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nice animation. but can you convince me to switch from Codex?

Congratulations on your release, Sam!

Are you still considering hardware demos, such as those on Raspberry Pi?

If anyone here also wants to try a different syntax, check out http://glicol.org/.

Using AI to learn objective things is acceptable. However, as long as it's combined with your own experience, because AI can't possibly understand your entire world, any subjective answers will be disgusting, disastrous, obsequious, and boring.

chaosprinton DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price

I doubt if those models already knew this pelican test...

chaosprinton Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI

Microsoft Store App Vibing.exe Accused of Harvesting Screens, Audio, and Clipboard Data:

https://cyberpress.org/microsoft-store-app-vibing-exe-accuse...

chaosprinton I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support

I bought a Claude membership a few days ago. I asked him to fix a React issue—a very simple UI modification with almost no logic. He still failed to understand it. And after three attempts, the 5-hour limit was reached. This was a disaster. I had to immediately buy a CodeX membership and also tried Image2. I won't give Claude another chance.

chaosprinton Lovable admits public project chats and source code were exposed, apologizes

what a roller coaster

chaosprinton Lovable admits public project chats and source code were exposed, apologizes

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/20/lovable_denies_data_l...

chaosprinton A DIY Watch You Can Actually Wear

I doubt if esp32s3's power consumption can be used in real life.

chaosprinton Technical, cognitive, and intent debt

Well written. I also wrote in my personal notes yesterday that if you don't organically and continuously develop code, it's hard to say you truly "own" it.

Like self-driving cars, at least you remember the scenery along the way, but now it just teleports you to another place and then shows you the recording.

This kind of review is ineffective. Such ghosted code might be acceptable for small tools, but for databases or similar systems, it's really worrying.

I've now basically stopped granting the agent any write permissions and returned to how I wrote codes 2 years ago with manual QA. The thing is, it's actually more efficient in turns of tokens and the results.

That's just my personal experience.

chaosprinton Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

I think this article covers it well.

https://entropytown.com/articles/2026-03-12-openclaw-sandbox...

In fact, I haven't even installed it yet.

chaosprinton Building a CLI for all of Cloudflare

Wrangler is a disaster. Since it's a Node.js environment, why use TOML for configuration? Can't you use TypeScript?

If you like Rust so much, I think you should just completely refactor it.

chaosprinton Introduction to Obsidian

I really like Obsidian, but its features are still too much for me. Are there any aesthetically pleasing, faster alternatives that simply render Markdown and LaTeX? It would be even better if it also supported mixed inputs like Obsidian.

chaosprinton Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]

Note: Nick Collins (the author of this book) and Alex McLean created Algorave. The time I spent learning from the Algorave community was crucial to my later work on Glicol (https://glicol.org/).

Btw, I have a feeling that if you want to learn about computer music, you can send the PDF to LLM and ask what the chapter is about and how to represent it using csound or supercollider.

My experience is that with computer music, you have to keep experimenting and listening in order to truly understand and innovate.

chaosprinton Show HN: European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps

no result for github?

chaosprinton Government to enforce 1099 bike parking spaces at IKEA, Norway

"Stavanger

200 days of rainy weather Half of the year it’s cold

IKEA, a furniture shop, is located in the middle of a industrial area away from most people

This sums up bureaucratic logic in Norway"

this comment is so true.

The more valuable Norway's oil is, the more foolish its government is.

chaosprinton Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL

This is actually becoming a path dependency, a dependence on the supply chain.

chaosprinton Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games

Interesting. But if you claim "prompt in Godot game out", how do you deal with assets? I think assets pipeline is one of the most challenging parts in game dev. Is there anything similar but for Bevy?

chaosprinton The wild six weeks for NanoClaw's creator that led to a deal with Docker

"The stronger boundary protects the machine while the agent is coding, testing and improvising. It does not protect the rest of the world from the permissions you have already granted. A better-isolated runtime will not stop the bot from spraying outbound messages, sending a stupid email, or otherwise turning your authority into a minor public nuisance."

from:

https://entropytown.com/articles/2026-03-12-openclaw-sandbox...

plus, any idea why not podman or firecracker?

chaosprinton Run NanoClaw in Docker Sandboxes

That's a great question, and it reminds me of something I read today:

https://entropytown.com/articles/2026-03-12-openclaw-sandbox...

The core issue, to me, is that permissions are inherently binary — can it send an email or not — while LLMs are inherently probabilistic. Those two things are fundamentally in tension.

chaosprinton Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from A16Z, Nvidia to advance its world models

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923326

https://entropytown.com/articles/2025-11-13-world-model-lecu...

I still want to know the definition of a world model, because it seems that what they are doing now is a very basic model of GS (not sure if it is self-developed) and a GS browser.

chaosprinton OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been

I completely disagree. 1. OpenClaw's design is ugly. 2. Its security is extremely worrying. 3. I hate this kind of marketing.

Personal opinion.

chaosprinton DeepSeek OCR2

paper link:

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR-2/blob/main/Deep...

chaosprinton Prism

As a researcher who has to use LaTeX, I used to use Overleaf, but lately I've been configuring it locally in VS Code. The configuration process on Mac is very simple. Considering there are so many free LLMs available now, I still won't subscribe to ChatGPT.

chaosprinton Two Weeks Until Tapeout

some of my favorite projects from tiny tapeout:

https://tinytapeout.com/chips/tt05/tt_um_rejunity_sn76489

https://tinytapeout.com/chips/tt07/tt_um_rejunity_ay8913

https://tinytapeout.com/chips/tt04/tt_um_morningjava_top

chaosprinton Show HN: Beats, a web-based drum machine

cool. for those who are interested, you can actually use code to control the seq like this example in Glicol:

https://glicol.org/demo#minitechno

chaosprinton Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence

I really doubt this marketing approach is effective. Isn't this just shooting themselves in the foot? My actual experience with Cursor has been: their design is excellent and the UX is great—it handles frontend work reasonably well. But as soon as you go deeper, it becomes very prone to serious bugs. While the addition of Claude's new models has helped somewhat, the results are still not as good as Google's Antigravity (despite its poor UX and numerous bugs). What's worse, even with this much-hyped Claude model, you can easily blow through the $20 subscription limit in just a few days. Maybe they're betting on models becoming 10x better and 10x cheaper, but that seems unlikely to happen anytime soon.

chaosprinton SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

I can't comment on this matter because I don't know the details. However, based on my personal experience consuming Adafruit products and their generous open-source approach, I personally trust Adafruit very much.

chaosprinton Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async

I'm rewriting glicol (https://glicol.org/) with no std, and embassy-rs + 2350 is my go-to choice. Highly recommand this stack if you're planning to start working with embedded systems in 2026.