Hacker News: caterama

New comment by caterama in "How is Groq raising more money?"

caterama — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:32:59 +0000

My company had a really terrible experience trying to use Groq, and I would NOT recommend anyone use their service if you need reliability. So many random errors, so many silly quirks.

New comment by caterama in "Ask HN: If I cancel Codex today whats the next best local inference agent?"

caterama — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:25:37 +0000

Zed agent

New comment by caterama in "Parallel agents in Zed"

caterama — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:16:11 +0000

I am exactly the same, except I am really excited about this update! It’s not so much “in parallel” but being able to easily jump between threads. It allows me to dive into misc investigations in a side thread without derailing some main context where I’m doing the main editing.

New comment by caterama in "Man who videotaped himself BASE jumping in Yosemite arrested, says it was AI"

caterama — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:04:01 +0000

That makes it easy to prove authenticity (has signature), but doesn’t solve the “prove it’s fake” problem.

New comment by caterama in "Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM?"

caterama — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:09:06 +0000

M3 Ultra with 256 GB memory, using GPT-OSS 120b in ollama. It’s decently fast, but makes the system somewhat unstable. Have to reboot frequently otherwise the GPU seems to flake (eg visual artifacts / glitches in other programs).

New comment by caterama in "Spherical Snake"

caterama — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:44:59 +0000

This reminds me of Snake Galaxy. I'm so sad it's not available anymore, it was an adorable spherical snake game on early iPhone circa 2010 era. I really miss the little Paris planet.

https://toucharcade.com/2009/04/24/snakegalaxy-puts-a-new-sp...

New comment by caterama in "Chernobyl radiation shield has stopped working after Russian drone strikes"

caterama — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 22:12:45 +0000

Seize Russian assets to fund the repairs. You break it, you buy it.

New comment by caterama in "Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence"

caterama — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 06:59:05 +0000

My first hand experience with the deterioration of quality in MacOS: I bought a Mac Studio to run some traditional ML neural network type stuff with PyTorch. Unfortunately the GPU / MPS kept crashing (?!) and would require a full reboot of the computer to get working again. Without a reboot, PyTorch would not find a GPU / MPS device and random other apps would glitch. After finding nothing in logs and no information about how to debug anything related to MPS, I contacted Apple Support. Apple support was completely unhelpful and a very frustrating experience. It felt like they were laundering responsibility through the veneer of some engineer having glanced at whatever internal second hand report the support staff transcribed from me. The situation improved a bit after upgrading to Metal 4, but in the end I moved back to Tensorflow. It's very disappointing to spend $6k on a machine and the software doesn't work as expected.

New comment by caterama in "Drugs, 500 times stronger than heroin, taking Australian lives?"

caterama — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 06:12:26 +0000

> “Consuming any illicit drug or substance could be fatal. You don’t know what you’re taking.”

If we legalized, taxed, and regulated drugs this wouldn’t happen.

New comment by caterama in "Americans can't afford their cars any more and Wall Street is worried"

caterama — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:27:21 +0000

Disagree. Do you mean that vehicles gets louder because people skip maintenance? Or more stress produces more honking? An opposite effect: more financial stress means less spending on aftermarket exhaust mods means quieter traffic. Also, financial stress means less driving means less noise. Overall, I doubt you're going to find much signal in the noise!

New comment by caterama in "Ask HN: I just abandoned my PyCharm subscription, what should I use now?"

caterama — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 06:33:25 +0000

https://zed.dev/

New comment by caterama in "Airbnb allowed rampant price gouging following L.A. fires, city attorney alleges"

caterama — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 06:12:14 +0000

Is this a viable workaround… Charge $XX entry/membership fee for the opportunity to buy ice at the regular price?

New comment by caterama in "Prompt engineering playbook for programmers"

caterama — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 01:17:21 +0000

Can you provide a "so what?" summary?

New comment by caterama in "The great displacement is already well underway?"

caterama — Wed, 14 May 2025 00:07:17 +0000

Comments on your resume:

1. First line is "Using Cursor, Claude 3.7, and OpenAI every day". You can't win with this. You don't take weekends off? Red flag. You do take weekends off? Then the first line of your resume is a lie and I wonder what else isn't honest.

2. #1 skill is Vibecoding? Red flag. Your resume would look better without the left column of skills. None of your experience backs up those skills.

3. The experiences listed are all 1-2 years, with the longest one being your self-employed one. Why are they all so short?

New comment by caterama in "Scala 3 Migration: Report from the field"

caterama — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 22:37:03 +0000

Scala used to be my hobby / enthusiast language. Introduced to it through a college course, and used a bit through school. Later, I would use it for Advent of Code, tinkered with a Scala Play webapp, and dream about using it professionally. Rust has almost completely filled that void now. Rust is native, I'm not waiting on the 1.0 release of `scala-native` anymore. The community around Rust seems to be enthusiastic and growing, as opposed to languishing for Scala. I hold some reservations about Rust in terms of how complicated it is. Despite having used it for an amount of time that I would be feeling comfortable in most languages, I am still not comfortable and continually encounter _stuff I don't understand_.

RIP Scala, I will miss you! You showed me the joy of pattern matching, functional OO, currying, how to use `map` `flatMap` `fold`, etc. All things with continued influence! <3

New comment by caterama in "MarkItDown: Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown"

caterama — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:43:50 +0000

And the core code mostly calls other libraries for heavy lifting -- eg `mammoth`: https://github.com/mwilliamson/python-mammoth

New comment by caterama in "Uber drivers in Kenya are ignoring the app and charging their own rates"

caterama — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:26:46 +0000

Most cars come with window smashing equipment included! The headrest and seat belt buckle can both be used to break a window: https://carroar.com/how-to-break-a-car-window/

New comment by caterama in "Feds say anti-robocall efforts appear to be working against foreign sources"

caterama — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 06:09:12 +0000

The damage is already done. Too little, too late. Most people I know have "Silence Unknown Callers" on and will essentially never answer an unknown number again.

New comment by caterama in "Do they have humans test cars before they produce them or what?"

caterama — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 05:47:14 +0000

Having driven lots of different cars myself, I understand the frustration. Cars are inconsistent -- BUT! One thing the author misses is that a person typically drives one or two cars and becomes intimately familiar with their operation. The first time you open a new door handle it can be awkward/unfamiliar/surprising. You might have to look up how to open the trunk, fuel door, or charging port the first time. Perhaps how to turn on the rear window wiper, four wheel drive, cruise control, or fold down the rear seats, and other specialized features. Point is -- normal car drivers figure these things out once and it's not really an issue.

New comment by caterama in "Spin the IKAT Christmas Pyramid with Your Clicks – TU Chemnitz Celebrates"

caterama — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 19:52:58 +0000

  while true;
    do curl 'https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/mb/mp/weihnachten2023/write_db2.php' \
      -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:120.0) \Gecko/20100101 Firefox/120.0' \
      -H 'Accept: */*' \
      -H 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5' \
      -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br' \
      -H 'Referer: https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/mb/mp/weihnachten2023/' \
      -H 'DNT: 1' \
      -H 'Connection: keep-alive' \
      -H 'Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty' \
      -H 'Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors' \
      -H 'Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin';
  done