Hacker News: alanwreath

New comment by alanwreath in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

alanwreath — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:01:49 +0000

why does it feel like they are creating something so its more difficult to use a competitor?

New comment by alanwreath in "Apple HomeView"

alanwreath — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:39:01 +0000

so this doesn't function as a security camera too?

New comment by alanwreath in "Apple HomeView"

alanwreath — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:36:07 +0000

too true...and doesn't that miss out on one of apple's power plays? Their hardware ecosystem (their software ecosystem was touched on a little).

New comment by alanwreath in "Apple HomeView"

alanwreath — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:28:12 +0000

Change that ugly base - wall mounts are nice but dangling cords are not.

New comment by alanwreath in "Apple HomeView"

alanwreath — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:16:32 +0000

the ad did a good job of displaying all the features of the new device, of course it left out the parts I would have liked as a parent who's already dealt with these types of devices. I mean apple had the benefit of 20/20 vision and could have looked into blocking little kids from just going to it to watch YouTube. It could have also solved the issue that dad's around the world would have united against: locking who gets to set the thermostat.

that said, also what's with the kids being disrespectful, untruthful, dismissive, and patronizing (in that order) to their parents...I bet these kids were a joy to be around as toddlers and will continue to be so as "formed" adults

New comment by alanwreath in "Leaving Tech"

alanwreath — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:15:58 +0000

> It never made sense anyway for two people to do the work of one

Disagree, pairing has helped me in the past to reach answers more quickly and at the same time means that more than one person is familiar with a codebase (which is a helps reduce bus factor)

New comment by alanwreath in "Show HN: Brickbrag – A multiplayer brick-building world in the browser"

alanwreath — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:05:59 +0000

same, nicely executed, except for the building part :(

New comment by alanwreath in "Ukraine hits Russian Datacentre causing a 29% drop in US Twitter posts"

alanwreath — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:43:30 +0000

> As per the bot analysts at Tom’s Hardware, bot traffic from the Yandex network has dropped to just 0.4% of the maximum number of HTTP requests recorded in the past two weeks.

I wonder if this is what is being referred to

New comment by alanwreath in "Ukraine hits Russian Datacentre causing a 29% drop in US Twitter posts"

alanwreath — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:41:41 +0000

Before midterms is strategic.

New comment by alanwreath in "PewDiePie uncensors Qwen3.5-9B with Heretic"

alanwreath — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:42:24 +0000

Basically, Pewdiepie hits dead ends trying to distill “Ajax” from OpenAI's models, which is what got him banned twice, and his response was that OpenAI took everyone's data first, so why not me too.

PewDiePie uncensors Qwen3.5-9B with Heretic

alanwreath — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:27:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/pewdiepie-unveils-uncensored-ajax-ai-model-built-to-run-on-home-pcs-creator-says-openai-banned-him-twice-while-making-it

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934603

Points: 2

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New comment by alanwreath in "Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms"

alanwreath — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:17:31 +0000

This is the exact comment I’ve been waiting for, what is the difference between classifiers and jev?

New comment by alanwreath in "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs"

alanwreath — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:12:08 +0000

I read that like the meme:

Aliens

New comment by alanwreath in "Ubisoft's FOR HONOR will block SteamOS / Linux players starting September 10"

alanwreath — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:52:34 +0000

I too have been distro hopping, loading up Claude has made it extremely easy to be comfortable in exploring other distros

New comment by alanwreath in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

alanwreath — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 03:57:34 +0000

This is hilarious.

New comment by alanwreath in "Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI"

alanwreath — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 03:38:07 +0000

At first I thought spec driven development would be an obvious solution to the deficiencies you’d laid out, but thinking a little more I’m concerned my original words and prompts which are “captured” in the roadmap, tech-stack, mission and the in subsequent feature documents doesn’t always preserve the exact prompt I’ve given and I’m concerned that something I said would be lost and then forgotten.

New comment by alanwreath in "Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md"

alanwreath — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:02:44 +0000

Doing the whole “pay per token rate” when logging into a harness not made by them is not only being enforced by anthropic/claude though. It also is what Google does with agy (their TUI).

Is there any provider that doesn’t do this? That’s the one I want to support.

  > TLDR: they are all probably doing it because they are banking on you not using all your tokens.

I would be surprised though, it makes business sense to make the default vendor native TUI cheaper because it’s understood that most nascent users will just use the harness offered by the LLM provider and those that would stray off that would probably be more power users who would spend their token share more consistently till it drains.

New comment by alanwreath in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

alanwreath — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:40:03 +0000

There are so many stereotypes involved in this that it may be hard to believe but at least I know I have caught myself repeating the stereotype almost to a T (especially with regard to the oldest being worked so hard or, as I would put it, constantly on the hardest jobs).

That said it does help that it’s a stereotype/generalization/trope that I’m aware of because I get to take that as part of my feedback loop to make the attempt to iterate around the negative aspects you’ve pointed out.

I think I’m doing better - I’ll know if my kids still talk to me after they move out.

New comment by alanwreath in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

alanwreath — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:31:39 +0000

This is the take I pursue in my home, everyone is doing a see one, do one, teach one. There are still struggles around it but consistency makes the conversations shorter and more effective.

New comment by alanwreath in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

alanwreath — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:39:11 +0000

I don’t know about you, but sometimes ambition is just to put food on the table. That’s all it’s ever got me and the rest is the dream to escape a life of work work work.