Hacker News: phren0logy

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

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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.

New comment by phren0logy in "Linux is good now"

phren0logy — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:41:31 +0000

I tried a number of distros and settled on Omarchy because it has a coherent design and nice aesthetics, but it has some weird quirks about messing with my dotfiles on updates. It's so new I suspect this will be ironed out soon.

New comment by phren0logy in "Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window"

phren0logy — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:55:05 +0000

The recent direction of MacOS has been a good excuse to try out a few new linux distros. As someone who was away from linux for a while, the degree of UI customization continues to be both amazing and a little overwhelming, but it feels more polished than before. Taking a look at Niri and hyperland, it's hard to feel satisfied with the UI of MacOS.

New comment by phren0logy in "Nimbalyst: WYSIWYG Markdown editor with visual diffs powered by Claude Code"

phren0logy — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:49:15 +0000

Heads up - there are a couple of screenshots in this repo, but no code. This is not an open source project. Cool idea, though.

New comment by phren0logy in "The Nigerian graphic designers bringing African expression to typography"

phren0logy — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 23:22:27 +0000

Thanks for sharing, and am always interested in more Nigerian culture since reading Rosewater.

New comment by phren0logy in "Code like a surgeon"

phren0logy — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:56:07 +0000

The analogy I have used is “AI as sous chef.”

New comment by phren0logy in "Ask HN: Why are Meta's Glasses being so openly promoted by popular Tech Blogs?"

phren0logy — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 23:49:54 +0000

The hardware is genuinely interesting

New comment by phren0logy in "Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over"

phren0logy — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:28:26 +0000

I have heard the same concern about undermining trust from some NPs who completed their training before this more expedited route was available.

New comment by phren0logy in "Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over"

phren0logy — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:16:08 +0000

Many states now have unsupervised, independent practice for PAs and NPs from the first day they are issued a license. There is variation by state, however, and some still require physician oversight. The amount and quality of that oversight also varies considerably.

New comment by phren0logy in "Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over"

phren0logy — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:14:02 +0000

I would argue that supervised training with regular feedback on performance is different than job experience, but certainly both are relevant.