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New comment by dgritsko in "Should you stop cracking your knuckles?"

dgritsko — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:45:48 +0000

TL,DR: No, unless you're doing it so hard that you're straining your joints. But don't crack your neck.

New comment by dgritsko in "3D Pinball for Windows (1995)"

dgritsko — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:50:57 +0000

Recently stumbled across a YouTube channel (no affiliation) where a guy is documenting his process of building a working physical replica of Space Cadet Pinball. I found the process pretty interesting. If you're intrigued: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU_02HABZ4s

New comment by dgritsko in "Kimi K3-256k"

dgritsko — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:52:49 +0000

This isn't quantized, right? Just a smaller context?

New comment by dgritsko in "The well-calibrated Bayesian [pdf] (1982)"

dgritsko — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:29:36 +0000

Must ensure that this quote is present whenever Cromwell's Rule is mentioned - "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken."

New comment by dgritsko in "SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status"

dgritsko — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:57:15 +0000

You dropped your "/s".

New comment by dgritsko in "GPT-5.6"

dgritsko — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:12:27 +0000

I use Conductor pretty much exclusively and it makes it incredibly easy to try different models, even within the same workspace - definitely recommend giving it a shot. Whenever I'm forced to use the Claude Code app directly it just seems woefully inadequate compared to Conductor

New comment by dgritsko in "I'm building a Space Cadet Pinball Machine! [video]"

dgritsko — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:20:22 +0000

This sounds fascinating, are you documenting this in any public way for those of us that are inevitably curious on the details?

New comment by dgritsko in "Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity"

dgritsko — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:43:05 +0000

What a brilliantly written piece. Maintaining one's integrity is unfortunately rare enough that it makes Watterson's story so remarkable. I completely respect and admire his dedication to doing something for its own sake, for holding himself to the highest standards imaginable, and from walking away from it all for his own reasons - even if selfishly I'd rather him keep writing so that there would be more to enjoy. Time to go pull some old volumes of Calvin & Hobbes off the shelf for the hundredth time, I suppose.

New comment by dgritsko in "If AI has a bright future, why does AI think it doesn't?"

dgritsko — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:31:29 +0000

Exactly. LLMs at their core are just fancy autocomplete. Extremely fancy, to be sure, and the output that they predict can be very useful - but people who anthropomorphize them or ascribe higher significance to the generated output seem to be missing this.

New comment by dgritsko in "The happiest I've ever been"

dgritsko — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:17:38 +0000

These blog posts are fascinating to read. I don't have a personal blog, but if I did I'm sure I would've written a very similar post as I've been wrestling with similar thoughts over the last few weeks. I have the distinct sense that I will look back on February 2026 as an inflection point, where AI crossed over from being an interesting parlor trick to something that fundamentally and irreversibly altered what I do day-to-day. It's bittersweet, for sure - it feels inevitable that the craft of software development that I've loved for years will be seen as an archaic relic at some point in the not too distant future. It may be several years yet before the impact is broadly felt (the full impact of today's frontier models has yet to be felt by the general public - to say nothing of models that will be released in the next few years) but this train doesn't seem to be slowing down anytime soon. This post was a helpful reminder that who I am is not defined by the code I write (or don't write) - there's so much more to life than code.

New comment by dgritsko in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

dgritsko — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:35:50 +0000

I'm genuinely curious as to what the key differences are (especially those that would cause someone to switch), as someone who is pretty tech savvy but whose use of Linux as a daily driver is admittedly pretty weak.

New comment by dgritsko in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

dgritsko — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:25:57 +0000

What made you switch from Pop OS? I just installed it on a couple of old PCs I had lying around for my kids to play around with/learn from.

New comment by dgritsko in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

dgritsko — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:40:19 +0000

Surely there's gotta be a better term for this. Recency bias?

New comment by dgritsko in "The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need"

dgritsko — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:19:29 +0000

Fellow SourceTree apologist here. It remains one of the first things I install on a new machine. I'll do simple stuff directly in the CLI, but stick with SourceTree for anything moderately complicated (as you've mentioned).

New comment by dgritsko in "Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes at once"

dgritsko — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:59:45 +0000

FWIW, this is what I wound up with - keeps the original branch name but ensures that it's based on the latest from the "dev" branch:

orig_branch=$(git branch --show-current) && git checkout dev && git pull && git branch -D "$orig_branch" && git checkout -b "$orig_branch"

New comment by dgritsko in "Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes at once"

dgritsko — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:29:18 +0000

Ah, excellent - appreciate the help! I'm already getting a ton of value out of this tool, thanks for sharing!

New comment by dgritsko in "Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes at once"

dgritsko — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:33:31 +0000

At the moment it's mostly Cursor or VS Code, but I was actually thinking of SourceTree. I'd like to look at the pending changes and manage the commits myself, and I could do that if I could add "open -a SourceTree ." as a custom command. I didn't see a place to edit a setup script, is that just on the filesystem?

New comment by dgritsko in "Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes at once"

dgritsko — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:26:58 +0000

This is awesome. A couple of suggestions:

- It'd be great to change the default branch used for creating new workspaces.

- I'd like the ability to add custom tools to the "Open in..." menu.

New comment by dgritsko in "Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?"

dgritsko — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 14:36:51 +0000

And if you're one of today's lucky 10,000 and haven't heard of the concept of "lucky 10,000", you can read the relevant XKCD here: https://xkcd.com/1053/

New comment by dgritsko in "Expanding AI Overviews and Introducing AI Mode"

dgritsko — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:51:34 +0000

For me, it's the fact that content generated by an LLM is fundamentally different than content that comes directly from a search index, but displaying them alongside each other conflates the two. Most people don't know the difference, and place the same level of importance (or maybe even more importance) on AI-generated content. Yes, this content is convenient. However, if the content isn't accurate or correct (which it may or may not be, given that it's just a statistically likely sequence of tokens) then is it actually beneficial as a whole?