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New comment by mym1990 in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

mym1990 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:42:10 +0000

Now that we have trillionaires running around, it may not seem like it, but it is a considerable amount of money in most of the USA. In many parts of the world it would be considered an unfathomable amount.

New comment by mym1990 in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

mym1990 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:32:23 +0000

As someone who is just learning CAD…what makes a fillet “ver high quality”?

New comment by mym1990 in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

mym1990 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:12:34 +0000

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”

One of my favorite quotes by Sylvia Plath from the Bell Jar.

New comment by mym1990 in "NLAB: The worlds smallest electronics lab"

mym1990 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:47:58 +0000

I would look up the arduino UNO starter kits on amazon or adafruit. They are more reasonably priced, have more components, have more tutorials.

New comment by mym1990 in "NLAB: The worlds smallest electronics lab"

mym1990 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:34:06 +0000

“Additionally, nLab significantly lowers the barrier to entry of learning electronics. Learn at universities? $100k. Classes online? Still thousands of dollars. Learn on your own? $1,000+ of equipment and parts.”

I hate this kind of marketing, none of these things are true. You can take a community college course on electronics at a pretty reasonable price. There are plenty of online resources that are credible and free. An at home lab can be relatively cost effective with second hand equipment and electronic parts from adafruit/amazon/alibaba.

This is hardly an “electronics lab”.

New comment by mym1990 in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

mym1990 — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:04:14 +0000

I think walking for around an hour at a time, with no music/earbuds, can be extremely enlightening. I find the first 15-25 minutes my brain is doing like a “cleaning” cycle almost where I think about very surface level things, and then once that is out of the way, my brain just goes on wild explorations of ideas.

I do see more and more that people are either afraid to be with their own thoughts, or don’t know that it is even an option given the amount of technology around.

New comment by mym1990 in "Built AI forensic accounting software with my dad"

mym1990 — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:25:20 +0000

Username checks out

New comment by mym1990 in "Introduction to Beaver Triples"

mym1990 — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:03:11 +0000

Same, mine kept redirecting randomly to a 404 page while I was reading.

New comment by mym1990 in "I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months"

mym1990 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:58:05 +0000

"On the economics, things worked."

I would argue that they didn't. 25$ per hour for custom design work seems very low, I understand maybe trying to get a customer base but at that rate you are just going to get repeat customers who want the same low cost labor. Where 3d printing is great is if you can create truly custom things, not knick knacks that can be copied and mass produced by someone else. Selling the plastic itself is a no go, you have to go mixed materials, mixed colorways, things that take time to assemble, and then charge out the wazoo for custom work because the people that really want the custom stuff, will find a way to pay for it.

New comment by mym1990 in "Show HN: ProofShot – Give AI coding agents eyes to verify the UI they build"

mym1990 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:23:17 +0000

Not to pile on, but I was using Claude Code through the native application and it started doing exactly this on its own, side by side with my prompt, running the server and taking screenshots in the native app. Claude also just launched its own browser control, and while it will take time to mature, I assume any AI company will have this feature in their crosshairs.

From a product design perspective, this looks pretty cool!

New comment by mym1990 in "I put my whole life into a single database"

mym1990 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:12:56 +0000

For the few times that I have tracked myself doing various activities, I have found that I didn't even need to do anything with the data, I was actively changing habits whilst I knew I was being monitored. For example, I wore a GCM for a few weeks and I found it difficult to live my "normal" day to day lifestyle. I wanted to do the things I felt were "right" and "healthy". Whether or not that is a good thing or not is a different topic, but just my 2c.

New comment by mym1990 in "I put my whole life into a single database"

mym1990 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:10:01 +0000

I think a broad tax would just make it more difficult for middle and lower class to fly. Tax the business/first class and frequent flier, but don't push people who can already barely afford to fly out.

New comment by mym1990 in "Microgpt"

mym1990 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 04:49:52 +0000

This is likely because the blog is AI generated and keys off this point from Karpathy: "As a preview, by the end of the script our model will generate (“hallucinate”!) new, plausible-sounding names.", so the LLM just repackaged that into something that is obviously wrong, which is kind of ironic.

New comment by mym1990 in "AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says"

mym1990 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:41:22 +0000

Its interesting to me that over the last 10 years of working in agile teams, not one team has analyzed burn rates to see if we are doing better/worse over time. Its like every sprint is a clean slate and no one actually gets better at their job...

New comment by mym1990 in "AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says"

mym1990 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:44:57 +0000

Its partly this, but hardly any developers I know were writing code for 8 hours a day. 4 on a good day and the rest was meetings or other auxiliary activities. From what I have gathered, companies have no idea how to measure the productivity gains yet.

New comment by mym1990 in "AI makes you boring"

mym1990 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:22:00 +0000

Most ideas people have are not original, I have epiphanies multiple times a day, the chance that they are something no one has come up with before are basically 0. They are original to me, and that feels like an insightful moment, and thats about it. There is a huge case for having good taste to drive the LLMs toward a good result, and original voice is quite valuable, but I would say most people don't hit those 2 things in a meaningful way(with or without LLMs).

New comment by mym1990 in "Gradient.horse"

mym1990 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:21:42 +0000

Make the internet weird again, part 2!!

New comment by mym1990 in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

mym1990 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:16:53 +0000

Eh, its not like it is happening overnight. Its like a cancer that slowly spreads without much notice and then one day the democracy collapses and its too late to do anything about it.

New comment by mym1990 in "GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics"

mym1990 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:14:10 +0000

Many innovations are built off cross pollination of domains and I think we are not too far off from having a loop where multiple agents grounded very well in specific domains can find intersections and optimizations by communicating with each other, especially if they are able to run for 12+ hours. The truth is that 99% of attempts at innovation will fail, but the 1% can yield something fantastic, the more attempts we can take, the faster progress will happen.

New comment by mym1990 in "Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter"

mym1990 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:33:34 +0000

I didn't say anything about your beliefs in AI, my statement was general. You're projecting.

It is still possible to write code with AI AND educate yourself on what the codebase architecture is. Even better, you can educate yourself on good software engineering and architecture and build that into making better specs. You can understand what the code is doing by having good tests, observability, and actually seeing it work. But if you're after peeping what every character is doing, I am not going to stop you!