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aethrum commented on The beauty of a text only webpage albanbrooke.com/the-beaut... · Posted by u/speckx

1024kb · 14 days ago

I quite enjoy reading Chris Siebenmann's blog [https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/] which is very light on theming, as I really like the aesthetic. I have to say though, if all blogs were like this the Internet might seem a bit boring, so I chose to give my own blog some personality.

aethrum · 14 days ago

What do you like about reading this? Its so hard to read for me on a 27 inch monitor in a full screen browser window, lol

aethrum commented on Why LLMs can't really build software zed.dev/blog/why-llms-can... · Posted by u/srid

diwank · 15 days ago

yup. I started a fully autonomous, 100% vibe coded side project called steadytext, mostly expecting it to hit a wall, with LLMs eventually struggling to maintain or fix any non-trivial bug in it. turns out I was wrong, not only has claude opus been able to write up a pretty complex 7k LoC project with a python library, a CLI, _and_ a postgres extension. It actively maintains it and is able to fix filed issues and feature requests entirely on its own. It is completely vibe coded, I have never even looked at 90% of the code in that repo. it has full test coverage, passes CI, and we use it in production!

granted- it needs careful planning for CLAUDE.md and all issues and feature requests need a lot of in-depth specifics but it all works. so I am not 100% convinced by this piece. I'd say it's def not easy to get coding agents to be able to manage and write software effectively and specially hard to do so in existing projects but my experience has been across that entire spectrum. I have been sorely disappointed in coding agents and even abandoned a bunch or projects and dozens of pull requests but I have also seen them work.

you can check out that project here: https://github.com/julep-ai/steadytext/

aethrum · 15 days ago

Huh, interesting. Though I do wonder if the best possible thing an AI could help code would be another AI tool

aethrum commented on Study mode openai.com/index/chatgpt-... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

JoRyGu · a month ago

Is that not something that was already possible with basically every AI provider by prompting it to develop learning steps and not to provide you with a direct answer? I've used this quite a bit when learning new topics and pretty much every provider does this without a specialized model.

aethrum · a month ago

even chatgpt is just a chatgpt wrapper

aethrum commented on Diet, not lack of exercise, drives obesity, a new study finds npr.org/2025/07/24/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/andsoitis

mritterhoff · a month ago

I'm a fan of weightlifting, and agree that there are numerous health benefits to doing so, but I think the extra calorie burning is over-hyped. From what I've read you get 6-10 calories per pound of muscle per day, at rest. Not nothing, but for folks who aren't looking to body build I'm not sure it makes much of a difference. Or maybe over a long enough time span it does, I dunno.

aethrum · a month ago

Yeah it's not terrible, but having 10 extra pounds of muscle burning almost 100 calories a day extra, thats like a pound of fat every month and a bit.

aethrum commented on Modification of acetaminophen to reduce liver toxicity and enhance drug efficacy societyforscience.org/reg... · Posted by u/felineflock

aethrum · 3 months ago

Reminds me of this drug company I was pitched a while ago:

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

aethrum commented on CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay, begins rolling out today apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/trollied

jcims · 3 months ago

Can't wait to see ads on my speedometer.

aethrum · 3 months ago

Cause apple is famous for tasteless ads, right

aethrum commented on What is HDR, anyway? lux.camera/what-is-hdr/... · Posted by u/_kush

the__alchemist · 3 months ago

So, HN, are HDR monitors worth it? I remember ~10 years ago delaying my monitor purchase for the HDR one that was right around the corner, but never (in my purchasing scope) became available. Time for another look?

The utility of HDR (as described in the article) is without question. It's amazing looking at an outdoors (or indoors with windows) scene with your Mk-1 eyeballs, then taking a photo and looking at it on a phone or PC screen. The pic fails to capture what your eyes see for lighting range.

aethrum · 3 months ago

For gaming, definitely. An HDR Oled monitor is so immersive.

aethrum commented on More Everything Forever nytimes.com/2025/04/23/bo... · Posted by u/c0rtex

aethrum · 4 months ago

If you like optimistic Sci-Fi, I would recommend the Culture Series. It really changed me when I read it in university.