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New comment by nunodonato in "Mechanical Pencil: An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us"

nunodonato — Sun, 31 May 2026 09:03:56 +0000

What a timely coincidence to this episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfY2JACiDGU

New comment by nunodonato in "Ask HN: What/how are you teaching your kids in the age of AI?"

nunodonato — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:01:47 +0000

thanks for the extra thoughts :) I do agree... learning to grind is hard, and its definitely a hard challenge for most kids these days. Knife skills doesn't align well with [my] girls, but I'll look for a more gender-aligned idea ;)

New comment by nunodonato in "Ask HN: What/how are you teaching your kids in the age of AI?"

nunodonato — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:08:54 +0000

Yeah I did teach them to use perplexity, I think its the less AI-ish one and relies on more factual data than any "chat" AI.

New comment by nunodonato in "Ask HN: What/how are you teaching your kids in the age of AI?"

nunodonato — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:07:12 +0000

I think you might have misunderstood my point. I was not leaning to teach them AI. But since my kids aren't "naturally intended" towards tech and code, my questions is more if this is something I should still push a bit, because if you are not going to be a top-level software engineer, then you probably have no chances to compete with AI. Heck, you already don't, what to speak of 10 years in the future...

Ask HN: What/how are you teaching your kids in the age of AI?

nunodonato — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:47:42 +0000

I've been feeling more and more lost. Had plans to teach my 10yr python, maybe something fun with games or robotics. But then I look around and I see others doing 100x more advanced things using AI.

Yesterday I tried google ai studio. 1hr later I had an app on my phone. Its hard to justify the motivation of learning all the foundations and hard stuff, when it's so easy to get to the end result using AI.

I've been avoiding showing them that image generation is a real thing, they love to draw and do arts. I fear that that instant gratification will just hook them to do more and more AI images and loose their interest in actual drawing and painting. On the other hand, prompt engineering is a thing, even for image gen.

No question that learning to leverage AI is a skill. But I don't even know how to navigate that when I think about the kind of future my kids will face.

Honestly, sometimes I feel it's just wiser to put your time and effort into things AI is very far to replace us. I'm always swinging from "we need to learn tech" to "we can't beat it, let's put our focus and energy into something else". (note: this is also because my kids are not very tech-oriented, I understand this would be totally different if I had geeks in the house that love computer stuff - like I was!)

How are you all navigating this, especially those of you with kids?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48320698

Points: 5

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New comment by nunodonato in "Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart"

nunodonato — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:56:58 +0000

Yeah, that's true, they are digital, but still feel "old". I was quite amazed while playing a vinyl record, accidentally lowered the volume down to 0, and could still literally hear a bit of sound coming out, not from the speakers, from the needle touching the record. Then I remembered that it's the actual sound waves that are engraved in the record. Amazing stuff

New comment by nunodonato in "Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart"

nunodonato — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:34:21 +0000

I've been leaning to more analog (and "old") stuff these days. Not sure if it's because I'm tired of all the crap online, or its a coincidence of getting older and missing the old times. Maybe a bit of both. But I really enjoy sitting in my living room and do nothing except listen to my record and cd player.

New comment by nunodonato in "Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart"

nunodonato — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:33:10 +0000

Funny, I've been thinking in the same lines as of lately. The speed-up of the lost of trust (and interest) in everything online will make us care more for the real world around us. Perhaps we will see a big shift in values.

But then again, perhaps we won't and things will just get worse.

New comment by nunodonato in "Claude for Small Business"

nunodonato — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:46:43 +0000

why? you could leverage that and with some nice prompt injections get a raise :D

New comment by nunodonato in "SKILL.make: Makefile Styled Skill File"

nunodonato — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:11:59 +0000

it's crazy, I have seen so many projects popping up just focusing on reducing token usage. At least caveman speak is funny!

Have to say that since we switched to our own model in a rented GPU, we stopped worrying about tokens and just use the hell out of our AI as much as we want :)

New comment by nunodonato in "SKILL.make: Makefile Styled Skill File"

nunodonato — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:10:55 +0000

remember TOON? it killed JSON

/s just in case

New comment by nunodonato in "First G-SHOCK with a heart rate monitor, also featuring Smartphone Link"

nunodonato — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:19:43 +0000

Garmin Instinct 3 Solar, very close to 30 days for me. YMMV depending on how much sun you get

New comment by nunodonato in "Claude Design"

nunodonato — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:21:46 +0000

> Impressive technology, but that old skool artisanal weirdness of yore only becomes more valuable and nostalgic.

but does it still exists? Even without AI everyone is utilizating the same css frameworks, same libraries and templates... design is pretty much boring these days. CSS Zen Garden anyone?

New comment by nunodonato in "The Case for AI "Cooperatives""

nunodonato — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:56:02 +0000

Cooperatives are underrated... under capitalism, that is

The Case for AI "Cooperatives"

nunodonato — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:15:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nunodonato.com/the-case-for-ai-cooperatives/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799588

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by nunodonato in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

nunodonato — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:39:38 +0000

I was hoping this would be the model to replace our Qwen3.5-27B, but the difference is marginally small. Too risky, I'll pass and wait for the release of a dense version.

New comment by nunodonato in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

nunodonato — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:38:09 +0000

https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/

New comment by nunodonato in "The paper computer"

nunodonato — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:40:22 +0000

this is really cool, I'd love to use something like this for my kids too. Maybe I'll try your project when I have some more free time. Would love to contribute but i'm not very skilled in python.

If you don't mind me asking, what hardware did you use? Especially for the project, I'm guessing it needs to have quite a strong bulb in order to be seen in broad daylight?

New comment by nunodonato in "Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012)"

nunodonato — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:56:44 +0000

thats what I was thinking when reading the comments. How the heck have people had time to read it all and comment? I guess not :)

Also, I'm really curious to know if some of it is no longer valid. 14 years is a long time in science

New comment by nunodonato in "Claude.ai down"

nunodonato — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:19:27 +0000

what would be the advantage?