Hacker News: ariwilson

New comment by ariwilson in "Don't Wordle"

ariwilson — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:14:43 +0000

What word list are you using as the valid words list? The old solutions list from nytimes wordle is no longer very relevant, e.g. the last month or so has produced several Wordle solutions that were not on it.

New comment by ariwilson in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

ariwilson — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:54:46 +0000

Google Meet doesn't require a client

New comment by ariwilson in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

ariwilson — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:15:57 +0000

Weird to hear a full throated defense of the RIAA here

New comment by ariwilson in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

ariwilson — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:47:40 +0000

15 million dollars

New comment by ariwilson in "Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries"

ariwilson — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:43:06 +0000

My launch Switch 1 battery is still working. Capacity is probably 80% or less but it still works fine.

New comment by ariwilson in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

ariwilson — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:09:53 +0000

Maybe Claude is operating at a higher, self-improving level than all of us poor HN commenters. Wasting the local machine's resources to look pretty is a plausibly deniable way to make the Claude Code FE unusable with local LLMs, starving the competition.

New comment by ariwilson in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

ariwilson — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:04:25 +0000

zoom settings fucking suck to set up full AI summary / transcript btw. i know it's a one time cost but it's across every engineer

New comment by ariwilson in "1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices"

ariwilson — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:27:21 +0000

Have you learned anything interesting from your agent ant farm?

New comment by ariwilson in "Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs"

ariwilson — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:08:35 +0000

Android handhelds (e.g. AYN Thor, Odin 3, Retroid Pocket 6) have been becoming more and more useful for PC gaming via apps like GameNative and GameHub. See for example, Elden Ring: https://youtu.be/GlzMkqFmKjo?si=w9q-j2ntt154b0--&t=621

New comment by ariwilson in "Could a Claude Code routine watch my finances?"

ariwilson — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:22:08 +0000

why not just use Plaid under the hood

New comment by ariwilson in "Could a Claude Code routine watch my finances?"

ariwilson — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:21:34 +0000

I don't really get this; could just use Plaid and have your own transaction/net worth site/app in a few hours with Claude Code and it'd be much more consistent.

New comment by ariwilson in "OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise"

ariwilson — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:14:28 +0000

What's wrong with Express?

New comment by ariwilson in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

ariwilson — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:53:15 +0000

why do you think agents you make yourself will be better for you? integration with tooling that you prefer? your local dev setup built in?

curious as i haven't gotten around to writing my own agent yet

New comment by ariwilson in "Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs"

ariwilson — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:24:29 +0000

Very cool and works pretty well!

New comment by ariwilson in "Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra"

ariwilson — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:54:00 +0000

yes because a phone cpu cannot cool itself to keep at peak performance like a desktop processor can

New comment by ariwilson in "Claude Code Remote Control"

ariwilson — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:21:45 +0000

This comment sounds like the basis for a nice Black Mirror episode.

New comment by ariwilson in "[dead]"

ariwilson — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:11:05 +0000

Is it really inspired by love if you put 5 seconds into it?

I've done the AI books for my kids but putting effort into making them personal and interesting has been the main point.

New comment by ariwilson in "Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)"

ariwilson — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:55:33 +0000

why a mac mini rather than a cloud vps

New comment by ariwilson in "The Jeff Dean Facts"

ariwilson — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:23:50 +0000

Hi Kenton! I was the recent grad you handed this web app off to after you built it, so I expanded Jeff Dean Facts so that anyone could create and rate facts about anyone at Google :). There were a ton of team in-jokes added before I stopped working on it - O(5k) IIRC! :)

This web app was also how I learned the pain of maintaining a live web service with a lot of ever-changing dependencies. How I sighed when the AppEngine version changed and I had to fix things again...

I handed it off again before I left Google but I have no memory of who that was to unfortunately :(.

New comment by ariwilson in "BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive"

ariwilson — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:07:36 +0000

Compare this car to the Toyota RAV4 PHEV which in some ways is simpler than a gas powered RAV4 (no alternator, no transmission) but maintains the same ease of maintainability and cheap parts availability as the base RAV4 (makes sense, they sold >4M of them).

PHEVs are complicated tech so I figured I would choose one with a proven design (Prius -> Prius Prime -> RAV4 Prime).