Hacker News: c0brac0bra

New comment by c0brac0bra in "LLMs can be exhausting"

c0brac0bra — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:56:42 +0000

Somatic experiencing techniques.

New comment by c0brac0bra in "Boston Cooked the Golden Goose"

c0brac0bra — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:27:44 +0000

Perhaps Boston can make an argument that California's wealth tax will march down the net worth boundaries.

If they can get a group of those founders to come back that could be the start of something new.

New comment by c0brac0bra in "Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love"

c0brac0bra — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:55:09 +0000

It is indeed awful.

New comment by c0brac0bra in "In the Australian outback, we're listening for nuclear tests"

c0brac0bra — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:47:21 +0000

This reminds me of the rumors of the cult Aum Shinrikyo testing nuclear weapons in the outback. They had previously released sarin gas on the Tokyo subway in 1995.

It was lightly detailed in Bill Bryson's book, "In a Sunburned Country", but I don't think there was any confirmation what they were doing was nuclear.

New comment by c0brac0bra in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

c0brac0bra — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:58:52 +0000

The discussion was about the cybertruck. If vandalism specifically against cybertrucks has cooled sentiment, then a response stating that all the other Tesla models are still selling is a non sequiter.

New comment by c0brac0bra in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

c0brac0bra — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:11:01 +0000

Have we completely forgotten about how Tesla dealerships were shot up, firebombed? Video after video showing cybertrucks vandalized with scratches and spray paint?

It may be a terrible car from a terrible program, but these events at least bear mentioning. If you saw it happening in 2025, would it have a cooling effect on your decision to purchase? Who would want the trouble?

New comment by c0brac0bra in "Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS"

c0brac0bra — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:54:48 +0000

The first two links are broken.

New comment by c0brac0bra in "alpr.watch"

c0brac0bra — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:13:26 +0000

Perhaps something like https://www.perigon.io?

New comment by c0brac0bra in "Perl's decline was cultural"

c0brac0bra — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 19:26:24 +0000

My anecdotal experience was with perl guys who were ex-military, irreverent, and fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants. The Java and .NET guys were straight laced and nerdy.

New comment by c0brac0bra in "Show HN: A game of higher or lower using GitHub stars"

c0brac0bra — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:14:39 +0000

Page seems completely unresponsive on mobile

New comment by c0brac0bra in "Unexpected things that are people"

c0brac0bra — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:17:48 +0000

The liabilities they listed were in terms of land ownership and allotments. I did not see anything related to acts of God or natural disasters.

New comment by c0brac0bra in "Unexpected things that are people"

c0brac0bra — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:57:35 +0000

If the Te Awa Tupua is a legal person, and it floods its banks and destroys my home, can I sue it and be made whole?

It seems like they've afforded a river all the rights and privileges of a person with none of the responsibilities, duties, or obligations.

New comment by c0brac0bra in "Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams"

c0brac0bra — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 13:58:57 +0000

Brave Browser

New comment by c0brac0bra in "Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model"

c0brac0bra — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 13:51:16 +0000

Kimi has been fantastic for brainstorming.

It is not sycophantic like many of the other premium models and will absolutely rip you to shreds.

New comment by c0brac0bra in "At the end you use `git bisect`"

c0brac0bra — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 18:35:47 +0000

But did you survive rcs?

New comment by c0brac0bra in "Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain"

c0brac0bra — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 14:53:56 +0000

I'm kind of in the middle of this phase. Chronic stress and pressure leading to autoimmune disorder, insomnia, etc.

Completely getting away from software dev will make it hard to support a family.

New comment by c0brac0bra in "Aether: A CMS That Gets Out of Your Way"

c0brac0bra — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:02:48 +0000

I'd like to see a comparison with Decap

New comment by c0brac0bra in "Tesla seeks to guard crash data from public disclosure"

c0brac0bra — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:49:13 +0000

If you bought a first gen android should you be mad that you didn't buy a second gen android?

Is this the new "how would you feel if you didn't eat breakfast yesterday?"?

New comment by c0brac0bra in "Things that have a bigger impact than coding assistants"

c0brac0bra — Wed, 21 May 2025 14:08:00 +0000

Sometimes it's not simply a lack of curiosity, but having the space to build these tools into your workflow. As a solo dev responsible for all development, project management, support, & infra, I've gotten as far as trying to use Aider for doing some features in our legacy codebase but not having it break the time-cost-benefit barrier.

Now I feel like there's probably other workflows out there that I'm ignorant to that could be better, but keeping up feels impossible. Is there a particular approach/tool that you're finding to be really beneficial?

New comment by c0brac0bra in "Running Qwen3 on your macbook, using MLX, to vibe code for free"

c0brac0bra — Thu, 01 May 2025 14:11:14 +0000

What tasks have you found the 0.6B model useful for? The hallucination that's apparent during its thinking process put up a big red flag for me.

Conversely, the 4B model actually seemed to work really well and gave results comparable to Gemini 2.0 Flash (at least in my simple tests).