Hacker News: bavell

New comment by bavell in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

bavell — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:16:51 +0000

Nope, the original tariffs were under IEEPA, then Supreme Court ruled they didn't have authority to use IEEPA, so they had to drop those tariffs and start working on refunds. It'd only have been illegal if they kept the tariffs after the ruling.

Lot of propaganda & emotions around this straightforward chain of events.

New comment by bavell in "Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code"

bavell — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:56:52 +0000

https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/

New comment by bavell in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

bavell — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:45:10 +0000

Try it before you give up, I got plenty of AI stuff working on my 6750XT years ago.

New comment by bavell in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

bavell — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:42:19 +0000

Eh, YMMV. I was using rocm for minor AI things as far back as 2023 on an "unsupported" 6750XT [0]. Even trained some LoRAs. Mostly the issues were how many libs were cuda only.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43207015

New comment by bavell in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

bavell — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:29:28 +0000

I've been using CC a decent amount the past few weeks and have never seen this malware stanza...?

New comment by bavell in "A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it"

bavell — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:23:04 +0000

Self-aware meta commentary on HNers breaking HN guidelines to cite HN guidelines.

New comment by bavell in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

bavell — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:32:14 +0000

They're complementary but also have significant overlap. Hence all the confusion and strong opinions.

New comment by bavell in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

bavell — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:29:31 +0000

> How about we standardize this idea? We can have an endpoint to tell the agents where to find this text file and API

Good news! It's already standardized and agents already know where to find it!

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills

New comment by bavell in "How to get better at guitar"

bavell — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:57:03 +0000

Absolutely. You can get "locked in" to certain patterns / phrases just via muscle memory and familiarity. Need to balance that with a little improv to find new patterns phrases you like, and then can train those in via muscle memory.

New comment by bavell in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

bavell — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:31:27 +0000

Preach. I have 4 monitors and one is a vertical 1440x2560. Massive productivity boost - terminals running claude code, reading docs, IDE panes, anything with lots of scrolling. Highly recommend it!

New comment by bavell in "Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own"

bavell — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:33:27 +0000

Wow that's bad. Unsure if this is an outlier or typical for YC companies.

New comment by bavell in "Critics say EU risks ceding control of its tech laws under U.S. pressure"

bavell — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:05:49 +0000

Pretty sure this is illegal now across the board.

New comment by bavell in "ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI"

bavell — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:02:52 +0000

No, missing a MMU.

New comment by bavell in "Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor"

bavell — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:10:14 +0000

> What you are offering is NOT a free tool -- it is a demo, for a tool for which you are charging $12/month

Commonly known as a "free trial"

New comment by bavell in "Show HN: Agent Kernel – Three Markdown files that make any AI agent stateful"

bavell — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:02:04 +0000

I've found memories and state to be a mixed bag with LLMs. To the point I don't bother with long term memories - usually only short or medium-term session logs or task-focused docs.

New comment by bavell in "The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]"

bavell — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:40:30 +0000

Ooof, you're way behind - see sibling comments. Come join us in the promised land, brother!

New comment by bavell in "Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB"

bavell — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:11:31 +0000

Home Assistant integration a la Alexa would be awesome

New comment by bavell in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

bavell — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:43:15 +0000

And comfyUI workflows. People have been doing this for awhile now.

New comment by bavell in "Agentic Engineering Patterns"

bavell — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:28:02 +0000

Asking for a walkthrough of the codebase? Sure you linked to the right page?

I was expecting tips on code review instead based on your comment and GP.

New comment by bavell in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

bavell — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:10:57 +0000

One of the most sane and dispassionate takes I've seen. Kudos.