Hacker News: coldtrait

New comment by coldtrait in "Show HN: Heartbeat – A simple public page for your real-world and online status"

coldtrait — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:53:25 +0000

Great, trying it out.

New comment by coldtrait in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

coldtrait — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:47:38 +0000

I hope whoever seeks to replace humans with AIs to write code never find this comment.

New comment by coldtrait in "Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)"

coldtrait — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:20:14 +0000

Android has good patches for everything except X thanks to Elon's meddling. There's a cumbersome workaround but I'm just choosing to use it within brave, or other PWAs offerings.

New comment by coldtrait in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

coldtrait — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:29:03 +0000

Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code said he uses CC to build CC.

New comment by coldtrait in "Show HN: Heartbeat – A simple public page for your real-world and online status"

coldtrait — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:22:49 +0000

Is this free?

New comment by coldtrait in "OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem"

coldtrait — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:38:41 +0000

Why did the OP make a comment about the project like he was someone else?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47560380#47560381

When it's clear he is one of the major contributors to the project?

https://github.com/openyak/desktop/graphs/contributors

Ask HN: Is Google AI overview good enough now?

coldtrait — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:43:18 +0000

I think it's much better than before, and might even replace perplexity.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47513343

Points: 7

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New comment by coldtrait in "Ask HN: Who is still using Windsurf and why?"

coldtrait — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:18:48 +0000

The team behind Windsurf was acquired by Google, but Windsurf remains its own independent IDE somehow.

New comment by coldtrait in "Show HN: SupplementDEX – The Evidence-Based Supplement Database"

coldtrait — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:12:41 +0000

I'd like to share this resource:

https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/snake-oil-...

New comment by coldtrait in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

coldtrait — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:08:17 +0000

If I was 60 and still had to do any work like this I'd consider myself a failure.

New comment by coldtrait in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

coldtrait — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 05:59:13 +0000

Can we also ban accounts that post racist stuff?

New comment by coldtrait in "Ask HN: What Online LLM / Chat do you use?"

coldtrait — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:52:46 +0000

Got it.

Since I primarily used ChatGPT, I picked up a bunch of prompts from people sharing it in order to optimize for better results. I don't know if this is relevant anymore as I think they've fixed quite a bit and now you can customize tone and warmth directly.

My prompts were more on avoiding filler, be more direct etc, no emojis etc.

New comment by coldtrait in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

coldtrait — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:05:27 +0000

That was what I felt too. Why even need an interview for an acquihire when you have a direct link with the founder/CEO?

New comment by coldtrait in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

coldtrait — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:39:30 +0000

Couldn't you ask Claude Code to vibe-code a Swift app?

New comment by coldtrait in "Ask HN: What Online LLM / Chat do you use?"

coldtrait — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:04:52 +0000

Do you customize or personalize these at all? Or use it just out of the box? I use gemini for image generation and as an, assistant through my android although not frequently. As a chat assistant the online Google UI is a turnoff personally.

New comment by coldtrait in "Show HN: uBlock filter list to blur all Instagram Reels"

coldtrait — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:02:33 +0000

In my case, Instagram eventually got to a point where most of my friends and family stopped posting. And I started following more creators because their content was interesting. These days there are some a few people I follow who are friends and I mostly just send them dumb reels. I see it more as a platform to consume content than keeping up with updates.

That said, I go through cycles of removing the app and reinstalling it later because it gets addictive.

New comment by coldtrait in "Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning"

coldtrait — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:51:46 +0000

This seems to be a recent popular tool to handle this - https://github.com/tw93/Mole

I also prompt warp/gemini cli to identify unnecessary cache and similar data and delete them

New comment by coldtrait in "Simplenote is no longer in active development"

coldtrait — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:46:43 +0000

Works now. Downloaded the app!

New comment by coldtrait in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

coldtrait — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:26:02 +0000

Thanks for your perspective.

New comment by coldtrait in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

coldtrait — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:21:51 +0000

Thanks, I'll try more of Claude. Back in the day when I first tried it out I easily burned through message limits every day. I've been mulling over paying for Claude Code but I just keep using the free tier of Antigravity and some from my Pro plan.

I happen to have a Gemini Pro subscription that I got through my network provider in India, but i use it only for coding and Nano Banana slop. And occasionally live audio/video chat from my mobile which is actually the best use case I've seen so far although it gets old pretty fast and isn't great beyond basic tasks.