iamjackg

Long time customer! I bought one after your original post on HN. Congrats on the milestone. Honestly, it's such a good product and I'm such a bad and inconsistent piano player that I completely forget it exists for months at a time. Then I remember about it, open the app, and everything is there: my attempt to figure out a song, my kids smashing the keys as hard as they can, my cat walking across the keyboard. It's such a joy.

I'd love to see that tool.

I realized just a couple weeks ago that I've had my Brother laser printer for 10 years, and I've only changed the toner once -- so long ago that I don't remember when that was.

You're right. I should have included Google in the list!

How many of those are "the exact same product, but better" though? Definitely the iPhone, and possibly Slack. Everything else you listed was a drastic change in the way an existing service (taxis, home media, backups) was delivered or priced, to the point where they feel like either an entirely different product (or an unsustainably priced one that wins by virtue of being cheaper at first, see Uber and Airbnb).

I'm not fundamentally disagreeing with you -- but I think there are some things where "everybody has clearly been doing this wrong the whole time" doesn't pass the smell test: ovens have been around for millennia, including through the whole industrial revolution and recent exponential modernization of technology.

I take that back! It seems to be happening to multiple people using VPNs. My bad. I should have been more charitable.

It's probably a bot account that tried to read the article to come up with a reasonable comment, but TCRF likely serves a "you're a bot, go away" static response page when it's accessed by bots. Pretty funny.

"More up-to-date" meaning more sources that are also up to date like the OP, or meaning that the OP is not up to date? Silly English language!

It would be cool to use something like this or openfov to control OBS to automatically switch between different cameras/scenes when you turn your head. Either multiple cameras, or switching between screenshare/camera if you look directly into the camera.

The same thing happened to me with Opus 4.8 just a few days ago. I was testing a script in a docker container which created a bunch of root-owned files, so Claude couldn't delete them. It tried sudo, but when that didn't work it just spun up an alpine docker container and deleted them through that.

Bots doing what? How would the poster being a bot influence why the post itself makes it to the front page with just 10 points?

That seems like a false equivalence to me, even if we ignore the fact that only 21% of that revenue came from non-US countries. There are enormous chunks of the world where the local equivalent of $1500 is a life-changing amount of money.

The C64 sold "between 12.5 and 17 million units" in its lifetime [0], vs. worldwide PC shipments of "71.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2025." (emphasis mine) [1] It's truly an apples (hehe) to oranges comparison, and in my opinion it only reinforces the point that "normal people" will no longer be able to purchase computers, just like the C64 was not a mainstream product.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160306232450/http://www.pageta... [1] https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-1-20...

I think the comment's saying that they leave the phone at home, and the watch works by itself as long as it was connected to the phone before leaving the house.

I know, it looks incredible. It popped up on my YouTube feed and I got super excited, but then I thought "I bet this is going to be at least $800." I was wrong in the worst possible way.

I actually thought of this (or a previous similar project? The one posted here seems more recent...) just a few days ago while watching the announcement video for this new DJ device, since it seems to use a 5x5 font: https://driftdj.com/dj-hybrid

The problem, unfortunately, is the scale. It's always scale. Humans make all the kinds of mistakes that we ascribe to LLMs, but LLMs can make them much faster and at much larger scale.

Models have gotten ridiculously better, they really have, but the scale has increased too, and I don't think we're ready to deal with the onslaught.

Scott's work is amazing.

Another related project that builds on a similar foundation: https://github.com/ledfx/ledfx

All it means is that the PO-32 is not a sampler, it's a synthesizer, so it receives a "preset" for the synth rather than an audio sample.

You might like https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

It depends on what your "currency" is: inference cost vs. models getting dumber/slower with a fuller context.

I find the concept of LLM "brain surgery" fascinating, precisely because of how opaque the network is. One of the first things I did back when llama.cpp first got vision model support was hack the code to zero out (or otherwise modify) random numbers in the image embedding generated by the projector and then ask the LLM to describe the image. It was absolutely fascinating.

It would go from a normal description of the item in the picture to suddenly seeing people clapping in the background that were not there, or making up some other stuff. I kinda stopped after a while, but I should pick that back up and do a more coherent experiment to see if I can find any correlation between vector dimensions and "meaning."

Nobody is promoting a product. Simon is just sharing an experiment he attempted. No products being sold here.

Heck yeah! Love the VisiData shoutout. Echoing other people's desire for a web UI, mostly so I don't have to be the sole Maintainer of the Truth as the only resident household technomancer.

EDIT: alternatively, exposing the data/functionality via MCP or similar would allow me to connect this to an agent using Home Assistant Voice, so anybody in the house could ask for changes or add new information.

Maybe your point was that, but that's not the point the person you replied to was addressing. Nobody was arguing about the specific definition of "modern."

The original commenter made a very clear claim: that the most recent "peak" system was the Xbox, which was discontinued in 2005, and that everything after that has been a rehash.

It's not unsolved, at least not the first part of your question. In fact it is a feature offered by all main LLM providers!

- https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/prompt-caching

- https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt...

- https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/caching

Curious how this will fare when playing Pokemon Red.

Oh absolutely -- this was a no-stakes personal project, so I was happy to rely on pre-made solutions and learn a thing or two along the way.

Somewhat related: a while ago I was working on a project and wanted to use an RS485 to TTL conversion board which came with badly translated instructions. However, somebody had reverse engineered the design and uploaded an EasyEDA schematic. I shoved the raw JSON for the schematic (which looked quite cryptic to me) into Gemini 2.5 Pro and asked it if it could understand it, and it cheerfully responded with:

Of course, Jack. I can understand the schematic from the provided JSON file. It describes an RS485 to TTL Converter Module. Here is a detailed breakdown of the circuit's design and functionality

...followed by an absolutely reasonable description of the whole board. It was imprecise, but with some guidance (and by putting together my basic skills with Gemini's vast but unreliable knowledge) I was able to figure out a few things I needed to know about the board. Quite impressive.

Yeah I immediately switched to a Honeywell Z-Wave thermostat as soon as I got the email that they were discontinuing them.