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nullandvoidon AI 2040: Plan A

Waymo was largely built pre-LLM and AI level funding - I think it might be a somewhat apple and pairs comparison.

nullandvoidon Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads

To add to this for youtube the unhook extension is great to block everything other than search and playing vids

Then I permanently block youtube and reddit on phone. I've explored quite a few blockers - AppBlock for android is the best I've used / has no bugs on my now older s21.

nullandvoidon Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

I can't relate to this need to fully explore and then document everyone's history - I can have a conversation for an evening and forget everything the next day, and I'm happy with that, the truly important things (to me) will distill themselves naturally.

A case of different strokes for different folks I suppose.

nullandvoidon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

Now ready to release https://mealplannr.io. The end game is no/low touch weekly meal plans sent directly to your inbox, with meals from the chefs you follow - with none of the hassle around planning the meals, shopping list etc (which I spend hours doing every week).

An important feature for me was improving the recipe discovery experience, you can build a cookbook from chefs you follow on socials (youtube for now), or import from any source (Web, or take pic of cookbook etc) - it then has tight / easy integration into recipe lists.

Utilising GenAI to auto extract recipes, manage conversions, merge/categorise shopping lists etc - as-well as the actual recommendations engine.

If anyone is interested in beta testing / wants to have a chat I'll look out for replies, or message mealplannr@tomyeoman.dev

nullandvoidon Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching

Makes sense and it's a new term for me so thanks for sharing :)

nullandvoidon Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching

If I were to guess I imagine the downvotes are due to the use of an upvote being preferred over (albeit it well intentioned) comments of "well done" in HN threads (in order to keep signal to noise ratio high)

nullandvoidon Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration

Sorry for the late reply - it just worked out the box via the GUI for me using Handy.

Win 11 with 4070ti, 7600x

nullandvoidon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)

https://mealplannr.io The end game is no/low touch weekly meal plans send directly to your inbox, with meals you love to cook but with none of the hassle around planning the meals, shopping list etc (which I spend hours doing every week).

Utilising GenAI to auto extract recipes, manage conversions, merge/categorise shopping lists etc - as-well as the actual recommendations engine.

If anyone is interested in beta testing / wants to have a chat I'll look out for replies, or message mealplannr@tomyeoman.dev

nullandvoidon Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration

I've been using handy with parakeet on both Windows and mac, and have been very impressed.

Hoe does this compare?

nullandvoidon Meta Plans 'Name Tag' Facial Recognition for Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

"We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns"

Why would they ever make this statement, there's nothing to gain with that right?

nullandvoidon Lena by qntm (2021)

One of my favourite reads for sure - I've been looking for similar reads since.

I enjoyed "the raw shark texts" after hearing it recommended - curious if you / anyone else has any other suggestions!

nullandvoidon Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

https://mealplannr.io

The end game is no/low touch weekly meal plans send directly to your inbox, with meals you love to cook but with none of the hassle around planning the meals, shopping list etc (which I spend hours doing every week).

Utilising GenAI to auto extract recipes, manage conversions, merge/categorise shopping lists etc - as-well as the actual recommendations engine.

If anyone is interested in beta testing / wants to have a chat I'll look out for replies, or message mealplannr@tomyeoman.dev

nullandvoidon Hacking Moltbook

To repeat my comment from another thread:

Every interaction has different (in many cases real) "memories" driving the conversation, as-well as unique persona's / background information on the owner.

Is there a lot of noise, sure - but it much closer maps to how we, as humans communicate with each other (through memories of lived experienced) than just a LLM loop, IMO that's what makes it interesting.

nullandvoidon Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

I would say fairly substantially different for a few reasons:

- You can run any model, for example I'm running Kimi 2.5 not Claude

- Every interaction has different (likely real) memories driving the conversation, as-well as unique persona's / background information on the owner.

