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I remember reading a blog post a year or two ago about prompting like a printer driver and asking for increasingly ridiculous changes like time travel or wormhole capability. I don't know if I hallucinated that post but I haven't been able to find it again and I REALLY wish I could

zparkyon The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin

dear lord, what kinda size are you talking about? in terms of TB/# of shows/files?

zparkyon It's a shame what's happened to radio

looks like it! https://radio.garden/listen/ksan-fm-107-7/iWCTdfjj

zparkyon Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code

that sounds like a good idea to try, thanks!

zparkyon Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling

spam account created a few days ago.

zparkyon Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners

why?

zparkyon Proof of care in the age of AI

There's a few books that are coupled with the term ergodic literature, chief among them House of Leaves. It really is a thoroughly enjoyable exercise to read that book, I highly recommend.

> (By the way, is your user name a joke on "sparky", the slang word for an electrician?)

It wasn't originally when I used it as a kid, but I grew in to that term later :)

zparkyon Proof of care in the age of AI

Not surprised to see such negative comments, this forum is fried by LLMs nowadays. I was immediately intrigued by reading a handwritten blog post, and enjoy ergodic literature, like this! I liked the message too, and this might shove me toward some handwriting projects I've been meaning to tackle lately.

zparkyon Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code

I always feel like I'm losing my mind when reading LLM comments or prose for code. It's so esoteric and 'i-am-very-smart' and makes me feel like I'm not supposed to read the comments in the first place

zparkyon IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology

Hi Dr. Cutress! I loved reading your deep dives on Anand, they're what got me interested in semiconductors. Hope you're well <3

zparkyon Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain

if this is about you, good luck :) starting prog helps a lot!

zparkyon Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain

libido is fixed with progesterone (which is commonly taken ~1-2 years into hrt) for better breast growth. anecdotally it makes you completely f*king feral

zparkyon Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'

https://www.schwab.com/direct-indexing

zparkyon CUDA Books

I liked going through https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/cuda-training-series/ for an intro and some fundamentals.

zparkyon HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

go to a profile and open image in new tab, the URL is /u/# (im # ~4 million!)

zparkyon Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial

if you're on android, advanced is a blessing to de-shorts your YouTube.

zparkyon Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised

Not really the time for that. There's also PRs being merged every hour of the day.

zparkyon The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books

I love alibris

zparkyon The MacBook Neo

> The machine has a single thread performance that exceeds any and all Intel/AMD processors

Not true at all: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/single-thread/

zparkyon Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse

It's current year, of course they used AI to help [0], and it does feel like the article was AI assited.

"This map isn't flat — it has 5 levels of elevation."

"The ocean isn't just a blue plane — it has animated caustic sparkles"

"The fundamental issue:" and "The key constraint:"

I still enjoyed the article.

[0] https://github.com/felixturner/hex-map-wfc/commit/1679be