Hacker News: syx

Bit: An LLM in the browser that only answers yes or no

syx — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:52:04 +0000

Article URL: https://bit.simone.computer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47948486

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock

syx — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:44:40 +0000

Article URL: https://cjleo.com/blog/moleskine-ai-lord-of-the-rings-collection-can-only-mock/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913411

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by syx in "Music for Programming"

syx — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:32:31 +0000

I remember back in 2012, thanks to the playlist #4 by Com Truise, I discovered Boards of Canada. I will always be thankful to Datassette for this project!

Show HN: Max Headbox, a local agent that fits on a Raspberry Pi 5

syx — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:57:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/syxanash/maxheadbox

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601806

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Apple Just Lost Me

syx — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:20:24 +0000

Article URL: https://andregarzia.com/2026/03/apple-just-lost-me.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517701

Points: 464

# Comments: 462

Qwen3.5 Small: 0.8B, 2B, 4B, 9B Released

syx — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:28:07 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/collections/unsloth/qwen35

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47219208

Points: 10

# Comments: 5

Ditching Logi Options+ for a 40-Year-Old Apple IIGS Keyboard

syx — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:53:27 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.simone.computer/apple-adb-keyboard

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208379

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Bloomberg Terminal Clone

syx — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:22:15 +0000

Article URL: https://bloomberg-terminal-nine.vercel.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073032

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: How do you audit LLM code in programming languages you don't know?

syx — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:27:03 +0000

If you've used Claude Code or similar tools for "vibe-coding" in programming languages you aren't fluent in or that you don't know, how do you validate the performance or architectural quality of the outcome?

I'm curious how people are catching subtle bugs or technical debt when the LLM produces something that works but might be unoptimized.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992895

Points: 13

# Comments: 15

New comment by syx in "An Update on Heroku"

syx — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:44:34 +0000

No my one is a simple ruby sinatra app with no DB. Yeah unfortunately it wasn’t super reliable as heroku but they’re getting better at keeping the instances up

New comment by syx in "Hackers (1995) Animated Experience"

syx — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:37:25 +0000

Last month they had a rerun of the movie at the cinema in Dublin (IE) and went to see it with a friend. It was such a surreal experience because after watching it on my laptop so many times I could hear the laughter and the jokes of the audience on the cheesy hacking scenes, it was like watching the movie in 4D, I enjoyed it a lot!

I even brought my PowerBook Duo 280c along with me

New comment by syx in "An Update on Heroku"

syx — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:20:21 +0000

Moved from heroku to fly.io three years ago and I don’t regret it, great platform occasionally goes down and requires a bit of attention but the support forum is great

New comment by syx in "The tech market is fundamentally fucked up and AI is just a scapegoat"

syx — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:12:39 +0000

As someone with many animator friends, this sounds very bleak. Their work processes are very similar to software engineering, with the difference that their hiring process is much quicker (they just show a bunch of reels and shots they made for previous films or cartoons, and they’re hired). The sad part is that they have almost no labor rights, and competition is incredibly high, which means pay is very low and turnover is high. All these years, I’ve been setting my expectations that one day my field may become like that.

I recreated a runnable virus launch panel from Hackers (1995) on a PowerBook Duo

syx — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:28:17 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.simone.computer/recreating-hackers-movie-ui

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602233

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by syx in "A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time"

syx — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:17:01 +0000

I can’t wait to get home and try this on my Pi. Past few months, I’ve been building a fully local agent [0] that runs inference entirely on a Raspberry Pi, and I’ve been extensively testing a plethora of small, open models as part of my studies. This is an incredibly exciting field, and I hope it gains more attention as we shift away from massive, centralized AI platforms and toward improving the performance of local models.

For anyone interested in a comparative review of different models that can run on a Pi, here’s a great article [1] I came across while working on my project.

[0] https://github.com/syxanash/maxheadbox

[1] https://www.stratosphereips.org/blog/2025/6/5/how-well-do-ll...