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New comment by amonith in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

amonith — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:35:59 +0000

I drew a lot of doodles and did things like that as well, but I think that they're less visually stimulating and simply "slower" so there's still some brain capacity left for learning.

New comment by amonith in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

amonith — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:53:50 +0000

Yup. As a kid I could "entertain" (distract is the better word) myself by "drawing shapes" with the cursor, highlighting random things, switching between random cells in Excel, or just like... browsing through the system without any plan or reason. Procrastination is hell of a drug.

I'm so lucky I didn't have this in the classroom.

New comment by amonith in "Show HN: Raincast – Describe an app, get a native desktop app (open source)"

amonith — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:47:05 +0000

Wait, what, Zed is Tauri? How? One of their main things was that they implemented the UI layer completely from scratch using their own GPU-accelerated rendering engine. It's got none of that browser-type stuff.

New comment by amonith in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

amonith — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:03:55 +0000

To extend on that a little bit: they use data centers located in EU, but owned by US cloud providers. They can still pull the plug ofc, so it's only a small difference, but still

New comment by amonith in "Big data on the cheapest MacBook"

amonith — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:27:45 +0000

Sort of, they have no "hands", LLMs can only respond that they want to execute a tool/command. So they do that a lot to: read files, search for things, compile projects, run tests, run other arbitrary commands, fetch stuff from the internet etc.

Obviously the LLM inference is super heavy, but the actual work / task at hand is being executed on the device.

New comment by amonith in "I'm going to build my own OpenClaw, with blackjack and bun"

amonith — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:57:32 +0000

Yeah, pretty much. A "mac mini" is just easier to set up for the average hype-driven AI "entrepreneur" bro than anything on the cloud. It's mostly a meme though.

New comment by amonith in "I'm going to build my own OpenClaw, with blackjack and bun"

amonith — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:01:50 +0000

Models are not local most of the time, no, but all commands execute on "the mac mini" so I wouldn't exactly call it a prop. LLMs accept and respond just with text what stuff to execute. They have no h̶a̶n̶d̶s̶ claws.

New comment by amonith in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

amonith — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:52:16 +0000

This happens to non-native English speakers a lot (like me). My style of writing is heavily influenced by everything I read. And since I also do research using LLMs, I'll probably sound more and more as an AI as well, just by reading its responses constantly.

I just don't know what's supposed to be natural writing anymore. It's not in the books, disappears from the internet, what's left? Some old blogs for now maybe.

New comment by amonith in "GitHub is down again"

amonith — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:59:55 +0000

By public services I mean only important things like healthcare, law enforcement, fire department. Definitely not stores and food delivery. You can wait an hour or even a couple of hours for that.

> Those companies have decided the extra complexity is worth the reliability.

Companies always want more money and yes it makes sense economically. I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm just saying that nobody needs this. I grew up in a world where this wasn't a thing and no, life wasn't worse at all.

New comment by amonith in "GitHub is down again"

amonith — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:06:52 +0000

I'm a firm believer that almost nothing except public services needs that kind of uptime... We've introduced ridiculous amounts of complexity to our infra to achieve this and we've contributed to the increasing costs of both services and development itself (the barrier of entry for current juniors is insane compared to what I've had to deal with in my early 20s).

New comment by amonith in "What has Docker become?"

amonith — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:55:58 +0000

Most likely a Windows or MacOS user, where docker runs in a linux VM. Optimized as much as possible and lightweight, but still a VM.

New comment by amonith in "We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack"

amonith — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:22:08 +0000

So if you're directly embedding the thing. This is a somewhat rare use case, should not be banned almost anywhere...

New comment by amonith in "McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash"

amonith — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:37:30 +0000

The thing is, if you want AI output to be heavily directed, which is probably the case here, I can imagine that thousands of random takes had to be made to make the damn thing follow the director's imagination. If you don't care too much about the output you can make these very quickly, yeah.

New comment by amonith in "Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio"

amonith — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:04:39 +0000

Same but with 1 kid and different websites (including HN, which is equally bad!). Actively fighting it though. Slowly removing all social media accounts, now just need to figure out how to block stuff permanently on my phone. On a desktop I did it with changing my hosts file to point everything to 127.0.0.1. Need to figure out how to do this also on mobile without an additional network device that would disrupt things for my wife.

New comment by amonith in "Most technical problems are people problems"

amonith — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:38:19 +0000

Haven't you seen job offers where X years of experience in XYZ is a must? It's like most of them. Never got one without this actually. Gotta have this experience from somewhere.

I know devs like to say they would hire anyone, but they're not the ones hiring. At best you get to interview people already prefiltered by HR which... looks for keywords in CV.

New comment by amonith in "Most technical problems are people problems"

amonith — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:54:37 +0000

I'd also add "there are almost no developers using it on the job market" to the list why some technologies are no longer fit for purpose. It's a major one. Sort of tied to the ecosystem (no devs - not many things get mantained/created).

New comment by amonith in "Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike"

amonith — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:09:40 +0000

I'm not hating, might be a language barrier, I'm from Poland, sorry.

1. Definitely not in my country. The average pay of a Wordpress/PHP dev is half of a modern full stack and the clients are terrible, because it's just websites for small businesses. Modern full stacks don't create websites most of the time, but highly interactive B2B apps.

2. It is absolutely my client. I optimize their happiness not their customers. I have no relationship with the customers, some don't know who I am.

3. I worked as a contractor for a couple of years and I'm not missing the stress and unstable pay. Especially now with a kid on board. Many contracts were actually "hey we need a React/[insert other tech] guy for our current project, wanna join?", not "we have an idea and we don't know how to do it" kind of thing. The latter are super rare and even more stressful, because they come from "non-technical startup founders" often with little money.

Keep in mind that I'm in EU, so the benefits of permanent employment make a huge difference.

New comment by amonith in "Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike"

amonith — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:16:48 +0000

You sound like a freelancer or something. Every single company I interviewed for in the last couple of years as a full stack dev *required* experience in React/Vue/Angular 2+. With old school js/html/css you wouldn't even pass CV screening. Best you could get with that is some wordpress gig for peanuts.

New comment by amonith in "Codex, Opus, Gemini try to build Counter Strike"

amonith — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:19:58 +0000

That invisible hand exists and had always existed, it's the market. Nobody will arrest you, but the enjoyable work simply slowly disappears. Unless we're talking hobby scenarios, but nobody cares about that.

New comment by amonith in "Zed is our office"

amonith — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:07:13 +0000

Random thing spotted in the article:

> "Wish there was a windows laptop I could buy that is good"

What does it even mean? There are macs, there are chromebooks and there are just laptops. Wth is a Windows laptop? There's a good Linux laptop?

Just a nit :P