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New comment by zitterbewegung in "Pixel Watch 5"

zitterbewegung — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:55:50 +0000

The more power user things I do would be to change the complications on my Apple Watch to keep it in context such as AQI and or something like an ETF I want to look at or setup a world time. I frequently use the timer function on my watch and read my email and reply to emails on my watch. Less obvious is the synergy with the ecosystem such as iPhone and Mac unlocking and keeping track of the weather and using Apple Music on my watch instead of my iPhone to keep tracking my battery and flight tracking.

I also use it to keep track of ChatGPT and Claude and I think one of them I can approve tasks with.

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

zitterbewegung — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:14:46 +0000

I’m attending defcon 34 and I vibe coded an image sharing app running on the badge https://github.com/zitterbewegung/dc34-baogram . When you share a picture you have taken you also digitally sign each picture you share so people know who took the picture . You can also upload arbitrary images using your computer.

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Why is Everyone in Tech so sad?"

zitterbewegung — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:55:04 +0000

When have people in Tech been happy? (Serious question).

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Interviewing Engineers in the AI Era: Lessons from a Year of Rebuilding"

zitterbewegung — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:01:17 +0000

I'm not sure if it is a good idea when you are referencing your "rebuilding" after you reduce headcount by 14% . If this isn't some kind of entendre then it's actually extremely effective.

https://xcancel.com/brian_armstrong/status/20516167591451857...

New comment by zitterbewegung in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

zitterbewegung — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:40 +0000

How do you think the bots are trained? Reddit has really good data since its comments and tags and specific subreddits basically have ranked questions and answers by points driven by the title and the comments are ranked by points which have quality answers.

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Incremental – A library for incremental computations"

zitterbewegung — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:52:29 +0000

The problem was that people who know python don't really expect this specific DSL and it is easier for someone that doesn't know python and just learn their DSL and then read the rest of python.

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Incremental – A library for incremental computations"

zitterbewegung — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:28:00 +0000

Yea and this created "bank python" informally a good article is here.

https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html

The best description about how it became a problem is one of the paragraphs.

"New starters take an exceptionally long time to get up to speed - and that's if they don't resign in fit of pique as soon as they see the special, mandatory, in-house IDE (as I nearly did). Even months in, new starters are still learning quite fundamental new things: there is a lot that is different."

I think it took me til I was there around two and a half years to fully comprehend it when I was working on it. Not much modern training til they figured out they had to teach it again that was better. The worst part is to make an UI around it coding it and it wasn't approved for new projects.

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Codex Micro"

zitterbewegung — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:17:38 +0000

IMHO this is a much better solution.

https://marketplace.elgato.com/product/claude-code-usage-ea7...

I actually have this as a problem with Codex / Claude where I don't know if I have to make a decision .

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel"

zitterbewegung — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:41:45 +0000

With Aristotle you could formalize a proof from only the text of a paper.

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Codex Micro"

zitterbewegung — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:39:22 +0000

Would think they would be doing it for their own hardware device for chatgpt not for developers.

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel"

zitterbewegung — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:22:26 +0000

I was studying Erdos problems by only taking ChatGPT 5.5 outputs and just asking it to keep on attempting to solve it by asking it to go further. I haven't started doing this with chatgpt 5.6 I have some partial results here https://chatgpt.com/g/g-p-69f03400f420819192418b18ca90ffee-d...

What was really interesting is that during the process it was able to find lemmas or theorems that might be related or relevant to be published.

While I was doing that I was also trying to use Aristotle to do the Lean formalization and I have a WIP system to do that at https://github.com/aconsapart/thesisus/

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Just Let Me Write Digits"

zitterbewegung — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:44:12 +0000

FWIW In the Apple ecosystem this usually gets filled in automatically based on the source.

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code"

zitterbewegung — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:31:04 +0000

I don't understand the code in the examples after simply reading it. That's a problem. You need to have comments to clarify or pick a better example of code.

You are in competition with Python and Javascript which has lots of code for training data. I wouldn't touch esoteric features unless it improves readability or is under the hood. The bigger problem with esoteric features is that its hard for humans in general to understand unless you cover it with enough syntactic sugar for people to write it down.

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode"

zitterbewegung — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:12:50 +0000

Xcode 27 which is in beta ships a much better codex integration. There are problems in Xcode that are frustrating . Also, git integrations are a nice touch that allow you to force push too. Would be interesting to find out how well this works in a team based setting.

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

zitterbewegung — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:17:30 +0000

I am working on a Jupyter notebook client for VisionOS. It allows for 3D data to be visualized on visionOS. Right now it supports point cloud data, USDZ models and Gaussian Splats. I am working on it to launch on the App Store. Sign up for more information at http://www.pulto.org

New comment by zitterbewegung in "I used to love Claude, but the latest models are slowly ruining it"

zitterbewegung — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:33:01 +0000

I love Claude Code and I don't use the rest of the models since I use ChatGPT for productivity work it. Fable is pretty great and the UI / UX is much better than codex

New comment by zitterbewegung in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

zitterbewegung — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 03:25:10 +0000

In America for my lifetime I have never been able to get fiber and it’s because America is too large and I live in an affluent suburb.

New comment by zitterbewegung in "After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell"

zitterbewegung — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:25:15 +0000

There is one simple thing you have to realize why Python is the optimal choice. You have so much training data. Python is the second most popular language on GitHub and is easy to read.

New comment by zitterbewegung in "GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper"

zitterbewegung — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:41:31 +0000

I agree with you on every point but it is interesting to see real world benchmarks like this. Showing the standard benchmarks that all LLMs use is not only boring but at this point likely gamed or even has issues (according to OpenAI) by every LLM.

New comment by zitterbewegung in "Grok 4.5"

zitterbewegung — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:16:52 +0000

The only thing I can possibly think of is that they could use it internally at possibly a lower cost and offer it to people who have a Tesla cheaply. Owning Cursor might help for integration or data collection.