Hacker News: AustinDev

New comment by AustinDev in "'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet"

AustinDev — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:27:33 +0000

>There's no reason gamblers won't repeat this stunt, until us poor schmucks who just want an accurate temperature reading have to build a fortified compound in order to do so.

The issue here is you'd need a lot more land because any asphalt near a temp sensor is going to give you bad data.

New comment by AustinDev in "ChatGPT and Codex Down"

AustinDev — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:07:20 +0000

Both currently working in US.

New comment by AustinDev in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

AustinDev — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:52:11 +0000

I'm unable to download FLUX.2 models from `darkbloom models`

New comment by AustinDev in "Tesla 'Full Self-Driving' crashed through railroad gate seconds before train"

AustinDev — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:13:11 +0000

This is one thing LIDAR is pretty good at.

New comment by AustinDev in "Stolen Rockstar Games analytics data leaked by extortion gang"

AustinDev — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:46:05 +0000

All the leak revealed was how insanely profitable GTAV: Online is.

New comment by AustinDev in "Show HN: NASA Artemis II Mission Timeline Tracker"

AustinDev — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:57:28 +0000

I didn't build it. I just found it on a live stream (https://www.twitch.tv/ej_sa) of the mission. Maybe `Show HN:` was the wrong prefix.

Show HN: NASA Artemis II Mission Timeline Tracker

AustinDev — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:40:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sunnywingsvirtual.com/artemis2/timeline.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609725

Points: 93

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New comment by AustinDev in "TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters"

AustinDev — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:15:45 +0000

And they get Federal pensions and healthcare funded by tax dollars.

New comment by AustinDev in "GitHub is once again down"

AustinDev — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:16:21 +0000

Vibe coding and it's consequences.

"The evidence is clear: Either you embrace AI, or get out of this career." -Github CEO

"Sooner than later, 80% of the code is going to be written by Copilot. And that doesn’t mean the developer is going to be replaced." -Github CEO

New comment by AustinDev in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

AustinDev — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:36:17 +0000

Downstream of this I used to cycle my accounts pretty regularly but have stopped since generative AI. Don't want people thinking I'm an LLM spam bot. My stupid comments are entirely my own.

New comment by AustinDev in "Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock"

AustinDev — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:45:42 +0000

Great feedback for the OP. I would also add, Can you make the text not selectable?

New comment by AustinDev in "Stephen Colbert going down swinging"

AustinDev — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:45:50 +0000

The messenger changes; but the truth doesn't. That is the point of the phrase. It's a jab at the GP's flawed logic.

New comment by AustinDev in "Show HN: I Made a Programming Language with Python Syntax, zero-copy and C-Speed"

AustinDev — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:42:59 +0000

Did you read my comment?

New comment by AustinDev in "Stephen Colbert going down swinging"

AustinDev — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:30:34 +0000

For my entire life I've never seen the feds do anything other than selective enforcement. See the latest disclosures RE: Zorro ranch and little saint James as recent examples.

New comment by AustinDev in "Show HN: I Made a Programming Language with Python Syntax, zero-copy and C-Speed"

AustinDev — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:23:21 +0000

LLM generated readme?

>Mantis 7 consists of four major components:

1, 2, 3, 4.

New comment by AustinDev in "Stephen Colbert going down swinging"

AustinDev — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:18:20 +0000

Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas.

New comment by AustinDev in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

AustinDev — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:45:27 +0000

Likewise, I feel like it's degraded in performance a bit over the last couple weeks but that's just vibes. They surely vary thinking tokens based on load on the backend, especially for subscription users.

When my subscription 4.6 is flagging I'll switch over to Corporate API version and run the same prompts and get a noticeably better solution. In the end it's hard to compare nondeterministic systems.

New comment by AustinDev in "Audio is the one area small labs are winning"

AustinDev — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:11:28 +0000

My ~1.7% WER and faster than realtime processing in my application make it more than adequate. My application is multi-speaker with WPM rates >300 for long durations.

New comment by AustinDev in "Audio is the one area small labs are winning"

AustinDev — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:57:07 +0000

Audio models are also tiny, which is probably why small labs are doing well in the space. I run a LoRA'd Whisper v3 Large for a client. We can fit 4 versions of the model in memory at once on a ~$1/hr A10 and have half the VRAM leftover.

Each of the LoRA tunes we did took maybe 2-3 hours on the same A10 instance.

New comment by AustinDev in "Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition"

AustinDev — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:03:27 +0000

Is it just me or is Microsoft really phoning it in recently?