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RationPhantoms··on Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes
Kind of not surprised with the domination of Claude Code/Codex out there.
RationPhantoms··on Show HN: I created a BGP-based blackhole system that you can set up in minutes
Your 4. is incorrect. Traffic does not get dropped upstream.
RationPhantoms··on Schools are experimenting with AI with little evidence or policy to guide them
This is such a detractive look at human beings. Maybe the dormancy in intelligence is because things are simply good enough.
RationPhantoms··on Back and shoulder surgery is often worse than useless
Single anecdata here.

My mother-in-law has spinal surgery last christmas, the pain for her, prior to the surgery, was unbearable so it's hard to justify not running from that into the arms of a surgeon. The surgeon showed exactly what was to repair though so it was simple enough to understand and clear in the way it was going to help her.

About 9 months out from that surgery and she doesn't have anymore pain.

RationPhantoms··on Best LLM for every budget, updated daily
If you're on MacOS, with atleast an M3 chip and 32GB, you should look at the splash engine.

GNHF seems exactly what I've been aiming for to handle overnight tasks.

RationPhantoms··on The Claude Delusion
I'm actually using that as a catalyst for my own writing; beauty/human-ness in its imperfection. Prior to LLMs and their cultural craze, I harbored a fear that my writing would allow for someone to draw a box around me and mark me as a bore, dullard or of lacking originality.

Now that the noise-floor has been artificially raised (and generated), my crappy words are starting to have their own happy little carbon-based rhythm.

RationPhantoms··on M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review
Thank you for this. I wish Apple focused their silicon design on improving the TTFT metrics but coming from an M3 Pro, it still looks laggard compared to Nvidia's TensorCores in the 5090.

Maybe Apple is an acquisition away from changing that balance.

RationPhantoms··on What Sun got wrong
Brian, I know you lurk and post here but i'd love to see those designs make their way to the store so the general public can purchase them.
RationPhantoms··on Ask HN: Anyone using dictation with coding agents?
Others should check out Fluid Voice as it seems privacy focused with a bit more enhancements like custom dictionary.
RationPhantoms··on On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
It's probably magnitudes of token chatter and inter-agent coordination/consideration. Not that I'd want to read any of it but getting some hands around the statistics would be cool.
RationPhantoms··on Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia
Please don't romanticize isolation. We have enough elderly folk existing in dire loneliness in assisted-living facilities and nursing homes who understand the true definition of it.
RationPhantoms··on More Than 30% of FAS Social Sciences Staff Laid Off in Largest Wave Yet
wrong link.
RationPhantoms··on The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here
Sounds similar to something from the Ricky and Morty realm; the plumbus.
RationPhantoms··on New US homeownership measure puts people first
To your last point, the Minneapolis Fed just put out a call for a new actual-owner backed housing occupancy rate called HPOP which I think is a step in the right direction: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2026/new-homeownershi...
RationPhantoms··on The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changing social media use
Anecdata here but my 60-something year old mother acts like a sullen teenager around my kids/her grandchildren. She just scrolls endlessly on her phone until my father/her husband calls her out on it.

It's maddening and sad.

RationPhantoms··on Iroh 1.0
Tailscale uses MagicDNS which allows one to auto-generate a semi-memorable private hostname as well. I'm in the networking industry so I'm not seeing anything truly groundbreaking or that isn't offered elsewhere.
RationPhantoms··on macOS Container Machines
Thank you for answering that question because I adore OrbStack and didn't find much difference.
RationPhantoms··on Is Python Becoming Pinyin?
I think computer/smartphone usage has been changing that latent space for quite some time. People have been talking about "character amnesia" since 2010.
RationPhantoms··on Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs
My steamdeck broke about 15 years of strict PC Gaming habits for me. Games like Balatro and Megabonk have broken my previous definition of "fun" in a fantastic way.
RationPhantoms··on Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
Yep, on the money.

It's not too dissimilar from the Figure demo that was done on X/Twitter recently. Everyone was pointing out what a lackluster demo that was and here I was thinking the total opposite, it worked for 8 hours with no sexual harassment training, KPIs, management oversight, breaks or co-worker chatting. That's the worst job it'll likely ever do. We just witnessed the floor of it's capabilities.

My hope/vision with robotic cars is we make cities more human-friendly/accessible. I want revitalized/bustling downtowns of bikes/bodies and not, what some cities are, which are glorified parking lots. I want to be less alone as an american. I would a physical sense of community injected back into my veins.

RationPhantoms··on Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 400Gb/S and Beyond (2022) [pdf]
I'm not a Netflix staff member but I work in the networking realm and can answer some of these questions (also gives me the chance to say something wrong where someone with the real answer can step in :)

1. Netflix does use AWS but it's far more economical for them to embed content caches/servers within ISP networks so that it relies solely on the ISPs network. All major CDN-like providers (Apple with their Edge Cache, Google with their GCC) offer embedded caches which tend to make a lot of sense at sufficient ISP scale (# of users). It's a misconception or just journalistic misunderstanding that everything Netflix runs is from AWS. Content delivery is the large majority of Netflix's outbound traffic. It also removes the reliance of Netflix to run in inordinately large backbone to serve content.

RationPhantoms··on Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
I will posit something that guides my own thinking about this; robotaxis will never drink and drive. I'll take whatever flavor of mistake they conjure over that. I can deal with stupidity, I cannot (and don't want to) deal with malice.
RationPhantoms··on Google's Antigravity bait and switch
You might have missed it but the OP's comment was dripping in literal sarcasm. Google's track record for product management is poor.
RationPhantoms··on The Aperiodic Table
> I just don’t care for a cool quirky thing if an AI made it.

While I understand the knee-jerk reaction, especially to writing, people make about AI, it's starting to have a counter-effect on me.

A brush can destroy (sweep) or create (paint) but it's still a tool.

RationPhantoms··on Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE
Yep, couple Open WebUI for general chats and OpenCode for software-specific tasks and it feels close to Claude Desktop and Claude Code.
RationPhantoms··on If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?
I don't think the majority of people have given it a passing thought to be fair. For folks that grew up with the advent of being the "designated family googler" (and rested the success of their careers on such), it is an incredible time for information.

You're telling me there is a faceless, non-judgemental, never exhausted tutor just sitting there waiting for my curiosity to strike up a conversation? How absolutely fantastic. We're spoiled with information.

RationPhantoms··on Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era
They just released their enterprise agentic platform today so my expectation is that might be the gravity well for the Fortune 500's to park their inference on.
RationPhantoms··on The Last Quiet Thing
Does your physical environment change that much that it requires cognitive load for you to decide on what cables to use? For myself, I bought two wireless charge "base" stations that handle my spouse's and my phone/watch/airpods. That's it. One place, bedside, where I need to put things.

Sure, for new equipment or in a pinch (that becomes cumbersome) but even traveling, you know what equipment you have, charge rate and things needing to get charged from what connector type. So you purchase the variants that you need.

RationPhantoms··on AI agents over SSH from your phone. Starting to think this is where dev is going
It honestly feels like a segue to just talking to the agents that won't really have much of a long time horizon. People who either prefer or are professionally required to maintain control over software aren't going to be working from a 5-inch screen while people who use the iPhone as a dev environment just want a simpler interaction with their agentic fleet for creation.
RationPhantoms··on Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once
Doesn't seem accurate considering GovDeals has auctions in NY, NJ and CT listed but your website has nothing.
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