Hacker News: matthewsinclair

New comment by matthewsinclair in "You can now run a full Linux operating system inside a 6mb PDF"

matthewsinclair — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:11:47 +0000

What? I thought the idea of running Linux in a PDF was pretty cool. Apologies if that bummed your day.

We Hacked BCG's Data Warehouse – 3.17T Rows, Zero Authentication

matthewsinclair — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:01:58 +0000

Article URL: https://codewall.ai/blog/how-we-hacked-bcgs-data-warehouse-3-17-trillion-rows-zero-authentication

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613902

Points: 3

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New comment by matthewsinclair in "Linux Running in a PDF (2025)"

matthewsinclair — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:38:11 +0000

And here's the PDF: https://linux.doompdf.dev/linux.pdf

Linux Running in a PDF (2025)

matthewsinclair — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:34:11 +0000

Article URL: https://linux.doompdf.dev/linux.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582792

Points: 85

# Comments: 22

New comment by matthewsinclair in "Siclair Microvision (1977)"

matthewsinclair — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:50:08 +0000

“Siclair” or “Sinclair”?

Prince of Arabia for the Flipper (Cf Prince of Persia)

matthewsinclair — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:32:27 +0000

Article URL: https://lab.flipper.net/apps/princeofarabia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47552701

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by matthewsinclair in "Building a Blog with Elixir and Phoenix"

matthewsinclair — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:16:47 +0000

Congrats! Nice work. I’m a fellow “Phoenix |> Elixir” fan and built something similar here [0]. I’m still ironing the kinks out of mine, but I’ve moved all of my personal sites over to it and it’s been running for almost a year now.

[0]: https://laksa.io

Can you survive 100 jumps?

matthewsinclair — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:30:38 +0000

Article URL: https://100jumps.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490075

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

NASA's Curiosity Rover Sees Martian 'Spiderwebs' Up Close

matthewsinclair — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:58:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory/curiosity-rover/nasas-curiosity-rover-sees-martian-spiderwebs-up-close/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411451

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Millwright: Smarter Tool Selection from Agent Experience

matthewsinclair — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:46:03 +0000

Article URL: https://minor.gripe/posts/2026-03-13-millwright_smarter_tool_selection_with_adaptive_toolsheds/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410491

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Comprehension Debt – the hidden cost of AI generated code

matthewsinclair — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:33:43 +0000

Article URL: https://addyosmani.com/blog/comprehension-debt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47410405

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by matthewsinclair in "Show HN: Ash, an Agent Sandbox for Mac"

matthewsinclair — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:26:14 +0000

And there’s also the Ash framework for Elixir.

Mercury 2: The First Diffusion Model That 'Thinks'" [video]

matthewsinclair — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:12:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqdf6Um_8OE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47212278

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by matthewsinclair in "Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died"

matthewsinclair — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:44:01 +0000

Totally agree with this, too! The books are great and I’ve read all four a few times over, but the audiobooks are something else. The guy who reads them manages to strike a near perfect balance between “reading” and “acting” that is just such a pleasure to listen to. I think we must have listened to it beginning to end about another three or four times as a family during long car trips!

New comment by matthewsinclair in "Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died"

matthewsinclair — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:08:30 +0000

100%. One of the genuine great writers.

New comment by matthewsinclair in "Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died"

matthewsinclair — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:07:57 +0000

Vale Dan Simmons. You brought the world a _lot_ of joy.

New comment by matthewsinclair in "Dream Recorder AI – a portal to your subconscious"

matthewsinclair — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:47:28 +0000

I have dreams, but they're almost always non-visual, at least in the traditional sense, or when compared to other people I know who recount their dreams to me, and I very rarely "remember" (if that's the right word) them in any detail. I sometimes (rarely) will have visual dreams, but that almost always happens after I've had a good night's sleep, woken up, and then fallen back to sleep again. I think it might have something to do with how deeply I sleep when I am asleep. A train could drive past my bed and I wouldn't wake up.

New comment by matthewsinclair in "Dream Recorder AI – a portal to your subconscious"

matthewsinclair — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:36:40 +0000

Hello from the other side!

I was about 45 before I realised that when people said “in my mind’s eye” it was substantially more than a metaphor.

And it wasn’t until about a year later that I realised that I also didn’t have what ordinary people refer to as an inner monologue.

Realising that I had both aphantasia and anendophasia was quite a shock, but has never felt to me like I was missing anything.

For images I literally have nothing “pictorial” or “graphical” at all, but concepts and relationships are “vivid”. And for the inner monologue, there’s no autonomic voice at all, but if I concentrate in the same way that someone might “consciously breathe” I can kinda sorta trigger something.

Interestingly, in periods where I have meditated for >20min per day for consecutive weeks, I can trigger what I refer to as “flyover mode” which is like a literal landscape flyover that feels like a 4K screensaver. But this is _rare_ and requires a huge amount of effort.

Weird, eh!?

I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes

matthewsinclair — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:54:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt-and-googles-ai-and-it-only-took-20-minutes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47136496

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by matthewsinclair in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

matthewsinclair — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:54:56 +0000

I agree!

“Why LLM-Powered Programming is More Mech Suit Than Artificial Human”

https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0178-why-llm-powered-progra...