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HellsMaddy

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Founder, Sodium AI. https://na.ai

https://github.com/b0o

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HellsMaddy··on ChatGPT Pro 20x plan is now unavailable for purchase
Yeah. Pure speculation, but I would not be surprised if Anthropic jumps on this opportunity to nerf their 20x plan soon as well. Would probably be the best time do it to minimize the public backlash since OpenAI took the lead on it.
HellsMaddy··on Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark
Absolutely. Running NixOS is a wonderful experience for this reason. NixOS + LLMs make it a breeze to make changes to your system, install and configure new software, and debug issues. Having every aspect of your system defined in a git repo is the perfect fit for agent harnesses.

I'll admit, even with LLMs to help, the Nix language and NixOS did have a rather steep learning curve, because it's quite different from anything I'd experienced before. But after getting the hang of it, I can't imagine going back to a "normal" OS and I'm very happy I put in the time to get over the initial friction.

HellsMaddy··on Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics
Since you mention VAEs: you might be interested in Active Inference, which is built on minimizing variational free energy. Same E−TS form as the thermodynamic kind (Helmholtz free energy), so it does fit your thermo/info/NN question. And the negative free energy is equivalent to the evidence lower bound used in generative models like VAEs. Lots of really fascinating connections between all of these topics :)

There's a free 2022 textbook: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5299/Active-Infere...

And a brand new one (though it's a bit pricey): https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262050951/fundamentals-of-activ...

HellsMaddy··on Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
I received it too. I wonder if they sent this to all pro/max subscribers or only those who they’ve flagged as having used a third party harness.
HellsMaddy··on CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font
Might be interested in https://github.com/shytikov/pragmasevka which is my current go-to font.
HellsMaddy··on Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi
Kagi is doing something similar to this, though it's not trying to remove absolutely all AI, just "slop": https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/slopstop.html
HellsMaddy··on Lua 5.5
Global-by-default scoping was one of Lua's largest mistakes. I wish they'd fix it, but of course it would break backwards compat.
HellsMaddy··on [dead]
The link to the Amazon product looks like a non-affiliate link when you hover over it. But if you click, as soon as the mousedown event fires, they swap in an affiliate link. How rude!
HellsMaddy··on An Homage to 90s –/Public_HTML Hosting
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8432703
HellsMaddy··on AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem
This is awesome on Linux. I've wanted to see my battery status forever, and the ability to pause when you remove an AirPod is really nice too.
HellsMaddy··on Show HN: I made a heatmap diff viewer for code reviews
This is cool! Please add a dark theme and respect `prefers-color-scheme: dark` :)
HellsMaddy··on Show HN: Sculptor – A UI for Claude Code
nvidia GPU for me with hardware acceleration enabled (required some command-line flags passed to chrome to get it working on wayland):

    google-chrome-stable --enable-gpu --ozone-platform=wayland --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform,WaylandLinuxDrmSyncobj
HellsMaddy··on Show HN: Sculptor – A UI for Claude Code
I'm also unable to load it in chrome on linux (wayland backend). Seems like some sort of GPU issue.
HellsMaddy··on AI tools I wish existed
I agree with this. But do you have any resources on "thinking with portals"? It's easier said than done.
HellsMaddy··on Libghostty is coming
Super exciting. I hope to be able to embed a Ghostty-backed terminal into my Rust app in the future. Amazing work as always, Mitchell!
HellsMaddy··on CVC acquires majority stake in Namecheap for $1.5B
Private equity seems to be a form of cancer that slowly sucks the life out of everything it touches, with a single goal: to grow and spread. Can someone more knowledgeable please explain to me why I'm wrong?
HellsMaddy··on Launch HN: Bitrig (YC S25) – Build Swift apps on your iPhone
Very cool! Was it difficult to get Bitrig approved on the App Store? If I had to guess just based on the idea, it seems like the sort of thing Apple would take issue with.
HellsMaddy··on Uv: Running a script with dependencies
I really love this and I've been using it a lot. The one thing I'm unsure about is the best way to get my LSP working with inline dependencies.

Usually, when I use uv along with a pyproject.toml, I'll activate the venv before starting neovim, and then my LSP (basedpyright) is aware of the dependencies and it all just works. But with inline dependencies, I'm not sure what the best way to do this is.

I usually end up just manually creating a venv with the dependencies so I can edit inside of it, but then I run the script using the shebang/inline dependencies when I'm done developing it.

HellsMaddy··on XMLUI
My first exposure to XSLT was sketchers.com: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Sketchy-Skecherscom

Sadly it doesn't seem like they're using it anymore.

HellsMaddy··on Woman takes 10x dose of turmeric, gets hospitalized for liver damage
Unless you buy on Amazon, in which case products from reputable brands are co-mingled with third-party FBA sellers' inventory, which may include counterfeits.
HellsMaddy··on Show HN: Clawtype v2.1 – a one-hand chorded USB keyboard and mouse [video]
Is this by chance inspired by the one handed keyboard from Children of Men?

https://youtu.be/sJO0n6kvPRU at around 2:05

One of my favorite scenes, by the way.

HellsMaddy··on Why is nuclear fusion so hard? (2018)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18637991
HellsMaddy··on Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port
Are there any glasses/headsets out there that are good for coding yet? The idea of working on the go with VR glasses is very appealing to me.
HellsMaddy··on The State of Vim
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42665222
HellsMaddy··on Please don't force dark mode
Thanks for posting this, it's an interesting perspective that I hadn't considered before. Ideally, sites would respect user preferences such as prefers-color-scheme and prefers-reduced-motion. And, in fact, I just checked MDN and see there is prefers-contrast:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

HellsMaddy··on City Roads: A tool to draw all roads in a city at once
From the README[0]:

> To improve the performance of download, I indexed ~3,000 cities with population larger than 100,000 people and stored into a very simple protobuf format.

[0] https://github.com/anvaka/city-roads

HellsMaddy··on Map of GitHub
That explains why they are "close to each other" but not what determines which nodes are connected by an edge.
HellsMaddy··on Map of GitHub
How are connections between repos determined? I checked some of my repos and don't see any references in either direction for some of the connections.
HellsMaddy··on Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder
The website is good for someone who is not primarily a web designer. It can serve as a starting point which can be polished into something quite nice.
HellsMaddy··on Fly.io outage (restoration in progress)
If you mean specifically flyio.net and not just fly.io the company, I'm guessing they host their status page on a separate domain in case of DNS/registrar issues with their primary domain.
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