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New comment by fixxation92 in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

fixxation92 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:16:46 +0000

I have to agree here. The amount of cyclists I see with full over the ear headphones on-- if these guys are blarning tunes, there is no way they'll every hear the traffic around them. Extremely dangerous.

New comment by fixxation92 in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"

fixxation92 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:09:47 +0000

Wow, that is phenomenal. I don't play Minecraft, but my kids do- so I can see them and can appreciate all the work that went into this. Fair play!

New comment by fixxation92 in "The 49MB web page"

fixxation92 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:25:03 +0000

I actually feel offended with a download size this big, it's completely careless from the website owners

New comment by fixxation92 in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

fixxation92 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:34:33 +0000

I don't think I'll ever adopt this term, I'm not a fan of it at all. I find myself saying "I was working with AI" and just leave it at that. It is a collaboration afterall.

New comment by fixxation92 in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

fixxation92 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:25:24 +0000

What I really want to know is... as a software developer for 25+ years, when using these AI tools- it is still called "vibecoding"? Or is "vibecoding" reserved for people with no/little software development background that are building apps. Genuine question.

New comment by fixxation92 in "Rack-mount hydroponics"

fixxation92 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:44:23 +0000

I'd take all lowercase over all uppercase anyday

New comment by fixxation92 in "It's time to move your docs in the repo"

fixxation92 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:53:48 +0000

I've got about ~15 repos for a project and I just start Claude Code in the parent directory of all of them, so it has clear visibility everything and cross-reference whatever it needs.... super handy.

New comment by fixxation92 in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

fixxation92 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:15:33 +0000

Yeah, and likely still pay for it now (hopefully!)

New comment by fixxation92 in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

fixxation92 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:20:12 +0000

This is the big one for me, I hate all that lag with bluetooth, signal interference, and constantly wondering which device my headphones have connected to. So much easier for so many reasons, with a wire!

New comment by fixxation92 in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

fixxation92 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 06:34:23 +0000

100% agree with this, as much as I hate the term "game-changer"... it truly is, I'm working on projects that I've always wanted to do but never had the capacity (or money to pay a small team of devs to build something)-- all these things that you thought you'd never have a chance to do, are suddenly now real and completely possible. I know there's a lot of AI haters out there but I'm pretty sure in time, all devs will embrance it and truly enjoy working with it

New comment by fixxation92 in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

fixxation92 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:08:27 +0000

Conversations of the future...

"Can you believe that Dad actually used to have to go into an office and type code all day long, MAUALLY??! Line by line, with no advice from AI, he had to think all by himself!"

New comment by fixxation92 in "Your phone is an entire computer"

fixxation92 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:41:09 +0000

Why not just get a Linux phone running Ubuntu Touch or postmarketOS. You'd have full root access, sideloading etc and none of that corporate control, likely for half the price of an iPHone. Sure you'd lose all the Apple look/feel but at least you can do what you want with the phone.

New comment by fixxation92 in "Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations"

fixxation92 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:50:48 +0000

I agree with you about the Claude Code TUI. I switched to it weeks after it was released. The browser interface is great for quick chats and talking through ideas/concepts, but not for coding. What I love about the TUI is that it can see all your repos as once so it has the full picture all the time. You can't get that with the web version.

New comment by fixxation92 in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

fixxation92 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:03:06 +0000

"I have a tendency to go down rabbit holes when faced with problems - give me a minor inconvenience and I’ll happily spend weeks building something far more elaborate than the situation warrants."

You don't know how happy I was to read this... I thought I had a serious problem with getting distracted with my "projects" but it seems this is much more normal than I thought ;-)

New comment by fixxation92 in "Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations"

fixxation92 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:38:35 +0000

I find it absolutely mindblowing to witness the rate at which Anthropic can ship new features. Only a year ago I couldn't wait to see some sort of Github integration and then it appeared only a week later. Seriously impressive stuff.

New comment by fixxation92 in "Darkrealms BBS"

fixxation92 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:32:19 +0000

Ahhhh, the memories. I ran a Telegard BBS for a couple years back in those days, I remember being so proud to finally get a USRobotics 9600 baud modem that was so fast compared to everything we had before it. I remember having to take the board "down" to be able to dial into other BBSes in the area, and having to manully start the uploads and downloads with Ymodem-G and Zmodem. I can't remember exactly why, but I have memories of Xmodem not being great! Sadly it all ended when a new user sent tricked me into running a "game" as an upload to prove he was legit, and told me that I didn't need to do the voice verification (as a good Sysop would have always done). Of course I trusted him, and ran the thing-- turned out to be some nasty trojan and all I remember was the text "file allocation table (followed by some other not so nice words)" across the screen over and over again, forgot the rest. Hard drive FUBAR'ed. Awful moment. Phone rings a few moments later and the there he was, asking how the "game" was and laughing... almost like the "did you check the children" line from When a Stranger Calls! That was my first and last BBS... good times regardless, despite the virus incident!

New comment by fixxation92 in "Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver"

fixxation92 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:05:58 +0000

Very cool... I ran a Telegard BBS back when I was a kid, definitely brings back great memories of all the cool ANSI art!

New comment by fixxation92 in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

fixxation92 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:36:39 +0000

Definitely a step in the right direction, but believe it or not-- I overheard a customer in Aldi asking for coal only last week! I couldn't believe it, the staff member didn't know where to send them