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New comment by brulard in "Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"

brulard — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:12:27 +0000

It is made to perform much better than your typical electron app would. Saying electron-based == shitty is complete misunderstanding of the technology. Although i dislike Figma as much as the next guy, their app was in many ways very impressive. See Figma's cofounder old articles at https://madebyevan.com/figma/

New comment by brulard in "Can I run AI locally?"

brulard — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:53:21 +0000

Did I? Not only are you comparing apples to oranges, you even provide misleading numbers.

3090 gets 20-30 tokens a second for dense ~30B models (QwQ 32B, Gemma 3 27B Q4), similar to M3 ultra. If you are talking about Qwen3-Coder 30B (MoE), then both 3090 and M3 Ultra are around ~70 tok/s.

But even if you were right about the speed - which you are not - speed is pointless if you need large model that wouldn't fit into your VRAM.

New comment by brulard in "Can I run AI locally?"

brulard — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:45:41 +0000

Are you aware that your 3090s have nowhere close to 256GB of VRAM? Or maybe you are not aware that on macs you have unified memory (working both as RAM and VRAM).

New comment by brulard in "Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo"

brulard — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:59:15 +0000

I like Gemini CLI and I got a lot of value from their free tier, and I'm now on the $20 sub. But it is a level bellow the usefulness of Claude Opus 4.6.

New comment by brulard in "Stop using icons in data tables"

brulard — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:56:54 +0000

What if I didn't know the words yet? Usage of totally unintuitive icons is obviously wrong. Colors can be helpful too. Colored text - not as concise as recognizable icons.

Another non-negligible advantage of icon is, that it is language agnostic. Not everyone is fluent in language they have to use.

New comment by brulard in "Stop using icons in data tables"

brulard — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:51:50 +0000

I disagree completely. I have hard times parsing the text. Simple icons are a life saver for me in big data tables

New comment by brulard in "I am happier writing code by hand"

brulard — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:16:58 +0000

There could be factories manufacturing your own design, just one piece. It won't be economical, but can be done. But parts are still the same - chunks and boards of wood joined together by the same few methods. Maybe some other materials thrown into the mix. With software it is similar: Different products use (mostly) the same building blocks, functions, libraries, drivers, frameworks, design patterns, ux patterns.

New comment by brulard in "I am happier writing code by hand"

brulard — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:56:27 +0000

That is not a technical constraint and may be automated if it made sense financially. Same with software - for some time software won't be all designed, coded, tested, deployed to production without human supervision or approval. But the pieces in between are more and more filled by AI, as are the logistics of designing, manufacturing and distributing sofas.

New comment by brulard in "Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo"

brulard — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 11:08:52 +0000

I turned on this overspend and limited the spending to $20. A day later I checked my spending, I had used "295%" of my limit. Almost $60. No idea why it didn't respect my setting.

New comment by brulard in "Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo"

brulard — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 11:06:09 +0000

pro is the $20, right? It runs out quickly, especially using opus. But what do you expect for that kind of money? For serious work at least Max $100 is needed.

New comment by brulard in "Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains"

brulard — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:43:47 +0000

As an ADHD person, the landing page is absolutely anti-ADHD - a lot of stuff with basically no info about what it really does. It should have been all concise and tangible information, simple example, demo. Instead just a lot of marketing fluff. I spent all the focus budget there and I have no idea what it does.

New comment by brulard in "The future of software development is software developers"

brulard — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 01:01:55 +0000

I disagree with the vibecoding take. Its a new skill that absolutely has a place in developers skillset and it may be of great importance for some kinds of projects. You can learn so much by vibecoding little projects that otherwise would never see the light of day.

New comment by brulard in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

brulard — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:01:39 +0000

not sure what i'm looking at here...

New comment by brulard in "A guide to local coding models"

brulard — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:26:44 +0000

How about the rest of the resources? CPU/GPU? Would your work not be affected by inference running?

New comment by brulard in "A guide to local coding models"

brulard — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:12:12 +0000

If you have inference running on this new 128GB RAM Mac, wouldn't you still need another separate machine to do the manual work (like running IDE, browsers, toolchains, builders/bundlers etc.)? I can not imagine you will have any meaningful RAM available after LLM models are running.

New comment by brulard in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

brulard — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 08:39:41 +0000

Exactly this. I've used Jenkins, Travis, CircleCI and all of them were so easy in comparison to the github actions runner mess.

New comment by brulard in "Annual Production of 1/72 (22mm) scale plastic soldiers, 1958-2025"

brulard — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 08:28:46 +0000

And time of the operator is $0 per hour as well

New comment by brulard in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

brulard — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:09:19 +0000

Nice game. But the stars in the background were confusing and hard to distinguish between them and projectiles. That got me killed way too many times.

New comment by brulard in "Is it a bubble?"

brulard — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:27:02 +0000

I'm on a team like that and I see it happening in more and more companies around. Maybe "many" does a heavy lifting in the quoted text, but it is definitely happening.

New comment by brulard in "Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive"

brulard — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:43:58 +0000

Why do you find "vibe coding" term dumb? It names a specific process. Do you have a better term for that?