Hacker News: eigencoder

New comment by eigencoder in "Improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin"

eigencoder — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:46:33 +0000

I thought the Soma in BNW was more like a type of depressant, like an opioid.

New comment by eigencoder in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

eigencoder — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:52:54 +0000

Every retailer does that

New comment by eigencoder in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

eigencoder — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:17:00 +0000

Yeah, I think this will really be a thing. I have been using `exe.dev` lately, and I was at an AirBnB with my family where we wanted to play a game, but it needed pencil and paper for each person, but we didn't have those. I thought it would be nice to have a little web app where you could write your input and then vote on other people's responses directly from your phone. I just spun up a VM on exe.dev, asked the AI to write the app, and then made the VM public-facing. It was a little buggy, but it worked well enough and we had a fun time.

New comment by eigencoder in "Hacking for Defense Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations"

eigencoder — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:47:33 +0000

I don't see how we could remove states and boundaries and warfare. Boundaries aren't bad things, they're a natural consequence of living in a natural world

New comment by eigencoder in "Corrupting a ZFS File on Purpose"

eigencoder — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:52:38 +0000

I get what they're saying, it's more about the punchy tone than the word choice

New comment by eigencoder in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

eigencoder — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:13:44 +0000

I mean, borders still exist, and laws apply within borders. I don't believe that national (or supra-national in the EU's case) sovereignty is yet a dinosaur of the past.

New comment by eigencoder in "Anthropic Is Preparing for IPO and We Should Be Worried"

eigencoder — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:30:03 +0000

As I understand it, those cost optimizations relied on someone else brute forcing new model development. If everyone was trying to do it cheaper, we wouldn't have the models we have today.

New comment by eigencoder in "Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts"

eigencoder — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:35:08 +0000

Usually tsp means teaspoons, and 4tsp / 20 mL vs 3tsp / 15 mL are the same ratios of tsp to mL, aren't they?

New comment by eigencoder in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

eigencoder — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:15:39 +0000

> Important: Even after the modem is removed, if you connect your phone to the car via Bluetooth then the car will use your phone as an internet connection and send all the same telemetry data back to Toyota.

How is this the case? I thought bluetooth was just sharing my phone's audio. Why would it allow requests over the internet? Surely there's a way to tell the phone not to give its internet connection to any connected bluetooth device?

New comment by eigencoder in "Permacomputing Principles"

eigencoder — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:39:29 +0000

I don't disagree with you, I think we need both the humanities and technology. But this group hasn't listed "the humanities", but a rather reactionary and recent limiting subset of the humanities.

New comment by eigencoder in "Permacomputing Principles"

eigencoder — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:34:10 +0000

The progressives back then may have been wrong, but the progressives today have it all right!

New comment by eigencoder in "MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be"

eigencoder — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:47:56 +0000

Really? I feel like android doesn't change at all with a keyboard, and doesn't support half the keyboard shortcuts you can use on iPad.

New comment by eigencoder in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)"

eigencoder — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:46:17 +0000

Absolutely

New comment by eigencoder in "The Utopia of the Family Computer"

eigencoder — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:10:29 +0000

Call me old-fashioned, but I have a family computer. I got rid of my laptop, and got a desktop instead. It stays in the living room, in a desk drawer. The monitor is a portable monitor, and it gets put away when the computer is not in use. My kids aren't old enough to use it yet, but it will be the family computer eventually.

New comment by eigencoder in "The paper computer"

eigencoder — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:44:11 +0000

I've been thinking about this too. I think it would be cool if you could put the interface in a pen, somehow. Like embed a tiny projector and camera in a pen. Then, if you want to read your emails, you can project them on a surface. If you want to reply, you write with the pen, then point the camera at it.

New comment by eigencoder in "Honda is killing its EVs"

eigencoder — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:47:54 +0000

Just gotta hope that slate auto is successful!

New comment by eigencoder in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

eigencoder — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:06:34 +0000

But that's not rugged individualism. It's just letting the market actually do its job, and let consumers and producers actually communicate a price

New comment by eigencoder in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

eigencoder — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:23:28 +0000

Do you have a child? Because I think the device makers haven't really done a good job, there are just too many workarounds.

New comment by eigencoder in "Data does not speak to you"

eigencoder — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:59:37 +0000

Why is obedience bad?

New comment by eigencoder in "Data does not speak to you"

eigencoder — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:48:01 +0000

I think "formation" is essentially a short-hand for "character formation"; I've seen the term used that way in Christian education literature and worldview studies.