Hacker News: pyrophane

New comment by pyrophane in "JetKVM Mini"

pyrophane — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 16:35:12 +0000

I have a JetKVM and could never get video to work on it despite spending a lot of time on troubleshooting. It may have just been a defective unit but I never got around to trying to RMA it.

New comment by pyrophane in "My last six months at Evernote"

pyrophane — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:28:19 +0000

Purely an aside but I went to the StandardNotes website and the first thing that struck me was how all over the place their AI generated product images were.

New comment by pyrophane in "My last six months at Evernote"

pyrophane — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:23:56 +0000

> Lock-in is the game. Users will pay. Many companies under-price their product and suffer the consequences.

Well, just yesterday the WSJ published an article [1] about bending spoons that include this detail:

> Evernote, a note-taking app acquired in 2023, was among the holdings Bending Spoons profiled in its IPO prospectus. Evernote’s revenue was 30% higher in 2025 than in 2022, and during that time average revenue per monthly active user rose 150%. What the prospectus didn’t say: Those figures meant the number of users fell 48%. Revenue rose through price increases as the customer base shrank.

So, a lot of users were not willing to pay.

1. https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/at-bending-spoons-the-...

New comment by pyrophane in "iPhone Duo"

pyrophane — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:21:21 +0000

A bit over a year ago I got an iPad Pro with the nano-texture display and when hearing that apple was developing a folding phone I thought, man, if they put this screen on the inner display that would be amazing.

I assumed they wouldn't do it because they were marketing the nano-texture as a specialty thing for professionals and glossy screens were the popular ones, but now here we are.

New comment by pyrophane in "Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users"

pyrophane — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:27:28 +0000

GrapheneOS actually recommends against using Aurora and instead just using the Play Store, so this shouldn't really hurt users.

For extra privacy, you can sign into the Play Store with a Google Account that isn't tied to anything else.

New comment by pyrophane in "GLM-5.3 is now open-weight"

pyrophane — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:25:30 +0000

> We're nowhere near a Fable-class model IMO, but things are going to get interesting in this next year.

I'm wondering of you could clarify your thoughts on this. I've had a hard time evaluating what Fable-class actually is capable of that sets them (or really it) apart from other models in a very significant way.

New comment by pyrophane in "EasyEffects can improve laptop speaker sound quality"

pyrophane — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:51:46 +0000

Most windows laptops will do something like this by default to enhance the sound. Part of what ships as "Dolby Atmos" is some EQ-ing and normalization, with the default not being flat. It is just necessary to make those tiny laptop speakers sound half decent and not crap out all the time.

New comment by pyrophane in "EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws"

pyrophane — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:20:15 +0000

> Clean Air Act (CAA) Acid Rain Program (ARP) does not apply to power generation facilities that are not connected to a public electricity grid, commonly referred to as “islanded” power generation facilities.

This of course makes no sense whatever, as whether or not a power generator is connected to the grid has nothing to do with its environmental impact.

New comment by pyrophane in "Product Development is being Rewritten"

pyrophane — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:14:30 +0000

I assume the name of this startup is meant to be pronounced like "revel" rather than "revile."

New comment by pyrophane in "Polishing Cloth"

pyrophane — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:37:05 +0000

This thing does a much better job at cleaning their nano-texture displays compared to a regular, smooth microfiber lens cleaning cloth, so there is actually a reason for it to exist.

That being said, while I haven't tested this, you can get other "suede" style microfiber cloths that I suspect are functionally the same thing as the Apple Polishing Cloth.

New comment by pyrophane in "DeepSeek Harness developer preview"

pyrophane — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:50:25 +0000

I'm curious what peolle are finding with first party vs 3red party harnesses for coding.

Do the first party harnesses really have an advantage when paired with the maker's model?

New comment by pyrophane in "Our position on open-weights models"

pyrophane — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:42:08 +0000

What would it mean to crack down on distillation? I could think of a few possibilities:

1. Using political pressure to target companies that are accused of doing it.

2. Attempting to impose criminal penalties on individuals associated with the action.

3. Having the US government attempt to use its capabilities to stop it.

None of these seem particularly likely to succeed.

New comment by pyrophane in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

pyrophane — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:50:51 +0000

Edging a little closer to the Krazam video "rare data hunters."

New comment by pyrophane in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

pyrophane — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:58:03 +0000

I've thought about how hard it must be to be a lefty fountain pen user. What is one to do? Learn to write without resting your hand on the page?

New comment by pyrophane in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

pyrophane — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:56:43 +0000

> "don't use a gadget"

I agree with this but for a different reason than what the author gives.

When you write in a notebook you can see where what you are writing is within the notebook (e.g. ~1/3 of the way through, etc). That seems like a small thing but I think it really helps with anchoring the memory when writing, as well as with referencing it later. And of course you can also add all sorts of tabs and page markers to help even more.

The same is true when reading a book.

New comment by pyrophane in "I love LLMs, I hate hype"

pyrophane — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:08:47 +0000

And airline stocks are typically a bad investment and Delta has been called a bank that operates an airline due the the amount of their revenue that comes from credit card fees.

New comment by pyrophane in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

pyrophane — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:46:17 +0000

I built a multi-agent framework and coding harness that I'm using as my primary coding tool now, mostly with DeepSeek and GLM. I've been having a lot of fun working on it and improving it in my spare time. I'm thinking about open-sourcing it but right now the deployment and sandboxing model is fairly dependent on nix.

New comment by pyrophane in "American Wealth, Sliced Up"

pyrophane — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:23:00 +0000

A handful of super-rich families got together in the 90s, hired some people to put together a campaign to re-label the estate tax as the death tax and convince everyone it was causing families to lose their small farms, and we haven’t talked seriously about it since.

New comment by pyrophane in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

pyrophane — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:39:38 +0000

I just have a desktop at home that I run inference off of. It is a great setup and I don't find myself wanting to inference models directly on my laptop.

New comment by pyrophane in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

pyrophane — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:14:23 +0000

Yeah, I've realized that the things I don't like in tech have everything to do with the culture and politics. When I've been able to work with a small team of people I really like and respect, I've generally been quite content.