Hacker News: PacificSpecific

New comment by PacificSpecific in "GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter"

PacificSpecific — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 03:51:40 +0000

Fallen off the homepage so what? I genuinely don't understand

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion"

PacificSpecific — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:17:00 +0000

Oh yes I still use it at work.

The max account is for home projects where I'm basically making some common tools but tailored to myself (diet tracker, note app etc).

It's been great but across work and home it's just too much.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion"

PacificSpecific — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:00:09 +0000

I got a max account during this promotion and it's been very fun but I'm a little burned out and am kind of looking forward to going back and tinkering with game engines without the help of an LLM for code gen (will still use it for documentation questions but I can do that with the free tier)

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index"

PacificSpecific — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:49:41 +0000

Glad to see this comment as this has generally been my experience as well. I'm really curious to see why it's so infuriating for others. My best guess is I'm using it more conservatively than most other users in this thread.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:58:50 +0000

I dare say LLMs were one of the things that finally pushed me over the top to be a full time Linux user. For a lifetime Windows user Linux novice like me they really helped me get unblocked on basic stuff like installing Nvidia drivers and setting up a samba share.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Do we just want slaves?"

PacificSpecific — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:45:37 +0000

Anecdotally it does seem to be the case in my experience with extended family.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Codex Resets"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:41 +0000

I've had this too on my personal pro plan and also when I run the usage command it says it's resetting tomorrow rather than getting cut off.

I'm trying to squeeze what I can in the meantime but I feel like they said it was getting cut off multiple times and they keep extending and possibly resetting it (havent been looking close enough to know for sure)

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

PacificSpecific — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 02:26:28 +0000

I think the person you are replying to was referring to Gary tan

New comment by PacificSpecific in "What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public"

PacificSpecific — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:57:41 +0000

I've moved to Joplin and am pretty happy with it. Was easy to self host on my WebDAV.

I believe it imports Evernote data too.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn"

PacificSpecific — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:22:10 +0000

Honestly I can't tell the difference with LinkedIn. Feels the same as it's ever been

New comment by PacificSpecific in "PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform"

PacificSpecific — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:58:34 +0000

Thanks for the insight. Do you think something like nebula could ever be feasible?

New comment by PacificSpecific in "AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design"

PacificSpecific — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:06:17 +0000

Recently I heard some people conflate procedural generation and generative AI and I had to explain why there isn't some legal or ethical issue with what breaks down to essentially scattering some points.

It's really getting annoying having to have these conversations.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts"

PacificSpecific — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:11:32 +0000

A decade ago they pulled my purchased copy of mortal kombat 2. Not the first time they've done stuff like this.

I stuck to buying hard copies and dwindled off the series as they started to charge just to play multiplayer.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "When I reject AI code even if it works"

PacificSpecific — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:01:26 +0000

Ah interesting. We are in very different domains haha. I had to search a lot of terms.

Thanks for sharing!

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Google Hits 50% IPv6"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:21:15 +0000

Thanks for the info! I'll look into openwrt

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Google Hits 50% IPv6"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:07:27 +0000

Fair enough. I do question it often.

It's a standard Asus router but it's given me a lot of ire. I hate to say it but it's never a problem when I install windows on the same machines

(I'm currently in the process of trying to completely remove windows from my life)

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Google Hits 50% IPv6"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:00:33 +0000

First thing I do on a fresh Linux install is set ipv6 to deactivated. Fixes all my initial Linux install problems. I don't question it, it just works every time.

New comment by PacificSpecific in "When I reject AI code even if it works"

PacificSpecific — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:15:07 +0000

That's cool. Could you share some concrete examples of your successes?

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux"

PacificSpecific — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:39:52 +0000

Don't worry you aren't. Luckily no one will use this distro day to day

New comment by PacificSpecific in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"

PacificSpecific — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:49:55 +0000

Never thought I'd be living in a world where my tech hardware purchases INCREASE in value over the years.