Hacker News: captainregex

New comment by captainregex in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"

captainregex — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:03:54 +0000

I enjoy all the fun of these new models as much as the next guy but I truly don’t see a circumstance in the near future where my $200 a month with the frontier labs doesn’t get me more than enough consumption of what I need. Local models, chinese models, etc are all very fun weekend projects to tinker with but until something changes (entirely possible!) with how much you get with one of the subscriptions I just don’t see why I would move. What am I missing? Is it simply that a subscription is no good for production use cases? I kinda feel the same way with choice of coding harness, openrouter, etc. why would I use anything other than frontier if I don’t have to pay any more pretty much no matter how much I use? pls tell me if I am holding this wrong haha

New comment by captainregex in "1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices"

captainregex — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:35:00 +0000

what trade off would one need to clear to justify the hardware and the work to get this running locally as part of a broader system? It’s a lot of work setting up and maintaining a production harness/system on a local device. I don’t personally repeatedly generate images at a scale where using a lab’s app somehow burns all my tokens. I like the ideas of local ai but I don’t see widespread adoption of it happening in commercial or customer situations anytime soon no matter how little/good enough they get. Even Uber- token burn whiplash but I doubt their answer will be “run some of it local”. IT nightmare, I’d imagine.

New comment by captainregex in "1940 Air Terminal Museum Begins Liquidation"

captainregex — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:51:06 +0000

wow, this blows on so many levels.

New comment by captainregex in "I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support"

captainregex — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:37:52 +0000

anyone remember the whole “delete uber” thing from 2017ish? good times

New comment by captainregex in "Claude Opus 4.7"

captainregex — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:44:18 +0000

I’m super envious. I can’t seem to do anything without a half a million tokens. I had to create a slash command that I run at the start of every session so the darn thing actually reads its own memory- whatever default is just doesn’t seem to do it. It’ll do things like start to spin up scripts it’s already written and stored in the code base unless I start every conversation with instructions to go read persistence and memory files. I also seem to have to actively remind it to go update those things at various parts of the conversation even though it has instructions to self update. All these things add up to a ton of work every session.

I think i’m doing it wrong

New comment by captainregex in "LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor"

captainregex — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:39:01 +0000

Sorry, the point? isn’t the point of art pretty much what a person wants it to be?

New comment by captainregex in "LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor"

captainregex — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:47:04 +0000

I have really struggled to get nano banana to follow size/proportion ratios for sprite art. any tips? I fed in a bunch of examples first and tried to write a really strict prompt. I wonder if any of the sw being discussed here can be programmatically controlled by claude code or similar to do sprite work

New comment by captainregex in "Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator"

captainregex — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:53:37 +0000

entirely possible I’m just really bad at this stuff but I can’t get browser agents to do simple report pulls without running into a captcha or a dropdown menu that breaks its brain. hopefully this is the one!

New comment by captainregex in "Workday project at Washington University hits $266M"

captainregex — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:06:51 +0000

this is a disgusting amount of money for this

New comment by captainregex in "iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]"

captainregex — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 05:11:06 +0000

the third party ones seem to be suffering in similar ways in my short use

I intended to tie experience where it says short use

I intended to tour type where it says tie

I intended to type type where it says your

I intended to type tour where it says your

jesus…it might be time to consider android

New comment by captainregex in "iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]"

captainregex — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:56:23 +0000

oh dear god, tears of joy…they told me I was crazy. this is so validating

New comment by captainregex in "You can now buy used Ford vehicles on Amazon"

captainregex — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:16:39 +0000

I had to threaten to sue them by opting out of their time triggered arbitration clause to get them to give me the deposit back on a car they couldn’t/wouldn't deliver. Carvana sucks.

New comment by captainregex in "GM will ditch Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its cars, not just EVs"

captainregex — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 09:53:55 +0000

This is such a self own.

New comment by captainregex in "Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division"

captainregex — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:28:27 +0000

I can't with them anymore. Pick a lane

New comment by captainregex in "Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents"

captainregex — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 03:31:29 +0000

How much of a hit would you take on quality if you moved the processing local? have you experimented with it? don’t think llamaindex has local sadly

New comment by captainregex in "Show HN: A Digital Twin of my coffee roaster that runs in the browser"

captainregex — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 20:46:46 +0000

this is nuts! beans? whatever, it’s super cool!

New comment by captainregex in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

captainregex — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 02:07:13 +0000

ahhh yes the noted privacy respect of…checks notes…Intuit

New comment by captainregex in "Qwen3-VL"

captainregex — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:12:07 +0000

I should add that sometimes LM Studio just feels better for the use case, same model same purpose seemingly different output usually when involving RAG, but Anything is definitely a very intuitive visual experience

New comment by captainregex in "Qwen3-VL"

captainregex — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:10:34 +0000

AnythingLLM also good for that GUI experience!

New comment by captainregex in "I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework"

captainregex — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 04:46:08 +0000

It’s crazy you have to go like four comments deep and into the sub convo before you find mention of windows on arm- apple silicon is just so dominant in the zeitgeist for people who think about this stuff