<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: isoprophlex</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=isoprophlex</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:38:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=isoprophlex" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "The AI Layoff Trap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So... the solution is basically "pay tax on the demand that you're destroying".<p>We can all hate on the premise (ai is good enough to do this) and/or the solution presented (centrally enforced taxation), but you gotta admit:<p>the messaging from SV's AI leaders about how "ai will take all your jobs" is confused as fuck, because if so, who will be on the consuming end of things?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:44:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47748494</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47748494</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47748494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Five million. No matter the unit, just, 5.000.000</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:10:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738345</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738345</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're absolutely right</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:46:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714106</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714106</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Show HN: We built a camera only robot vacuum for less than 300$ (Well almost)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My gut feeling says: cheap gemini model will be fine. Try the cheapest you can find, go more expensive if at first you don't succeed.<p>invest in a good prompt describing the setup, your goals, when to move. Type your output, don't go parsing move commands out of unstructured chat output. And maybe validate first on the data you already collected: does the vlm take the same actions as your existing train set?<p>And then just let it run and collect data for as long as you can afford. Maybe 0.2 fps (sample and take action every 5 sec) is already good enough.<p>Good luck!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:09:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692167</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692167</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you using multiple accounts to post the same comment?!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:08:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690455</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690455</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Show HN: We built a camera only robot vacuum for less than 300$ (Well almost)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cool project! That validation loss curve <i>screams</i> train set memorization without generalization ability.<p>Too little train data, and/or data of insufficient quality. Maybe let the robot run autonomously with an (expensive) VLM operating it to bootstrap a larger train dataset without needing to annotate it yourself.<p>Or maybe the problem itself is poorly specified, or intractable with your chosen network architecture. But if you see that a vision llm can pilot the bot, at least you know you have a fighting chance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:01:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687940</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687940</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/3DS/comments/1sakb3v/artemis_ii_launch_shot_on_3ds/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/3DS/comments/1sakb3v/artemis_ii_lau...</a><p>The launch, shot on a Nintendo 3DS.<p>For those with a gen z-like retro tech streak.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:25:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638077</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638077</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd welcome any discussion of what it means to be a human in the current year: where the old world order crumbles, where the masks are fully off and you can't hide behind "at the end of the day, obviously we're still the good guys in this".<p>And... What does it mean to earn your money in tech, now that many big tech companies are, if not directly complicit to moral crimes, then for sure allied with a morally corrupt government.<p>I don't know. How does one make sense of this?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:54:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631388</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631388</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just because you sold your soul to an economic superspreader meme that allows your products and inventions to percolate with the rapidity of an influenza-herpes-ebola hybrid doesnt mean that the minds behind it are brighter than the rest of the world.</p>
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<p>On water reclamation:<p>> On the Mir space station, this used to happen organically. Collecting water was a grubby job that involved chasing beach-ball sized spheres of condensate around the colder parts of the spacecraft with trash bags before they could climb into the walls and cause mayhem. Crew members spent three to four hours a day on this dirty and difficult task.<p>That sounds, frankly, horrible.<p>It made me think that the average space module probably smells like moist, reheated ass, too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:06:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592738</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592738</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>interesting; obviously kerbal space logic does not apply to the real world... thanks for the explainer as to why</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:59:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584986</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584986</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can't they do a few loops around the planet and skim only the upper atmosphere? always worked well for me on kerbal space program, haha</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:01:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582926</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582926</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Satya "please don't say slop" Nadella eat your heart out. Magnificent amounts of value are truly being added by this tech.<p>I'll add: it doesnt really matter if this was the integration dumbly appending a message or the llm inserting the ad. Judging by the response to this submission, sneaky ad slop is now firmly inside the overton window, so for MS it doesn't make sense NOT to do it.</p>
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<p>Why not both, intertwined in a deranged spiral of techno-accelerationist fundamentalism</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:43:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540661</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540661</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "No Terms. No Conditions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Should have gone for the WTFPL<p><pre><code>        DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE

        TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

            0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.</code></pre></p>
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<p>Ah thanks, I know... but no, I'm always fussing with monitors when i have to resuscitate little computers likeraspberry pies, a nvidia jetson, etc.<p>This is a much more convenient solution</p>
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<p>Wow; never knew I needed this until now! What a great idea, cheap hdmi-to-usb c dongle to use an ipad as an external monitor</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:24:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47479132</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47479132</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47479132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "iBook Clamshell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Man do I love that old Apple typography, the tall serif'd letters.<p>I'm sad everything's serifless these days...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:56:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478830</link><dc:creator>isoprophlex</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478830</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by isoprophlex in "Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I kinda want a new mac because the hardware looks so ... performant. But I can't bear this tahoe glass bullshit, every screenshot I see of it looks terrible. I just don't get what Apple's play is here.</p>
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<p>> Bill Nagel<p>now there's a name that inspired awe in my 12 year old mind.<p>i didn't know at first how he was able to make those incredible games, only understanding TI Basic myself. mindblowing stuff.</p>
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