Hacker News: altern8

New comment by altern8 in "Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era"

altern8 — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:05:49 +0000

I can type pretty fast, so this seems like it would slow me down. Also, everyone in the office would get annoyed pretty quickly.

New comment by altern8 in "Googlebook"

altern8 — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:09:16 +0000

I was interested but then just immediately wrote it off because of the AI-centric marketing.

Why anything AI make me want to buy a whole laptop? I can use AI from websites, apps, etc. already.

New comment by altern8 in "I Will Never Use AI to Code"

altern8 — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:13:09 +0000

My point was, if you still want to know how to code you can, without having to lose all your customers.

New comment by altern8 in "AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved"

altern8 — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:58:00 +0000

Why no love for OVH?

I find Hetzner's UI to be super-confusing, making it hard to manage things.

New comment by altern8 in "I Will Never Use AI to Code"

altern8 — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:54:13 +0000

I'm with you. What is the point of that

New comment by altern8 in "I Will Never Use AI to Code"

altern8 — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:53:38 +0000

We still know how to ride horses but we also drive cars, now.

You want to be delivery service that takes 2 days instead of 30 minutes to bring you pizza so that you don't forget how to ride your horse..?

New comment by altern8 in "Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising"

altern8 — Sat, 02 May 2026 08:36:54 +0000

OK, so we'll have to deal with this for a good while

New comment by altern8 in "Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising"

altern8 — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:16:45 +0000

How long before they will raise the amount of context it can hold?

Or, it there a ceiling that we can't go passed?

New comment by altern8 in "When the Internet Was a Place"

altern8 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:36:25 +0000

altavista.com

New comment by altern8 in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

altern8 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:45:16 +0000

If I remember correctly, Microsoft allegedly did that for the very selfish reason of looking better in terms of being a monopoly.

New comment by altern8 in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

altern8 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:54:16 +0000

Looks awesome, but any developer laptop should have an inverted-T layout for arrows.

Those might look cool, but they're a huge pain to use.

New comment by altern8 in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

altern8 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:05:21 +0000

I used to like Vultr because it was a cheaper Digital Ocean, still with a great-looking UI (if not better).

Now, prices are so bad that I have to choose between a bare metal server with 500 GB of SSD storage, 16-core CPU and 16 GB of RAM with OVH or a VM with 1/10 of that with Vultr.

It doesn't make any sense.

Also, Vultr has the nasty policy of topping your account $100 whenever you run out of money, even if your server is $3/month.

Last weekend, I transferred a handful of personal projects and my monthly expense for hosting went from $500 to $100, for vastly superior servers.

New comment by altern8 in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

altern8 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:18:20 +0000

I would say following instructions.

If Claude understood what you mean better without you having to over explain it would be an improvement

New comment by altern8 in "My brother's minesweeper site (minesweeper.org) has been running for 27 years"

altern8 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:31:46 +0000

10 years

New comment by altern8 in "Claude.ai down"

altern8 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:33:52 +0000

Sorry, but what happened in 2010..?

New comment by altern8 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

altern8 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:19:43 +0000

That why I commit basically after every change made by AI

New comment by altern8 in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

altern8 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:42:59 +0000

I'm using Claude Code with the latest version of Sonnet, using the official VS Code extension.

At my company they set it up that way.

New comment by altern8 in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

altern8 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:56:07 +0000

Every time I read these titles, I wonder if people are for some reason pushing the narrative that Claude is way smarter than it really is, or if I'm using it wrong.

They want me to code AI-first, and the amount of hallucinations and weird bugs and inconsistencies that Claude produces is massive.

Lots of code that it pushes would NOT have passed a human/human code review 6 months ago.

New comment by altern8 in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

altern8 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:52:34 +0000

Nice try, Nadella!

New comment by altern8 in "DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding"

altern8 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:34:32 +0000

I once saw Vultr as a cheaper DigitalOcean, but now they're super-expensive, too.

For the same money, I get 10x of RAM, storage and CPU with Hetzner or OVH.

They also have the extremely annoying practice where if you owe them as little as $3, they still automatically recharge your account $100.