<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: barrystaes</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=barrystaes</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:12:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=barrystaes" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barrystaes in "Best LLM for every budget, updated daily"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fun, but this seems to assume all LLM run on SAAS subscriptions. I would like to compare this to local LLM costs by converting my usage load x hardware costs into a token price. In addition if it games the LLM so often, these eventually are optimized and basically cheat on the score.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:27:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832002</link><dc:creator>barrystaes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832002</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49832002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barrystaes in "A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice story, but where is the video demo for DesktopFly ?
The only existing Youtube videos are Shorts made using AI recap crap. Recapping an AI written readme.. go figure. I'll have my AI read this for me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:00:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375612</link><dc:creator>barrystaes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375612</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barrystaes in "AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Aha this would explain. I have seen similar behaviour with a news website trying DRM requests (has no reason to ask this info) resulting in stopping playback.. did not consider the impact of multipoint here. Interesting, might be worth looking into if i see this "bug" again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:56:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375523</link><dc:creator>barrystaes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375523</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barrystaes in "Casio F-B100W-1A"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Best feature of old Casio products is they do NOT have RF (wifi/bluetooth) , but (sadly) this one has listed bluetooth and app as a feature.<p>I have seen (Xiaomi) smartwatches that wont allow setting the time without an app (asking to many permissions, and forcing cloud accounts) installed on a linked phone. <i>facepalm</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 07:35:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371555</link><dc:creator>barrystaes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371555</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barrystaes in "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is not a font (like Comic Sans) but was an actual application (to make comics from IRC chats) that was shipped with Windows 98. The application got open sourced.. <a href="https://github.com/microsoft/comic-chat" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/microsoft/comic-chat</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:02:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48946294</link><dc:creator>barrystaes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48946294</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48946294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barrystaes in "WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Android devices already know exactly where they are even with GPS disabled, because they sniff the nearby WIFI networks and then ask Google where they are. QED Google knows already, all combined is mass metadata surveillance already provided to those that tap into it.<p>Any sub-meter precision or presence detection does not really matter, if these companies have all your other questions, queries, messages, calendars, browse history, app usage, and streaming behaviour as well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:09:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46977622</link><dc:creator>barrystaes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46977622</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46977622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barrystaes in "Nvidia Nemotron 3 Family of Models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder what performance remains on 12GB VRAM GPU when local ollama ties in the systems RAM to run this huge nano model.<p><a href="https://github.com/jameschrisa/Ollama_Tuning_Guide/blob/main/docs/ram-management.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jameschrisa/Ollama_Tuning_Guide/blob/main...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:57:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46314309</link><dc:creator>barrystaes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46314309</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46314309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barrystaes in "Writing a good design document"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This +<p>Layer one also explicitly identifies stakeholders, and describes the current (AS-IS) situation with annonated screenshots so everyone quickly sees what we are talking about.<p>Layer two also lists alternative solutions considered and why not chosen.<p>Layer three is developers making a few notes on chosen tech design, most important is the choice reasoning here.<p>In all layers, add and use references. Less is more, a picture beats a wall of text.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:23:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787111</link><dc:creator>barrystaes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787111</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44787111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barrystaes in "Onshape – Product Development Platform"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use it to design functional parts for 3D printing at home, very solid 3d design software that works on any internet connected device. Can easily open/see/edit parameters quickly on a phone or tablet even, to address a design flaw.<p>Workflow in a nutshell:<p>- Start a sketch on a plane, use toolbar circle, draw, type dimensions, close sketch.<p>- Click the rectangle you made and use toolbar extrude.<p>- Click the resulting object (bottom left) and export as STL / 3MF file.<p>It is parametric design:<p>- Discover your oops. Go back to sketch or extrude, edit dimension, entire design updates by magic.<p>- Dimensions can be changed into a quickly editable #variablesYouName by typing # basically.<p>Documentation is short and to the point. Same for most videos that explain how to accomplish something specific. Love it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:59:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44758697</link><dc:creator>barrystaes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44758697</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44758697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barrystaes in "Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have long dreamt of automating Factorio in the way that HDL and a PCB router works: just specify the ingredients and it produces a Factorio Blueprint.<p>First MVP stupid designs, then optimized routing, and  eventually usable ingame where it connects with provided in/outputs.<p>Would be more fun to develop than to play obviously..<p>I liked the nilhouse mega base with that factory-train-blocks blueprints, its basically Factorio DUPLO.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:43:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332931</link><dc:creator>barrystaes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332931</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barrystaes in "Lies I was told about collab editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would simply argue that the “offline” editing is a people-problem and hence van not be solved using automation. People shall find a way to break/bypass the automation/system.<p>The only “offline editing” that I allow on human text documents is having people add comments. So not editing, no automated merging.<p>For “offline editing” that I allow on automation (source code) is GIT which intentionally does not pretend to solve the merge, it just shows revisions. The merge is an action supervised by humans or specialised automation on a “best guess” effort and still needs reviews and testing to verify success.