Hacker News: Skidaddle

New comment by Skidaddle in "GPT-5.6"

Skidaddle — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:38:09 +0000

A few less obvious niceties of Codex:

- built-in image generation using your subscription, which can be super handy

- can actually edit Google Docs and Google Sheets (Claude can only create new or sometimes append)

- I get a surprising amount of mileage out of the $20 plan

They both have their places for sure.

New comment by Skidaddle in "Canyon HUD helmet for road riding"

Skidaddle — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:17:56 +0000

This is unfortunately how I feel about AR in general, despite having worked in the space for a while.

New comment by Skidaddle in "TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)"

Skidaddle — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:22:15 +0000

Very cute aesthetic and reminiscent of Pirates!

I am lazy and would request a settings toggle to automatically adjust the sail angles for me for optimal speed given my bearing.

New comment by Skidaddle in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

Skidaddle — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:51:09 +0000

Yes it’s from Futurama

New comment by Skidaddle in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

Skidaddle — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:34:55 +0000

Very cool, hard to beat the Earthican flag though

https://theinfosphere.org/images/1/17/Earth_Flag.svg

New comment by Skidaddle in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

Skidaddle — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:55:39 +0000

It might be an ROI calculation, e.g. some people will waste tokens, but if it means someone else feels empowered to make something awesome or impactful, it will have been worth it.

New comment by Skidaddle in "Where the goblins came from"

Skidaddle — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:27:32 +0000

I miss being told “You’re absolutely right!” :’(

New comment by Skidaddle in "Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again"

Skidaddle — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:32:41 +0000

What does your Claude Code implementation of OpenClaw look like?

New comment by Skidaddle in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

Skidaddle — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:15:26 +0000

See my reply above!

New comment by Skidaddle in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

Skidaddle — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:15:01 +0000

Here’s the initial post about! https://www.instagram.com/p/DUeWPKPEqQB/?igsh=bjJiM3VlM3ZxZ3...

I have this delusion of grandeur about starting a movement to take all of the mostly-idle 3D printers in people’s homes and to use them to create little tokens of joy in people’s neighborhoods.

New comment by Skidaddle in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

Skidaddle — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:27:50 +0000

Over 90% of people who've ever had DHMO have died.

New comment by Skidaddle in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

Skidaddle — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:33:30 +0000

I’ve started making what I “joy machines” that I am putting up in or near my neighborhood. They’re some combination of public interactive art (e.g. push a button and it prints out a compliment) and little art on display that I design and 3D print for people to take.

New comment by Skidaddle in "I Built an SMS Gateway with a $20 Android Phone – Jonno.nz"

Skidaddle — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:23:46 +0000

Won’t you have tons of driver problems though vs an RPi? It would be super convenient packaging as an SBC though !

New comment by Skidaddle in "Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens by 63%"

Skidaddle — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:17:55 +0000

To me it’s as simple as “who knows best how to harness the premier LLM – Anthropic, the lab that created it, or this random person?”

That’s why I’m only interested in first party tools over things like OpenCode right now.

New comment by Skidaddle in "Show HN: Open-Source Animal Crossing–Style UI for Claude Code Agents"

Skidaddle — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:04:34 +0000

I like the visualization, but in terms of orchestration, how does it compare to CC’s built in agent swarms?

New comment by Skidaddle in "Push events into a running session with channels"

Skidaddle — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:38:03 +0000

Can you give an example of why this is better than the iOS Claude app?

New comment by Skidaddle in "Push events into a running session with channels"

Skidaddle — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:56:57 +0000

Happy was the best but needs some updates as I’ve started getting blocking errors now with some of the recent CC updates

New comment by Skidaddle in "My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)"

Skidaddle — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:44:25 +0000

My other favorite is when I ask Siri to set a timer on my watch and it does a web search.

New comment by Skidaddle in "[dead]"

Skidaddle — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:16:00 +0000

But local models will never compete quality-wise with frontier models in a data center.

New comment by Skidaddle in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

Skidaddle — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:11:57 +0000

How was the career transition from MechE? Looking to do the same myself.