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New comment by M4R5H4LL in "GPT-5.5"

M4R5H4LL — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:17:47 +0000

I am a heavy Claude Code user. I just tried using Codex with 5.4 (as a Plus user I don't have access to 5.5 yet), and it was quite underwhelming. The app stopped regularly much earlier than what I wanted. It also claimed to have fixed issues when it did not; this is not a hallmark of GPT, and Opus has similar issues, but Claude will not make the same mistake three times in a row. It is unusable at the moment, while Claude allows me do get real work done on a daily basis. Until then...

New comment by M4R5H4LL in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

M4R5H4LL — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:21:23 +0000

Thanks for this. Can you still use it on heavy rainy days or does it come to a halt?

New comment by M4R5H4LL in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

M4R5H4LL — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:19:56 +0000

Good to know. Thank you!

New comment by M4R5H4LL in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

M4R5H4LL — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:44:35 +0000

XFinity has been terrible lately, and I have a Starlink Mini. XFinity failed today, and I did fallback for a few hours on the Mini. Connectivity was actually better than fiber. If only it worked when it is cloudy -- for $50 on roaming, that's a no-brainer given the exorbitant cost of living in northern cal.

New comment by M4R5H4LL in "Elevated errors on login with Claude Code"

M4R5H4LL — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:55:40 +0000

per ChatGPT, it becomes cost effective (against the $200/mo usage tier) to acquire an RTX 6000 Pro if heavily (+8 hrs/day) after around 2 years (at $0.20/kwh which is lower than cal residential rates). I am interested in alternatives too but I haven't found anything close to Claude Code.

New comment by M4R5H4LL in "Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions"

M4R5H4LL — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:58:07 +0000

From an economic standpoint this is basically machines doing work humans used to do. We’ve already gone through this many times. We built machines that can make stuff orders of magnitude faster than humans, and nobody really argues we should preserve obsolete tools and techniques as a valued human craft. Obviously automation messes with jobs and identity for some people, but historically a large chunk of human labor just gets automated as the tech gets better. So I feel that arguing about whether automation is good or bad in the abstract is a bit beside the point. The more interesting question imho is how people and companies adapt to it, because it’s probably going to happen either way.

New comment by M4R5H4LL in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

M4R5H4LL — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:35:36 +0000

I suspect this is less about when Windows declined and more about individual computing journeys. Early exposure (home, school, work) tends to set a baseline that’s hard to shake.

New comment by M4R5H4LL in "Show HN: Ocrbase – pdf → .md/.json document OCR and structured extraction API"

M4R5H4LL — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:34:18 +0000

Most production software is wrappers around existing libraries. The relevant question is whether this wrapper adds operational or usability value, not whether it reimplements OCR. If there are architectural or reliability concerns, it’d be more useful to call those out directly.

New comment by M4R5H4LL in "Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity"

M4R5H4LL — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:57:12 +0000

Thanks for sharing. That would be a nice additional example in .NET with Andy TUI. The library is not Rust but there are a few examples you might be interested in, including a HN client [2] [3].

References:

[1] https://github.com/rivoli-ai/andy-tui2

[2] https://github.com/rivoli-ai/andy-tui2/blob/main/examples/An...

[3] https://imgur.com/a/CgECRa2

New comment by M4R5H4LL in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

M4R5H4LL — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:48:32 +0000

yes, I couldn't tell the difference. What matters to me is to not see the pixels, and the size of the canvas. I am running the XDR at 60% brightness.

New comment by M4R5H4LL in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

M4R5H4LL — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:44:35 +0000

yes, someone got it from a family member, and had no use for it, and sold it to me as is. It was brand new, unopened and in original packaging.

New comment by M4R5H4LL in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

M4R5H4LL — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:26:48 +0000

I have the Apple 6K 32” Pro Display XDR and a Kuycon 5K 27”. Both are great. Apple was $6,500 and the Chinese version was $400 on EBay plus the $100 stand. Kuycon has more types of input, and a remote. Frame and display quality are on par for a dev.

New comment by M4R5H4LL in "Turn a single image into a navigable 3D Gaussian Splat with depth"

M4R5H4LL — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:37:34 +0000

Same for me

New comment by M4R5H4LL in "Wrapping my head around AI wrappers"

M4R5H4LL — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:37:49 +0000

I believe the controversy arises from the notion of “little effort” and critics who have never independently pushed anything to market. It comes across as dismissive and arrogant simply because someone exudes excessive confidence in a limited set of skills. I can personally attest to the immense demands of building a successful business, and it’s evident that very few individuals possess the capability to achieve that. Therefore, while it may provide comfort to avoid challenging oneself and dismiss others’ total work, it ultimately doesn’t benefit anyone and feels more like a self-serving “I could, but I never will” attitude.

New comment by M4R5H4LL in ".NET 10"

M4R5H4LL — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:30:05 +0000

Enterprise doesn’t spawn 10,000 containers to perform a simple “hello world” operation. That’s not how it operates. You’d be amazed at how many concurrent requests a single service can handle. This capacity must align with the actual requirements of the companies involved, not some unrealistic scenario like “we need to emulate Google.”

New comment by M4R5H4LL in "INapGPU: Text-mode graphics card, using only TTL gates"

M4R5H4LL — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 02:21:10 +0000

Great work. I miss the speed we had before graphics card were a thing. Everything was literally 100x faster to render. I wish we could bypass graphics card entirely on modern Oses and computers but it looks like it’s not even possible anymore with EUFI. I would buy a card that works for TUI only, and with a large set of Unicode chars, and works on a 6K screen.

New comment by M4R5H4LL in "Qodo CLI agent scores 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified"

M4R5H4LL — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:10:24 +0000

Labeling them as “wrappers” and “niche business” indicates a strong cognitive bias already. Value can be created on both sides of the equation.

New comment by M4R5H4LL in "36B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens"

M4R5H4LL — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 21:40:58 +0000

thanks for brightening the day :)

New comment by M4R5H4LL in "Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people"

M4R5H4LL — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 17:16:52 +0000

This is anecdotal but here is the truth: I have a home that I bought around 20 years ago in Cali, and the HOA tripled during that time and is now rapidly approaching $700/mo. And that's with less benefits since we lost the earthquake insurance. And not to mention the special assessments that started showing up in 2025. You could make all sort of assumptions, but there is nothing special about the community.

New comment by M4R5H4LL in "Open models by OpenAI"

M4R5H4LL — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 22:35:28 +0000

+1 - I work in finance, and there's no way we're sending our data and code outside the organization. We have our own H100s.