Hacker News: phren0logy

New comment by phren0logy in "Starship V3"

phren0logy — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:18:01 +0000

I was disappointed when this was not the command line prompt library

New comment by phren0logy in "Zed Editor Theme-Builder"

phren0logy — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:54:02 +0000

If you use Omarchy, the 3.8 update includes dynamic theming for Zed. It's very cool: https://github.com/APS6/omazed

New comment by phren0logy in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

phren0logy — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:19:55 +0000

Are you using that cmarker commonmark Typst package? Is it good?

https://typst.app/universe/package/cmarker/

New comment by phren0logy in "OpenAI Privacy Filter"

phren0logy — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:00:28 +0000

I would think you could use this model inside of Presidio, right?

New comment by phren0logy in "Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

phren0logy — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:46:52 +0000

No, they don't, but I'd still take OmniWM over not having it.

New comment by phren0logy in "Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

phren0logy — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:32:29 +0000

If that’s all it took to deter you that thoroughly, I think you can confidently say that you are outside of the target market. Which is 100% OK!

New comment by phren0logy in "Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

phren0logy — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:08:44 +0000

If you are on a Mac, check out OmniWM, which has a Niri layout, in addition to one that's more like Hyprland. It has made my work on MacOS much more pleasant.

https://github.com/BarutSRB/OmniWM

I posted about it a bit ago when I just started using it, and it's been really great. Highly recommended.

New comment by phren0logy in "Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery"

phren0logy — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:21:19 +0000

Are they zom-bees?

New comment by phren0logy in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

phren0logy — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:16:32 +0000

Having been ruined by Linux options like Hyperland and Niri, I’m digging my early foray into OmniWM - https://github.com/BarutSRB/OmniWM

New comment by phren0logy in "Show HN: The Mog Programming Language"

phren0logy — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:26:47 +0000

I am disappointed at the amount of negativity here. HN generally loves an experimental domain-specific language, no matter how janky. To be clear, I don't know if this is janky, but the knee-jerk anti-AI sentiment is not intellectually stimulating.

New comment by phren0logy in "Heaven Has a Physical Location, a Physicist Claims"

phren0logy — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:16:41 +0000

RIP Popular Mechanics

New comment by phren0logy in "The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming"

phren0logy — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 03:54:17 +0000

I'm not a coder, I'm a medical doctor. I see some interesting parallels in how medical students sort themselves into specialties by cognitive style to this new rift in programming with LLMs.

Some people like the deep work, some like managing a steady rain of chaos. There's no one right answer. But I'll tell you that my classmates who are happy as nephrologists are very different to the ones that are happy as transplant surgeons.

New comment by phren0logy in "Apple Acquires graph database company Kuzu"

phren0logy — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:15:20 +0000

I tried it out a bit. Like SQLite, it can be used as an embedded db in a flat file. It will be interesting to see what Apple does with it. Their blog had some great examples using BAML.

New comment by phren0logy in "Ask HN: Is Connecting via SSH Risky?"

phren0logy — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:05:53 +0000

Compared to what?

New comment by phren0logy in "Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis"

phren0logy — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:39:34 +0000

Most of this hype appears to be coming from grifters who aren't actually connected to the project. So, it's there, but not the fault of the people doing the work.

This has come up in a few recent statements by the project lead, including scammy memecoins and name-sniping. One source:

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/27/clawdbot_moltbot_secu...

New comment by phren0logy in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

phren0logy — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:15:34 +0000

Gas Town has a very clear "mad scientist/performance art" sort of thing going on, and I love that. It's taking a premise way past its logical conclusion, and I think that's fun to watch.

I haven't seen anything to suggest that Yegge is proposing it as a serious tool for serious work, so why all the hate?

New comment by phren0logy in "Bitwarden 200% Price Increase"

phren0logy — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:18:51 +0000

Still a compelling value. I keep eyeing it to see if I should switch from 1Password, but I also worry about the complexity of transitioning the whole family over.

Go 1.26 Interactive Tour

phren0logy — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 01:58:22 +0000

Article URL: https://antonz.org/go-1-26/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686972

Points: 115

# Comments: 14

New comment by phren0logy in "Gas Town Emergency User Manual"

phren0logy — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:17:37 +0000

I enjoy reading this the same way I enjoy reading "Boatmurdered" - https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Bloodline:Boatmurder...

I think I'll hold off before jumping in, but it's fun to watch from the sidelines.

New comment by phren0logy in "Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams"

phren0logy — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:21:22 +0000

I had plenty of oral exams throughout my education and training. It's interesting to see their resurgence, and easy to understand the appeal. If they can be done rigorously and fairly (no easy thing), then they go much further than multiple can in demonstrating understanding of concepts. But, they are inherently more stressful. I agree with the article that the increased pressure is a feature, not a bug. It's much more real-world for many kinds of knowledge.