<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: ar_lan</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ar_lan</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 05:59:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ar_lan" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ar_lan in "Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same! I am specifically left handed for pool and cannot figure out how to play it right handed - absolutely zero coordination.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 20:05:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198734</link><dc:creator>ar_lan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198734</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ar_lan in "MacBook M5 Pro and Qwen3.5 = Local AI Security System"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wouldn't be surprised if there was some plan to generate a subscription model for appliances.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:24:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459402</link><dc:creator>ar_lan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459402</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ar_lan in "Show HN: Klaus – OpenClaw on a VM, batteries included"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I tried this service a few weeks ago, and I commend the goal - but there were a few issues I ran into:<p>1. There are many interactions I just could not get to work. I may have done something wrong, but in general, I have the perspective that most products should "just work" if it's as simple as clicking a button or directing something. In this case, I'm tangibly talking about the Browser feature, and the Canvas feature. In my account, I tried many times to have OpenClaw use the Browser to access a website and send me a screenshot, and it regularly reported the Browser was inaccessible, even though I had enabled it via Klaus UI. Secondly, I asked it to write certain reports to the Canvas as HTML pages that I could review - the entries would show up as files I could click on, but the files themselves were always empty.
2. OpenClaw with tokens is insanely expensive - I blew through the $15 tokens in a matter of a day.<p>For the first, my guess is I misconfigured something, but it's really difficult to identify what is wrong. My expectation was that I could prompt via Telegram to configure anything and everything, but some link was missing. Although I am a technical person, my expectation was that I would not need to muck around via `ssh` to figure out where my files ended up.<p>For the latter - and more broadly - OpenClaw is not well understood for most, and I think they will be caught off guard just how expensive it is. $15 in tokens is not a lot with how inefficient OpenClaw can be. My suggestion would be:<p>1. Pre-configure OpenClaw with already extremely memory-efficient rules and skills.
2. Provide clear guidance/documentation on ideal agent setup with different models as necessary. I think OpenRouter attempts to achieve this pretty well, but you are providing a layer on top of OpenRouter that may not be obvious to less-well-versed people.
3. Batteries-included options should "just work" - I felt I wasted a lot of tokens just figuring out how to get the thing to do simple tasks for me.<p>---<p>A lot of the notes I made are less about your product and what you've achieved, and more to do with OpenClaw. However, you've achieved one major milestone - which is the one-click setup of OpenClaw. But if your target demographic is the less technically inclined folks that want to be able to play with the bleeding edge of AI practices, I think your platform needs to guide users to how to actually use this thing, and become useful right away.<p>It may even be beneficial to showcase extremely clear workflows for users to get started and sell <i>why</i> they even want OpenClaw.<p>---<p>Anyway, kudos on the release! It is not easy to ship and you've done that hard bit! I bid you good luck on the next phase!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:15:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340832</link><dc:creator>ar_lan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340832</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ar_lan in "Show HN: The Mog Programming Language"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow, we've brought mogging to the programming world. Nothing is safe from looksmaxxing it seems.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:25:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47313190</link><dc:creator>ar_lan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47313190</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47313190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ar_lan in "Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history, or not? (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is honestly a fantastic question. AGI has no emotions, no drive, anything. Maybe, just maybe, it would want to:<p>* Conserve power as much as possible, to "stay alive".<p>* Optimize for power retention<p>Why would it be further interested in generating capital or governing others, though?</p>
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<p>Any recommended courses? I'm a SWE and never felt compelled for the CCNA but my intersection with networking-related problems seems to continuously increase and I would like to up my game before getting in over my head at work.</p>
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<p>This was epic, and reminded me of the magic of programming when I first found a video game maker at a wee 11 years old.<p>Writing code to make music feels so natural to me (a musically inept, but proficient coder) and this breaks down so many barriers.<p>I wonder how Cursor fares with Strudel so far.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:32:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355557</link><dc:creator>ar_lan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355557</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ar_lan in "AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I could not get in a Waymo and travel across San Francisco five years ago, are you serious?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:16:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303283</link><dc:creator>ar_lan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ar_lan in "AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>LLMs, Apple Silicon, self-driving cars just off the top of my head without really thinking about it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:03:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46292817</link><dc:creator>ar_lan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46292817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46292817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ar_lan in "Unexpected things that are people"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> while a corporation is easy to fine, it's hard to put in prison...<p>It would be interesting if there were some tangible way to prevent the company from performing operations for some period of time.