Hacker News: daviding

New comment by daviding in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

daviding — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:18:58 +0000

A few things outside of normal work that are deliberately different to be interesting to me:

- Ongoing work on an airline announcement engine that works with flight simulators

https://github.com/fearlessfrog/MSFS_Universal_Announcer

- A multiplayer board game for Discourse forum users that is not the popular Risk (tm).

https://github.com/fearlessfrog/discourse-not-risk

Both have a fair bit of traction, but is often the case, keen to do something new this month.

New comment by daviding in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

daviding — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:03:49 +0000

It works great with UEVR, there's a discussion post in the steam forum on how to set that up. It plays really nicely in VR.

New comment by daviding in "Show HN: Metiq: a real time 3D globe for 100 public datasets"

daviding — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:06:20 +0000

Very impressive! What's the stack used?

Also, is there a way to stop the 'Satellite Inspect' dialog from coming up when clicking around the globe? It obscures a bit of the map.

New comment by daviding in "Show HN: Veterinarian turned founder, AI lawn diagnosis"

daviding — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:51:50 +0000

A nice idea and good luck! My lawn is dead as our local data center took all the water (I'm kidding!).

We do home property and inventory services using AI on photos as well and the key thing we've found so far is that the biggest rival to those features is just people dragging photos into chatgpt and asking away. So the key here is differentiating from that and making something better and more accurate. What we did was to basically build a better and deeper prompt and history, e.g. context is king in a vertical. So that means the other info the user has put about the property, the memory of previous things asked or seen, combining with publicly available property info we already gather - this would make the information more valuable than straight gpt usage.

So what more can you bring to the bare prompt on the photos to help? What can you build in terms of info about the zip, so you do more 'vertical stuff' before the api call.

New comment by daviding in "Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing"

daviding — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:26:06 +0000

Nice idea! fwiw, false positives and all, but the Windows 11 default Windows Security doesn't like it: `leakless.exe: Operation did not complete successfully because the file contains a virus or potentially unwanted software.`

New comment by daviding in "Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?"

daviding — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:31:25 +0000

It does local stuff of course, and some are trying to bring PC streaming to it, e.g. https://github.com/Kross82/KRVR-releases

New comment by daviding in "Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?"

daviding — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:14:39 +0000

Will be interesting to see which side of $999 it drops. I'll buy it regardless but the optics (heh) on the high RAM cost issue and the unit price might temper demand a bit.

New comment by daviding in "Claude Fable 5"

daviding — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:10:35 +0000

Given the Fable 5 costs it's getting tricker to weight up 'how smart do you want it', like looking at the top of this graph..

https://cursor.com/evals

New comment by daviding in "Hacker News front page as a site"

daviding — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:57:57 +0000

An overridden `.newspaper-copy { font-size: 1rem; }` works well.

New comment by daviding in "Mythical Man Month"

daviding — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:12:01 +0000

"Adding tokens to a late software project makes it bigger and still late."

New comment by daviding in "Uncle Bob: It's Over"

daviding — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:13:39 +0000

English is the new programming language.

New comment by daviding in "NASA Force"

daviding — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:45:10 +0000

My 5090 couldn't handle that starfield at the beginning. I got a 1202 alarm just scrolling down..

New comment by daviding in "Codex for almost everything"

daviding — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:23:54 +0000

There seems a fair enthusiasm in the UI of these to hide code from coders. Like the prompt interaction is the true source and the actual code is some sort of annoying intermediate runtime inconvenience to cover up. I get that productivity can be improved with a lot of this for non developers, just not sure using 'code' as the term is the right one or not.

New comment by daviding in "Cursor 3"

daviding — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:00:13 +0000

Agree with that, they seem really good limits for daily use on something like Chat GPT Pro $20 account. I'm in the curious situation of using the Codex CLI within Cursor IDE and not really getting value out of my $60 Cursor sub. Plus at every update it seems Cursor seems to break more of their UI in the 'not a cloud agent chat UI' vs the more traditional VSCode sort of layout of code first. I should probably cancel.

New comment by daviding in "The Codex App"

daviding — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:39:20 +0000

I find that the case too. For more complex things my future ask would be something that perhaps formalized verification/testing into the AI dev cycle? My confidence in not needing to see code is directly proportional in my level of comfort in test coverage (even if quite high level UI/integration mechanisms rather than 1 != 0 unit stuff)

New comment by daviding in "The Codex App"

daviding — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:46:49 +0000

This looks interesting and I use Codex a fair bit already in vscode etc, but I'm having trouble leaving a 'code editor with AI' to an environment that sort of looks like it puts the code as a hidden secondary artefact. I guess the key thing is the multi agent spinning plates part.

New comment by daviding in "London–Calcutta bus service"

daviding — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:24:58 +0000

1989. I saw a paper flyer in the New York Public Library and turned up a few days later at the bus station on impulse. It was basically a moving commune, where you slept on flat boards, cooked together and moved glacially slowly towards the destination. The NY -> SF went south via FL, TX etc. It was mainly young people not actually from the US, Europe, Australia etc.

New comment by daviding in "London–Calcutta bus service"

daviding — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:49:44 +0000

I did too - did the SF back to NYC leg that goes the north route as well. Amazing experience. I was only 19 at the time. My favorite memory is that on the westbound leg we met up with the eastbound one in (I think) Yellowstone and while parking the buses they managed to slowly crash in to each other (just a dent, nothing serious). I liked the fact they both started from separate coasts and ending up colliding.

New comment by daviding in "GPT-5.2"

daviding — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:15:14 +0000

So is maybe gpt-5.2 with reasoning set to 'none' identical to gpt-5.2-chat-latest in capabilities but perhaps with a different system (system) prompt? I notice chat-latest doesn't accept temperature or reasoning (which makes sense) parameters, so something is certainly different underneath?

New comment by daviding in "GPT-5.2"

daviding — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:14:34 +0000

gpt-5.2 and gpt-5.2-chat-latest the same token price? Isn't the latter non-thinking and more akin to -nano or -mini?