Hacker News: emp_

New comment by emp_ in "GPT-6 Astra"

emp_ — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:54:35 +0000

Builders just cheap out on everything these days

New comment by emp_ in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

emp_ — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:48:27 +0000

I have exactly this setup and use a Macbook Air with Tailscale to just connect via High Performance Screen Sharing both at home and on the go (when not sitting at my desk, I move around a lot around the house after 3pm or so while I keep my workflow identical)

HPSS works well via 5G, and Tailscale is incredible for the setup as much as the hardware.

Edit: I ended up getting a 15" M5 Air but honestly trying it on a 13" M4 Air was actually superior because when all you care is mobility (since the Studio does the heavy work) its nice just going around with almost no weight / bulk.

New comment by emp_ in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

emp_ — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:45:48 +0000

Great to hear! The absolute best Air Form Factor, I've debated a lot buying a used one because I dislike the square form of M2+ Air compared.

The Instant team joins OpenAI

emp_ — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:41:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.instantdb.com/essays/instant_team_joins_openai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49396888

Points: 13

# Comments: 8

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

emp_ — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:30:19 +0000

Just promoting a small utility for others that may need it.

For us MacOS users that use Spaces and want to CMD+Tab only inside that Space, the only alternative was AltTab (that I could find) but it has so many more features and goals, plus I had performance issues with it remotely over HPSS which I use heavily so I've generated the simplest utility that only shrinks the CMD+Tab list per Space and nothing else.

https://github.com/emp/SpaceTab

New comment by emp_ in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

emp_ — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:58:26 +0000

I was (until this announcement/today) an annual subscriber just for the early days of Autocomplete goodness that I do not use anymore but would stick around and check from time to time their progress and always hoped we would eventually have a good UI for LLMs outside the terminal.

an IDE to look at one file at a time is not interface for LLMs - it was made for people, and while I guess you can sit in the Agents mode all day, to me thats a completely different byproduct and just "Terminal is yuck" kinda users, maybe someday we'll have a proper dedicated LLM UI but we are not there yet.

New comment by emp_ in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

emp_ — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:44:57 +0000

I bought two Touch-ID models as gifts and while doing the setup I must say the lack of keyboard backlight is the only thing that bothered me A LOT. Great machines otherwise.

New comment by emp_ in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

emp_ — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:43:24 +0000

100% but I suggest doing the 1-handed pick up test with the lid open, a 900g laptop feels weightless against the 13 air at 1200g

New comment by emp_ in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

emp_ — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:20:22 +0000

> I suspect Apple is going to cannibalize some MBA sales with the Neo ...

Hopefully it allows for the macbook air to return to being a ultra light machine, I held an Asus X14 ARM at 900 grams and it felt so much better.

There's also a huge market for the M1 MacBook Air because of the old form factor of being ultra thin even if faking it with bending the shell, the boxed layouts dont fit with MBA to me. Too bad there is no 15 2021 M1.

New comment by emp_ in "They're made out of meat (1991)"

emp_ — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:06:12 +0000

> It was incredible man. Mold on a rock that got to think. Ha, it was amazing while it lasted

New comment by emp_ in "Apple M3 Ultra"

emp_ — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 05:12:40 +0000

eGPU has a ton of issues on MacOS - I've used it for years, but now on Silicon its prob much worse - but let me give a shout out to the amazing (somewhat new) High Performance screen sharing mode added in Sonoma.

When I connect to my Mac Studio via Macbook I can select that mode, then change the Displays setting to Dynamic Resolution and then my 'thin client':

- Is fullscreen using the entire 16:10 Macbook screen

- Gets 60 fps low latency performance (including on actual games)

- Transfers audio, I can attend meetings in this mode

- Blanks the host Mac Studio screen

All things that were impossible via VNC - RDP is much better but this new High Performance Screen Share is even more powerful.

The thin lightweight laptop that remotes into a loaded machine has always been my idea of high mobility instead of suffering a laptop running everything locally. This works via LTE as well with some firewall setup.

Skip makes your back end reactive

emp_ — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:03:18 +0000

Article URL: https://skiplabs.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42729435

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by emp_ in "M4 Mac mini's efficiency"

emp_ — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 23:03:15 +0000

The Studio being the GPU-centric model, I can't wait for all these M4 Mini performance improvements to make to the Studio line.

New comment by emp_ in "Stop Acting Like You're Famous"

emp_ — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 06:49:04 +0000

> daydream about how you can make money off of it.

I do this but mostly from trauma of having to kill things due to hosting costs (happened before), as long as its cheap/self sufficient enough the fun part dominates.

New comment by emp_ in "Titanosaurs were the biggest land animals Earth's ever seen"

emp_ — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 03:46:40 +0000

I remember one day many years ago just snapping wondering what had been the the biggest animal to ever exist on earth, and after a few searches it seems like the consensus was *NOT* a dinosaur but the Blue Whale which still exists today, still think about it from time to time. The article only discusses land animals but I wonder if the blue whale still reigns after more modern discoveries.

The Oldest Unsolved Problem in Math [video]

emp_ — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 05:28:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrv1EDIqHkY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39676462

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by emp_ in "F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI"

emp_ — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 07:00:21 +0000

Every time I hit back on an Ars article Linus is giving me the middle finger

New comment by emp_ in "Show HN: Visit the front page of Hacker News on a random day"

emp_ — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:02:15 +0000

Spotty memory but the two posts that made me check HN daily were:

- How do you store data to last more than 50 years (diamonds and titanium were mentioned)

- The announcement that bitcoin reached 1 USD, a great party story (TL;DR I tried buying 100, had issues w/ payment, got pissed, bought 200 instead, lost wallet a few months later, would have sold it super early tho)

New comment by emp_ in "Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference"

emp_ — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:53:13 +0000

Had a very similar experience hosting e-sports events and buying probably the cheapest sponsor slot ever: the badge lanyards, every single interview had our logo right there around the neck of every single person at the venue, while the TV crews were trying to frame the giant master sponsor logos in the background

New comment by emp_ in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2023)"

emp_ — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 16:27:13 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Canada | Remote Only

Frontend Architect / Full Stack Dev, passionate about GraphQL / React / NextJS, accompanying tooling and similar platforms, been helping companies implement MACH architecture and extend their capabilities with BFFs and modernizing frontend codebases.

Available 32 hours/week

Contact: thewelk[at]gmail.com