Hacker News: djfergus

New comment by djfergus in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

djfergus — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:21:06 +0000

Reminds me of the terminus agent/harness on the terminal-bench coding benchmark - they just send send keystrokes to a tmux session. They score pretty well.

https://www.tbench.ai/news/terminus

New comment by djfergus in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

djfergus — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:26:23 +0000

Why does it need a dialog? Just save the file AND copy it to clipboard. If user wants to annotate they can paste or go get the file.

New comment by djfergus in "The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now"

djfergus — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:48:02 +0000

For me its the fact a large chunk of my terminal experience is over limited bandwidth connections to laggy servers with varying feature support. I appreciate the eye candy and what they have achieved but I don't need it, I just want TUIs to work everywhere with low latency.

New comment by djfergus in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

djfergus — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:28:42 +0000

A Mac allows it to send iMessage and access the Apple ecosystem.

New comment by djfergus in "PCB Forge"

djfergus — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:39:29 +0000

From x post:

“I made a tool that turns PCB designs into 3D-printable molds. you sandwich copper tape between the parts, sand the ridges, and you have a real working PCB. no etching, no chemicals”

New comment by djfergus in "Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business"

djfergus — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 03:23:32 +0000

https://archive.is/wrKvv

New comment by djfergus in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

djfergus — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 03:53:31 +0000

I’m fascinated by the confidence in the cyborg theory that there will always be value in having a human in the loop. Especially for domains like code where the inputs and outputs are bits not atoms.

This is exactly what chess experts like Kasparov thought in the late 90s: “a grandmaster plus a computer will always beat just a computer”. This became false in less than a decade.

New comment by djfergus in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

djfergus — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:14:39 +0000

https://archive.is/CEsFK

New comment by djfergus in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

djfergus — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:55:10 +0000

> I don't think this is something that LLMs can ever replicate. They don't have the egos and they certainly don't have the experience

Interesting question - the result is just words so surely a LLM can simulate an ego. Feed it the Linux kernel mailing list?

Isn’t back and forth exactly what the new MoE thinking models attempt to simulate?

And if they don’t have the experience that is just a question of tokens?

New comment by djfergus in "Maybe the default settings are too high"

djfergus — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:50:25 +0000

For younger kids I can heartily recommend the Hobbit illustrated by Jemima Catlin- has plenty of pictures to them engaged. Read it to my 6 year old and we’re now excited for LotR.

New comment by djfergus in "Backing up Spotify"

djfergus — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 06:32:32 +0000

Anna’s Archive has largely flown under the radar by focusing on books.

Even perceived involvement in music piracy puts a much bigger target on their back from far more aggressive actors (RIAA, major labels)

New comment by djfergus in "State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter"

djfergus — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:24:16 +0000

I'm curious what percentage of claude/codex users this is true for - I assumed their business models rely on this not being true for the majority.

New comment by djfergus in "State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter"

djfergus — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:16:47 +0000

It's a 1.7 trillion token free model. Why wouldn't you try it?

I've been testing free models for coding hobby projects after I burnt through way too many expensive tokens on Replit and Claude. Grok wasn't great, kept getting into loops for me. I had better results using KAT coder on opencode (also free).

New comment by djfergus in "State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter"

djfergus — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:12:07 +0000

Openrouter has an apps tab. If you look at the free, non-coding models, some apps that feature are: janitor.ai, sillytavern, chub.ai. I'd never heard of them but people seem to be burning millions of tokens enjoying them.

OpenAI Prepares Visual Agent Builder

djfergus — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 23:08:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.testingcatalog.com/openai-prepares-to-release-agent-builder-during-devday-on-october-6/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45486061

Points: 10

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New comment by djfergus in "Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust"

djfergus — Wed, 28 May 2025 22:14:17 +0000

I’d love to see something like this optimized for low end Android - old tablets are almost free and otherwise useless even for web browsing.

Also, what is your recommendation for finding a cheap usable microscope? My brief forays to aliexpress have just resulted in frauds and trash.

New comment by djfergus in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

djfergus — Mon, 26 May 2025 07:51:57 +0000

Check out chessiverse (I’m not affiliated just found from YouTubers). They purport to be a collection of bots that play like humans with human-like mistakes matched to ELO levels. I like it so far - the main value for me (vs lichess/chess.com) is knowing that who’s on the other end isn’t constantly cheating.

New comment by djfergus in "Procolored printer drivers contained malware"

djfergus — Mon, 19 May 2025 08:57:09 +0000

“ It is also worth noting that I contacted Procolored support four times over the course of my testing, for help with figuring out the software and settings. Every single time, the agent requested multiple times that I allow them to connect remotely to my computer”

New comment by djfergus in "How to Build a Smartwatch: Picking a Chip"

djfergus — Thu, 15 May 2025 02:25:32 +0000

I’m confused, is bangle js manufacturing new hardware (and is that open with schematics, bom, gerbers) or just shucking an existing cheap Chinese smart watch (SMA Q3)?

New comment by djfergus in "Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative"

djfergus — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:41:11 +0000

This.

My guess/conspiracy theory is that Spotify has cut deals with record companies that pay less on subsequent listens to a track so the repetitive radio algorithms are more profitable.