Hacker News: dxbednarczyk

New comment by dxbednarczyk in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

dxbednarczyk — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:44:01 +0000

Every time I've used Gemini models for anything besides code or agentic work they lean so far into the RLHF induced bold lettering and bullet point list barf that everything they output reads as if the model was talking _at_ me and not _with_ me. In my Openclaw experiment(s) and in the Gemini web UI, I've specifically added instructions to avoid this type of behavior, but it only seemed to obey those rules when I reminded the model of them.

For conversational contexts, I don't think the (in some cases significantly) better benchmark results compared to a model like Sonnet 4.6 can convince me to switch to Gemini 3.1. Has anyone else had a similar experience, or is this just a me issue?

New comment by dxbednarczyk in "Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor"

dxbednarczyk — Wed, 07 May 2025 14:19:23 +0000

My favorite part of Zed is the problems/errors view. It's great seeing everything in one place and being able to edit multiple files with context at the same time.

That feature + native Git support has fully replaced VSCode for me.

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

dxbednarczyk — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 07:46:35 +0000

A music library organizer, as a replacement for my current workflow with Beets (https://beets.io/).

Beets takes almost 5 minutes per incremental update of ~1000 folders of tagged flacs with my current configuration, when all I really want it to do is:

- fetch album art if not present

- create folder structure readable by Subsonic server

- symlink relevant files

Very raw and unfinished, currently only implemented adding new albums. However, 5 minutes to <1 sec is a promising improvement.

New comment by dxbednarczyk in "Police bust pirate streaming service making €250M per month"

dxbednarczyk — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 01:13:01 +0000

Private trackers (at least, the "good ones") take time and effort to get into and stay in... most people just want convenience.

New comment by dxbednarczyk in "Italy's Piracy Shield just blocked one of Google's CDN"

dxbednarczyk — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 06:29:15 +0000

>The pirates lost

I believe this is not mainly due to big companies and/or governments cracking down on piracy, but a massive loss in knowledge and shift in perspective about piracy, especially in younger generations.

It's true that piracy numbers have been declining, but this largely comes as a result of "piracy is dangerous, don't do it! you'll get viruses!!1!"

New comment by dxbednarczyk in "Show HN: Open Scanner, an open-source document scanning app for iPhone"

dxbednarczyk — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:52:01 +0000

What benefit does Open Scanner have over using the "Scan Document" iPhone shortcut? For sync/sharing I usually just AirDrop the scan to my Mac.

New comment by dxbednarczyk in "Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud"

dxbednarczyk — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 04:35:46 +0000

Some share your sentiment. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/11/02/360479744...

New comment by dxbednarczyk in "Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024"

dxbednarczyk — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 03:25:49 +0000

...and is miles better than Apple's attempt at providing "support" for other platforms than their own.

New comment by dxbednarczyk in "Ask HN: I want to learn to use the terminal, where do I start"

dxbednarczyk — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:02:51 +0000

Since macOS Catalina, zsh has been the default. bash switched to GPLv3 awhile back, and to avoid licensing issues, Apple never updated bash past 3.2, which was already well over a decade old at the time.

https://thenextweb.com/news/why-does-macos-catalina-use-zsh-...

New comment by dxbednarczyk in "Rabbit R1 source code [part 1]"

dxbednarczyk — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 18:44:55 +0000

Potentially due to the threat of DMCAs. Pixeldrain and Mega are widely used in piracy and sometimes leaks like these, considering they are not known for complying with them most of the time, unlike GitHub.

New comment by dxbednarczyk in "Ask HN: Happy 404 Day. Whats your favorite 404 error page?"

dxbednarczyk — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:48:01 +0000

Discord has a hidden snake game if you enter the Konami code: https://discord.com/404

New comment by dxbednarczyk in "Show HN: Auto-generate an OpenAPI spec by listening to localhost"

dxbednarczyk — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:17:19 +0000

See https://github.com/AndrewWalsh/openapi-devtools

New comment by dxbednarczyk in "Please don’t theme our apps"

dxbednarczyk — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 15:38:23 +0000

> They're like an arrogant chef who, after cooking your dinner, instructs the waiter to remove all the salt and pepper shakers from the table because they don't want you changing the flavor of their dish.

[1] https://github.com/do-not-theme/do-not-theme.github.io/issue...

New comment by dxbednarczyk in "WinRAR sold 5,449 licenses in a day"

dxbednarczyk — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:29:25 +0000

And on the Windows side of things, there's NanaZip https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip which gives 7-zip better integration with W11 context menus, and a better file manager UI

New comment by dxbednarczyk in "Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web"

dxbednarczyk — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 16:15:53 +0000

For me, at least when it comes to Tailscale, it was Tailscale SSH and MagicDNS. I haven't had to touch `sshd` at all, and I get automatic HTTPS certificates for machines connected to my tailnet. Also, it's free.

[1] https://tailscale.com/tailscale-ssh/ [2] https://tailscale.com/kb/1081/magicdns/