Hacker News: SparkyMcUnicorn

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:31:34 +0000

I really like the DM Pro and have it deployed to an office of about 50 people. It's a pretty no-fuss solution and fairly simple to manage.

For my personal setup, I decided to go with OPNSense and I couldn't be happier. Much more control, at the cost of being a little more hands on.

I think the best (rough) comparison here is MacOS vs Linux (or more accurately in this case, FreeBSD).

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:55:07 +0000

Are you suggesting that Chrome is going to allow individual websites to override the browser DNS settings? And also skip bootstrapping?

I'm very confused by this comment.

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:03:46 +0000

Freedom of DNS choice has nothing to do with DoH.

And you can definitely mitm a non-configurable DoH resolver if you absolutely needed to do that, as long as you can add your own trusted CA on a device.

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:46:26 +0000

How does DoH remove any capabilities of what the resolver can respond to queries with? I block ads via a DoH resolver.

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:51:42 +0000

I don't think we get to blame these issues on "vibe coding", they've been around for too long.

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Intel Arc Pro B70 Review"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:22:08 +0000

Here are some llama.cpp benchmarks for it: https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-pro-b70-linux/3

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Show HN: 49Agents – Infinite canvas IDE for AI agents"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:28:06 +0000

This comment is against the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

I don't want to accuse you of something without proof, but the 3 other comments here are from brand new accounts and all smell very strongly of self-promo (and also appear to have used an LLM to generate their recent activity).

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Tell HN: Claude 4.7 is ignoring stop hooks"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:54:56 +0000

temperature, top_k, and top_p don't exist on Opus 4.7 (or 4.6?).

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/messages/create#crea...

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:59:38 +0000

They should have kept an eye on the prediction markets.

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Mechanical Keyboard Sounds – A listening Museum"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:17:09 +0000

On every keyboard I get, I swap the switches out for silent tactiles[0][1] that I've selected through trial and error. Quiet is really nice (my mouse clicks are louder), but the way they feel is fantastic.

I wish there was a brick and mortar that let you try out a good range of these switches. Places like microcenter have the popular standard choices, but there's so many other switches out there that are just worlds different.

[0] standard preference: https://a.co/d/03j6Boy0

[1] low profile preference: https://a.co/d/06yVB6jg

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:53:18 +0000

Opus[1m] has heen the default model for max subscriptions since 2.1.75.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/commit/48b1c6c0ba0...

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:03:15 +0000

Explained in the methodology at the bottom of this page: https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:43:38 +0000

I was implementing OSM the other day (with attribution of course) and noticed Carto seemed to be one of the only players with good dark tiles.

Seems like we can't use them for free, even with attribution, unless I get a grant?

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:34:17 +0000

https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code-historical-perform...

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:08:11 +0000

I've found my research on certain topics like this becoming less reliable these days, compared to just trying it out to form an opinion.

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Show HN: ctx – an Agentic Development Environment (ADE)"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:54:32 +0000

Your repo says it's open source, but it's missing the source.

https://github.com/ctxrs/ctx

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:09:46 +0000

I don't think it's a bug, it's an extra hoop to jump through.

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Show HN: Tmux-IDE, OSS agent-first terminal IDE"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:19:23 +0000

It sounds like maybe you haven't seen agent teams mode, which this project is using.

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-teams

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:59:56 +0000

I use the g305, and have to replace it roughly once a year because the scroll button eventually stops working. I've been through 5-6 of them. Regularly on sale for around $25.

Wish I could find a better mouse I like as much as this one that I didn't need to pay a yearly subscription for. It's just the right size, lightweight, wireless, and being able to store the customizations to on board memory is nice.

New comment by SparkyMcUnicorn in "Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]"

SparkyMcUnicorn — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:07:34 +0000

> By providing an example of similar articles about other locations I was showing that this alone is not particularly strong evidence.

How does linking similar articles help demonstrate that? That doesn't seem like very strong (counter?)evidence.