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New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

matthewfcarlson — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:52:20 +0000

This sounds a lot like a project I’ve started a few times and never made it far with. I called it woodlang. It was the idea of CAD but rather than designing the shape and figuring how to make it that shape, you specify a series of shop operations like blender geometry nodes.

This was all pre AI. Super impressive that you’ve made something awesome. I’ll try it out tonight

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

matthewfcarlson — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:25:48 +0000

Many humans would struggle with this even with very good tooling (ie not writing raw svg and using illustrator). I struggle to draw a bicycle accurately. But yes, I suspect it will be diminishing returns and I doubt it will ever be perfect due to the average nature of AI but I’d like to be wrong.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated"

matthewfcarlson — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:02:00 +0000

This is what I’m working on right now. It lasts about 3 months on battery updating every minute, except every five at night. I’ve been meaning to switch to a word clock to make it last longer.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Show HN: HART OS – an open-source AI OS built so frontier AI needs no datacenter"

matthewfcarlson — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:10:18 +0000

What in the AI slop?

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "New Framework Desktop Option with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 and 192GB Memory"

matthewfcarlson — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:04:52 +0000

The market research I have seen indicated DRAM prices will not come back to “normal” until 2030 at least and probably 2031. You can wait, but it will probably be longer than a year

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Who manages the agents?"

matthewfcarlson — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:11:08 +0000

It’s a double edged sword. You are responsible for a thing. But you can’t just wave a wand and say “x team needs to do y for the thing I am a DRI for”. There are some resources in Apple University (an internal learning resource) about navigating it. “Influence without control” and while it’s helpful, they acknowledge it sucks sometimes.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash"

matthewfcarlson — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 02:01:56 +0000

Good.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

matthewfcarlson — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:03:38 +0000

Eh I’ve filed a few bugs a few years ago and they seem to have been ignored. I tried it for a while and it crashed my phone frequently. My gut says it’s a hack, hence the performance issues.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

matthewfcarlson — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:16 +0000

I’m curious about this, what did you do to make it dumb?

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

matthewfcarlson — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:58:40 +0000

What would progression look like in a farming simulator? I tried it a few times but have had a similar feeling.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years"

matthewfcarlson — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:24:35 +0000

I worked on a similar concept (padgames.io now defunct) that offered a state sync networking system with rollback netcode style stuff. It could handle exposing only certain information or fake info to certain clients (to prevent cheating). It integrated super nicely with vuex or react stores as it was all observable and all game actions just turned into state mutations.

I made the game I wanted, enjoyed it with family and friends, and then let COVID sweep it away. Congrats on continuing to work on it.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

matthewfcarlson — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:12:46 +0000

This was actually a funny question at work over lunch. A few of us have kids and like most tech guys over 30, our steam accounts have turned into collections. So I asked, who gets your steam account when you kick it. It’s difficult to think about and seems baffling to spend thousands of dollars and hours assembling a collection only for it to poof away into nothing.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

matthewfcarlson — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:56:49 +0000

One of the unstated points of this particular article is that these rules are ones that we as a society have. If we collectively decide that this isn’t something that should be allowed, we can make it so. There are some powerful interests that don’t want it so it’s not an easy path.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

matthewfcarlson — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 03:33:24 +0000

When I lived closer to a Costco and had my membership, I used to do what I called cartless runs. Go into Costco, only buy what you can carry. Usually just the thing I needed and maybe one or two other things.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

matthewfcarlson — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:18:39 +0000

It's a pretty huge cost to support an entirely different set of hardware with different kernel extensions and an entirely different build (x86 instead of arm64e). Could apple choose to do that? Absolutely. But the cost of supporting an M1 is very different than the cost of supporting Intel.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

matthewfcarlson — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:15:39 +0000

That's a double edged sword. Assuming it's an 18 month contract, even when ram prices do go back to "normal" it's a year and a half until Apple has savings to pass onto to customers.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance"

matthewfcarlson — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:47:29 +0000

I've been working on trying to outpaint an animated program for my son (Leapfrog Letter Factory if you're curious) and then upscale it. Doing so locally has been actually fairly difficult. I wonder if you could retrain or fine tune this model. They mention building an expert, I wonder if that expert could understand more about translating various characters.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see"

matthewfcarlson — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 01:27:18 +0000

Is the threat model tracking across multiple apps to correlate what you're doing? In that case, a single app wouldn't show you the fudging.

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8"

matthewfcarlson — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:21:32 +0000

I keep playing around with this exact concept. While I don’t always trust entirely AI generated recipe, more traditional setups are super rigid when it comes to ingredients

New comment by matthewfcarlson in "Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates"

matthewfcarlson — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:56:14 +0000

I just went into a circle and shot, won every time for every boat