Hacker News: astrea

New comment by astrea in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

astrea — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:10:10 +0000

I like that this article paints VSCode as bogged down by too much AI tooling and the first thing I see on the Zed website is how create it is with Sonnet 4.5 and there’s a subscription plan for AI features.

New comment by astrea in "Claude Code On-the-Go"

astrea — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:57:02 +0000

Claude Code mobile app + GitHub app? Works well enough.

New comment by astrea in "Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS"

astrea — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:52:53 +0000

It’s specifically a Mac workaround package manager. There’s better/cleaner ways to do it on Linux.

New comment by astrea in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

astrea — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:46:30 +0000

It’s quite reductionist to compare this Maduro situation to WW2.

New comment by astrea in "The G in GPU is for Graphics damnit"

astrea — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 06:00:29 +0000

Holy tangents, Batman! This whole post was a million interrelated topics woven into one semi-coherent textbook.

New comment by astrea in "GLP-1s are breaking life insurance"

astrea — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:43:37 +0000

I believe it’s seeing the 98% mortality rate in 2020 vs 2019 for the same month.

New comment by astrea in "Fix "pulsing" sensation when charging MacBook"

astrea — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 04:04:10 +0000

I’ve always felt it in North America. Especially if you slide your hand/finger. My iPad does it as well (if it’s on a charger).

New comment by astrea in "Milwaukee police trade: 2.5M mugshots for free facial recognition access"

astrea — Thu, 01 May 2025 04:14:39 +0000

Wait until y’all learn about the PCSO facial recognition dataset

New comment by astrea in "Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history"

astrea — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:41:38 +0000

Shows how old I am. Thought we were still in the "exposed ElasticSearch" era.

New comment by astrea in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

astrea — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 05:39:42 +0000

Let’s say they develop AGI tomorrow. Is that really all she wrote for blue collar jobs?

New comment by astrea in "Twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers"

astrea — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 04:37:38 +0000

This is literally just a shared text file with buzz words thrown in the title. You could achieve the same thing with a Google Drive link to a text file.

New comment by astrea in "New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm"

astrea — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 04:27:41 +0000

I'm so dumb. I didn't even click into the "Blank Actions" tile.

New comment by astrea in "Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess"

astrea — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 04:26:15 +0000

Since we're mentioning Shannon... What is the minimum representative sample size of that problem space? Is it close enough to the number of freely available chess moves on the Internet and in books?

New comment by astrea in "Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess"

astrea — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 04:12:40 +0000

Well that makes sense when you consider the game has been translated into an (I'm assuming monotonically increasing) alphanumeric representation. So, just like language, you're given an ordered list of tokens and you need to find the next token that provides the highest confidence.

New comment by astrea in "New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm"

astrea — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 04:01:31 +0000

After reading your comment, I was interested in whether or not I could achieve this through the built-in Shortcuts app. Unfortunately, "Restart" is not an available action.

Edit: Actually, I was looking in the wrong place. It’s an option for the "Shut Down” action. Thanks, @jwond!

New comment by astrea in "New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm"

astrea — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 03:49:59 +0000

A memory leak that causes a full-system reboot after exactly 72 hours?

New comment by astrea in "LLMs aren't "trained on the internet" anymore"

astrea — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 19:08:00 +0000

I’m speaking abstractly, of course.

New comment by astrea in "Repairing my mug with Kintsugi"

astrea — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:27:58 +0000

I had no idea it was done with a resin.

New comment by astrea in "This Message Does Not Exist"

astrea — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:22:49 +0000

Wait until the author learns about pointers.

New comment by astrea in "LLMs aren't "trained on the internet" anymore"

astrea — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:14:53 +0000

It's fascinating to watch the whole "Data is the new oil" thing grow and morph into something truly horrible.