Hacker News: Arn_Thor

New comment by Arn_Thor in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

Arn_Thor — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:27:38 +0000

I was a dedicated Claude user but in March/April I started using GPT5.5 on a new project that Claude had tried and failed to execute successfully. GPT knocked it out of the park, and was able to do it within my subscription allocation of tokens. I'd recommend giving it a go at least. Something like OpenClaude can let you use the Claude tools you're used to

New comment by Arn_Thor in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

Arn_Thor — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:53:41 +0000

The only way that'll happen is if deep-pocketed corporate buyers exit the market almost entirely, and therefore stop being the highest-available bidder. Even in a scenario where it's obvious to everyone that consumer-side hardware is a viable option, it's still not in the big AI providers' interest to abandon the effort to push/pull everyone to their cloud. They'll keep buying as long as there's liquidity to fund them and the will to do so, and we're a ways off that collapsing. I'm quite pessimistic. Prices will probably come down in the next 12-18 months, but not to where they were before this

New comment by Arn_Thor in "Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets"

Arn_Thor — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:33:45 +0000

Maybe it's bad to let people bet on anything, huh

New comment by Arn_Thor in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

Arn_Thor — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:19:38 +0000

This was news to me. Very sad news indeed. I see now they were bought by Canva. That explains it...

New comment by Arn_Thor in "In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue"

Arn_Thor — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:58:53 +0000

Yes, looking at things from the same angle every time and not really representing the alternative view is indeed a crusade

New comment by Arn_Thor in "In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue"

Arn_Thor — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:18:33 +0000

_Something_ motivates them, though. They have been on a wild anti-solar bend the last year or more. Dozens of articles, all with the same anti-solar NIMBY bent

New comment by Arn_Thor in "In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue"

Arn_Thor — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:17:17 +0000

The Guardian continues its anti-solar crusade. For some inexplicable reason

New comment by Arn_Thor in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

Arn_Thor — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:15:40 +0000

Roboto Mono, apparently

New comment by Arn_Thor in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

Arn_Thor — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:02:36 +0000

I'm using the drives, not hoarding them, so normal wear and tear is likely to be a problem before helium depletion enters the picture

New comment by Arn_Thor in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

Arn_Thor — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:26:23 +0000

Considering my helium-filled hard drives a strategic reserve now

New comment by Arn_Thor in "I put my whole life into a single database"

Arn_Thor — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:30:57 +0000

For this particular person, the inordinate factor is not the frequency of flights, but the distance: 40 flights in 2019, mostly from the US to Austria via Frankfurt. Now, there are some jobs that really do require such travel (though the business should probably consider hiring locally even though it might be more expensive?), but probably fairly few. The individual doesn't show flying stats after 2021, but presumably the work did get done even in the pandemic years when they couldn't fly as often.

New comment by Arn_Thor in "I put my whole life into a single database"

Arn_Thor — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:18:27 +0000

Understand this is both an individual and systemic critique. We have the internet. Much of the travel you describe can and should be done remotely. The top 1% of flyers account for 50% of emissions. I would argue most of that probably is unnecessary technically, but there is both a push and pull factor from people expecting some things to take place face to face.

We're adults, we can keep many things in our minds at one time: We should all reduce flying. Regular working people should not be shamed for taking a holiday and flying there. The most frequent fliers for work should make a personal effort to reduce their flying. And companies, conferences, etc. should work much harder to facilitate remote participation and reduce stigma around it, as well as encouraging other modes of travel. Governments should improve alternative solutions such as rail and high-speed rail.

New comment by Arn_Thor in "I put my whole life into a single database"

Arn_Thor — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:53:06 +0000

Couple of things: 1) NO ONE is suggesting any one forego flying altogether, or skipping their once-a-year overseas vacation or periodic family visit. 2) THIS level of flying is not normal and is exactly the kind of harmful behavior people have in mind when they complain about frequent flyers. 3) Whinging about summits and Taylor Swift is just a bad faith red herring argument. Obviously less flying is better, no matter by who. To the extent it's related to the topic at all, it bolsters the case for less air travel.

New comment by Arn_Thor in "Art of Roads in Games"

Arn_Thor — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:20:39 +0000

"Do 99% of city-builder players care what shape the corner radius of the intersection has? Most likely, no."

Finally, I am part of the 1%!

New comment by Arn_Thor in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

Arn_Thor — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:09:22 +0000

>Danish and Norwegian are not linguistically Germanic

Where do you get that notion? My education (and some googling to refresh my memory) has Norwegian, Swedish and Danish classed as "North Germanic" according to comparative linguistics. That is one subset of the West Germanic languages which most of northern Europe speaks.

New comment by Arn_Thor in "Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings"

Arn_Thor — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:49:33 +0000

It’s funny but it’s still AI slop. It also loves to add electrical boxes everywhere

New comment by Arn_Thor in "Favorite Tech Museums"

Arn_Thor — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 05:57:45 +0000

Second the Cambridge Centre for Computing History

New comment by Arn_Thor in "China starts UHV power line: The new 700 km UHV line will transmit 8M kW"

Arn_Thor — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 05:22:25 +0000

Well, you CAN, yes, but then nobody knows what the hell you're talking about and at that point why should we even care

New comment by Arn_Thor in "Why is there a tiny hole in the airplane window? (2023)"

Arn_Thor — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:10:58 +0000

This doesn't refer to the double-paned outer window, the pressure window. It refers to the innermost protective pane, the "scratch pane" that keeps greasy fingers and portruding camera lenses from reaching the two "real" windows. It's the hole in the scratch pane people are asking about

New comment by Arn_Thor in "China starts UHV power line: The new 700 km UHV line will transmit 8M kW"

Arn_Thor — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:13:07 +0000

Yes, I'm not including deaths in the colonial periphery. That's a rather different dynamic to the domestic question. Your criticism of this simplified view is a valid and welcome addition to the conversation, though.

The West's post-colonial exploitation and suppression of the global south does strike me as a feature of unfettered capitalism more than the political systems "back home".