Hacker News: dinkleberg

New comment by dinkleberg in "Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated"

dinkleberg — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:11:48 +0000

It would be hard to do worse than OpenAI in naming

New comment by dinkleberg in "Cars are trying to spy on you, and it's only just the beginning"

dinkleberg — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:15:18 +0000

Mine isn't doing too great of a job. It has a sketchy face cam that detects who the driver is and greets you and changes some settings. But half of the time it can't identify me.

New comment by dinkleberg in "How fast is N tokens per second really?"

dinkleberg — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:24:21 +0000

This reminds me of when I signed up for cerebras to try it out and dumped $20 in and hooked it into opencode and the speed was truly insane. But my one session burnt through like $15 of that in seemingly a matter of minutes. I've since used those really high tok/s options for specific application use cases, but would not advise as a coding agent. Much harder to catch issues when it is moving a million miles an hour and then it is too late and it has already spent a ton of tokens.

New comment by dinkleberg in "Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing"

dinkleberg — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:12:06 +0000

Have you actually gotten it to build stunning designs? From what I’ve seen it still falls apart very quickly. They can do a decent job at building blocks but usually not putting them together in a cohesive way in my experience.

New comment by dinkleberg in "I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook"

dinkleberg — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:56:06 +0000

Assuming they are pointing out what looks like karma farming which isn't really in the spirit of the site.

New comment by dinkleberg in "Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

dinkleberg — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:40:06 +0000

Yeah it is a dream on ultrawides. I was able to get a decent custom config with Qtile, but Niri is so much more natural. Being able to hit mod+c and center the current window is just so perfect on the ultrawide.

New comment by dinkleberg in "One item purchased, ten emails"

dinkleberg — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:34:32 +0000

In contrast I’m a fan of the overeager messages for actual updates like these presented.

It is just when after said delivery that I then end up on a mailing list where I get sent something seemingly daily from a single vendor that I’m less pleased.

New comment by dinkleberg in "Good Taste the Only Real Moat Left"

dinkleberg — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:23:09 +0000

Yeah I feel like we’re getting pranked here

New comment by dinkleberg in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

dinkleberg — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:48:18 +0000

It’s a fun book. Definitely worth a read.

New comment by dinkleberg in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

dinkleberg — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:50:27 +0000

I’ve found that just not answering any calls from unknown numbers (and having my phone just silence those calls so I don’t even see them) prevents all of this. If the caller is legitimate (e.g., new dentist office regarding an appointment) they can leave a voicemail. And if it isn’t spam and they aren’t willing to leave a voicemail and have me call the back, it probably wasn’t important in the first place.

Sure, I may be missing out on some opportunities. But the peace of mind is far greater.

New comment by dinkleberg in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

dinkleberg — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:28:59 +0000

The difference is that the recruiters come to you on LinkedIn. This is quite handy when you're currently employed since opportunities come to you that you wouldn't have otherwise looked for.

New comment by dinkleberg in "Scientific audio equipment analysis with analyzer shows no difference in quality"

dinkleberg — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:26:44 +0000

The same could be said of almost all luxury goods.

New comment by dinkleberg in "A Eulogy for Vim"

dinkleberg — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:47:27 +0000

Obviously the knowledge gap required to go from zero to doing something useful has shrunk substantially. That is improved accessibility.

New comment by dinkleberg in "Show HN: Claude-replay – A video-like player for Claude Code sessions"

dinkleberg — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:59:58 +0000

I can’t say I understand why one would want this lol. Watching cc session replays doesn’t seem particularly useful. But the execution seems well done, so nice job!

New comment by dinkleberg in "We Built a Video Rendering Engine by Lying to the Browser About What Time It Is"

dinkleberg — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:35:54 +0000

Similarly, the comments complaining about comments complaining about AI are growing quite tiresome.

New comment by dinkleberg in "I baked a pie every day for a year"

dinkleberg — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:49:14 +0000

I do find it kind of wild how intimidating most people I know find baking. Get a food scale and follow the directions and you're good to go and will have something respectable and delicious. As with anything, you can dive deep and go extreme with it. But baking delicious food is not rocket science.

New comment by dinkleberg in "Sandboxes won't save you from OpenClaw"

dinkleberg — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:20:08 +0000

Call me overly cautious, but as someone using OpenClaw I never for a moment considered hooking it up to real external services as me. Instead I put it on one server and created a second server with shared services like Gitea and other self-hosted tools that are only accessible over a tailnet and openclaw is able to use those services. When I needed it to use a real external service I have created a limited separate account for it. But not a chance in the world am I going to just let it have full access to my own accounts on everything.

New comment by dinkleberg in "I turned off ChatGPT's memory"

dinkleberg — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:11:19 +0000

I'd be surprised to hear that lots of people don't do just this. As soon as the memory features came out I gave them a quick try and quickly turned them off.

I don't want to be held accountable to all of my previous ideas. I want each conversation to start fresh with the context that I provide. If I am exploring some library in one language stack and then I later want to look into something completely different, I don't want the conversation polluted by what it thinks I want based on the previous discussion.

I suppose for those who use it as a companion the memory is a core element. But when used as a tool it gives a significantly worse experience IME.

New comment by dinkleberg in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

dinkleberg — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:21:59 +0000

And the community posts and polls from random communities you have no interest in and don’t give you the same “don’t show me content from this channel”

New comment by dinkleberg in "From Nevada to Kansas by Glider"

dinkleberg — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 23:04:16 +0000

I love seeing highly niche little social networks like this one.