Hacker News: binarymax

New comment by binarymax in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

binarymax — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:06:37 +0000

It's not a whatchamacallit, it's a spicy doodad

New comment by binarymax in "An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation"

binarymax — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 02:23:40 +0000

It’s not that hard. I’ve done this. The list of URLs for a crawl is several hundred gigs. Easily fits in a lookup index on a single instance.

New comment by binarymax in "FAANG Simulator"

binarymax — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:14:38 +0000

I escaped! Just grind until you hit 80% burnout then touch grass to bring it back down. Rinse repeat.

New comment by binarymax in "AI: The ROI Runway Could Be Long Outside the Tech Sector"

binarymax — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:11:36 +0000

Who’s “this person”…me? I don’t make a living selling AI programming products. I make a living building knowledge systems, mostly around search engines and data wrangling.

New comment by binarymax in "AI: The ROI Runway Could Be Long Outside the Tech Sector"

binarymax — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:21:48 +0000

I am absolutely seeing an explosion in apps. The reason you might not see them is because the app explosion is entirely custom and in house.

I talked with a friend last week, who has never coded before in his life, who built an absolutely incredible fit-for-purpose app for his own job. He gave me a demo and it blew my mind. It will never go beyond his walls, and he will never buy SaaS that only kinda fits what he needs.

I see things like this happening. The proliferation isn't public because why sell it? Just build the thing to make your domain job easier and save thousands per month cancelling SaaS subs.

The ROI of AI is starting to show, but it isn't in terms of growth or selling new things - it's reducing spend across the board on software and tools.

New comment by binarymax in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

binarymax — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:16:04 +0000

This is really cool, but the best part is the response in the twitter post demo had an em-dash.

New comment by binarymax in "Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution"

binarymax — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:32:37 +0000

Thats really cool. He did a fine job sewing. I tried something similar with green-screen fabric and followed the same procedure: make a pattern from existing clothing, cut out the material, and sew it up. It's very hard.

New comment by binarymax in "ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2"

binarymax — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:13:12 +0000

Yeah, I’ve had Opus (and Fable) perform full security audits on my codebases that would run for 30mins. That’s what I think would have tripped it but went just fine.

New comment by binarymax in "ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2"

binarymax — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:53:22 +0000

What kinds of tasks does Opus refuse? I’m a light daily user for the past 3 months and Opus has never refused a task for me.

New comment by binarymax in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

binarymax — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:33:58 +0000

If it’s a “next generation model” then why isnt it GPT-6 and not just a minor version bump over 5.5?

How to Design Search for a Database

binarymax — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:19:04 +0000

Article URL: https://bonsai.io/blog/how-to-design-search-for-a-database/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691468

Points: 1

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New comment by binarymax in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

binarymax — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:08:08 +0000

Looks great. But will 3hCloud be able to sustain those prices?

New comment by binarymax in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

binarymax — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:02:39 +0000

This is just the reality of hardware costs now. RAM and Disk are scarce, prices have skyrocketed.

I wonder how much leverage the hyperscalers like AWS/GCP/Azure have on their own supply chain to keep costs level in their clouds.

New comment by binarymax in "AI coding at home without going broke"

binarymax — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:45:08 +0000

Same for me. $20/mo is just fine and I use it to code daily.

I suspect the people that burn through tokens have several subagents and 50 skills loaded and 40 MCP tools. All those load up the context on every single turn.

New comment by binarymax in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

binarymax — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:36:32 +0000

This was over 10 years ago, and the original price was something like £35.

It was tiny, and the assumption was correct - most families had an HDMI capable TV and could afford the device and a usb keyboard.

A used PC still needs a desk and a monitor. This was far more accessible.

New comment by binarymax in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

binarymax — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:09:22 +0000

The 80s kid in me still thinks dropping someone into a linux shell with a bunch of tools and no internet access is the best learning environment. Kids these days with their fancy tiktoks and such need to summon the old ways.

New comment by binarymax in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

binarymax — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:50:09 +0000

The original vision IIRC was to provide a cheap computer for students in low-income families. You could plug into your TV at home and start learning.

Then the hobby community got wind of it and proceeded to buy out all the stock on every release (myself included, I still have one of every first 3 versions sitting in my cabinet)

New comment by binarymax in "New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers"

binarymax — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:36:11 +0000

NIMBY = Not In Mars Back Yard

New comment by binarymax in "New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers"

binarymax — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:29:57 +0000

HN hug of death :)

@dang can we change the URL to the bill link please?

New comment by binarymax in "New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers"

binarymax — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:54:36 +0000

I submitted this link, which is clearly written by an LLM but has a good overview. Here's the actual bill: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S10642