Hacker News: s1mon

New comment by s1mon in "Too Much Color"

s1mon — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:20:58 +0000

This is an amazing deep dive into color difference measurements and how sensitive the math is. The idea that we really need to save characters - bytes - in CSS when we have so many web sites chewing through 49 MB with the enshitification of the web is hard to reconcile.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390945

New comment by s1mon in "Claude Tips for 3D Work"

s1mon — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:55:10 +0000

I've been using Codex (GPT-5.4 extra high) to code custom FeatureScript in Onshape (3D mechanical CAD software). It's challenging to get it to do TDD that involves any visual reasoning. At the moment I've got tooling through Google Chrome Devtools MCP and Playwright to extract things and control the browser and I use some custom features which help with formatting and controlling debugging outputs (text and visual overlays). Mostly the text debugging outputs are very helpful to Codex. It will often add debugging payloads when we're focused on a particular issue. I do occasionally take screenshots and paste them into Codex and explain the issue that I'm seeing. It seems to understand a certain amount, especially if the issue can be seen in orthogonal views.

New comment by s1mon in "AirPods Max 2"

s1mon — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:34:59 +0000

Yes. Sarcasm.

I have a pair of the first generation AirPods Max. They leave dents in my scalp if I wear them for any real amount of time. I've been an Apple person since the 1980s. This is one of the most disappointing Apple products for me ever, and I really don't want to know how much $$$$$ lifetime customer value I've contributed to Apple's bottom line.

New comment by s1mon in "AirPods Max 2"

s1mon — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:49:47 +0000

Might as well be 3862 grams considering how much they hurt to wear for any length of time. I was also hoping this update would improve the ergonomics, but no. Still too heavy and no mention of any improvements to the headband.

New comment by s1mon in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

s1mon — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:52:50 +0000

Yep. As much as the rest of it resonated with LLM coding experiences I'm having, the NFT thing is unfortunate.

New comment by s1mon in "Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art"

s1mon — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:56:03 +0000

This reminds me of the articles I occasionally see in the local newspaper about a restaurant that is closing down. So often it’s one that I’ve never heard of before that. To me, that’s the number one issue. If your likely customer base (or at least an audience member who reads a lot about the industry/market) hasn’t heard about your product, how are you going to have a successful business?

New comment by s1mon in "Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries"

s1mon — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:06:28 +0000

I'd really love to see the prompt(s) you used with Claude. The way the article was written I mistakenly thought you would expand upon that in a footnote or sidebar.

New comment by s1mon in "Claude Code Remote Control"

s1mon — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:48:42 +0000

Yep. Came to say the same thing. I'd only used Codex in VSCode and in the Codex app, and at least those have the same history, but my understanding is that the cloud and CLI versions have this hierarchy of 'visibility' [0]. Perhaps they'll need to change this design decision?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cczkDMmmrEE

New comment by s1mon in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

s1mon — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:53:24 +0000

Many have predicted the singularity, and I found this to be a useful take. I do note that Hans Moravec predicted in 1988's "Mind Children" that "computers suitable for humanlike robots will appear in the 2020s", which is not completely wrong.

He also argued that computing power would continue growing exponentially and that machines would reach roughly human-level intelligence around the early to mid-21st century, often interpreted as around 2030–2040. He estimated that once computers achieved processing capacity comparable to the human brain (on the order of 10¹⁴–10¹⁵ operations per second), they could match and then quickly surpass human cognitive abilities.

New comment by s1mon in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

s1mon — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:51:04 +0000

I would also argue that even people who I like a lot and have known for many years can be very different "people" online than in person. It's sometimes shocking the dichotomy. I try to remind myself and others to ignore some of the online weirdness and focus on the in person interaction.

New comment by s1mon in "I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it"

s1mon — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:42:27 +0000

As someone who's been doing mechanical product engineering for 30+ years, doing this as a first project is way more than jumping off the deep end. Impressive.

New comment by s1mon in "All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)"

s1mon — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:55:23 +0000

All? Yes, there's a lot of garbage and outright dangerous, malicious stuff out there, but there's also moving art. It may take a while to drown out the stupid and evil stuff, but there are examples that amaze me:

https://www.youtube.com/@kellyeld2323/videos

https://www.youtube.com/@alffx123/videos

New comment by s1mon in "Reverse Engineering US Airline's PNR System and Accessing All Reservations"

s1mon — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:41:22 +0000

Agreed. I read the headline as "... US Airlines' ..." not "... US Airline's ..." and it seemed much more concerning. Instead it's a single airline I've never heard of. Looking them up, they are more established than I might have guessed (started as Casino Express Airlines 38 years ago, but current incarnation is only 4 years old), but also pretty small - roughly 1/100 the staff and 1/50 the fleet of United.

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

New comment by s1mon in "The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora"

s1mon — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:58:03 +0000

That was my first thought. When I saw 'Disney' and 'OpenAI' in a headline together I assumed the money was flowing the other way around. Certainly other rights holders like the NYTimes are looking for the cash to flow the opposite direction (they're suing because of allegations that OpenAI trained on copyrighted material which can be reproduced through prompting). Unless this investment somehow is structured so that Disney gets stock which will potentially be worth orders of magnitude more later...

New comment by s1mon in "Size of Life"

s1mon — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:48:38 +0000

I found that jarring as well. There's a toggle in the upper right to switch to metric.

Even with setting it to metric, it progresses through units based on the scale. I realize that scientists love to work in scientific notation, and progressing from nanometers to micrometers, mm, cm, and finally meters sort of follows that kind of logic. I wonder how it would feel if the whole thing was in constant units or at least there was an option for that.

New comment by s1mon in "Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA"

s1mon — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:22:24 +0000

I understand why these statistics may be interesting, but all I really want to see is a map of the locations of the ALPR cameras. I would add an easy link to that data on this site.

New comment by s1mon in "Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio"

s1mon — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:54:21 +0000

HN hug of death? I couldn't get it to load (beyond the grid/circle background) on Safari/Mac, but eventually it loaded in Chrome. Seems to just be a game - use AWSD keys. Not sure why this is "coolest 3D website" in this day and age.

New comment by s1mon in "OpenAI enables group chats in ChatGPT"

s1mon — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:00:33 +0000

In retrospect, an obvious feature, but a good example of OpenAI focusing on productizing AI rather than just adding more power/accuracy to LLMs.

OpenAI enables group chats in ChatGPT

s1mon — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:00:33 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/group-chats-in-chatgpt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45995547

Points: 7

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New comment by s1mon in "Nano Banana Pro"

s1mon — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:42:58 +0000

Adobe makes money by renting software, not selling it. There are many creatives that would disagree with your ranking of who is more malicious or greedy.