Hacker News: bananadonkey

New comment by bananadonkey in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

bananadonkey — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:46:56 +0000

My sub agent has been looping for almost 10 years at this point and has so far written 0 lines of code. Definitely won't be investing in another...

New comment by bananadonkey in "Biff.core: system composition for Clojure web apps"

bananadonkey — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:02:17 +0000

I am currently working through https://lukwol.github.io/gleam-guide/ and it's fun so far as a ReasonML/Elm/elixir enjoyer

New comment by bananadonkey in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

bananadonkey — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:03:29 +0000

I had a high end spec gaming laptop with 0 airflow back in the 2000s, and used to raid dorm LAN party freezers for frozen meat + towel = heatsink.

I was lucky that iteration 1 (sans towel) didn't ruin the laptop...

New comment by bananadonkey in "Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign"

bananadonkey — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:26:34 +0000

Check your home folder permissions on macos, last time I checked mine were world readable (until I changed them). I was very surprised by it, and only noticed when adding an new user account for my wife.

New comment by bananadonkey in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

bananadonkey — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:07:37 +0000

I also switched, but to https://asahi-alarm.org/ (the arch variant) with Sway, right after Software Update ignored my choice to NOT upgrade to Slophoe.

New comment by bananadonkey in "Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller"

bananadonkey — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:17:48 +0000

I've used https://yet-another-react-lightbox.com/ in anger and it's great, very extensible too.

New comment by bananadonkey in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

bananadonkey — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:01:08 +0000

WSL is great. Its biggest drawback is that it requires the use of Windows.

New comment by bananadonkey in "Reviewing Large Changes with Jujutsu"

bananadonkey — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:31:15 +0000

Same for me originally (years past) CLI git, then magit and more recently lazygit. Identical workflows across all 3 tools, with only progressively fewer keystrokes.

New comment by bananadonkey in "Rebasing in Magit"

bananadonkey — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:24:02 +0000

As a magit lover, LazyGit is a fine replacement that works even better in some cases, but falls just short overall. Still very usable both inside and outside neovim.

New comment by bananadonkey in "My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated"

bananadonkey — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 07:34:17 +0000

The contractors were probably dubious of that resiliency given their lack of experience. I recently ran fibre in my house and have to say I was pleasantly surprised that fiber patch cables (unarmored) can survive a good pull through a duct.

New comment by bananadonkey in "Why users cannot create Issues directly"

bananadonkey — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 08:38:00 +0000

Websites that are walled off behind obscure captcha don't do well in Karakeep for sure, but so far for me those are usually e-commerce sites or sites I don't return to anyway.

New comment by bananadonkey in "Why users cannot create Issues directly"

bananadonkey — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 08:14:01 +0000

Regarding wanting to preserve the current version of a page: I use Karakeep to archive those pages. I am sure there are other similar solutions such as downloading an offline version, but this works well for me.

I do this mostly for blog posts etc I might not get around to reading for weeks or months from now, and don't want them to disappear in the meantime.

Everything else is either a pinned tab (<5) or a bookmark (themselves shared when necessary on e.g a Slack canvas so the whole team has easy access, not just me).

While browsing the rest of my tabs are transient and don't really grow. I even mostly use private browsing for research, and only bookmark (or otherwise save) pages I deem to be of high quality. I might have a private window with multiple tabs for a given task, but it is quickly reduced to the minimum necessary pages and the the whole private window is thrown away once the initial source material gathering is done. This lets me turn off address bar search engines and instead search only saved history and bookmarks.

I often see colleagues with the same many browser windows of many tabs each open struggling to find what they need, and ponder their methods.

New comment by bananadonkey in "LearnixOS"

bananadonkey — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 07:36:04 +0000

Sure, but we program using programming languages, mostly using the Latin alphabet you are referring to. And yes the syntax for many of those programming languages is in fact case sensitive.

New comment by bananadonkey in "Unifi Travel Router"

bananadonkey — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 06:42:35 +0000

This new Unifi device supports captive portal authentication flows, so you don't need to do that whole shuffle.

Source https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruv550at3k8

New comment by bananadonkey in "Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles"

bananadonkey — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 05:12:45 +0000

I didn't see any threat to sue. What's your source?

New comment by bananadonkey in "OpenMaxIO: Forked UI for MinIO Object Storage"

bananadonkey — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 18:22:20 +0000

Isn't this just the UI and not the minio storage server itself?

Title is misleading if so

New comment by bananadonkey in "Sign in with Google in Chrome"

bananadonkey — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 06:02:23 +0000

> https://chromestatus.com/roadmap

I clicked the link and got the Sign in with Google prompt... on Firefox.

Why would I ever need to sign in to that website?!

New comment by bananadonkey in "Sunsetting Create React App"

bananadonkey — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 09:10:29 +0000

Agreed on the BYOF page. I excitedly clicked expecting some new nuggets of wisdom from the core team but was quite disappointed.

New comment by bananadonkey in "Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting"

bananadonkey — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:23:03 +0000

Those had an issue with their heatpipe design which affected cooling performance depending on their orientation. I made sure to buy an AIB model that didn't suffer the same issue, just in case I want to put the card somewhere funky like a server rack.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/defective-vapor-chamber-ma...

New comment by bananadonkey in "Klarna CEO: Company stopped hiring because AI 'can do all of the jobs'"

bananadonkey — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:44:57 +0000

> Though Klarna's website is advertising open positions at the time of writing, a spokesperson told Business Insider the company wasn't "actively recruiting" to expand its workforce. Rather, the spokesperson said, Klarna is backfilling "some essential roles," primarily in engineering.