Hacker News: mulhoon

New comment by mulhoon in "My Friend Aaron"

mulhoon — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:07:49 +0000

Loved it!

New comment by mulhoon in "Claude Opus 5"

mulhoon — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:52:46 +0000

As a coder, I’ve had no desire to use Fable. In fact I switched from Opus models to sonnet 5 and haven’t noticed any drop in quality on large repos. It seems the gap at the top is very small and not hugely noticeable for backed/frontend. Has anyone else had this experience?

New comment by mulhoon in "Never Enough"

mulhoon — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:33:40 +0000

This reminded me of work in general, years ago I was thinking how nursery was so expensive. I could try and work harder, earn more, to pay for nursery - or just quit and look after my children. If the goal was making money to look after my children, why make it difficult?

p.s. LOVE the animated header on this blog

New comment by mulhoon in "EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams"

mulhoon — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:51:02 +0000

Anecdotally, I have 3 young kids who sometimes all talk to me at once. It's impossible to process, but with 2, I've noticed it IS kinda possible process.

New comment by mulhoon in "The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter"

mulhoon — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:28:34 +0000

This is a great post. I've been advocating this for over a decade.

> The most important conversations are not always the ones that appear on the agenda. They are the ones that happen before the formal session begins, in the ten minutes after it ends, in the corridor while people are putting on their coats. These are not peripheral to the group’s work. They are often where the group’s actual thinking takes place.

This is a core belief. One, in fact, that at my last workplace, we understood well and designed for. After client meetings, we would walk clients slowly back though the kitchen and pause for a while there, splitting up into informal chats, before seeing them out of the door. Afterwards, we would quickly compare notes on all the things they said on the way out. These things were often the most important steers for the project.

New comment by mulhoon in "Sam Neill has died"

mulhoon — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:53:48 +0000

I watched Possession (1981) a few weeks back. One of the weirdest films I’ve ever seen. His acting was so different from his later stuff.

New comment by mulhoon in "Leave a Trace"

mulhoon — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:01:16 +0000

Years ago I was stuck on a tricky JS bug, I Googled it and ended up on a decent answer on StackOverflow. I implemented it, and it worked! I went back to SO and upvoted the answer, and it said "You can't upvote your own answer" Huh!??? Yes, it was my own answer from years back. Thanks, me!

Glad I left a trace.

New comment by mulhoon in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

mulhoon — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:23:06 +0000

Oh wow, I hadn't seen inuxdaw.org - similar concept. Next plan is a weekly (automated) newsletter for the latest plugins. But really just to keep it growing and keep feeding it. I actually love browsing plugin sites, so I built a chrome extension that can automatically add a plugin from a page I'm on. I have to choose the image and videos though.

New comment by mulhoon in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

mulhoon — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:04:04 +0000

I recently built a physics-driven auto-panner based on PONG, so I can also play PONG inside my DAW. https://portwaydsp.com

I also built https://plugins.audio - a Dribbble-esque showcase of audio plugins.

It's been a dream to be able to work in the audio software space. I've been a musician, designer, coder all my life, and had a few moonlights with building audio plugins over the years. But now with AI at hand, I can use it to fill that missing technical requirement while still retaining my domain expertise (music/design).

New comment by mulhoon in "Words of Type"

mulhoon — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:13:00 +0000

Lovely. Great attention to detail and a brilliant resource for students.

New comment by mulhoon in ""Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig to animate layout"

mulhoon — Sat, 23 May 2026 07:38:46 +0000

Nice work! Haven’t seen anything like this before. It makes me happy that people do stuff like this. Small experiments often open up big new design ideas.

New comment by mulhoon in "Reviving the IBM Selectric Composer Fonts (2023)"

mulhoon — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:44:23 +0000

These bring back memories. When I was young, my dad was a computer engineer for Olivetti and he used to bring all sorts of weird and wonderful printers and plotters home. We had a drawer of these golf balls in the garage and I used to play with them, throwing them about in the garden. I was fascinated by them.

New comment by mulhoon in "Warp is now open-source"

mulhoon — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:36:07 +0000

Pretty happy with Warp so far. The vertical tabs are a game changer, having all my projects down the side and flipping between them (each one having multiple split terminals) works really well compared with horizontal tabs. Looking forward to each update.

New comment by mulhoon in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

mulhoon — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:28:18 +0000

As a type nerd, I was very happy with Grammarly swapping my dashes to em dashes. But now everyone associates em dashes with AI, I can no longer enjoy that luxury.

AI music is on a collision course

mulhoon — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:04:06 +0000

Article URL: https://buttondown.com/waterandmusic/archive/ai-music-is-on-a-collision-course/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075224

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mulhoon in "Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance"

mulhoon — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:07:18 +0000

Not millions, but still, they have a point.

Vibe a Guitar Pedal

mulhoon — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:29:07 +0000

Article URL: https://polyend.com/endless/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46726907

Points: 39

# Comments: 37

New comment by mulhoon in "Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?"

mulhoon — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 11:35:03 +0000

Relearning and reconnecting..

Buy the cassette 4-track I had in ‘93 and reconnect with my teenage self - record whole songs on it, not worrying about sound quality and knob tweaking. It is what it is.

New comment by mulhoon in "Elevated errors across many models"

mulhoon — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:11:16 +0000

They turned it off and on again.

New comment by mulhoon in "The Architects of AI Are TIME's 2025 Person of the Year"

mulhoon — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:38:43 +0000

I can't help thinking AI would have done a better job of this image (no disrespect to the artist)

https://time.com/redesign/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi...