Hacker News: artisin

New comment by artisin in "All your agents are going async"

artisin — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:37:00 +0000

So reinventing terminal multiplexing, except over proprietary chat/realtime transports instead of PTYs?

New comment by artisin in "Claude Design"

artisin — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:09:53 +0000

Having generated ~250k web design images the past few months, I've concluded generative models, circa 2026, still suck at it. Presumably because the difference between an 'OK' design and a 'Great' one is pretty darn small and far too nuanced. That said, Imagen easily takes the cake for workable design creativity, but even then, it takes 1000ish gens to get something decent, maybe 200 if you aren't too picky.

New comment by artisin in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

artisin — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:04:05 +0000

Hit songs are just simple four-chord loops stretched over three minutes of synthetic boilerplate.

New comment by artisin in "Is AI Making Us Dumb?"

artisin — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:04:42 +0000

No matter how you slice this apple, it's going to be lopsided. The real problem is that true learning is hard, ugly work, and the vast majority of people simply don't have the grit to choose friction over shortcut. Lord knows, I wouldn't have put in the grinding effort to learn how to code if I could have just bot-it. To make matters worse, you have advertisers masquerading as influencers pushing the notion: if you're not shipping 10 features a day, you'll be left behind. It's a perfect damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.

New comment by artisin in "Samsung Upcycle Promise"

artisin — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:21:50 +0000

My guess, is it boils down to legal liability. Every time I look into repurposing my old smartphones, I inevitably go down the "well, it probably won't burn my house down… but. " It's the same reason why I don't use Molex-to-SATA power adapters, even though I could save a few bucks. Regardless, Samsung ghosting iFixit is inexcusable.

New comment by artisin in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

artisin — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:49:28 +0000

As of now, yes. However, a few months ago it was mentioned that Google is working on increasing the limits for Pro/Ultra subscribers. But if I can't get this ToS ban sorted out, I assume it'll follow my account when that update lands, and I'll end up being banned from AI Studio as well.

New comment by artisin in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

artisin — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:29:04 +0000

Yup. Last week my Ultra account got ToS-banned from both the Gemini CLI and Antigravity simply for using OpenCode. Try as I might, I haven't been able to resolve the issue. I can technically still use the Gemini web/app, but it's remarkably terrible in just about every conceivable way. A truly impressive feat in itself.

New comment by artisin in "Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD"

artisin — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:06:08 +0000

Facts. Anything less than 4K/120fps simply won't cut it in '26. Anthropic ain't just flipping pages, they're flipping the world.

New comment by artisin in "Zvec: SQLite-like simplicity in an embedded vector database (By Alibaba)"

artisin — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:12:07 +0000

If the benchmarks are to be believed, and assuming ~0.93 recall is "good enough" for the use case, this vector DB is seriously fast: about 5x the queries/sec of OpenSearch and 19x Milvus.

New comment by artisin in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

artisin — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:17:14 +0000

NOTE: The script is broken, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO USE THE SCRIPT NOW. Attempting to run it may get your account flagged stopping you from trying face verification either temporarily or permanently, forcing you to use your ID.

pr: https://github.com/xyzeva/k-id-age-verifier/pull/12

New comment by artisin in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

artisin — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:43:23 +0000

Vibe-coders griping about Claude's vibe-coded CLI hits all the right vibes.

New comment by artisin in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

artisin — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:52:55 +0000

I was curious about the scale of 1TiB of text. According to WolframAlpha, it's roughly 1.1 trillion characters, which breaks down to 180.2 billion words, 360.5 million pages, or 16.2 billion lines. In terms of professional typing speed, that's about 3800 years of continuous work.

So post-deduplication, I think it's a fair assessment that a significant portion of high-quality text could fit within 1TiB. Tho 'high-quality' is a pretty squishy and subjective term.

New comment by artisin in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

artisin — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:47:30 +0000

I mean, maybe, it's just me, but...

> it can read my text messages, including two-factor authentication codes. it can log into my bank. it has my calendar, my notion, my contacts. it can browse the web and take actions on my behalf. in theory, clawdbot could drain my bank account. this makes a lot of people uncomfortable (me included, even now).

...is just, idk, asinine to me on so many levels. Anything from a simple mix-up to a well-crafted prompt injection could easily fuck you into next Tuesday, if you're lucky. But admittedly, I do see the allure, and with the proper tooling, I can see a future where the rewards outweigh the risks.

New comment by artisin in "Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds"

artisin — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:08:59 +0000

Best case, Google DeepMind cracks AGI by letting agents learn for themselves inside simulated worlds. Worst case, they've invented the greatest, most expensive screensaver generator in human history.

New comment by artisin in "KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support"

artisin — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:07:38 +0000

As an X11 holdout, my time seems nigh.

New comment by artisin in "Shai Hulud launches second supply-chain attack"

artisin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:32:24 +0000

Worth mentioning that Bubblewrap[1] (bwrap) can remove most npm/node attack vectors or, at the very least, limit the damage from running arbitrary code during install/execution. Far from a silver bullet, and you'll want to combine it with a simple wrapper script to avoid dinking around with all its arguments, but it beats dealing with rootless Podman containers.

[1] https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap

New comment by artisin in "I hate screenshots of text"

artisin — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:15:39 +0000

I always thought a screenshot of code was just an iPeople flex. Like, "look at my code, framed in this glassy macOS window with a $29.99 drop shadow." Kinda like how Nix or Arch users can't resist mentioning they use Nix or Arch. (btw i use arch)

New comment by artisin in "1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order"

artisin — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:40:13 +0000

At long last, a personal robot that can shatter my Waterford glassware and then clean up all the pieces! Sure, it moves like something out of a nightmare, but it makes sense that much of its marketing is aimed at seniors. It's a large and growing market, and the need is undeniable, given that few can afford a full-time caregiver. And from that perspective, the $20,000 price tag almost feels like a steal.

A human-knitted marvel that does it all. From telling cayenne apart from paprika to cleaning your toilet.... well, maybe. From what I can tell, it can flush but not wipe, so you'll still want to budget for a bidet.

Technically, it makes Level-5 autonomy look straightforward. At least roads have rules and standards; household bathrooms, not so much. But let's gloss over that, because I want to know more about the legal agreement you'll have to sign. IANAL, but I expect something akin to a carpet-bombing of blanket disclaimers: no liability for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive, or other damages—including injuries or loss of life—or really anything else that could go wrong, such as losing your mail, opening your door to assist in a robbery, setting your house on fire, flooding it, or sending your banking information to a Nigerian prince. Too bad iRobot never got around to explaining the legal side of things, but there's always hope for iRobot 2.

New comment by artisin in "Apple M5 chip"

artisin — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:37:44 +0000

The UX only sucks if you're unwilling to put in a minimal amount of time and effort. After that, it has no equal; it is, by definition, the opposite of vanity.

New comment by artisin in "Apps SDK"

artisin — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:21:05 +0000

Not only do you get to deploy your app to 700M users; you also get to provide responsive support for every single one of them!

Per the docs: 'Every app comes from a verified developer who stands behind their work and provides responsive support'

That's thinly veiled corporate speak for, Fortune 500 or GTFO