Hacker News: chucknthem

New comment by chucknthem in "Graphite is joining Cursor"

chucknthem — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:45:31 +0000

I've been using git spice (https://abhinav.github.io/git-spice/) for the stacked PRs part of graphite and it's been working pretty well and it's open source and free.

New comment by chucknthem in "Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window"

chucknthem — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 04:48:18 +0000

How do they make the context window longer? (serious question, I want to learn how this works)

New comment by chucknthem in "Vibe engineering"

chucknthem — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 01:27:24 +0000

Funny I'm a professional engineer and happily call myself "vibe coding" when writing code these days, it started as tongue in cheek, but now I've embraced it.

Being good at vibe coding is just being good at coding, the best practices still apply. I don't feel we need another term for it. It'll just be how almost everyone writes code in the future. Just like using an IDE.

New comment by chucknthem in "Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO"

chucknthem — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:17:10 +0000

Not sure why you're downvoted. I've tried Robotaxi a few times and has been great. They still have a safety driver these days and wait time is a big high though.

New comment by chucknthem in "Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)"

chucknthem — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 01:47:40 +0000

A few large companies with big cash stockpiles and profit can eat this the first couple years, not so for startups and companies with thin margins.

New comment by chucknthem in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

chucknthem — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:18:29 +0000

How are you writing your prompts? I usually break a feature down to smaller task level before I prompt an agent (claude code in my case) to do anything. Feature level is often too hard to prompt and specify in enough detail for it to get right.

So I'd say claude 4 agents today are at smart but fresh intern level of autonomy. You still have to do the high level planning and task break down, but it can execute on tasks (say requiring 10 - 200 lines of code excluding tests). Any asking it to write much more code (200+ lines) often require a lot of follow ups and disappointment.

New comment by chucknthem in "Tesla Cybertruck Drives Itself into a Pole, Owner Says 'Thank You Tesla'"

chucknthem — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:05:30 +0000

I feel this way too. It was scary the first couple weeks, but I'm glad I gave it more of a chance. Over time you learn when to trust it and what situations it you need to take over, and then it just becomes a normal part of driving with less stress on me while my brain energy is spent looking for problems instead of keeping up with traffic or in the lane.

Really a human + AI hybrid experience.

New comment by chucknthem in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

chucknthem — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 04:08:30 +0000

Uber has used this tactic many times in their early days. It mostly worked because citizens got used to cheap rides and got mad at their government for taking it away.

New comment by chucknthem in "Review of Mullvad VPN"

chucknthem — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:17:32 +0000

Became a fan of Mullvad when I visited China. It was the most reliable VPN app I tested and you can have up to 5 devices per account.

New comment by chucknthem in "Facebook's Little Red Book"

chucknthem — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 22:08:52 +0000

I remember this. Wish I'd kept my little piece of history. Written at a time when people were still optimistic and hopeful about tech.

New comment by chucknthem in "Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan"

chucknthem — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 21:58:53 +0000

I wonder if you can train a neuronetwork to have the kind of intuition Ramanujan had. How incredible would it be for math discoveries. Then separate AIs to try and prove or disprove the insights.

New comment by chucknthem in "Google lays off Bay Area workers, closes Mtn View child care center"

chucknthem — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:21:56 +0000

They did promote their Chief Financial Officer to President not too long ago. The signs have been pointing that way for a while before that though.

New comment by chucknthem in "SEC has not approved Bitcoin ETFs [fixed]"

chucknthem — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 23:45:57 +0000

How does it change things if they had their own communications platform and someone hacked that to send this message?

New comment by chucknthem in "280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars"

chucknthem — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:16:08 +0000

My e-bike uses the same battery cells used in Electric cars, so I have to give credit to what Tesla and the electric car industry has done to make long range ebike batteries affordable.

New comment by chucknthem in "Metric Time"

chucknthem — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:45:58 +0000

honestly, the mental math around metric time demonstrated in this post makes me think we should go the opposite way and make everything else base 12 instead of making time base 10. Being divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6 makes a lot of mental math easier.

New comment by chucknthem in "GPT-4 details leaked?"

chucknthem — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 05:17:53 +0000

How do you know? do you have insider knowledge of this or is it just based on what they share publically?

New comment by chucknthem in "Bard API"

chucknthem — Mon, 15 May 2023 04:50:43 +0000

Over 200 GitHub stars already, wonder if it’ll reach 1000 stars first or if Google would issue a take down notice first.

Popularly of this clearly shows there’s demand for it, so I hope Google officially releases an API soon.

New comment by chucknthem in "The early days of Linux"

chucknthem — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 21:43:06 +0000

The 2nd part of the CVS section was funny too "[...] This experience is why Linus dislikes CVS and for years refused to use any version control beyond uploading tar balls to FTP sites."

It's deadpan humor in written form.

New comment by chucknthem in "Shutting down nuclear power could increase air pollution: study"

chucknthem — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 17:11:56 +0000

Yep, they have massive energy demand and going full steam ahead in all energy sources.

New comment by chucknthem in "Shutting down nuclear power could increase air pollution: study"

chucknthem — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 23:12:38 +0000

It's expensive because no investment has been made to scale it up and make cheaper & safer, whereas a ton of subsidies and investment went into scaling up solar and making that cheaper over the past 2 decades.

China will probably make it cheap given the pace they're going building out nuclear plants.