Hacker News: _alex_

New comment by _alex_ in "Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms"

_alex_ — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 03:51:36 +0000

Interesting that your impl agents are not opus. I guess having the more rigorous spec pipeline helps scope it to something sonnet can knock out.

New comment by _alex_ in "Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip"

_alex_ — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:48:22 +0000

this seems like the killer app. how long do you comfortably wear it? do you take it off for breaks?

New comment by _alex_ in "Kimi K2"

_alex_ — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:58:34 +0000

wow!

New comment by _alex_ in "Apple M3 Ultra"

_alex_ — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:16:47 +0000

what flavor of deepseek are you running? what kind of performance are you seeing?

New comment by _alex_ in "Apple M3 Ultra"

_alex_ — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:06:50 +0000

apple keeps talking about the Neural Engine. Does anything actually use it? Seems like all the current LLM and Stable Diffusion packages (including MLX) use the GPU.

New comment by _alex_ in "Apple M3 Ultra"

_alex_ — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:25:19 +0000

m2 ultra tho

New comment by _alex_ in "Laravel Cloud"

_alex_ — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 04:34:14 +0000

Vercel

New comment by _alex_ in "Cuttle – a MTG like game using a standard 52 card deck"

_alex_ — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:59:39 +0000

What other games do you like?

New comment by _alex_ in "Uncut Currency"

_alex_ — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 07:32:12 +0000

That was with the dollar coins

New comment by _alex_ in "Glue and Coprocessor Architectures"

_alex_ — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 02:09:37 +0000

a lot of people on HN hate cryptocurrencies

New comment by _alex_ in "Programming Zero Knowledge Proofs: From Zero to Hero"

_alex_ — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 14:42:18 +0000

Yeah prover time is the big challenge rn

New comment by _alex_ in "The secret inside One Million Checkboxes"

_alex_ — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 23:54:34 +0000

This was really sweet to read. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by _alex_ in "Senior Intel CPU architects splinter to develop RISC-V processors"

_alex_ — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 02:52:53 +0000

How’s it going?

New comment by _alex_ in "US Judge Strikes Down Ban on Worker 'Noncompete' Agreements"

_alex_ — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 23:32:16 +0000

I thought right-to-work is an antiunion mechanism?

New comment by _alex_ in "An open-source flow battery kit"

_alex_ — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 18:05:30 +0000

I dont know anything about flow batteries, but some quick searching leads me to believe that there are two tanks of electrolytes with pumps that pump them along a membrane and then you get power across the membrane. In this small battery kit, is the idea that the battery provides enough power to both operate all its own pumps/electronics, and then output usable power? Does anyone know how much power you'd be able to get out of a small setup like this?

Looks like a cool project!

New comment by _alex_ in "Sig Sauer guns hanging on soldiers' hips may be firing without trigger pull"

_alex_ — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 16:39:13 +0000

The military version of the P320 (M18) has a manual safety. Not clear from the article whether or not it was engaged. That said, I’ve always thought it is bonkers that the P320 doesn’t have a trigger safety.

New comment by _alex_ in "Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions"

_alex_ — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 21:48:29 +0000

Third party sellers make up most of the inventory. Means Amazon has less inventory risk, but the buyer experience is terrible. Really unfortunate.

New comment by _alex_ in "Coding in Vision Pro"

_alex_ — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 17:07:09 +0000

Why say no to the the nano texture? Looking at a studio display these days and trying to understand the option

New comment by _alex_ in "Twitch.tv Lays of 400 Employees"

_alex_ — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 02:21:59 +0000

Zero growth or negative growth (real or nominal) are both cases that not keep pace with expectations.

What about that paragraph makes you think things are gangbusters but they have to lay people off?

New comment by _alex_ in "Of regrets"

_alex_ — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:20:05 +0000

yes