Hacker News: bwat49

New comment by bwat49 in "There's still no point in gigabit broadband"

bwat49 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:19:46 +0000

downloading a game on steam can fully utilize gigabit speeds, and modern games can be 100+gb

New comment by bwat49 in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

bwat49 — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:21:25 +0000

I've vibe coded a codemirror table editor (as a plugin for joplin) using a nested codemirror instance for the cell editor, in my case using joplin's built in command to render markup for the inactive cells: https://github.com/bwat47/joplin-rich-tables

it works well but I'm not much of a programmer and probably ended up with a crazy over engineered architecture lol

I was surprised that there weren't any existing libraries for this (there is one now but it was created after I started work on my plugin: https://github.com/ckant/codemirror-markdown-tables)

New comment by bwat49 in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

bwat49 — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:09:50 +0000

S3 as well, I sync with cloudflare r2's free tier and it works great

New comment by bwat49 in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"

bwat49 — Sat, 02 May 2026 12:21:34 +0000

> "actually no", "hang on", "wait that makes no sense"

Claude does the same thing, claude code just hides the thinking now

New comment by bwat49 in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

bwat49 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:05:52 +0000

well love or hate them, their service is at least reliable

New comment by bwat49 in "Where the goblins came from"

bwat49 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:39:03 +0000

gpt also loves talking about handwaving, "I'm going to do X, not just a hand-wavy victory lap"

New comment by bwat49 in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

bwat49 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:27:31 +0000

its showing claude code as included in pro now on that page

New comment by bwat49 in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

bwat49 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:01:36 +0000

in copilot I find it hard to justify using opus at even 3x vs just using GPT 5.4 high at 1x

New comment by bwat49 in "ChatGPT for Excel"

bwat49 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:49:31 +0000

its baffling how badly microsoft has handled copilot, this is exactly what copilot in office should have been

New comment by bwat49 in "Introduction to Obsidian"

bwat49 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:38:09 +0000

no merging, they just show as sync conflicts

New comment by bwat49 in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

bwat49 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:36:29 +0000

It does matter because oil is a global commodity, the fact that the US is a net exporter doesn't stop the prices from going up and other follow-on impacts to the global economy.

New comment by bwat49 in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

bwat49 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:36:33 +0000

the big difference with Iran is the strait of hormuz. It doesn't matter how "well" it goes if it stays closed and torpedos the global economy

> inconsistent communication

I feel like "inconsistent communication" is putting it lightly, with trump going back and forth between "we won", "we'll take the oil", and "whatever we'll leave" often within the same day.

New comment by bwat49 in "Windows 11 after two decades of macOS: okay, but also awful"

bwat49 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:59:44 +0000

I haven't had issues with malware since windows vista

New comment by bwat49 in "GPT-5.4"

bwat49 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:19:55 +0000

yeah claude is great... but only if you pay $100-$200 a month

New comment by bwat49 in "Don't make me talk to your chatbot"

bwat49 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:12:00 +0000

Yeah a trend that I've noticed in online comments is people taking LLM generated text and just removing punctuation and making it all lowercase. It's like dude, it's still so obvious xD

New comment by bwat49 in "GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks"

bwat49 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:43:47 +0000

> Your objective has explicit instruction that car has to be present for a wash.

Which is exactly how you're supposed to prompt an LLM, is the fact that giving a vague prompt gives poor results really suprising?

New comment by bwat49 in "Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time"

bwat49 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:00:51 +0000

not to mention the OP mentioned 22 LTS which isn't even the most current LTS

New comment by bwat49 in "UEFI Bindings for JavaScript"

bwat49 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:06:20 +0000

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should!

New comment by bwat49 in "LLMs as the new high level language"

bwat49 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:24:38 +0000

I feel so attacked right now

New comment by bwat49 in "Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS"

bwat49 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:17:05 +0000

the $10 plan makes a great backup to claude or codex and the inline completions are nice