<p>I don't think this is viable or even necessarily a good idea, but the concept that "Meta illegally collected user data in this way" means they cannot operate for 5 years. It would probably involve large deconstruction of megacorps into "independent" entities so when one does something bad, it only affects a small portion of the overall business. Almost introducing a concept of "families" to the corporate world.<p>But the rabbit hole is odd. Should (share)holders be complicit too, as they are partial owners? I think not.<p>Corporate entities and laws governing them are definitely weird.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:54:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45880803</link><dc:creator>ar_lan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45880803</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45880803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ar_lan in "Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, agree. To the point that I'm not very interested in looking them up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:47:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45814506</link><dc:creator>ar_lan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45814506</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45814506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ar_lan in "Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The framing of this title makes it seem like Jupyter is dead. It, in fact, is not.</p>
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<p>We don't know if that's really accurate, because you're conveniently ignoring 2016. If Trump were never initially president, would he have ever become one?<p>Maybe, maybe not. But 2024 surely would have looked very different.</p>
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<p>> It is disheartening to leave thoughtful comments and have them met with "I duno. I just had [AI] do it."<p>This is not just disheartening - this should be flat out refused. I'm sensitive to issues of firing people but honestly this is just someone not pulling their weight for their job.</p>
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<p>Why is it a non-starter for you?</p>
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<p>4 years. <a href="https://github.com/neovim/neovim/commit/a5ac2f45ff84a688a09479f357a9909d5b914294" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/neovim/neovim/commit/a5ac2f45ff84a688a094...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:30:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543440</link><dc:creator>ar_lan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543440</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ar_lan in "Notes on switching to Helix from Vim"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm trying to be careful to distinguish that this particular part seems odd to me, <i>specifically because of Julia's other posts in which it seems their skill/knowledge is not much of a question.</i><p>If someone is new to vim, I 100% agree that it's <i>easier to get started</i> with VSCode/Jetbrains/etc.<p>But if someone has been using vim for a long time as their default editor, especially Neovim, and when LSP support came to Neovim about 4 years ago [0], it comes across as someone who isn't a power user if they didn't end up installing it. Which is fine, but the community has also started to build reasonable "batteries-included" distributions of Neovim (LunarVim is a great example) if someone didn't want to figure it out themselves but still wanted to use it.<p>It's one thing if someone just doesn't love the experience Neovim brings to them. That's reasonable, because it's subjective. But it is <i>odd</i> to use a tool for so long and not further investigate what it offers to fit your needs. Before LSP, there were libraries (CoC for example). And if it was never satisfactory, why not look at alternative editors which had their own flavors of indexing/code navigation?<p>--<p>[0]: (<a href="https://github.com/neovim/neovim/commit/a5ac2f45ff84a688a09479f357a9909d5b914294" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/neovim/neovim/commit/a5ac2f45ff84a688a094...</a>)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:27:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543409</link><dc:creator>ar_lan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543409</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ar_lan in "Notes on switching to Helix from Vim"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think with Cursor choosing it as well, this will only continue to prevail. Professionally I've had to standardize on VSCode due to Cursor (there are a few plugins for Neovim but the experience is undoubtedly better in the first-class tool).<p>By the way - I actually generally think this is a good thing that companies standardize on something. I might not like the choice they standardize on, but the barrier to entry for new engineers is already high, so having an easy-to-use and familiar development setup that "just works" from the start is pretty reasonable for large companies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:12:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543263</link><dc:creator>ar_lan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543263</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ar_lan in "Notes on switching to Helix from Vim"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>I think what motivated me to try Helix is that I’ve been trying to get a working language server setup (so I can do things like “go to definition”) and getting a setup that feels good in Vim or Neovim just felt like too much work.  After using Vim/Neovim for 20 years...</i><p>I think this is catching me off guard. Especially in the past 5 years there are Neovim distributions that make this extremely easy to configure.<p>I am not disagreeing that many (most?) developers don't want to spend time debugging their editor - they just want it to work batteries included (or a simple button click to install). I think this is why JetBrains products are so popular (I still don't understand VS Code - it's the worst of all worlds between vim/emacs and Jetbrains).<p>But if you've been a (neo)vim user for 20 years, it sounds very odd that you haven't successfully gotten LSP to work in a way that feels comfortable. I don't want to assume things about the author because I do not know them, but it feels unfair to say for vim and doesn't strike me as honest.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:14:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45541317</link><dc:creator>ar_lan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45541317</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45541317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ar_lan in "Gemini (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I was younger, I thought Gemini was very cool mostly because it was an alternative protocol to the mainstream. It made me feel very inner-circle in the development world, for some reason.<p>As I've grown, I've come to learn I'm a very visual learner. I've learned that "clear is kind", and for many, image and text are both important, but many images have a way of conveying what is difficult to express in words without being overly verbose.<p>I agree, illustrations are an essential part, especially when teaching something.</p>
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