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Show HN: The Velocity Trap, the Phoenix Project for the AI Age

Posted by ColinEberhardt on Monday October 05, 2026 @04:19AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://colineberhardt.github.io/the-velocity-trap/

I'm taking a bit of a risk with this one, this is a novella I authored with the help of AI. If that offends you, please move on!Everyone on HN knows just how much AI is disrupting our industry. Although, much of the industry narrative focusses on the tools, the AI, the harnesses, and their ever-growing capabilities. We need to spend just as much, if not more time discussing the impact this is...

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Show HN: The Rise of Open Weights – a long scroll story

Posted by ColinEberhardt on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @08:45AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://blog.scottlogic.com/ceberhardt/rise-of-open-weights/

Over the weekend I was discussing the latest news relating to open weights with some of my non-techie friends. After 30 mins of waffling, I realised it is quite a long and interesting story, with many twists and turns.I've always wanted to create a 'long scroll' story, but have never found a suitable story to tell. This felt like a fun weekend project to undertake.The story itself doesn't have...

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Re:Sam Altman says we are in the singularity on Monday July 27, 2026 @04:18AM (#49066585)
"We are now, like, in the singularity,"

:eye-roll:

Re:MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games on Friday July 17, 2026 @04:15PM (#48951805)
Oh wow, I loved AMOS - it is what got me seriously into programming in the first place.
Re:Show HN: I mapped 8.5M research papers into an interactive atlas on Thursday July 09, 2026 @05:14PM (#48852470)
Very cool. By the way, you can render many more datapoints on mobile if you use WebGL. Here’s a similar example - embeddings rendered using a T-SNE layout

https://blog.scottlogic.com/2021/10/15/efficiently-loading-m...

Re:Writing your own static website generator on Monday June 29, 2026 @01:22AM (#48715136)
I created my own static site generator about 10 years ago. It was only around 100 lines of code:

https://github.com/ColinEberhardt/tiny-ssg

I used it for a few websites, viable replacement for Assemble and other SSGs of that time.

Re:Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fight... on Thursday May 21, 2026 @01:51AM (#48218420)
I presume it only recognised the BBC journalists efforts as satire due to the article in which he clearly states that this was his intention? Without that, I’m am confident it would have fallen for it.
Re:Agent Skills on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @01:59AM (#48018619)
Agents Skills are built upon “Five design decisions [that] are the load-bearing ones”

And Open Design (HN front page yesterday) is supported by “Six load-bearing ideas”

The similarities in the way these prompt libraries are documented doesn’t feel coincidental.

Re:Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS on Monday May 04, 2026 @03:48AM (#48005825)
Funny coincidence - I visited that valley for the first time just last week, on my way to the Isle of Skye.

And as a further coincidence, I met Jimmy Saville about 25 years ago. I was in Leeds hospital after a heart operation, and this old and somewhat scruffy track suited guy just walks in to the ward and starts talking to me. I had no idea who he was. After he left, a nurse asked “did you speak to Jimmy?”. It was creepy and unnerving seeing first hand how he just got to roam around.

I can confirm, the graffiti-covered Saville residence has almost completely been demolished.

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