Hacker News: fredoliveira

New comment by fredoliveira in "There is minimal downside to switching to open models"

fredoliveira — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:42:18 +0000

Output quality immediately comes to mind, of course.

Models are converging, but they converge in bands, and frontier is frontier. I would not like to have any workflows in any area of my business where output is generated by an assortment of models from different providers. For trivial, mundane tasks that might be fine, but it certainly doesn't apply across the board.

New comment by fredoliveira in "I used sound waves to make espresso. It could cut coffee‑brewing energy use by ¾"

fredoliveira — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:42:08 +0000

is there prior art to the EU banning a new technology to protect an old one?

New comment by fredoliveira in "What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf]"

fredoliveira — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:24:40 +0000

They can make the claim to know what it is like to be you as much as you can make the claim that you know what it is like to be a bat.

New comment by fredoliveira in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

fredoliveira — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:14:05 +0000

Could they? Under what business model? Maybe the numbers for the paid products just weren't there and they see this exit as a positive for the team?

New comment by fredoliveira in "Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code"

fredoliveira — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:01:37 +0000

> is Zed capable of using a Claude Code Subscription?

Yes. Zed connects to Claude Code via ACP.

New comment by fredoliveira in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

fredoliveira — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:19:33 +0000

They most certainly are. This is Jevons paradox.

New comment by fredoliveira in "SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video"

fredoliveira — Sat, 16 May 2026 21:00:17 +0000

If it does do that, it doesn't feel that way. I never found it particularly repetitive.

New comment by fredoliveira in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

fredoliveira — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:10:50 +0000

I legitimately have no idea what "SS" means next to a port, and I've seen it plenty of times. Labeling doesn't solve everything. The message on screen that you get when you plug something into the wrong port on the Neo is, obviously, much better because it assumes nothing about the user's knowledge except for the ability to read.

New comment by fredoliveira in "Zed Editor Theme-Builder"

fredoliveira — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:04:26 +0000

Use the command palette to pick "agent: toggle" - that'll open the agent pane. Pick "Claude Agent" from the dropdown at the top if you see the Zed agent. Should be all you need.

New comment by fredoliveira in "Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings"

fredoliveira — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:37:14 +0000

That interview of their CEO with the NYT from last year was insane. If you've never seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpIXRgMlPo4

New comment by fredoliveira in "Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings"

fredoliveira — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:31:09 +0000

Most of the companies you've listed have been horrible at keeping kids safe - they simply don't care. I'm all for kids communicating and having fun, but we have to actually want to create safe ways to do both.

New comment by fredoliveira in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

fredoliveira — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:19:55 +0000

Crazy thing to say without other contextual information - it obviously depends on a number of factors. Do you have an apples to apples comparison at hand?

New comment by fredoliveira in "Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar"

fredoliveira — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:27:29 +0000

> Go away, green accounts. Everyone is pretty tired of your presence.

I get the frustration with the overload of new vibe-coded tools, but this particular attitude towards new people - can we not?

New comment by fredoliveira in "Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar"

fredoliveira — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:19:37 +0000

> It's just sad that whether you are a user or a developer, Apple Fanbois would rather (ignorantly) place Apple's interest over their own consumer rights.

You think notarizing an app is "placing Apple's interest over" our own?

New comment by fredoliveira in "Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds"

fredoliveira — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:28:39 +0000

Indeed. And adding on to this, in a slightly different realm, Donald Knuth's conjecture that he solved with Claude: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/%7Eknuth/papers/claude-c...

New comment by fredoliveira in "Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents"

fredoliveira — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:35:32 +0000

counter-intuitively, the fact that docker on the mac requires a linux-based VM makes it safer than it otherwise would be. But your point stands in general, of course.

New comment by fredoliveira in "I resigned from OpenAI"

fredoliveira — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:02:49 +0000

and you say this based on?

New comment by fredoliveira in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

fredoliveira — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:47:18 +0000

Not gp, but because the way hackernews would render in a web browser versus curl is dramatically different, of course. There's a clear separation of presentation and content, and curl shows you presentation.

Notes being plain text files means that what you get by showing via a CLI is essentially the same as just `cat whatever-it-is.md`. Viewing a note via the CLI interface could have its merits (it could apply its own flavor of presentation), but come on now. Your example doesn't hold.

New comment by fredoliveira in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

fredoliveira — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:54:23 +0000

So you see no value in the learning that comes with the tinkering?

New comment by fredoliveira in "Fahrplan – 39C3"

fredoliveira — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 09:12:39 +0000

I think you're missing the ethos of the event in general, and the fact that you are pointing to tracks in the ethics track or the arts track in particular.