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hmartin··on Show HN: Agents infer Lego mechanisms from sources, then animate them
Hi anteloc, congrats on some cool projects! Look forward to playing with them over the weekend.

pyldraw3 creator here btw... would love to find a forum where we (i.e. the handful of us trying to push lego tooling forward) can collaborate and communicate better.

My current main effort is deterministic model/instructions building but I've been thinking a lot about how to incorporate agents: https://github.com/hbmartin/legolization

hmartin··on MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
The calendar app and my internal clock disagree, is it April 1 today or no?
hmartin··on Frustrated ranchers want people to quit 'rescuing' their working guardian dogs
uh wut to all three sentences
hmartin··on macOS 27 does not support CoreStorage volumes
It is actually shocking to no longer be able to access my data with literally no warning.

As in, not even a dialog saying "hey this drive isn't support anymore"... just... nothing.

What exactly is Apple gaining by dropping a (presumably) super stable driver??

Nice that you can dismiss this as "largely obsolete technology" tho.

hmartin··on macOS 27 does not support CoreStorage volumes
Yes, thanks for the correction. I skipped 26 but could no longer hold out :)
hmartin··on The Internals of PostgreSQL
The had a safe super intelligence bug dating back to 2011?

Wow so ahead of their time.

(And since I'm bad at sarcasm and don't wish to mislead, SSI = Serializable Snapshot Isolation in this context.)

hmartin··on macOS 27 does not support CoreStorage volumes
Also dropped support for FireWire drives, as I just found out the hard way.
hmartin··on Mac at Any Scale
> A well-known limitation is that Apple only allows two macOS VMs per physical Mac. It can be a Mac Pro with 24 cores and 192 GB memory, yet it is limited to running only two guest VMs. This limitation leaks into our product offering: we can only slice Mac resources in two halves. So we run instances with 6 or 12 cores on 14-core Mac Minis and 8/16-core instances on 18-core MacBooks (we reserve a couple cores for management overhead).
hmartin··on Show HN: Automatic deduction of FlashAttention kernel from ~25 lines of SQL
The PR has a nice writeup: https://github.com/xqlsystems/xarray-sql/pull/269
hmartin··on Northflank Breached
Pretty much all "everyone else said i was wrong" stories end with "turns out I was wrong"
hmartin··on Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
I worked with GPT to create this script based on the Apple doc, also with helper options for ensuring homebrew's python and java are up to date:

https://gist.github.com/hbmartin/d485b07691d9dc2a66937f50719...

hmartin··on About the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs
I worked with GPT to create this script based on the Apple doc, also with helper options for ensuring homebrew's python and java are up to date:

https://gist.github.com/hbmartin/d485b07691d9dc2a66937f50719...

hmartin··on Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update
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hmartin··on Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google
How does it compare to Zulip?
hmartin··on Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions
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hmartin··on Show HN: UI micro interactions prompts for AI
Agreed. I tried signing in and immediately hit a paywall. Can't wait to be spammed.

That said, some nifty ideas that aren't hard to prompt / reference oneself. Thanks from a swe who's terrible at design but does care about it!

hmartin··on eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business
Bravo
hmartin··on France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months
I wish I could upvote this comment more
hmartin··on Game of Life – But Multiplayer, Hypermedia and Python
Neat! I implemented something similar (real time playing along with GoL) for desktop:

https://github.com/hbmartin/openrndr-game-of-life

hmartin··on High-speed video reveals how honey bee stingers pump venom
Beautiful.
hmartin··on Playgrnd – tiny tools for making weird, beautiful things
Interesting! Raw JavaScript writes to an ImageData buffer enlarged to canvas. No 3rd party libs or WGSL
hmartin··on Anthropic discloses 2 months old fake tip to police among new rogue AI incidents
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50027118
hmartin··on Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/10/04/openais...
hmartin··on Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more
> going to look like the 90s "under construction" banner gifs

exactly why I love it...

hmartin··on Spinal: A near-instant, predictive surface for any codebase
> Spinal is a new way to understand a codebase, how it's evolved, and the live changes streaming into it. It's ultra-low-latency, anticipates what you'll reach for next, and bubbles up the signals and insights that deserve your attention.

Ok, but what is it?

hmartin··on The lamps in my house
Thanks for the $$ I'm about to spend :heart: :sob:
hmartin··on Web Search API
I've been working on a TypeScript package to provide a unified search API across these providers:

https://github.com/hbmartin/agent-web-search

So this gives a unified search experience without adding another cloud hop and dependency.

hmartin··on Apple Pass Designer
No, you cannot manually turn on HDR on iPhone.
hmartin··on Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
Also clicking the logo is really fun!
hmartin··on State of Engineering Is Horribleium
"I am going to make sweeping generalized statements about an entire industry after two whole weeks of experience at one single company"... ok
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