://github.com/ecto/vcad or the hosted version at https://vcad.io.

I also wrote a bit about what goes into CAD apps! https://campedersen.com/tessellation