Hacker News: comboy

New comment by comboy in "Thunderbird for iOS"

comboy — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:03:32 +0000

Have you vibe coded any apps that you use daily?

In my experience I spent a lot of time on design nowadays. It turns out I did that in the past too I just had quite a lot of time to think that through slowly while hands were doing vim stuff. And good design is hard. And somewhat subjective. But mostly just hard, pretty sure in some time agents will get better at it, but for now it's still something they can't do well at all.

And by design I mean all of it: UX, look and architecture.

New comment by comboy in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

comboy — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:49:30 +0000

Neither can I. So they kept everything in a huge monorepo. Which unsurprisingly turned out to be problematic.

> Clients are always online. Git assumes that clients work offline and need a complete copy of the repository. Since nearly all of our clients are agents and jobs, we designed Scion’s client and protocols around a server that is always reachable, and have clients fetch data when they need it.

This also tells something about these companies idea of sandboxing.

New comment by comboy in "Apple HomeView"

comboy — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:54:39 +0000

Secure Enclave is not a new concept.

> The only realistic way to guarantee this sort of thing is to reverse engineer the entire chain between the two and then never install any software updates.

Reverse engineer the hardware and not change it, that's the whole point, it's not in the software, only queries after the keyword are passed forward (if I'm understanding correctly, gee I don't even like apple much, things I choose to spend my time on..)

New comment by comboy in "Apple HomeView"

comboy — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:32:54 +0000

The point is that they don't have to pinky promise. It's as if you said yubikey pinky promises it won't share your private key.

I think it's actually a very good approach. Obviously depends on actual implementation details, but the premise is good.

New comment by comboy in "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"

comboy — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:12:01 +0000

If I had a HN comments wall I'd hang this one on there.

New comment by comboy in "OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information""

comboy — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:51:00 +0000

Your have powerful agents at your disposal, so hey how to best optimize for increasing my payroll? On it. But since the agent was lunched by her, well there's consequences to ones actions, right?

(just to be clear, this is made up)

New comment by comboy in "Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort"

comboy — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:42:20 +0000

Ah, sorry I thought the old ones were stashed somewhere. Yeah, I'd like that too, although not sure who would I trust telling me that these will actually be like this in 30 years.

New comment by comboy in "Mistral Large 4"

comboy — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:40:02 +0000

I recently was testing something, I asked some models to provide me a single random word:

    claude-opus-5: Lantern
    claude-opus-5-5: Lantern
    claude-fable-5-1: Lantern
    claude-fable-5: Lantern
    gemini-3.8-flash: Zephyr
    gemini: Petrichor
    qwen3.5-dashscope: Zephyr
    glm-5.1: Lantern
    gpt-6-astra: Lantern
    grok-4: octopus
    mimo-v2.5-pro: Breeze
    minimax-m2.5: serendipity
    kimi2.6-or: Gossamer
    grok-4.20: luminescent
    deepseek-v4-flash: serendipity
    deepseek-v4-pro: Endurance
    deepseek-chat: Serendipity

I have enough projects, I think some benchmark/dashboard showing kinship based on these kind of queries could be very interesting to watch and insightful when new models come out.

New comment by comboy in "Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort"

comboy — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:02:34 +0000

True, although UV exposure has a big impact so not really a fair comparsion.

New comment by comboy in "Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort"

comboy — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:37:25 +0000

I mean if you don't print them and want digital and we're talking having them for the next generation(s) then pretty much whatever current format you choose, it won't be the one that's widely used in the future so it will require some tech knowledge. And LTO tech stayed pretty settled and compatible for quite a few years now.

New comment by comboy in "Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort"

comboy — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:28:47 +0000

Offline HDDs are not a reliable long term data storage. Not even for a few years.

New comment by comboy in "Using Blu-ray M-Disk as Backup of Last Resort"

comboy — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:26:16 +0000

get some used LTO-5 / LTO-6 drive if you have some desktop/server to plug it in

New comment by comboy in "FTL: A new operating system for clouds"

comboy — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 18:05:50 +0000

I just make agents generate assembly for my app and my hardware and boot directly into that.

New comment by comboy in "Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS"

comboy — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:03:26 +0000

Do you run every process as root?

New comment by comboy in "On social reality in China"

comboy — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:49:44 +0000

To me China seems much more diverse than the US.

New comment by comboy in "Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?"

comboy — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:48:25 +0000

But you are using API not the CLI right? I did not ever observe API degradation, only subscription stuff through their CLI.

New comment by comboy in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

comboy — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:18:31 +0000

They are not cracking EUV, they are finding ways that actually scale. Chips can be much cheaper than they are currently. I mean yes, obviously we cannot be confident ntil it happens, but they are already making 5nm with DUV.

When China leads chip making the rest of the world is just vasal states.

New comment by comboy in "Claude Opus 5.5"

comboy — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:18:42 +0000

Well, if you have a clearly defined task it's easy. When using them for my pipeline of writing explanations for Chinese words I have clear ranking, for example - opus 5.5 clearly better than opus 5 at writing and knowing details, annoying nit picker when it comes to finding errors (high accuracy, low usefulness) all in repeatable numbers on different datasets. The problem is that these models are most useful when you are facing a new task that you haven't encountered before. And yup then it's astrology.

New comment by comboy in "Claude Opus 5.5"

comboy — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:14:00 +0000

That's a sharp observation and you're hitting on something most people never even realize.

New comment by comboy in "Claude Opus 5.5"

comboy — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:11:32 +0000

Whoa, I'm exactly the opposite.