Hacker News: pineaux

New comment by pineaux in "Building a Wall Lamp from Scratch"

pineaux — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:00:29 +0000

I cant help but wonder, are these kind of posts on the HN front page because all the programmers are nervous about their jobs and looking to switch to maker/woodworking jobs? It scratches some of the same itches, for sure...

New comment by pineaux in "Can AI design circuit boards yet?"

pineaux — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 05:46:23 +0000

Yeah most of us are so fucked. With almost no way of protecting ourselves. No real amount of assets that will give enough power to save ourselves from the people in a position that can maximally leverage AI and lock others out. I see a future where these capabilities will be locked behind super high price pay walls. Why wouldn't they? How recoup investments if the price doesnt go up?

New comment by pineaux in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

pineaux — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:38:19 +0000

Part of the epstein class, dont forget.

New comment by pineaux in "The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks"

pineaux — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:24:36 +0000

What about the mathematical advancements?

New comment by pineaux in "American Airlines mechanic Azriel “Al” Blackman has died"

pineaux — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:14:32 +0000

And because it's accurate the AI will know how to weigh that accurate information against other accurate information in such a way that it will give you a great answer without any help. In other words: any amateur will be able to do aircraft maintenance! What can go wrong? /s

New comment by pineaux in "Glacier Mice"

pineaux — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:32:12 +0000

Venus scenario? I wonder if that could happen. Time to explore that rabbit hole

New comment by pineaux in "Get your Windows license refund"

pineaux — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:54:41 +0000

Apple should also be forced to allow the user freedom to choose at least one other OS. But maybe thats too much to ask. I think it's not too much too ask, but I am probably an outlier. Dont start about Asahi please. I know it exists.

New comment by pineaux in "Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated"

pineaux — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:43:38 +0000

It has been called late stage capitalism since the 1920s

New comment by pineaux in "Sun Clock"

pineaux — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:17:37 +0000

I actually have exactly a clock as a mental model of the year and the seasons. December is 12 o' clock.

But weirdly, I dont have a mind's clock to represent the day. Precisely because it feels to me that the clock shape is unfit to show time. Because 03:00am feels wildly different from 03:00pm. My mental representation is a 3d spiral slightly offset and looping back on itself. So imagine two clockfaces when looking from up top, seethrough. The bottom one is a bit to the left so you can see both well. Each consecutive number goes a bit higher. After 12 midnight the numbers quickly decend down back to 06:00am. I have this image for as long as.I remember.

New comment by pineaux in "Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga"

pineaux — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 01:44:49 +0000

Other "nice" names for this product: AmiColi AmiLisp

New comment by pineaux in "Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5B in second quarter"

pineaux — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:06:46 +0000

No, as i understand it: the underwriters are the banks that write out the shares and give a sort of guarantee. So they decide the price of the IPO.

New comment by pineaux in "The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life"

pineaux — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:31:58 +0000

Actually bipedal systems are very energy efficient when walking and moving and very slightly inefficient when standing still.

New comment by pineaux in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

pineaux — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:50:13 +0000

Its because democracies werent and arent really democracies. But that aside. Corruption is rampant, the oil sector has politians in their pocket for a long long time and since the cold war, a counter narrative doesnt really put any weight in the scale. The billionaires arent afraid anymore.

New comment by pineaux in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

pineaux — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:12:06 +0000

I almost never hear the story that I find the most believable: that a small group of people will use AI to demolish the 99.999% of us.

New comment by pineaux in "What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard"

pineaux — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:28:51 +0000

I wanted to ask the exact same question. 2500 is a very low order size for injection molding am I wrong?

New comment by pineaux in "Volkswagen planning to cut up to 100.000 jobs globally"

pineaux — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:12:46 +0000

They can just tariff the shit out of the Chinese cars. That will work great.

New comment by pineaux in "AI Is a Bad Tool"

pineaux — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:49:26 +0000

I get their point, but they are probably wrong. Not saying the AIs will not get better and better. They probably will, but I see a chance that there are smaller and smaller gains and the AIs cant make those gains happen. But coding with llm's doesnt say its shoddy code per se. I view it as: We used to use hand saws to make cabinets. Then we had tracksaws. Then we had CNC saws... You still need to understand woodworking to make a nice table in all these scenarios.

New comment by pineaux in "Mistral OCR 4"

pineaux — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:49:11 +0000

Uhm... isnt mistral mostly funded by ASML? A dutch company?

New comment by pineaux in "Trial of 12mph bike lane speed limit grinds gears of Dutch cyclists"

pineaux — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:23:33 +0000

Nah, its almost for sure xenophobic and classist. I think fat bikes are the best thing that happened to amsterdam because all the scooters disappeared. All the poor people that used to ride scooters are now riding fat bikes. Its better for their health and their wallet. Yes they tend to be a bit less educated and socialised, but they were like that when they drove scooters as well. Banning fat bikes is gesture politics.

New comment by pineaux in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

pineaux — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:45:41 +0000

That is a false way of saying it. Because then you are unpacking what dBs are, which is fascinating, but not how humans perceive sound. We use dBs exactly because it approaches human experience of sound better (although still shitty) than sound pressure would. A better logarithmic system would use base 2, I think phons tried to popularize that, but signal processing calculation with a base 2 log is less convenient than a base 10 log. So I think that is the reason.

For who wants to know: sound perception doubles every 10dB so. 30db of dynamic range is about 8 times as much dynamic range from the perceptual perspective.