Hacker News: manx

AI Fixes the Bullshit Asymmetry

manx — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:24:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.konstantinschubert.com/2026/03/31/ai-the-bullshit-defense.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675887

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Moore's Law for Everything (2021)

manx — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:39:37 +0000

Article URL: https://moores.samaltman.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504292

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Cliodynamics: History as Science

manx — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:14:40 +0000

Article URL: https://peterturchin.com/cliodynamics-history-as-science/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503891

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Fragile States Index

manx — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:52:57 +0000

Article URL: https://fragilestatesindex.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47503510

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by manx in "Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator"

manx — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 01:33:37 +0000

What matters more is if there is good QA.

Ask HN: How do you deal with long Covid?

manx — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:03:38 +0000

What is your understanding of the root causes of the symptoms? What works for you, what doesn't? What was your biggest insight?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46985070

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

Google deprecates Gemini-2.5-pro

manx — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:33:37 +0000

Article URL: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46898546

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by manx in "Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone"

manx — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:14:28 +0000

Also, you can have NixOS instead of debian: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-avf

New comment by manx in "Grokipedia and the coup against reality"

manx — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:58:25 +0000

Wouldn't it make sense to have these wikipedias created by different llms, and compare them to expose their biases?

New comment by manx in "Testing a compiler-driven full-stack web framework"

manx — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:51:51 +0000

It's not only the amount of code but also the quality of the available code. If a language has a low barrier to entry (e.g. python, javascript), there will be a lot of beginner code. If a language has good static analysis and type checking, the available code is free of certain error classes (e.g. Rust, Scala, Haskell).

I see that difference in llm generated code when switching languages. Generated rust code has a much higher quality than python code for example.

Mobile NixOS

manx — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 21:08:49 +0000

Article URL: https://mobile-nixos.github.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45455583

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by manx in "Learning Languages with the Help of Algorithms"

manx — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 10:08:08 +0000

I fully agree with this approach! 5 years ago I built a prototype to execute that same concept of language covering. But instead of just using words, I used n-grams. It ii trained on subtitles to model spoken language. Combined with sqlite in the browser to get the next sentence with the most impact.

github here: https://github.com/fdietze/ravioli

prototype deployed here: https://raviolio.web.app/

New comment by manx in "Learn Rust the Right Way"

manx — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 07:03:11 +0000

I think memory safety is a weak argument for rust and only works against C/C++, as you mention. For me, the strongest arguments against GCed languages are static analysis goodies that other languages don't have. Like checked immutably by the compiler, the borrow checker which forces you into a certain architecture, fearless concurrency etc. All those lead to fearless refactoring, which is a very strong point for me.

New comment by manx in "AI coding"

manx — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 11:22:05 +0000

This pre-AI article makes a very similar argument: https://mortoray.com/programming-wont-be-automated-or-it-alr...

Once we realize that what we actually want is turning specifications into software, I think that English will become the base for a new, high level specification language.

New comment by manx in "Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion"

manx — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 09:20:23 +0000

Search for "bridging based ranking". The X community notes algorithm does that. I think it should be applied to all content.

New comment by manx in "Clojure's Solutions to the Expression Problem"

manx — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 08:10:03 +0000

Sounds like type-classes from haskell/scala? Or is that a different thing?

New comment by manx in "Agent-C: a 4KB AI agent"

manx — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:39:22 +0000

Similar simplicity but in rust: https://github.com/fdietze/alors

New comment by manx in "Deep Agents"

manx — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:54:42 +0000

I'm also in the process of creating a general purpose agent cli+library in rust: https://github.com/fdietze/alors

Still work in progress, but I'm already using it to code itself. Feedback welcome.

New comment by manx in "Show HN: I built an LLM chat app because we shouldn't need 10 AI subscriptions"

manx — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:20:33 +0000

I also created my own. Frontend-only, no signup, based on openrouter, written in rust+leptos (wasm):

https://github.com/fdietze/tomatic

https://tomatic.app

New comment by manx in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

manx — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 09:06:52 +0000

Project Frottage: An automated constant stream of high quality AI wallpapers for mobile and desktop. We manually curate a list of ~150 prompts. Every 6h a random prompt is selected, a picture generated and uploaded to static hosting, free to use:

https://frottage.app/static/wallpaper-mobile-latest.jpg

https://frottage.app/static/wallpaper-desktop-latest.jpg

https://frottage.app/static/wallpaper-desktop-light-latest.j...

We just finished an android app, to set the wallpaper automatically on mobile: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frottage