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2024 21:45:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42353087</link><dc:creator>barrystaes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42353087</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42353087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barrystaes in "Hertz's Tesla Fire Sale Continues as Depreciation Costs Mount"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This page is ridden of ads, popups, and sensational writing. They may be facts but its written as clickbait filler to scroll past even more ads.<p>Clicking the back button redirects me to a never-seen-before and full-screen Ad page before returning to Hacker News.<p>I am never visiting insideevs.com again. If this is real news, a real news website shall report it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2024 10:39:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42155719</link><dc:creator>barrystaes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42155719</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42155719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barrystaes in "Can a Rubik's Cube be brute-forced?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’d say; Yes using only about 7 steps where each repeats a permutation, but it requires reorientation of the cube ofcourse.<p>But reassembling is the true brute.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:13:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42015512</link><dc:creator>barrystaes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42015512</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42015512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barrystaes in "The three-page paper that shook philosophy: Gettiers in software engineering"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On a more serious note: populist politicians seem to like making gettier claims; they cost a lot of time to refute and are free publicity. Aka the worst kind of fake news.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 21:24:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41842180</link><dc:creator>barrystaes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41842180</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41842180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barrystaes in "The three-page paper that shook philosophy: Gettiers in software engineering"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well this is a roundabout way of justified thinking about a belief that just happens to align with some actual facts..</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 21:22:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41842168</link><dc:creator>barrystaes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41842168</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41842168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barrystaes in "Proposal: JavaScript Structs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Happy to see this effort.<p>When applying ReactJS in webdev after doing all kinds of engineering in all kinds of (mostly typed) languages in many runtimes, I was so surprised that JS did not actually had a struct/record as seen in C/Pascal. Everything is a prototype that pretends its an object, but without types and pointers, and abstraction layers that added complexity to gain backwards compatibility.<p>Not even some object hack that many OO and compiled languages had. ES did not add it either, and my hopes where in WebAsm.<p>This proposal however seems like the actual plan that i’d like to use a lot.<p>A lot of the code complexity was to get simple guarantees for data quality. The alternative was to not care, either a feature or caveat of the used prototype model.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 22:24:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41814439</link><dc:creator>barrystaes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41814439</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41814439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barrystaes in "Using a list to manage executive function"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So true. A solution presented before the problem, IS the problem. Goes for kids and adults, and entire organizations! Quote mine.<p>Also, this todo system is basically what I apply on chaos-days, but with the addition that I preferably start next days list at end of day, as to remind me of momentum and focus.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 Aug 2024 21:42:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41278223</link><dc:creator>barrystaes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41278223</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41278223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barrystaes in "Mermaid: Diagramming and Charting Tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What was the deciding reason to switch from PlantUML to MermaidJS ?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2024 22:04:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41270794</link><dc:creator>barrystaes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41270794</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41270794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barrystaes in "We need visual programming. No, not like that"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Developer here that started doing Analysis work for complex systems that require some thorough Bsuiness Modelling. Take a look at<p>- BPMN <a href="https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Process_Model_and_Notation" rel="nofollow">https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Process_Model_and_N...</a><p>- MDA <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-driven_architecture" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-driven_architecture</a><p>- MBSE <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-based_systems_engineering" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-based_systems_engineer...</a><p>The tooling on these for Analysts I feel is not on par with tools for Developers. Often outdated and enterprise-only both in price and complexity of use.<p>- <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-driven_engineering#Tools" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-driven_engineering#Too...</a><p>Any more insights welcome. At first I expected to find a complete “draw a model, generate api + sourcecode with validation functions” ecosystem of interoperable ecosystems. Apparently the market is not there yet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:11:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40971079</link><dc:creator>barrystaes</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40971079</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40971079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by barrystaes in "We need visual programming. No, not like that"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I always like to make the destinction between models on architecture for developers (the solution description) and the models describing functionality (the problem description). One is a result from the other. Both sometimes are not written down but exists in team-members heads. Both are used for communication. Both should be in sync.<p>If an analyst can create the "perfect functionality model" than a developer can parse this into the "perfect software", provided he created the "perfect architecture model" to assist this.  See my other post on MDA and MBSE.<p>When developing (parts of) complex software, I always liked doing something akin to "Unit Testing" (plus a custom UI/report) that basically checked the boxes of a Architecture-Model I wanted to adhere to. With near-instant compilation (or hot-reloading) it becomes easier to see a live reflection of the data going through your pipeline live.<p>A good End-To-End (E2E) test can do the same for a Feature-Model, e.g. using Test Driven Development (TDD) or any derative of this. However todays tooling is still behind on this, compared to tooling developers have for architecture. Only a few solutions exist and those are tech-giant level (IBM) or contained and highly specialized for one business sector / problem domain.</p>
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