Hacker News: andkenneth

New comment by andkenneth in "New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

andkenneth — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 20:07:00 +0000

I think I'm on the same computer, the M1 MBP with the touchbar right? I was eyeing an upgrade for a while but now that I've transitioned to running agents on a home server instead of locally, I think I'll be putting my money into a ram upgrade for that box instead. My macbook is basically a dumb terminal at this point, the only reason for an upgrade would be battery life. I might get an air or even a neo if this thing dies.

New comment by andkenneth in "Claude Opus 5.5"

andkenneth — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:39:54 +0000

Pacing the frontier doesn't mean stopping development of smaller models with better distillation and RL.

New comment by andkenneth in "Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust"

andkenneth — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:27:19 +0000

I think if it's well built by experts it doesn't deserve the "vibe coded" label even if it was built with agentic tools.

New comment by andkenneth in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

andkenneth — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:42:30 +0000

They recently tried to upstream an improvement to zig, but were prevented from doing so because zig has a hard and fast "no AI code" rule. Whether you think this response is trying to put pressure on zig or whether they're just moving for practical reasons is up to you.

It's probably a bit of both.

New comment by andkenneth in "Claude Tips for 3D Work"

andkenneth — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:21:09 +0000

Gemini's best ability is it's 3d spatial reasoning. It's downright terrible at a lot of things (toolcalling is an absolute nightmare), but it consistently wins in stuff like 3d modeling, reasoning through 3d problems, and even 2d layout and animation tasks like the infamous pelican riding a bycicle benchmark

New comment by andkenneth in "Claude March 2026 usage promotion"

andkenneth — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:26:01 +0000

This is a psyop to recruit more Australians I'm sure of it

New comment by andkenneth in "Elevated Errors in Claude.ai"

andkenneth — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:15:08 +0000

People are mad at openAI cooperating with the pentagon while anthropic put their foot down over their red lines.

New comment by andkenneth in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

andkenneth — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:43:38 +0000

I'm wondering how this plays out in practice. Does the administration decide to strongarm contractors into cutting all ties? Will that extend to someone like google who provides compute to anthropic? Will the administration just plain ignore any court ruling? (as they've shown they're ready to do recently with the tarrifs situation)

If the legal system works as intended, the blast radius isn't too big here and something Anthropic will accept even if it hurts them. Maybe they even win and get the supply chain risk designation lifted. But I have zero faith that the legal system will make a difference here. It all comes down to how far the administration wants to go in imposing it's will.

Bleak.

New comment by andkenneth in "Claude Opus 4.6"

andkenneth — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 06:18:27 +0000

Weirdly I feel like partially because of this it feels more "human" and more like a real person I'm talking to. GPT models feel fake and forced, and will yap in a way that is like they're trying to get to be my friend, but offputting in a way that makes it not work. Meanwhile claude has always had better "emotional intelligence".

Claude also seems a lot better at picking up what's going on. If you're focused on tasks, then yeah, it's going to know you want quick answers rather than detailed essays. Could be part of it.

New comment by andkenneth in "Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions"

andkenneth — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 23:40:00 +0000

Companies are not comparing it straight to juniors. They're more making a comparison between a Senior with the assistance of one more more juniors, vs a Senior with the assistance of AI Agents.

I feel like comparison just to a junior developer is also becoming a fairly outdated comparison. Yes, it is worse in some ways, but also VASTLY superior in others.

New comment by andkenneth in "The hidden engineering of runways"

andkenneth — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:26:52 +0000

the distinction here is mainly jets vs props.

New comment by andkenneth in "Show HN: A simple web game to help learn chords and basic progressions"

andkenneth — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 21:20:29 +0000

I agree with you functionality wise, but a video showing it in use would be a good idea so those of us away from our midi devices can at least see it in action.

New comment by andkenneth in "School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study"

andkenneth — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 11:39:41 +0000

I wish I could do this. Do you even use a flip phone or anything? Or simply no cell phone?

New comment by andkenneth in "Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm apart sharing 3-letter code"

andkenneth — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 20:52:05 +0000

Contextually no one is using nanometers in aviation nav applications. Many aviation systems are case insensitive or all caps only so capitalisation is rarely an important distinction.

New comment by andkenneth in "Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm apart sharing 3-letter code"

andkenneth — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 20:47:38 +0000

No one is using nanometers in aviation navigation. Quite a few aviation systems are case insensitive or all caps only so you can't always make a distinction.

In fact, if you say "miles", you mean nautical miles. You have to use "sm" to mean statute miles if you're using that unit, which is often used for measuring visibility.

New comment by andkenneth in "Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct"

andkenneth — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 04:00:07 +0000

And as always, when problems get solved, other problems get revealed. We didn't even really know about cancer until life expectancies got to the point where dying in your 30s is a tragedy instead of being fairly normal.

New comment by andkenneth in "The PlanetScale vectors public beta"

andkenneth — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 21:55:42 +0000

At the enterprise level my understanding is that PlanetScale can operate within your environment directly instead of as a pure service.

New comment by andkenneth in "Self-experiment with L-theanine: effect on sleep and cognition"

andkenneth — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 22:25:51 +0000

bold of you to assume I'd ever read an article rather than just skimming the comments

New comment by andkenneth in "Unoffice Hours (2020)"

andkenneth — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 05:11:20 +0000

Not sure if he had this turned off beforehand or if it's because it's on the front page of HN, but there's no slots available. Not that I was personally going to book one!

I'd love to do something like this though - I've always enjoyed teaching so maybe something where I offer free calls to help newer developers with their project for an hour? Interesting idea!

New comment by andkenneth in "AI won't replace human devs anytime soon"

andkenneth — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 04:58:31 +0000

I'm the same, I've basically upgraded on release or shortly thereafter to every version of windows since Windows XP, and the only one that actually felt bad and I rolled back was Vista. Windows 8 was a tad whacky, but since windows 10 things have been pretty dang stable, which I'll remind you is 9 years old. Windows has been pretty consistent for a long time at this point.

IMO a lot of complaints about new OS versions are just a plain psychological aversion to UI changes. I always try and give them a go with an open mind, and most of the time it's honestly just fine if not actually a bit better in some way.