<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: bigblind</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bigblind</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:58:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bigblind" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bigblind in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sheesh... what's in a name? :p</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 23:17:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013784</link><dc:creator>bigblind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013784</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bigblind in "Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same here, that's the main value I get from especially music streaming services: I hear about anartist, and can immediately go check otu their discography.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:27:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49641891</link><dc:creator>bigblind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49641891</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49641891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bigblind in "Show HN: Academa – Long-form STEM lecture videos generated by LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i find the writing style a bit peculiar at times. Take this lecture on bloom filters for example: <a href="https://academa.ai/lectures/bloom-filters" rel="nofollow">https://academa.ai/lectures/bloom-filters</a><p>It suddenly starts talking about URLs, but it never really sets up the idea that we're using some kind of URL lookup service as an example. The way it introduces the memory limit feels similarly strange. At some point, it just says that we have 8GB of memory, but it does that halfway through the explanation, not as part of the setup of the problem we're actually solving.</p>
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<p>Quite fun to play with.Nice work!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:09:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359903</link><dc:creator>bigblind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359903</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bigblind in "Show HN: PlugClaw – Private AI agent hardware for any phone or PC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This looks interesting, but I'm also getting to the point wherethings like the video having a clearly AI-generated voiceover turns me off a bit. Like, if you're excited to tell me about your product, tell me yourself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:02:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359852</link><dc:creator>bigblind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359852</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bigblind in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you can be present in the moment, but still find value in a tool like this. I may not be "the norm" because I'm legally blind, but in some sense, a tool like this could make me even more present. I currently use my phone a lot to zoom in on signs to read them. I'd love it if I wouldn't have to hold a phone in front of my face, just to  know whether the place I'm standing in front of is, in fact, Jimmy's Barbershop, or whatever place I'm trying to navigate to for the first time.</p>
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<p>Thinking completely selfishly, as a visually impaired person, I want these to succeed, because they can be a great assistive tool. And assistive tools being general consumer products makes them cheaper.</p>
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<p>Let's start a $1.3bn goFundMe, and invite all billionnaires with a conscience (do they even exist?) to put some money in. + an extra $20 in postage to mail a turd to donny</p>
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<p>I feel like they do and they don't at the same time. The buildings may look different, but city center rents driving out a lot of small local businesses, and leaving the same brands everywhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:42:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48443185</link><dc:creator>bigblind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48443185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48443185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bigblind in "Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It doesn't do great on recent events it seems. The amusement park Walibi Belgium recently announced a company called RMC is doing a makeover of their wooden roller coaster, so I did a search for "walibi belgium rmc", and it found one very out-of-date article about earlier rumours, and a bunch of less relevant stuff.</p>
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<p>Then you become a poletician, though I guess that could also apply to lying to people who want to be lied to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:12:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48373959</link><dc:creator>bigblind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48373959</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48373959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bigblind in "We replaced Zendesk"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm curious whether people feel like UX could at all be a differentiator here. like, sure, i can build a very quick crud app with Ai in an hour, but there are lots of UX decisions that, if not prompted in the right direction, AI just handles badly.<p>i guess the problem is that once a teamp goes through the process of figuring out good UX for a certain flow, which can take time, that UX then becomes trivial to copy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 16:12:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311023</link><dc:creator>bigblind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311023</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48311023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bigblind in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you've just summed up late stage capitalism.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:41:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718016</link><dc:creator>bigblind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718016</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bigblind in "Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This looks interesting! I understand not wanting to put out a narrated tour as the video, but being visually impaired, i find video demos without narration, that constantly move around/focus on different things hard to follow. It still might be worth putting a short screencast with you actually walkign through usijng the product and narrating it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703154</link><dc:creator>bigblind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703154</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bigblind in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's unfortunate that this is necessary. It should be obvious that wearing noise cancelling headphones in trafic, including as a pedestrian, is a bad idea.<p>I'm legally blind, so I have my own bias here, but I think people really over-rely on sight. If you do want to listen to something while walking around a city, I can highly recommend bone conduction headphones, that keep your ears unblocked.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:33:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691633</link><dc:creator>bigblind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691633</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bigblind in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you just bell once or twice, and don't aggressively keep ringing, I'd never consider a bicycle bell in a shared space rude. I even consider it good manners, though as others have said, that varies between cultures.<p>Being visually impaired, though, I'm grateful for cyclists who use their bell. It's immediately clear. For some reason, my brain takes slightly longer to process someone yelling "on your left!" or similar, than just a quick "ring ring".</p>
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<p>It is a benefit if you're a stakeholder in those companies, or your friends are stakeholders and will pass on some of the winnings as a "thank you."</p>
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<p>I guess? At least there you can review the plan, but is this planning mode any better at making architectural decisions than when you prompt an LLM and let it make the changes directly? (it might be, just not sure.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:38:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47399646</link><dc:creator>bigblind</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47399646</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47399646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bigblind in "How I write software with LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> On projects where I have no understanding of the underlying technology (e.g. mobile apps), the code still quickly becomes a mess of bad choices. However, on projects where I know the technologies used well (e.g. backend apps, though not necessarily in Python), this hasn’t happened yet, even at tens of thousands of SLoC. Most of that must be because the models are getting better, but I think that a lot of it is also because I’ve improved my way of working with the models.<p>I wonder whether at some point we'll get a translation model, that translates relatively vague requests into sound architectural decisions, with some embedded knowledge of the environment you're building in, and that can ask clarifying questions when there are multiple options with different tradeoffs.</p>
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<p>Here's an example of one of their dev logs: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdym24sg1HQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdym24sg1HQ</a></p>
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