Hacker News: matternous

New comment by matternous in "Open source AI must win"

matternous — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:02:29 +0000

They have prices. Click on the links in the shipping row.

New comment by matternous in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

matternous — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:38:30 +0000

If you're paying tuition for your PhD, you're getting scammed.

New comment by matternous in "Zed 1.0"

matternous — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:33:13 +0000

You could just use the VSCode theme in Zed.

New comment by matternous in "Built a 1.3M-line agent-native OS in Rust while homeless. What now?"

matternous — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:18:19 +0000

Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079

New comment by matternous in "Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring"

matternous — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:25:52 +0000

Why don't you post it so we can see how much better the AI made it?

New comment by matternous in "Today is my last day at Anthropic. I resigned"

matternous — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:53:17 +0000

His answer is to leave and get a poetry degree, so I’m not sure he’s exactly the revolutionary type.

New comment by matternous in "Terminal Latency on Windows (2024)"

matternous — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:52:56 +0000

This has been posted on HN a few times and seems to show that terminal.app is your best bet for most cases if you care about latency: https://danluu.com/term-latency/

New comment by matternous in "History of Cycling Maps"

matternous — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 16:02:09 +0000

Not sure I can agree, I think the archive you posted is quite well laid out and from a cursory browse I found it easy to navigate. The site in the OP is far worse.

New comment by matternous in "Ask HN: Cursor is productive for an hour, then burns my application down"

matternous — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 05:03:17 +0000

Wait until you learn about git

New comment by matternous in "Tinygrad 0.9.0"

matternous — Tue, 28 May 2024 20:37:41 +0000

It used to be a 1,000. I guess it’s just a reminder to be succinct.

New comment by matternous in "Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smooth Scrolling"

matternous — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 23:44:03 +0000

I got an external trackpad recently too for my Mac, but it feels noticeably less responsive than the one built into my MacBook, even when connected with a USB cable.

New comment by matternous in "The Yak Shave"

matternous — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:14:17 +0000

Here’s a post from Mitchell Hashimoto of Hashicorp about doing just that: https://mitchellh.com/writing/nix-with-dockerfiles

New comment by matternous in "Spectrum Analyser, a Sinclair ZX Spectrum reverse engineering tool"

matternous — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 04:05:55 +0000

Interesting choice of name

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_analyzer

New comment by matternous in "Computer and Network Security"

matternous — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 16:16:07 +0000

Prof. Kak was my advisor during grad school. His notes are very valuable, he also has some great ones on deep learning.

New comment by matternous in "Virtual Reality: still not quite there, again (2017)"

matternous — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 23:50:03 +0000

(2017)

New comment by matternous in "Show HN: A no-frills CV template using Typst and YAML to version control CV data"

matternous — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 18:10:54 +0000

It’s fantastic and easy to use, I actually used this exact template about a month ago to update my resume and it hardly took any time at all.

New comment by matternous in "Lumber prices down 11% YoY"

matternous — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 21:43:29 +0000

Lumber prices seen all over the place when I search for various species of hardwood. Is there a standard online retailer to reference?

New comment by matternous in "Floorp – A customisable Firefox fork from Japan"

matternous — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 21:57:28 +0000

This website[1] indicates it is pronounced like “flope” (フロープ).

[1] https://www.naporitansushi.com/floorp8/

New comment by matternous in "Rethinking Autonomous Driving with Large Language Models"

matternous — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:52:40 +0000

Interesting. Are there any other worthwhile recent papers on using LLMs to improve computer vision?

New comment by matternous in "Linux on a MacBook Pro (M1 Pro): How Good Is Asahi Now?"

matternous — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 01:03:47 +0000

A chip that doesn't get hot sounds like pretty efficient cooling design to me.