Hacker News: monomial

New comment by monomial in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

monomial — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:55:52 +0000

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.

New comment by monomial in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

monomial — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:34:13 +0000

> Then petition your government to enact laws around this.

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

It's Time to Build Assets?

monomial — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:32:42 +0000

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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New comment by monomial in "Zhipu's 120% Surge Highlights China's New AI Market Favorites"

monomial — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:40:44 +0000

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.

Harness Engineering

monomial — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:43:43 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/

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

Points: 7

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New comment by monomial in "Show HN: I Built a Sandbox for Agents"

monomial — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:52:12 +0000

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.

New comment by monomial in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

monomial — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:44:40 +0000

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

New comment by monomial in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

monomial — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:29:57 +0000

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?

New comment by monomial in "Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks"

monomial — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:52:47 +0000

Do yourself a favor and go get a Kobo reader, install KO Reader on it and never look back.

New comment by monomial in "2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results"

monomial — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:42:43 +0000

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.

New comment by monomial in "Why Your TV Will Probably Never Be Better Than It Is Now"

monomial — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:41:43 +0000

I block my old TCL Roku TV from accessing the internet through my router. It works fine as an HDMI display.

New comment by monomial in "Linus Learns Analog Circuits"

monomial — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:07:32 +0000

Anyone have some recommended resources for learning this stuff? I know there are commonly recommended electronics books like "The Art of Electronics" and "Practical Electronics for Inventors" but are there any resources that are focused specifically around guitar pedals? Ideally some sort of progression that introduces analog circuit basics through a set of increasingly involved projects and results in something that actually sounds good and that I would use as a musician.

New comment by monomial in "We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own"

monomial — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 01:36:05 +0000

Same. I have a very old iPhone stuck on an old version of iOS that's incompatible with most apps these days. In the rare case I need to deposit a check there are banks like Ally that don't have physical branch locations but still let you deposit checks via their website.

I'm curious what people need a bank app for.

New comment by monomial in "Loading Pydantic models from JSON without running out of memory"

monomial — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:36:19 +0000

I rarely need to dynamically add attributes myself on dataclasses like this but unfortunately this also means things like `@cached_property` won't work because it can't internally cache the method result anywhere.

New comment by monomial in "How I Stay Motivated Working on My Solo SaaS (When It Feels Like Nobody Cares)"

monomial — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 01:11:50 +0000

I agree with chrisweekly, it's not even close. WeWork provided value to people by assuming some risk in signing those longer term lease agreements and repackaging it to people looking for shorter term office space or to those who would otherwise not want to enter into a commercial office lease themselves. I don't think OP is really offering any value add over a quick search for "coworking " and I imagine that's why nobody is signing up. Personally, I find that even a free SaaS subscription is a liability these days so the value add needs to be highly compelling.

New comment by monomial in "Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world"

monomial — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 11:13:00 +0000

I agree, I just want normal text instead of all the images and scrolling. The content seems great but it's a bit unreadable as is.

New comment by monomial in "Ask HN: Who else is self-hosting AI and apps at home/office?"

monomial — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:42:40 +0000

I self-host everything I can. Unfortunately email is a bit tough these days but I should start archiving it locally. What tools are you using for that?

I haven't done much experimenting with local AI models yet - probably need some newer hardware for that to be worthwhile.

New comment by monomial in "Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel"

monomial — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:54:03 +0000

Good god. This is why I will continue to repair my older car until it's completely infeasible to do so. Then what? Are there internet communities out there actively working on disabling all this nonsense? Can't imagine buying a car like this without knowing I can physically disable the cell modem.

New comment by monomial in "Ruff: Python linter and code formatter written in Rust"

monomial — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 01:49:36 +0000

I've been using an amalgamation of pyenv, pip-tools, black, isort, etc. for projects and just gave uv and ruff a try. Wow, it really is fast! Skeptical of anything VC-backed but I'll be keeping my eye on it.

New comment by monomial in "Ask HN: Will HN ever have a dark mode?"

monomial — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:37:38 +0000

Here are the uBlock Origin filters I'm using:

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