Hacker News: acangiano

New comment by acangiano in "Claude Code on the web"

acangiano — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:08:44 +0000

I use both but I agree that they are generally not on par. I find Claude Code does a better job and doesn't overengineer as much. Where sometime Codex does better is in debugging a tough bug that stumps Claude Code. Codex is also more likely to get lazy and claiming to have finished a large task, when it reality it just wrote some placeholder lines. Claude has never done that. They might be on par soon, however, and I think Anthropic is playing a dangerous game with their limit enforcement on people who are on subscriptions.

New comment by acangiano in "Mechanical Watch: Exploded View"

acangiano — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 03:16:11 +0000

If you can swing it, I'd go for the Bulova Lunar Pilot or the Seiko Prospex Chronograph SSC819. If you are looking for cheap Chinese, Phylida makes a well-reviewed one.

New comment by acangiano in "Mechanical Watch: Exploded View"

acangiano — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 03:30:46 +0000

There are a few brands that have been punching above their price points. For Rolex Submariner homages, you can't really beat Sugess. Other Chinese brands worth considering are San Martin, Cronos, WM, and Seagull. Among the upcoming brands, Watchdives and Tactical Frog are also doing quite well. Though cheaper, Pagani Design is a step below the rest. It's not bad, but their watches are definitely not as polished as the ones from the brands mentioned above. In terms of movements, stick to NH35, NH34, PT5000, SW200, Miyota 90S5, etc. Try to buy from the official stores on Aliexpress, and check your private messages after you add the watches to your cart. They'll often issue coupon codes for said items.

New comment by acangiano in "Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27"

acangiano — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:24:31 +0000

Salaries are consistently above other mainstream stacks, partly because most Elixir jobs look for senior engineers.

New comment by acangiano in "Show HN: Bloom – A shadcn like UI library for Elixir and Phoenix"

acangiano — Sat, 04 May 2024 20:15:11 +0000

For graphing you can use: https://hex.pm/packages/vega_lite

New comment by acangiano in "Ask HN: How are Data Scientist keeping themselves updated?"

acangiano — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 07:29:33 +0000

This is only one source among the many you should consult, also I'm biased because I'm a co-founder, but cognitiveclass.ai constantly publishes new guided projects (and courses) on related topics. They are free, and in the case of guided projects, quick. Sort by new and have at it: https://cognitiveclass.ai/courses?type%5B%5D=all&sort%5B%5D=...

New comment by acangiano in "Ask HN: Best E-Ink reader in 2024?"

acangiano — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 14:53:43 +0000

I second this. The phone format really makes me pick it up more.

New comment by acangiano in "Show HN: Kyoo – Self-hosted media browser (Jellyfin/Plex alternative)"

acangiano — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 00:43:42 +0000

I'm getting less and less impressed with the company, so I started diversifying. I got Linux installed on my desktop and started using it more often. Switched from Apple Music to Spotify. Got rid of my Apple Watch Ultra and switched to Garmin. Went from Things to TickTick since it's cross platform. From Notes to Notesnook for the same reason. I know it's a drop in the bucket and I'm still pretty invested, but they are steps towards independence should I decide to abandon their ecosystem altogether at some point.

New comment by acangiano in "Competitive Bass Fishing Cheaters (2014)"

acangiano — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 20:39:28 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhQwtPh4wOA

New comment by acangiano in "Competitive Bass Fishing Cheaters (2014)"

acangiano — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 20:38:08 +0000

In a recent scandal, salmon fillets wrapped around lead weights shoven down the fish's troats was also used to cheat.

New comment by acangiano in "Show HN: Track your calories easily by saying what you ate"

acangiano — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 10:24:03 +0000

The chicken breasts were fairly large 386g cooked (so even more raw). 315g of green beans. When I provided the grams it did better but was still off by 250+ calories (I’m guessing it ignored me mentioning that that was cooked weight.) It’s a cool tool and it can be useful but if you’re not careful you’ll run into some very inaccurate guesstimates. One way to improve accuracy would be for the system to learn from previous logs (both in the system and previous apps.)

New comment by acangiano in "Show HN: Track your calories easily by saying what you ate"

acangiano — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 04:29:57 +0000

Pretty cool but unfortunately it’s wildly inaccurate. I said “two chicken breasts and lots of green beans”. It estimated 262 kcal. The “actual” calories were 754 kcal. Specifying the actual grams was better, of course, but still off by quite a bit.

Sustainable Indie Software

acangiano — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 20:42:43 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.helftone.com/sustainable-indie-software/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39654571

Points: 2

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New comment by acangiano in "Rook to XSS: How I hacked chess.com with a rookie exploit"

acangiano — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 00:31:20 +0000

The UX for the analysis part is actually significantly better on Chess.com

New comment by acangiano in "German developer guilty of 'hacking' for exposing hardcoded credentials in app"

acangiano — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 21:14:40 +0000

Troy Hunt called that behavior "way too far into the grey for my comfort" in a recent post about the massive Naz.API leak.

New comment by acangiano in "Taking low-dose aspirin is associated with 20% reduction in cancer deaths"

acangiano — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 03:00:32 +0000

Silver lining to taking it after my heart attack.

Derek Sivers started a tech blog

acangiano — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 21:19:26 +0000

Article URL: https://sive.rs/tech

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30547142

Points: 2

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Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (100 Models Explained)

acangiano — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 16:26:56 +0000

Article URL: https://fs.blog/mental-models/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28920001

Points: 3

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New comment by acangiano in "The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company"

acangiano — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 03:40:04 +0000

Stories like this would be a game changer for this new company. I genuinely hope they go for it. In a way, it's surprising that there isn't a charity dedicated to this type of effort for drugs considered safe.

Brad Cox, creator of Objective-C, has passed away

acangiano — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 07:13:17 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Cox

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25890020

Points: 1

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