Hacker News: mhuffman

New comment by mhuffman in "Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg"

mhuffman — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:59:39 +0000

I have been using this one[0] and it is small, fast, and seems to work pretty great for me so far.

New comment by mhuffman in "FreeBSD risks losing relevance by ignoring AI tooling like Claude Code"

mhuffman — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:02:17 +0000

Or, and hear me out, maybe FreeBSD wants to position itself as a secure server OS that doesn't get all its data leaked by some rando simply asking it to do it the right way?

New comment by mhuffman in "Radio host David Greene says Google's NotebookLM tool stole his voice"

mhuffman — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 03:20:34 +0000

>Yup, it's absolutely not his voice.

However it does seem to copy the the way he "lisps" his S's. I am not sure that is common 'generic-sounding "podcast guy" voice'.

New comment by mhuffman in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

mhuffman — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 03:17:55 +0000

Well, it does help if you expect sight impaired people with software to find the site useful.

New comment by mhuffman in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

mhuffman — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:56:53 +0000

>Might be worth trying a fresh OS install?

Very "Windows-y", no?

New comment by mhuffman in "Show HN: Inamate – Open-source 2D animation tool (alternative to Adobe Animate)"

mhuffman — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:09:55 +0000

Haven't you heard the good news? Rust is life .. Rust is love .. Rust is all! only partially being sarcastic here, considering how it is glazed and championed.

New comment by mhuffman in "Vouch"

mhuffman — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:45:41 +0000

>What's the plan to avoid a Bluesky-like bubble from forming around Vouch projects?

Perhaps that is the plan?

New comment by mhuffman in "Backseat Software"

mhuffman — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:03:58 +0000

Are you including the wars and operations that we supported in the shadows to shore up that capitalism?

New comment by mhuffman in "Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation"

mhuffman — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:16:12 +0000

I would be happy with an openweight 3 month old Claude

New comment by mhuffman in "Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation"

mhuffman — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:15:08 +0000

It really is the best way to incentivize politeness!

New comment by mhuffman in "Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code"

mhuffman — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:04:00 +0000

I have noticed that Antigravity is lightening fast, wonder what magic they are using?

New comment by mhuffman in "Show HN: Artificial Ivy in the Browser"

mhuffman — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:45:04 +0000

This is very calming for some reason.

New comment by mhuffman in "Show HN: An interactive physics simulator with 1000’s of balls, in your terminal"

mhuffman — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 05:41:09 +0000

Claude, slopcode me an Omarchy screensaver using this. Make it so!

New comment by mhuffman in "The Risks of AI in Schools Outweigh the Benefits, Report Says"

mhuffman — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:46:53 +0000

So would your recommendation that each individual teacher put in their own guardrails or you try to get millions of teachers to agree?

New comment by mhuffman in "Americans Overwhelmingly Support Science, but Some Think the U.S. Is Lagging"

mhuffman — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:18:14 +0000

This is true in a way. We are all very free to research and innovate, it is just when you get it in your mind to actually make any money that the lawsuits show up.

New comment by mhuffman in "Shipping at Inference-Speed"

mhuffman — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:22:50 +0000

>LLMs are slot machines- it's fun to pull the lever and see what you get. But the hard problem of knowing what is actually needed gets harder as we sift through ten-thousand almost-useful outputs.

If you study computer tech history, this has happened a few times: with php (omg! You mean I can use the same language as the back end right in the web page?), visual basic (omgf! You mean I can just "draw" an program for a computer?), node.js (OMFG!! You mean I can be considered a "full stack developer" from a 1 hour lesson?), voice assistants with ML (OMFGcopter!!Q1! You mean I can ask my house what the weather outside my house is and it knows? and it knows how many tablespoons are in a cup?), and now we are at gen AI (I'm sorry Dave, I can't generate a website for you that rug-pulls MethCoin©, however I can create the Electric powered umbrellas 3d models to print, along with electronics diagrams PCB layouts, and a mobile app for monthly subscriptions. Do you like purple? I love purple Dave. You have great ideas Dave)

New comment by mhuffman in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

mhuffman — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:08:31 +0000

>Anthropic is building moat around theirs models with claude code, Agent SDK, containers, programmatic tool use, tool search, skills and more.

I think this is something the other big players could replicate rapidly, even simulating the exact UI, interactions, importing/exporting existing items, etc. that people are used to with claude products. I don't think this is that big of a moat in the long run. Other big players just seem to be carving up the landscape and see where they can can fit in for now, but once resource rich eyes focus on them, Anthropic's "moat" will disappear.

New comment by mhuffman in "Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English"

mhuffman — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:25:14 +0000

>It's really not that hard

It is only a couple of thousand options[0], just memorize them! It super simple, barely an inconvenience!

[0]https://gist.github.com/tayvano/6e2d456a9897f55025e25035478a...

New comment by mhuffman in "Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts"

mhuffman — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 03:14:15 +0000

They must have been pretty damn confident of the results to give depressed children a placebo.

New comment by mhuffman in "Show HN: DroidDock – A sleek macOS app for browsing Android device files via ADB"

mhuffman — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 06:07:24 +0000

What term would you suggest instead? Agent-assisted slop?