<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: bellowsgulch</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bellowsgulch</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:26:30 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bellowsgulch" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bellowsgulch in "Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Two things: 1. they have a cheap fuse (cents on the dollar) that’s not automotive-grade so your windshield mounted device fails in hot weather and doesn’t last past the hardware warranty. Known issue, doubt they ever fixed it.<p>2. 1B parameter model to stay between two lines. Why. Waste of time. Their product hasn’t actually changed in several years because they will never advance past lane keeping SAE Level 2.<p>I suspect for what they’re selling for $1,000+ these days, could you find a way to do for half? Less than that?<p>I mean after all, it still runs off a Snapdragon 845.<p>Nice tech, disappointing limitations and too expensive. The world moved on, Tesla is bad but a Waymo competitor would be more serious than this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:18:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319793</link><dc:creator>bellowsgulch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bellowsgulch in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've tried this, too, and for whatever reason, simple things like having a subagent with vision capabilities hallucinates responses to the blind models. I don't know why, and it's not consistent, but I don't see this happening when the primary agent is a vision model.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:24:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314466</link><dc:creator>bellowsgulch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314466</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bellowsgulch in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The existing ones definitely are, so you know they're bullshitting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:22:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314457</link><dc:creator>bellowsgulch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314457</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bellowsgulch in "AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Counterpoint: something has happened in frontier models, and yes they now get discouraged and will sometimes prefer to not continue working on a problem unless you tell them to anyway.<p>I don't know how or why this would be trained on behavior, but no, it isn't true anymore that models don't say things like, "Ugh," or "this is going to take hours and maybe we should stop here."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:12:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314393</link><dc:creator>bellowsgulch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314393</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bellowsgulch in "Soup Raiders goes native: What you gain by building your own game engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Framework, Bevy is definitely not an engine.<p>Does it do one thing? It's probably a library.<p>Is it a collection of libraries that work together focusing on primitives with callbacks? It's probably a framework.<p>Does it load levels? Have its own schema for an entity? Provide a multiplayer server protocol, and build on primitives? It's probably an engine.<p>Libraries -> frameworks -> engines -> games.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:40:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304918</link><dc:creator>bellowsgulch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304918</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49304918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bellowsgulch in "Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fuck Apple.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:39:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302886</link><dc:creator>bellowsgulch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302886</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bellowsgulch in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, it's really weird watching everyone complain about Claude Code and continue to give Anthropic what amounts, in most cases, to 20 years of my current spend in 1 year, while I'm using a private harness and Pareto frontier models.<p>But for good or even exceptional engineers to exist, by definition, bad ones have to, too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:35:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302832</link><dc:creator>bellowsgulch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302832</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bellowsgulch in "Ask HN: How much money do you spend monthly on subscriptions for AI models?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yep. Exact same take here. I have a private harness I actually integrated GitHub Copilot Chat support with, but you lose an "entire months" credits with any nominal task.<p>They knew what they were doing and wanted to kick people off.<p>Thank you for sharing your experience, too. I suspect a lot of us all took this path.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:49:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293158</link><dc:creator>bellowsgulch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293158</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bellowsgulch in "Gloomberb"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm a regular Joe, but finance screens seem like pure wank to me. If you work a desk in NYC, maybe it's a different story, and even then probably not, but if you're some bum nobody from LA with a little bit of money to throw around, there's absolutely nothing these things, or 6 simultaneous screens and an RGB PC case are going to tell you that give you some sort of long-term edge.<p>Horoscopes for young impressionable men, along with Bitcoin and all sorts of crap, was the most articulate way I've heard it.<p>As if technical analysis was worth more insight than pissing straight up looking for rain. Sure, it's wet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:52:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292757</link><dc:creator>bellowsgulch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292757</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bellowsgulch in "How Compaction Works in Pi"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We must create new stories for good so that evil has something to steal! We're running out of unironic irony!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:45:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292718</link><dc:creator>bellowsgulch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292718</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bellowsgulch in "Ask HN: How much money do you spend monthly on subscriptions for AI models?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Previously $0 using local models, then $10/mo with GitHub Copilot, cancelled that when it became a bad deal, now $10/mo with OpenCode Go.<p>I haven't seen a better deal than OpenCode Go yet. You get more in token spend than with using providers directly due to some volume discounts they pool.</p>
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<p>Public education is clearly nonexistent. Just incredible. Did these people just sit and do nothing for their entire grade school education? An elementary school child learns what imperialism, war, and human nature is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:07:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276425</link><dc:creator>bellowsgulch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276425</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bellowsgulch in "Show HN: AI Pulse a fake LED strip beside the macOS Dock that shows agent status"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you, kindly!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:43:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266902</link><dc:creator>bellowsgulch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266902</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bellowsgulch in "GPT 5.6 Cyber"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah right, you mean people’s banking data, medical records, and other sensitive information should be freely handled by offshored labor with no qualifications right, right.<p>Let’s take a look at the industry’s track record for data breaches.<p>Huh, would you look at that.<p>Also, please. Like most physicians are doing any serious thinking that can’t be informed by prescription that they regurgitate from established practice. Your run-of-the-mill physician isn’t doing independent study.<p>They’re reading labs and writing a script. Give me a break.<p>“Make me homeless, make me homeless! Please, please offshore me! I beg you!”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:49:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261023</link><dc:creator>bellowsgulch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261023</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bellowsgulch in "Show HN: AI Pulse a fake LED strip beside the macOS Dock that shows agent status"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe consider adding a live screenshot. "Beside the macOS Dock" is vague. What happens when your dock is the entire length of your desktop?</p>
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<p>Yeah, we should let H1Bs take everyone's jobs, not just software engineers! Great idea, Bob!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:42:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252755</link><dc:creator>bellowsgulch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252755</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bellowsgulch in "GPT 5.6 Cyber"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't want this, but I do get what you're saying. What I really want is software engineers in our industry to stop behaving like such idiot losers who are begging to be jobless and give everything away for free.<p>Doctors protect doctor's interests. Lawyers aren't idiots, they're professionals who run businesses with the express intent to make money.<p>Software engineers seem to be just bright enough to make money, and just stupid enough to say, no no, please I'd prefer to be homeless, please take my job and automate me, offshore me, and devalue my salary out of existence all at once.</p>
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<p>All the weird stuff I have read about C or C++ doing over the years could be summed up with “Well… don’t do that.”<p>Like almost without fail. I can’t even think of how you’d end up in a scenario like this because a compiler would complain before letting you use an undefined implicit declaration.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:25:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244134</link><dc:creator>bellowsgulch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244134</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bellowsgulch in "DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fellow readers, would anyone please mind sharing their current experiences? qwen3.6-35b-a3b for local inference, GitHub Copilot Chat was previously worth it, and no longer is, tried OpenRouter and still read through their rankings to see what the industry is actively using, wholesale migrated to OpenCode Zen/Go.<p>Does this mirror what other people have been experiencing in waves?</p>
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<p>I have an appreciation for people who keep going. Sometimes it doesn't really matter how long it takes you to learn something. I've found it's more valuable to see what you'd do with that knowledge.</p>
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