Hacker News: DrammBA

New comment by DrammBA in "Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model"

DrammBA — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:50:47 +0000

I was so confused by many comments in this post but thanks to you I realized that some people are apparently reading it as 26B and that's why their comments make no sense.

New comment by DrammBA in "When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing"

DrammBA — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:56:44 +0000

It sucks to treat the workplace as adversarial, but we unfortunately have to as long as companies have the zero-sum mindset of "wow, everyone is so productive and we're achieving so much, why do we have so many people again?"

And I'm not a "at work we're a family!" guy, but I wish we could just be excellent at our jobs and share it with each other without worrying if I'm digging my own grave.

New comment by DrammBA in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

DrammBA — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:09:08 +0000

> including somewhat complicated solo card games

any suggestions?

New comment by DrammBA in "Redis array: short story of a long development process"

DrammBA — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:47:43 +0000

> He is not "your avg dev" and it took him 4 months with llm.

To clarify, from TFA:

> even before LLMs the implementation was likely something I could do in four months. What changed is that in the same time span, I was able to do a lot more

The initial timeframe was 4 months, he was able to do more work within the same timeframe with LLMs.

New comment by DrammBA in "OpenWarp"

DrammBA — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:53:20 +0000

You're right to push back. It doesn't — he made it up.

New comment by DrammBA in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

DrammBA — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:15:20 +0000

> Have you ever tried to run anything from the 80/90s era?

I take it you're agreeing with the sentiment since you had to go back 40-50 years to make your point.

New comment by DrammBA in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

DrammBA — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:01:04 +0000

I can feel the frustation, nothing dramatic about expressing it

This quote from the post resonated with me:

> I want to get work done and it doesn't want me to get work done. I want to ship software and it doesn't want me to ship software.

The sentiment is shared, and github is not the only service making me feel like that, it feels like everything on the web is more flimsy and low quality nowadays. Constant outages, bugs, UI papercuts, incomplete features, what in the world is going on?

New comment by DrammBA in "Claude Opus 4.7"

DrammBA — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:01:55 +0000

> I'm imagining you're doing it because that's how Anthropic prefers to frame it

Correct.

> would it be valid to interpret that as an attack as well?

Yup.

New comment by DrammBA in "Claude Opus 4.7"

DrammBA — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:45:06 +0000

Definitely Anthropic playing the victim after distilling the whole internet.

New comment by DrammBA in "Claude Opus 4.7"

DrammBA — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:22:43 +0000

> Opus 4.7 will replace Opus 4.5 and Opus 4.6

Promotional pricing that will probably be 9x when promotion ends, and soon to be the only Opus option on github, that's insane

New comment by DrammBA in "Claude Opus 4.7"

DrammBA — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:42:04 +0000

Anthropic always summarizes the reasoning output to prevent some distillation attacks

New comment by DrammBA in "Cal.com is going closed source"

DrammBA — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:02:48 +0000

I have a feeling the real reason is them trying to avoid someone using AI to copyright-wash their product, they're just using security as the excuse.

New comment by DrammBA in "Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex"

DrammBA — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:37:31 +0000

> Isn't this a SaaS-pocaplyse testament? What's stopping anyone from doing the same to BrightBean?

It being open source doesn't help it either, so easy to malus/chardet it.

New comment by DrammBA in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

DrammBA — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:30:01 +0000

Given how many developers here use LLMs daily, how do you think about defensibility? Tools like this seem relatively easy to reverse-engineer and replicate with enough time and LLM assistance. Did that influence your decision to charge a subscription or the change to a personal license?

New comment by DrammBA in "1D Chess"

DrammBA — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:54:17 +0000

the notation is just an array of move tuples, each tuple contains 1 move for white and 1 move for black, where each move is written as <1st letter of piece name>

New comment by DrammBA in "You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings"

DrammBA — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:27:57 +0000

TFA intro (emphasis mine):

> In this Friday’s magic demonstration, I’m going to show how what you see in Privacy & Security settings can be misleading, when it tells you that an app doesn’t have access to a protected folder, but it really does.

New comment by DrammBA in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

DrammBA — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:23:42 +0000

What do stars mean in the context of random github accounts mirroring leaked source code?

New comment by DrammBA in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

DrammBA — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:39:36 +0000

I wouldn't expect it from any goverment either, but I would expect it from someone who allegedly read the story and is trying to share relevant information.

New comment by DrammBA in "Migrating to the EU"

DrammBA — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:43:24 +0000

I could swear immich already has at least sharing and search.

New comment by DrammBA in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

DrammBA — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:25:19 +0000

> Relevant to this story

Is it? The Author mentions he has degenerated optical nerves from birth, I don't think laser fixes that.