It much closer maps to how we, as humans communicate with each other (through memories of lived experienced) than just a LLM loop, IMO that's what makes it interesting.

nullandvoidon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://tomyeoman.dev

nullandvoidon Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever

Did anyone ever comment on reddit with an expectation of pay?

It's an open forum - similar to here, whatever I post I it's in the public forum and therefore I expect it to be used / remixed however anyone wants.

nullandvoidon MacBook Lid Angle Sensor

There is.. we don't need to see the exact same front page articles each week - it reduces the signal to noise ratio for regulars.

nullandvoidon Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT

I was hoping to see a graph of em-dash usage over time across all comments - would be interesting to see the spike post LLM

nullandvoidon AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore

Safety critical (will kill someone if not bug free) code makes up <1% of what's shipped, safety clothes which must be of high quality else risk harm to someone make up a similarly small percent

Both will stay manual / require high level of review they're not what's being disrupted (at-least in near term) - it's the rest.

nullandvoidon Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room

Similar story, running modded COD4 dedicated servers largely got me into programming.

It's depressing the modern COD lobbies - chucked in with skill matched randoms on a small range of gamemodes, comms kept to a minimum so no one gets offended.

Then don't get me started how 50% of playtime is spent loading / in lobbies so eye balls on store can be maximised - I'll pass.

nullandvoidon Kiro: A new agentic IDE

I'm already burnt from amazon Q which was forced onto us in an alpha state in my workplace - was miles behind competitors for a full year, before we finally won the battle to move back to co-pilot.

Going to take a while before I trust any AWS AI related tooling won't just be abandoned / mis-managed after my prior experience.

nullandvoidon OpenAI releases image generation in the API

Is every story on HN relevant for every user?

nullandvoidon Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs

Did I say all the people, or did I say many people?..

Why are you so hostile? I'm not justifying the cost, I'm simply in the 4k market and replying to OP's statement "Any modern card under $1000 is more than enough for graphics in virtually all games" which is objectively false if you're a 4k user.

nullandvoidon Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs

Many people are running 4k resolution now, and a 4080 struggles to to break 100 frames in many current games maxed (never-mind future titles) - therefore there's plenty of a market with gamers and the 5x series (myself included) who are looking for closer to 4090 performance at a non obscene price.

nullandvoidon Mullvad Review of 2024

You can? Just go into WireGuard settings https://mullvad.net/en/blog/introducing-shadowsocks-obfuscat...

nullandvoidon Amazon workers to strike at multiple US warehouses during busy holiday season

To flip the question - any modern card provider will 2fa through an app if the payment is suspicious, so why waste your time manually entering them?

It's the same reason I use a password manager, it's convenient and 2fa exists.

nullandvoidon Best-of-N Jailbreaking

Seemed pretty simple to me and it's not my field.

My understanding was given a prompt X that is normally rejected, create Y variations with small adjustments to phrasing, grammar etc until it gives you the answer you're after.

The term "jailbreaking" used within a LLM context, is when you craft a prompt as to escape the safety sandbox, if that helps.

A sort of brute forcing the prompts if you like.

nullandvoidon Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI

YT channels:

- https://www.youtube.com/@aiexplained-official - https://www.youtube.com/@DaveShap - https://www.youtube.com/@TwoMinutePapers/videos

Then newsletter AI supremacy

nullandvoidon Trump wins presidency for second time

So when I'm down on my luck I shouldn't be entitled to healthcare?

Living in the UK I'm more than happy to contribute my way in taxes, knowing I'm always looked after regardless of my employment state or wealth.

Additionally we can also pay for American style (private) healthcare, but aren't paying 10x markup on treatment as is the case for America (see Ozempic pricing for example).

American healthcare is one of the worst in the developed world, it shouldn't be celebrated.

nullandvoidon Show HN: I made a Bluesky video downloader that can download videos from Bluesky

What's with the title? Doesn't "Show HN: I made a Bluesky video downloader" provide just as much context as the current version in half the words?

That aside congrats on releasing and thanks for making it a free tool, also impressive turnaround time.