Hacker News: atlgator

New comment by atlgator in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

atlgator — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:24:09 +0000

The 20 hour battery rating is for Windows 11. How long does Linux last?

New comment by atlgator in "Ask HN: Has AWS Support fallen off?"

atlgator — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:33:55 +0000

It can't be worse than Azure support.

New comment by atlgator in "Claude Opus 4.7"

atlgator — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:46:32 +0000

We've all been complaining about Opus 4.6 for weeks and now there's a new model. Did they intentionally gimp 4.6 so they can advertise how much better 4.7 is?

New comment by atlgator in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

atlgator — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:32:13 +0000

I like Openclaw. It's able to interact with a bunch of apps I self-host (e.g. media server, home automation, productivity) and I generally prefer communicating with it over Claude directly. I would not tell people to go out and fork over money for a mac mini to use it. I already had a mac mini sitting idle, so I'm putting it to use.

New comment by atlgator in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

atlgator — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:29:23 +0000

To be fair, my mac mini was sitting idle well before Openclaw arrived on the scene.

New comment by atlgator in ""The Last Airbender" movie leaked 9 months before release date"

atlgator — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:47:18 +0000

Has the story changed from the last 3 times they've told it?

New comment by atlgator in "Best AI coding interview assistant in 2026"

atlgator — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:11:14 +0000

I switched my org back to in-person interviews. The cheating is so rampant, not just for coding but behavioral as well.

New comment by atlgator in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

atlgator — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:20:09 +0000

same.

New comment by atlgator in "State of Homelab 2026"

atlgator — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:51:33 +0000

You are doing more than I am (e.g. synchronized file storage, books, music), but I have radarr, sonarr, overseerr, plex, and supporting apps for movies and tv shows. Plex is available externally through its remote access feature. For the actual request system, I run OpenClaw with an Overseerr extension. This allows me to manage titles remotely via Telegram without any kind of tunnel or SSO. Simple and gets the job done for the solo-user scenario.

New comment by atlgator in "The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life"

atlgator — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:13:08 +0000

I generally avoid caffeine at all costs. I'm susceptible to SVT, and I want the Adenosine to work if I should need it. Caffeine blocks Adenosine receptors. But on the rare occasion I have a single can of caffeinated Diet Coke, I experience a crash 48 hours later so profound that I cannot get out of bed that day.

New comment by atlgator in "EFF is leaving X"

atlgator — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:09:18 +0000

They make valid suggestions on improvements for X. Unfortunately, they undercut their credibility by complaining that their tweets don't get seen as often anymore. Sounds like sour grapes from a group that thinks they deserve special treatment.

New comment by atlgator in "Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter"

atlgator — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:15:58 +0000

I am very disappointed that Anthropic killed the use of Max subscriptions for OpenClaw, especially when I never hit my usage limits on it. Perhaps I will try this combo as an alternative.

New comment by atlgator in "MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU"

atlgator — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:52:30 +0000

The GPU is no longer the brain, it's the hand. The brain is your RAM. Suddenly that 256GB DDR5 build your wife questioned is 'research infrastructure.'

New comment by atlgator in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

atlgator — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:34:51 +0000

Step 6: grep the thread count on the squash-merge debate to determine if the team has unresolved interpersonal conflict.

New comment by atlgator in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

atlgator — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:50:16 +0000

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New comment by atlgator in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

atlgator — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:48:25 +0000

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New comment by atlgator in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

atlgator — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:38:17 +0000

This man poured concrete around a power strip, chemically aged copper with ammonia, rusted rebar with peroxide, faked a damaged cable for vibes, and vibrated out the air bubbles with a dildo. This is the most unhinged and delightful Show HN I've ever seen.

New comment by atlgator in "After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)"

atlgator — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:24:25 +0000

Man spends 20 years as a participant-observer in the AdSense ecosystem for academic purposes, earns less than a TA, and gets flagged for writing about the very legal cases he's an expert on. Peak Google.

New comment by atlgator in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

atlgator — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:06:19 +0000

This thread is a support group for people who have each independently built the same macOS speech-to-text app.

New comment by atlgator in "Wikipedia's AI agent row likely just the beginning of the bot-ocalypse"

atlgator — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:29:36 +0000

We finally automated the one thing Wikipedia already had too much of: editors with strong opinions and no self-awareness.