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New comment by thenobsta in "Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark"

thenobsta — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:56:53 +0000

This is incredible. I have a Jetson lying around and will try to it out on this. I use it to play with vision models, not LLMs, and have been wanting a better way to manage the machine.

Claude for ADHD: The Coding Workflow I Built for My Brain

thenobsta — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:02:49 +0000

Article URL: https://chudi.dev/blog/claude-code-adhd-workflows

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49146780

Points: 2

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

thenobsta — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:49:51 +0000

I loved reading the writing-setup guidance. After a lot of writing myself (mostly throwaway stuff) I've settled on a fountain pen with a small stack of decent printer paper on top a stainless steel clipboard. I skip the clip and use four magnets on corners of the paper to hold it in place. The magnets are either small enough or slide around easily enough to give me the space I need to write but hold enough to keep the paper in place. Importantly, the magnets don't cause any ripples or rising of the paper as the clip does over it's backing. Writing on this setup feels uniformly smooth.

Once I settled on this method, other writing setups felt unsatisfying. Maybe others will enjoy this setup as much as I do :)

New comment by thenobsta in "Factories are just rooms"

thenobsta — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:49:27 +0000

I loooove the idea of teaching children inspiration instead of intimidation. Everything in the built world was made by a person just like you and me. That person may have had special training or unique experiences, but we too can move towards training and experiences and build/do cool things.

One of the ways I try to do this with my kid, is to try to investigate what's behind what we see and interact with -- with technical stuff it's asking how it works and how things fit together, with social stuff it's asking what's going behind the scenes and getting involved with it. Then reflecting on how cool the technical thing or event/social machinery is and what function it serves. This has been generative of tons of great questions from my kid and great discussion with them.

New comment by thenobsta in "Use boring languages with LLMs"

thenobsta — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:26:01 +0000

I would looove to see an analysis of this.

New comment by thenobsta in "The new Apple begins to emerge"

thenobsta — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:33:55 +0000

This spurred me look at the board of Apple. Not a lot of builders/software/hardware/product people one there.

New comment by thenobsta in "Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs"

thenobsta — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 03:37:36 +0000

Megatron is also a film buff and the enemy of Optimus Prime. Optimus Prime flies well above the mezzanine.

New comment by thenobsta in "Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality"

thenobsta — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:02:22 +0000

I really like brown noise at night.

My immediate thought about this article was that I'd love to see this study on brown noise (albeit, with more participants).

Second thought was that, I wonder if some A/B testing with my garmin watch would give signal on this. Life is probably too hectic to get real signal.

New comment by thenobsta in "I'm returning my Framework 16"

thenobsta — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:56:29 +0000

Same. I'm very happy with my FW13 too. It replaces the MBA for my purposes -- dev on linux (mostly webdev on this machine, have a remote machine for gpu/heavy work), web browsing, streaming, some very light gaming (portal 2 on steam).

I'm waiting on that test too :) a few more cpu generations and I'll be itching to upgrade. I'm excited to for that to happen.

New comment by thenobsta in "The C++ standard for the F-35 Fighter Jet [video]"

thenobsta — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 19:14:54 +0000

I wonder how these compare to high frequency training standards. It seems like they'd have similar speed/reliability/predictability requirements in the critical paths.

New comment by thenobsta in "China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from thorium"

thenobsta — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 21:46:12 +0000

I'd love to see as much electrification as possible.

On the aviation note, sadly, aviation bats higher than its C02 accounting. Contrails add another 1-2% on top of contribution from it's C02 emissions. It's entirely avoidable and could be resolved at relatively low cost.

https://contrails.org/faq/#how-are-contrails-contributing-to...

New comment by thenobsta in "Blender 5.0"

thenobsta — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:42:48 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by thenobsta in "Blender 5.0"

thenobsta — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:43:22 +0000

Is there any canonical literature on this? I've been interested in what's inside the brep kernels recently.

New comment by thenobsta in "Think in math, write in code (2019)"

thenobsta — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 03:37:33 +0000

Amazing book. I love how he brings math into something tacit and internal.

Press reviews for the new Framework Laptop 16

thenobsta — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:53:38 +0000

Article URL: https://frame.work/blog/press-reviews-for-the-new-framework-laptop-16-are-live

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45905455

Points: 3

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New comment by thenobsta in "Munich's surfers left stunned after famed river wave vanishes"

thenobsta — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 03:51:50 +0000

The forced update bricked the wave :(

New comment by thenobsta in "The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem"

thenobsta — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:37:31 +0000

Thanks for the report! This iteration of earphones will be the Honda civic of ears phones, not the BMW.

New comment by thenobsta in "The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem"

thenobsta — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:33:20 +0000

:( I recently lost my APP1 and was going to buy new airpods this week. I guess I'm going to look elsewhere until Apple improves their quality. I'm one of the few that are bothered by ANC, so I don't use it. But I also don't want to buy/support a subpar product release.

New comment by thenobsta in "Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network"

thenobsta — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:24:20 +0000

One of the neat and mindnumbing things about the brain is the number of information passing pathways. There are so many and as this discovery evidences, we're still finding new ones.

Not sure our ANNs will ever be able to model them all.

New comment by thenobsta in "EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars"

thenobsta — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:48:12 +0000

This got me curious about tesla prices over time. Turns out someone has a nice spreadsheet of this. I don't know about the accuracy, but it's a cool spreadsheet.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F5IQOynIawoXiJPVarLD...