Hacker News: artisin

New comment by artisin in "Genie 4"

artisin — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:09:37 +0000

When you're high on vibes, the line between music and audio-like music tends to blur.

New comment by artisin in "Googlebook"

artisin — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:55:58 +0000

Unless you're a gamer or an iFan:

  Linux > macOS > Windows > ChromeOS

I did enjoy the early days of ChromeOS, when crouton[1] was all you needed to turn it into a delicious Unix salad, before Google decided the real threat model was "advanced hackers" and/or bored school kids.

[1] https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

New comment by artisin in "Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met"

artisin — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:49:06 +0000

this gave me a good chuckle.

> Oh, right. Aramaic. My mistake—I somehow read "Italian" and didn't question it. > I can try, although my Aramaic is very rusty. Do you mean Classical/Syriac Aramaic, or one of the modern varieties?

New comment by artisin in "Effect 4.0"

artisin — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:07:38 +0000

I was (still am) a huge fan of fp-ts [1], which, in effect, was rolled into the Effect-TS ecosystem. And I'm still bummed TS+ [2] didn't work out, because I've never managed to love Effect-TS the way I loved fp-ts.

Maybe it's the lack of tacit function calling, the conventions, AI/modern-marketing push, or simply the daunting scope and scale (even more so with v4).

Still, despite my gripes, if you're willing to spend the time and effort, it's the safest and most elegant way to write TypeScript. Plus, it's now dependency-free, and the increasingly good LSP/editor support removes a lot of the friction that used to come with completions and diagnostics.

[1] https://github.com/gcanti/fp-ts [2] https://effect.website/blog/ts-plus-postmortem

New comment by artisin in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

artisin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:57:29 +0000

No. Apple did not invent or pioneer the concept of unified or shared memory, but they did create an exceptional implementation of it.

New comment by artisin in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

artisin — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:03:51 +0000

I don't want to say this is indicative, but my local library used AI-generated event poster/images for the past year. But recently they switched back to word/clipart event posters. When I was checking out, I query the librarian about it, and apparently they saw a 40-60% drop in attendance. On one hand, I found that hard to believe, but on the other hand, simple word/clipart event posters do have a certain inviting charm about them.

New comment by artisin in "Claude Code May–July 2026 weekly limits promotion"

artisin — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:45:47 +0000

Fable is pretty fantastic for standard code monkey stuff. But yeah, anything related to security or science that's six degrees related to death, drugs, and/or fun gets flagged.

New comment by artisin in "GPT-5.6"

artisin — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:16:59 +0000

Control warmth[1]

> GPT-5.6 does not become meaningfully better when prompted to be broadly friendlier or more empathetic. Instead of generic instructions such as “Be friendly and warm,” use concrete guidance: > Be direct and tactful. Acknowledge friction specifically when relevant. Avoid canned reassurance and unnecessary sign-offs.

Soo basically, my new 5.6 custom instructions: Be Jeeves and eliminate all friction from my life through immense processing power. Acknowledge friction specifically when relevant. Avoid canned reassurance and unnecessary sign-offs.

[1] https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/latest-model#c...

New comment by artisin in "GPT-5.6"

artisin — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:19:29 +0000

I wish they had kept their previous sensible naming convention instead of this celestial Sol, Terra, and Luna mumbo-jumbo

New comment by artisin in "98% Isn't Much"

artisin — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:08:16 +0000

Reading the comments, I expected this blog post to be about something fundamental. But nope. It's just about native CSS nesting. A convenience feature that merely adopts functionality that preprocessors have long provided. Maybe I'm alone in this viewport, but this isn't even worth debating unless you, the developer, are the priority.

New comment by artisin in "Orasort: 5x faster column-sorting with an expired patent from Oracle"

artisin — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:45:58 +0000

[+1] this was a good read

New comment by artisin in "The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable"

artisin — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:22:53 +0000

Only one word at a time!?! It's time you embrace the way of the diffusion model and hazily refine your entire thought until it's coherent.

New comment by artisin in "The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable"

artisin — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:05:22 +0000

Efficient != effective, and the author outlines as much. Regardless, while you're technically correct, it's kinda like saying the Fantasy Land Specification[1] (aka the "Algebraic JavaScript Specification") is pure. The problem is that purely functional fantasy lands rarely exist outside of fairytales. In other words, life is a lot like JavaScript and never that simple.

[1] - https://github.com/fantasyland/fantasy-land

New comment by artisin in "Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402"

artisin — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:50:47 +0000

> This is what we are building toward: an agent-first Internet with Internet-scale settlement built in.

Ah yes, the starry-eyed dream of early web pioneers is finally upon us: a soulless internet filled with soulless agents and microtransactions!

But in all seriousness, it's hard to deny that the attention-based model that has propelled the web forward for the last 30 years is somewhat falling apart. And I don't have, nor have I come across, any meaningful solutions that could realistically work better. So maybe it's just time we turn off this 'internet' thing and call it a day.

New comment by artisin in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

artisin — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:49:05 +0000

In the press release, they 'kind of' clarify this:

   > The new classifier also comes at the cost of flagging benign requests more often during routine coding and debugging tasks.

New comment by artisin in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

artisin — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:34:52 +0000

Silly me for hoping they'd actually honor their original 14-day promise. Per their latest blog post, they've generously slashed the timeline to 7 days, but wait there's more! It's now limited to 50% of your weekly usage:

  > Fable 5 will be available starting tomorrow, Wednesday, July 1, to users globally... Fable 5 will be included for up to 50% of weekly usage limits through July 7, after which it will be available via usage credits.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/redeploying-fable-5

New comment by artisin in "Superpowers 6"

artisin — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:31:11 +0000

I gave Superpowers 5.x a whirl for a week, and aside from consuming a stupid amount of tokens, it did materially worse across all my personal benchmarks and general day-to-day development compared to plain Codex/Claude. I'm convinced it's either some 4D ploy by the AI cartels to set tokens ablaze, or it only provides Superpowers to those without any power to begin with. Rating: 1/5 Pinocchios. Would not recommend.

New comment by artisin in "I ported Kubernetes to the browser"

artisin — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:57:30 +0000

There's even a blog/article write-up with a more succinct demo of Kubernetes: https://ngrok.com/blog/i-ported-kubernetes-to-the-browser

   > Is this just slop?
   > Almost all of the webernetes code was authored by LLMs
   > ...
   > I did two things that I think make this a slop-free project:
   > 1. I reviewed every line of code.
   > 2. I created hundreds of tests that assert webernetes behaves the same as a real cluster.

edit: added the slop-free remarks

New comment by artisin in "I ported Kubernetes to the browser"

artisin — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:23:07 +0000

It's Web Scale Technology™

New comment by artisin in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

artisin — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:38:31 +0000

FUTO has gone from tolerable to pretty great over the past year-ish. Sure, the (english) auto-completion still may not be the "best," but I generally find it better than my iPad auto-completion. Thou, my fav-features are pretty simple: the ability to pin dedicated action buttons like undo/redo/select-all, and direct control over my clipboard history. The clipboard does come with hard max limits of 100 items and 336 hours, but since FUTO is open-source, all one has to do is clone, patch, compile, and voila, unlimited clipboard history! And they say dreams don't come true.