Hacker News: pwython

New comment by pwython in "CUDA Books"

pwython — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:33:19 +0000

First one I clicked on is 404: Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach (3rd Edition) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/programming-in-parallel...

New comment by pwython in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

pwython — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:19:13 +0000

This actually worked well when I asked Gemini to generate a random color, character by character. I was getting Indigo/Electric Indigo a lot if I just asked for a random color on new sessions.

New comment by pwython in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

pwython — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:54:18 +0000

> Amazon is investing $5 billion in Anthropic today, with up to an additional $20 billion in the future. This builds on the $8 billion Amazon has previously invested.

> Today’s agreement will quickly expand our available capacity, delivering meaningful compute in the next three months and nearly 1GW in total before the end of the year.

They need a bunch of compute, now.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-amazon-compute

New comment by pwython in "Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%"

pwython — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:55:36 +0000

pi-coding-agent (pi.dev) is also great. I've been using it with Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.6.

New comment by pwython in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

pwython — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:27:03 +0000

Big brands don't pay the big bucks to buy placements on run-of-network channels (ie. small random channels).

New comment by pwython in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

pwython — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:14:05 +0000

Not Flock defenders, just people explaining how this is not a CCPA violation. I could set up 100 cameras around town (with property owners permission) and record cars driving by, birds, etc all day. Then I could sell access to that footage to whoever I want. If they want to scrape license plates that's up to the customer and their problem. Or if they want to track birds, cool, that could be in the frame too.

New comment by pwython in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

pwython — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:47:10 +0000

At first I thought you were talking about an actual rotating fan, which would be an awesome addition to this. Just a small PC fan running at a very low RPM built into the side in a circular cutout, with that worn metal patina look.

New comment by pwython in "Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]"

pwython — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:48:06 +0000

> then mentions that future readers "may even be an artificial intelligence rather than a human, how wonderful!"

My first thought seeing this post was, I need to find more literature like this, fine-tune a model with that + Logic Pro documentation, then give it an MCP to control Logic Pro and see if it can be my music production assistant.

New comment by pwython in "EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

pwython — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:55:50 +0000

I've been migrating a few Wordpress sites from Wordpress to Astro + Strapi recently, working in 'hybrid mode' so the entire site is static except for post previews in Strapi (only that one route is SSR).

Editing content in Strapi, once customized with CKEditor and such, is Wordpressy enough for the human Editors familiar with WP.

So far I'm loving the stack.

New comment by pwython in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

pwython — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:52:57 +0000

Genuine question: If I were to fine-tune a model with 10 years of business data in a competitive space, would you feel safe with cloud training?

New comment by pwython in "Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers"

pwython — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:14:17 +0000

My biggest gripe with Apple Music is shuffling. When I shuffle my entire library of thousands of songs, I'm hearing the same ~50 songs over and over UNTIL I add a new song to my library. Then suddenly I'm hearing songs I haven't heard in years. How does one screw up randomization that bad, and how has it not been fixed over the past several years?

New comment by pwython in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

pwython — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:28:31 +0000

Is this launched? Looks cool, but you should add a privacy policy.

New comment by pwython in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

pwython — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:12:39 +0000

Ah yes, that's right. I was looking at the M5 model last month wondering why there was no 64GB option.

New comment by pwython in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

pwython — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:47:47 +0000

Well that's. Just. Great. I bought a 64GB M4 Max MBP last month. I'm past the 14-day return window. I figured the M5 was near, but assumed M5 Max would come a bit later. Not sure where I came up with that.

New comment by pwython in "Music Discovery"

pwython — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:51:02 +0000

Coincidentally, I was asking Claude today if something existed that could identify the key, chord progression, tempo, etc from a playlist of my favorite songs to see if there was any pattern that stood out so I could find similar songs with that vibe. Like a more music theory approach to discovering new songs versus the "people who liked this song, also liked these songs" way.

Even more coincidental, earlier today my wife was saying we should take our "Skylight Calendar" screen device that is hardwired into our wall with us when we move. I said I could just make a DIY one... and then I open HN and see the top post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47113728

Spooky.

Oh by the way, all of the "Open on Bandcamp" links I clicked were 404 pages.

New comment by pwython in "AI makes you boring"

pwython — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:50:20 +0000

Did you just "it's not x, it's y" me?

New comment by pwython in "I’m joining OpenAI"

pwython — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:59:44 +0000

See: Rick Rubin.

"Rick Rubin says he barely plays any instruments and has no technical ability. He just knows what he likes and dislikes and is decisive about it."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rick-rubin-anderson-cooper-60-m...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rubin_production_discogra...

New comment by pwython in "GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks"

pwython — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:25:07 +0000

How many pelican riding bicycle SVGs were there before this test existed? What if the training data is being polluted with all these wonky results...

New comment by pwython in "Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant"

pwython — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:29:47 +0000

My "actual job" is a designer, not a career engineer, so for me code has always been how I ship. AI makes that separation clearer now. I just recently wrote about this.[0]

But I think the cognitive debt framing is useful: reading and approving code is not the same as building the mental model you get from writing, probing, and breaking things yourself. So the win (more time on problem solving) only holds if you're still intentionally doing enough of the concrete work to stay anchored in the system.

That said, if you're someone like me, I don't always need to fully master everything, but I do need to stay close enough to reality that I'm not shipping guesses.

[0] https://alisor.substack.com/p/i-never-really-wrote-code-now-...

I Never Wrote Code. Now That's the Point

pwython — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:19:20 +0000

Article URL: https://alisor.substack.com/p/i-never-really-wrote-code-now-thats

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46692690

Points: 2

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