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New comment by recursivedoubts in "Commodore Made a Digital Detox Phone That Isn't Dumb"

recursivedoubts — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:13:43 +0000

Regarding the price: the reality with all these alternative phones (e.g. the clicks communicator) is that you are going to have to pay a premium to make them worthwhile for the manufacturers. Scale (and the spyware economy) are what allow the larger companies to produce cheaper "better" phones, so comparing a phone like this with them on price isn't super productive. If you want something different than what the masses consume you are gonna have to pay for it.

The only ones that I've seen beat this dynamic to an extent are the unihertz phones.

New comment by recursivedoubts in "All about the IBM 1130 Computing System"

recursivedoubts — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:47:23 +0000

I would love to see people start to move these simulators onto the web, https://infinitemac.org, like, so that the systems were more accessible to casuals.

(I've built two online systems for teaching my students computing: https://bcp.cs.montana.edu and https://mtmc.cs.montana.edu w/a similar vibe)

New comment by recursivedoubts in "Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity"

recursivedoubts — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:32:12 +0000

Reminds me of why the lucky stiff for some reason...

New comment by recursivedoubts in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

recursivedoubts — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:54:39 +0000

May you live in interesting times.

New comment by recursivedoubts in "The University in the AI Era"

recursivedoubts — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:35:53 +0000

Hey hn, I have written up some changes that I've made and plan to make to my courses due to the advent of widespread AI tools.

The University in the AI Era

recursivedoubts — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:34:45 +0000

Article URL: https://htmx.org/essays/universities-and-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496037

Points: 6

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New comment by recursivedoubts in "The U.S. Is Terrorizing Cuba to Make Rich Men Richer"

recursivedoubts — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:38:37 +0000

Not even the slightest justification for inflicting so much suffering on the current population of Cuba.

New comment by recursivedoubts in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

recursivedoubts — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:21:24 +0000

would it be possible for mythos to make the space bar scroll the pages on your website properly?

New comment by recursivedoubts in "The IRS Moved IT and HR Staff to Process Taxes. It's Not Going Well"

recursivedoubts — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:07:16 +0000

Gotta wonder how many returns are gonna get run through unauthorized AI tools by IRS employees this year, leaking private financial information into future training sets.

New comment by recursivedoubts in "Ask HN: High school student – is learning programming still worthwhile?"

recursivedoubts — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:03:53 +0000

I wrote an essay on this:

https://htmx.org/essays/yes-and/

New comment by recursivedoubts in "Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025)"

recursivedoubts — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:06:24 +0000

modern man wanted "it's a small world after all" and now we are getting it, good and hard

New comment by recursivedoubts in "Show HN: Nutrepedia – Nutrition info in 29 locales built with Clojure and Htmx"

recursivedoubts — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:01:55 +0000

awesome, very good looking and simple, useful functionality

New comment by recursivedoubts in "Every Byte Matters"

recursivedoubts — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:38:46 +0000

When you are developing games, sometimes.

When you are developing most other applications every byte does not matter. What matters much more is overall system architecture, collapsing unnecessary abstraction layers that some developers (especially java developers) seem to love and optimizing your datastore access.

As always, profile profile profile.

A company I worked for spent a violent couple of man-decades flipping our proprietary scripting language from interpeted to bytecode generation, obviously with tons of bugs and subtle semantic changes, and it ended up boosting overall system performance by about 30%. We could have done nothing over that period of time and hardware advances would have made a bigger impact.

New comment by recursivedoubts in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

recursivedoubts — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:00:13 +0000

that's awesome i'm glad you guys found it useful

please let me know if you make improvements, I'd love to iterate on it

New comment by recursivedoubts in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

recursivedoubts — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:22:58 +0000

I think these are based on the one I posted a while back:

https://gist.github.com/1cg/a6c6f2276a1fe5ee172282580a44a7ac

New comment by recursivedoubts in "Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers"

recursivedoubts — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:34:42 +0000

This has been the case for most of Gen X's career: there was very little mentoring, very little succession planning and career shaping. Instead Boomers (who came into an economy where these things, along with pensions, etc. still existed) took over early and have stayed in leadership roles longer than previous generations. A look at congress provides a template.

New comment by recursivedoubts in "New Beam Spring Keyboards"

recursivedoubts — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:48:50 +0000

Amazing keyboard.

This one is good to, and takes MX key caps.

New comment by recursivedoubts in "New Beam Spring Keyboards"

recursivedoubts — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:47:06 +0000

See my sibling comment: the v2 beam spring keyboard (metal version) worked immediately out of the box and all I had to do was but key caps on.

This is an enthusiast producing these and the beam spring mechanism is entirely redone with modern touches (e.g. support for mx style keycaps) so there is risk, but mine works great. I think that the fully enclosed beam spring mechanism should hold up better during shipping than the spring-and-barrel mechanism on the model F.

Of course YMMV and it is an expensive and rare keyboard, but my experience has been good.

New comment by recursivedoubts in "New Beam Spring Keyboards"

recursivedoubts — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:40:16 +0000

Some people have mentioned quality control issues with this keyboard vendor, particularly with the Model F. I have the Model F and it is a bit finicky admittedly. I support the vendor based on their hard work to bring back these classic keyboard mechanisms, but if you want one that "just works" the Model M from Unisys is probably a better bet.

As far as the beam spring goes, this is the second revision of these switches. These switches are a complete modern re-imagination of the original beam spring switches and support Cherry-style key caps. Unlike the Model F, the switches are self-contained and setup just involved putting key-caps on. The keyboard worked flawlessly and immediately.

This is an enthusiast trying to bring back classic keyboard switches that have been out of production for decades, so I am willing to grant him some slack in general, but I'm extremely happy with my board. It's a very different typing experience, but I love it. I understand many people aren't willing to risk $400 on a keyboard, but I also want to let people know about my great experience with it.

New comment by recursivedoubts in "New Beam Spring Keyboards"

recursivedoubts — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:31:56 +0000

Because it’s a physical mechanism that has a unique feel that modern switches don’t mimic.

I like lots of keyboards and switches but this is a unique switch with deep historical roots that has been brought back to life by an enthusiast. I think it’s worth supporting (if you can afford it) on general principle.