Hacker News: combyn8tor

New comment by combyn8tor in "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"

combyn8tor — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:14:54 +0000

I feel like "good enough" was reached around Opus 4.6 - 4.8. All I wanted after that is improved speed, continued tweaks to the tooling to get the most out of it and quality of life features added.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT"

combyn8tor — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:39:20 +0000

I remember in the Windows 95/98 days asking my friend for his IP address and then browsing through my windows explorer to his mum's fully shared windows C drive. She had her computer plugged directly into the modem and was using ICS to share the net to my friends computer.

I sent them a screenshot of her shared drive through ICQ, and not long after she bought a router.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM"

combyn8tor — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:25:33 +0000

not that crazy. Opus 5 is like working with an insufferable, arrogant colleague that speaks another language. It's mentally draining dealing with someone like that for 8 hours a day. I'm back on 4.8, and it feels like working with a friendly colleague again. Life's too short to work with Opus 5 every day :-)

New comment by combyn8tor in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

combyn8tor — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:45:28 +0000

I haven't had time to complain on here because I spend all my time trying to work out wtf Opus 5 is talking about and googling words I've never seen or heard in 40 years as a native English speaker.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index"

combyn8tor — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:10:15 +0000

It works fine for me. Only issue I have is that it has me constantly reaching for the dictionary.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models"

combyn8tor — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:02:35 +0000

The point doesn't stand, and this comment appears to be spam.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models"

combyn8tor — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:56:14 +0000

You may want to consider the incomes of developers outside the US, students, unemployed. $200/month is a lot to a lot of people.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Cloudflare Drop"

combyn8tor — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:44:42 +0000

Well according to the people in this thread it was previously impossible for bad actors to host a website, and CloudFlare has now given them this unique ability.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Swedish parliament abolishes permanent residence visas for migrants"

combyn8tor — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:04:54 +0000

People don't want to live in a mansion when it's on fire.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Iroh 1.0"

combyn8tor — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:48:44 +0000

> VPNs do not allow you to connect two devices directly, they have to go through the VPN

Not true. Depends on the VPN protocol.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

combyn8tor — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:40:54 +0000

Rust kernel development.

New comment by combyn8tor in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

combyn8tor — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:06:26 +0000

I think that holds true for any industry where the consequences of failure are no more than loss of money.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

combyn8tor — Sat, 30 May 2026 22:54:45 +0000

> risk appetite, motivation, grit, and patience.

This is the moat. It was before AI and still is.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Thoughts on People and Blogs"

combyn8tor — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:15:10 +0000

Maybe I'm missing something, but it appears he is irritated that people aren't giving him their time? Why does he have that expectation?

New comment by combyn8tor in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

combyn8tor — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:08:44 +0000

Go and Rust is not really a type of work though. What tasks are you throwing at them?

New comment by combyn8tor in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

combyn8tor — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:06:44 +0000

Same experience for me. I think people need to start providing context for the type of work they're doing when repeating the local model hype. Maybe they're working with a cookie cutter React app and it does the job fine.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Zed 1.0"

combyn8tor — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:34:22 +0000

They seem to have stopped developing GPUI (or maybe just the public version)?

One of the staff forked it into a community edition https://github.com/gpui-ce/gpui-ce

Does anyone have more details about the state of it?

New comment by combyn8tor in "Year of the IPv6 Overlay Network"

combyn8tor — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:49:36 +0000

What is a wsl mirrored network?

New comment by combyn8tor in "Claude Code Routines"

combyn8tor — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:54:06 +0000

In my experience Opus and Claude have declined significantly over the past few weeks. It actually feels like dealing with an employee that has become bored and intentionally cuts corners.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

combyn8tor — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:18:49 +0000

I had to check the date on my phone as I was sure it was an April fools joke. After the absolute onslaught of negative feedback and the new term "Microslop", they put out an article saying you can now adjust the position of the taskbar. Unreal.