Hacker News: amanzi

New comment by amanzi in "Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997"

amanzi — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:01:11 +0000

This brings back memories! My first personal website used that orange gradient with the 3D text for the logo (my name).

New comment by amanzi in "Show HN: Replacing CAPTCHAs with adaptive proof-of-work in WordPress"

amanzi — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:06:16 +0000

Looks good - thanks for sharing.

New comment by amanzi in "Show HN: I built a Markdown and raw HTML blog platform scoring 99 on PageSpeed"

amanzi — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 02:26:32 +0000

Is this a hosted solution? Open source?

I can't tell from your website how you are solving this problem: "I think bloggers should have control over their own blog."

New comment by amanzi in "Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash"

amanzi — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 01:03:03 +0000

Airbnb includes the cleaning fee (and other fees) in the advertised price. I just checked our own listing and it shows the total cost.

New comment by amanzi in "Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash"

amanzi — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:58:51 +0000

For us, we charge the same cleaning fee whether you stay for 1 night or 7 nights. So I don't know how we can incorporate that into the nightly fee without either over-charging or under-charging for cleaning. Having it listed separately keeps it consistent and clear to guests.

New comment by amanzi in "Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash"

amanzi — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:30:32 +0000

I've been an Airbnb host for the last 3 years. We've never expected guests to do any cleaning or washing of dishes (although it's always appreciated when they do!) We charge a small cleaning fee to cover the costs of cleaning our studio which only takes an hour. We also have maintained a really high rating over the last few years (currently at 4.96). I would hope that other rentals that have ridiculous rules and high cleaning fees would suffer from average ratings?

New comment by amanzi in "Show HN: Sumi.css – CSS Framework"

amanzi — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:59:52 +0000

Oat is another new, minimal framework that has just reached v1: https://oat.ink/

New comment by amanzi in "Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell"

amanzi — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:53:13 +0000

I was skeptical, but this looks genuinely useful. I can already think of some use-cases for this, e.g. a spreadsheet I was working on recently had a list of user, and then a comma-separated list of software apps they were using. It was a bit of a nightmare to parse, but the example in the article would definitely help with filtering the list.

New comment by amanzi in "Claude's Load-Bearing Seams"

amanzi — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:59:02 +0000

I'm confused - is this meant as satire? The blog author's other posts also look like they are generated by an LLM, so I'm not even sure if the author is trying to be funny or serious?

New comment by amanzi in "Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space"

amanzi — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:00:40 +0000

Strange - I had the opposite experience. The more I learned about Jev the more interesting I thought it was. This Syntax video got me excited about developing with Jev: https://youtu.be/QbYBRjOaGOo?si=Up0QbW8tWCZQzZR4

New comment by amanzi in "My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini"

amanzi — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:02:01 +0000

Not surprised at all - just making the point that getting a model to run isn't that impressive if it runs at a few tokens per second.

New comment by amanzi in "My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini"

amanzi — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:57:21 +0000

That's useful thanks. Also, looks painfully slow!

New comment by amanzi in "My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini"

amanzi — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:45:36 +0000

No mention of the performance of the models? I'm able to load a bunch of different models on my little mini-PC with 16GB RAM, but the performance is terrible. I always wonder what performance people are getting with local models that they find is acceptable?

New comment by amanzi in "When I worked at Apple, I remember seeing code that was 15 years old"

amanzi — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:09:05 +0000

I agree with Mitchell's original post: "stay frosty with AI", and I disagree with response that says "the houses are better". I'm assuming that Mitchell was saying you should treat all AI code with caution, and the more I work with AI-generated code, the more I agree with this sentiment. Even the frontier models (Fable, Opus, Sol, etc) all make fundamental errors from time to time, and if you're not keeping your eyes open these are easy to miss.

Just the other day, I got Fable to help generate a sign-up flow for a Django app. It looked perfect to me, and like the Twitter post linked to, I looked at it with marvel and delight. But I got Sol to review the code and it spotted some fundamental issues with the flow that would have let bad actors enumerate accounts and log in before their account was verified - both of which were supposed to be checked.

To continue with the analogy, yes we can "will houses into existence", but unless we've checked the bricks and the foundations, these houses can easily crumble into rubble.

New comment by amanzi in "PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history"

amanzi — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:18:30 +0000

Here in NZ, what Trump has been doing in the Middle East is having a huge impact on policy, especially with the upcoming elections this year. Trump has reminded us (and I imagine many other countries too) that relying on other countries for fuel is fraught with danger. EV sales have spiked here, and all of the political parties are scrambling to come with electrification policies. So for NZ at least, I definitely agree with the OP comment about Trump's influence.

New comment by amanzi in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

amanzi — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:53:46 +0000

I was initially surprised that Gruber was so invested in the "quality" of AI-generated text, which in my mind is an oxymoron. But really, Gruber's interest here is with the EU. This forms part of his ongoing attacks on the EU, all because they have been forcing Apple to align with regulations.

New comment by amanzi in "Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI"

amanzi — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:59:13 +0000

Even the website looks AI generated. Lots of cards with hover effects, icons in square boxes, the button shapes and behaviours, and just the general look and feel has Claude written all over it.

New comment by amanzi in "OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux"

amanzi — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:24:08 +0000

Nice - I've been considering re-subscribing to OpenAI to try out their new models. This is just the push I needed. Looking forward to trying it on Fedora 44.

New comment by amanzi in "Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper"

amanzi — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:47:53 +0000

That looks like an interesting game, I'll bookmark it. But no - it appears to be a different concept.

New comment by amanzi in "Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper"

amanzi — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:21:18 +0000

This is very similar concept to "0h h1" https://0hh1.com/ which I've been playing every day on Android for a couple of years now. I had never considered it to be a reverse minesweeper.