Hacker News: matternous

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.

New comment by matternous in "[dead]"

matternous — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:06:37 +0000

According to the article nearly half of the students at Harvard say they view abortion as “a difficult topic to have an open and honest conversation about on campus.” Sounds less like refusing to platform hate speech, and more like censoring discussion that goes against the university status quo in general.