Hacker News: KTibow

Write Thin to Write Fast (2021)

KTibow — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:14:05 +0000

Article URL: https://breck7.github.io/breckyunits.com/write-thin-to-write-fast.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243154

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New comment by KTibow in "I fixed Windows native development"

KTibow — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:27:49 +0000

I tried this once. It downloaded way more stuff than needed and still required admin to actually install.

New comment by KTibow in "Launch HN: Mentat (YC F24) – Controlling LLMs with Runtime Intervention"

KTibow — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:30:05 +0000

Okay, but what does "applied" look like? Including a prompt?

New comment by KTibow in "Drunk CSS"

KTibow — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:15:27 +0000

It sounds like he actually orchestrates a "big night out" each time:

  One of the things I learned is that my review will be worse than useless if I am not having a good time the night I review it. I'll feel bad for underperforming, you'll feel bad for having a stressed, depressed drunkard on the line, and no one's knowledge of UX and the world is improved. So, I've made a few rules. One: I never drink alone. That means I need to ask friends whether they're up for a night out. I normally pay for their drinks, too. Two: I never schedule in a rush. That means that I now commit to a general two-week turnaround, but it can be longer than that, at times, and there's nothing I'm willing to do about it to make it faster.

New comment by KTibow in "Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU"

KTibow — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:53:38 +0000

Last time I checked the Fedora ISOs didn't include the device trees necessary to even begin installation.

New comment by KTibow in "Just let me select text"

KTibow — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:05:10 +0000

I can see this comment was downvoted because it doesn't address the main point but Circle to Search is genuinely a good, helpful feature. It allows you to copy or translate text in two or three taps, even faster than if you had selection power, and I hope more platforms add similar functionality (even if just to work around the current terrible state of text selection).

New comment by KTibow in "Beyond the Front Page: A Personal Guide to Hacker News"

KTibow — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:34:41 +0000

It sounds like both the extension and bookmarklet don't send every page you visit but do send every page you check.

New comment by KTibow in "The key points of "Working Effectively with Legacy Code""

KTibow — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 22:38:02 +0000

Vite/Rollup name assets based on one of the included files, which can lead to funny and misleading file names like this one.

New comment by KTibow in "I'm absolutely right"

KTibow — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:25:44 +0000

This can still happen even with thinking models as long as the model outputs tokens in a sequence. Only way to fix would be to allow it to restart its response or switch to diffusion.

New comment by KTibow in "Adaptive LLM routing under budget constraints"

KTibow — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 19:04:33 +0000

RouterBench is from March 2024.

New comment by KTibow in "Google is watching"

KTibow — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 22:42:19 +0000

> How exactly would that work without the app having access to the pictures?

Android recently added an option that lets apps pop up a picker and only get access to the picked pictures. They probably just didn't realize that some users might want to only share some photos with Google Photos or didn't think the slice was big enough to justify implementing.

New comment by KTibow in "Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI"

KTibow — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:14:02 +0000

To add to the article: Gemma 3 270M's exact IFEval score is 51.2, and Qwen 3 would be at (0.6, 59.2) on the scatter plot.

New comment by KTibow in "Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context"

KTibow — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:13:48 +0000

I'm surprised that works even without telling it to think/think hard/think harder/ultrathink.

New comment by KTibow in "Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient"

KTibow — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 23:45:41 +0000

> Second, in many environments (managed hosting etc.) there is not an easy way (or indeed a way at all) of adding headers to responses.

It's getting better. Most serverless hosts (including Cloudflare, which this site uses) follow the (req: Request) => Response pattern, which by definition allows sending headers.

New comment by KTibow in "The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers"

KTibow — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 19:46:32 +0000

This is also showing up on Xitter as the #keep4o movement, which some have criticized as being "oneshotted" or cases of LLM psychosis and emotional attachment.

New comment by KTibow in "Show HN: WebGPU enables local LLM in the browser – demo site with AI chat"

KTibow — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 19:53:14 +0000

It's likely the quantization on "Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-q4f16_1-MLC". inference.net generated this more coherent answer: https://hst.sh/ovilewofox.md

New comment by KTibow in "Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie"

KTibow — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 17:22:10 +0000

I (Claude Code) tried this and it actually increased the gzipped size by 100b (3456 -> 3556), only reducing the non-compressed size by 20%, likely because gzip is really good at interning repeated patterns already.

New comment by KTibow in "Celebrating 20 Years of MDN"

KTibow — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 13:56:32 +0000

My traffic has definitely gone down, I've been using DevDocs instead of MDN direct.

New comment by KTibow in "The Promised LAN"

KTibow — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:00:55 +0000

There's a slightly relevant response under "Dragging over your own computers is part of the fun of LAN parties. Why build them in?".

New comment by KTibow in "Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code"

KTibow — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:24:24 +0000

Thing is Atkinson Hyperlegible is "what if we made a non-monospace font with monospace like, distinct characters?" so the Mono version doesn't have much of a point. For text or code, it looks worse to me than the alternatives.