Hacker News: monomialhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=monomialHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:18:48 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by monomial in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"]]>> many of the people on HN worked for firms that built the technology required to use internet based subscription models

And I hope we all start calling these people out more for what they've done. I've worked in tech a long time but I would never contribute to something like this.

]]>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:39:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065495monomialhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065495https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065495<![CDATA[New comment by monomial in "GLM-Legal"]]>Yeah you're right. I always use a model like GLM served straight from z.ai if I'm asking about anything that could be construed as nefarious. I'm a US citizen and don't trust my own government. The CCP doesn't give a shit about me as anything other than some data point.

]]>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:18:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065350monomialhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065350https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065350<![CDATA[New comment by monomial in "I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra"]]>Normal profit is not enough any more. It must be 1000x return, infinite growth, monopolize an entire industry style profit.

]]>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:09:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065284monomialhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065284https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065284<![CDATA[New comment by monomial in "I think I hate the internet"]]>> I have enough electronics hobbyist magazines from the past several decades to keep me thumbing through PDFs for years

This sounds great. What magazines do you recommend?

]]>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:14:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643196monomialhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643196https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643196<![CDATA[New comment by monomial in "The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021"]]>I find that piracy is the only sane option any more

]]>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:53:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642213monomialhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642213https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642213<![CDATA[New comment by monomial in "I think I hate the internet"]]>How so? I have 1 bank account with a local credit union and I have never logged into any of the online stuff. What do you take issue with, specifically?

]]>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:40:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642037monomialhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642037https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49642037<![CDATA[New comment by monomial in "KOReader"]]>KOReader is awesome and it's my go to for most e-reader reading. I've recently been trying out Plato (https://github.com/baskerville/plato) as well and it has a really nice experience for reading PDFs. It crops the margins and pages through the PDF in chunks nicely.

]]>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:09:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097048monomialhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097048https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097048<![CDATA[New comment by monomial in "Ask HN: How many AI agents do you actively use?"]]>1 (not long running)

]]>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:46:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092469monomialhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092469https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092469<![CDATA[New comment by monomial in "Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification"]]>I don't really understand this trope and I grew up in a tiny town. Why not start a band or make movies with your friends? Build model airplanes, explore some creeks or forests. Not to say I didn't smoke and drink as well but why should that be more likely to be one's outlet in a small town with few commercial consumer experiences?

]]>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:52:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091580monomialhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091580https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49091580<![CDATA[New comment by monomial in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"]]>Modern cars are such enshittified garbage. I was in a modern Toyota recently and every time you start it, the screen shows a "Guest mode activated" that you need to explicitly dismiss. The only way to disable this is to install some stupid Toyota app which I would never install. Then you dismiss the popup and the home screen is "Experience Drive Connect" which is some stupid Toyota subscription which I would never subscribe to. What a piece of garbage. I'd probably just disconnect the whole screen entirely.

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:55:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573161monomialhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573161https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573161<![CDATA[New comment by monomial in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"]]>> Then petition your government to enact laws around this.

Do you really expect your government to do anything useful here?

]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:34:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484781monomialhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484781https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484781<![CDATA[It's Time to Build Assets?]]>Article URL: https://www.molsonhart.com/blog/its-time-to-build-assets

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573459

Points: 2

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]]>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:32:42 +0000https://www.molsonhart.com/blog/its-time-to-build-assetsmonomialhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573459https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573459<![CDATA[New comment by monomial in "Zhipu's 120% Surge Highlights China's New AI Market Favorites"]]>Yeah GLM-5 has been pretty impressive when it works but the z.ai plan is unbearably slow most of the time to the point where it's effectively unusable.

]]>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:40:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002581monomialhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002581https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002581<![CDATA[Harness Engineering]]>Article URL: https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978976

Points: 7

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]]>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:43:43 +0000https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/monomialhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978976https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978976<![CDATA[New comment by monomial in "Show HN: I Built a Sandbox for Agents"]]>Is this a common pattern to have an agent request a sandbox? I feel like I'd want the whole agent running in it's own sandbox to begin with. Firecracker does look like a decent solution for that.

]]>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:52:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46798939monomialhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46798939https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46798939<![CDATA[New comment by monomial in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"]]>Oh interesting. The datasheet for the PCM5102A says it supports line-level output with a minimum load of 1kΩ [1]. I think most headphones typically have an impedance of less than 100Ω. I'd guess the excess current results in some distortion or low volumes? It works fine in practice though?

[1] https://www.ti.com/document-viewer/pcm5102a/datasheet

]]>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:44:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46358828monomialhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46358828https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46358828<![CDATA[New comment by monomial in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"]]>Cool. I'd like to try something similar. Does that amplifier module drive headphones as well? What future replacement do you have in mind? Is it all low power enough to use a battery?

]]>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:29:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338354monomialhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338354https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338354<![CDATA[New comment by monomial in "Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks"]]>Do yourself a favor and go get a Kobo reader, install KO Reader on it and never look back.

]]>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:52:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324808monomialhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324808https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324808<![CDATA[New comment by monomial in "2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results"]]>I recently switched to GrapheneOS and it's been great. Letting any sort of commercial entity between you and your computing just seems like a bad idea these days. Linux is top notch, self-hosting has never been easier. There's really no excuse (as a technologist at least) to subject yourself to these increasingly enshittified platforms.

As someone who works in tech for a career it's honestly a bit of an existential crisis. I actively work on a SaaS product but would never even consider paying for SaaS any more myself.

]]>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:42:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324738monomialhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324738https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46324738<![CDATA[New comment by monomial in "Why Your TV Will Probably Never Be Better Than It Is Now"]]>I block my old TCL Roku TV from accessing the internet through my router. It works fine as an HDMI display.

]]>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:41:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219934monomialhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219934https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46219934