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New comment by fsniper in "No Stack Overflow, No Autocomplete: What Coding Felt Like in the 80s"

fsniper — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:15:58 +0000

That's not enough as the abstraction of hardware and software has increased exponentially. Not only that expectations are more. Just building for a definitive set of single configuration is not enough. Any software needs to run on Amd64, RiscV, Arm64, has to be containerised, and run on OsX, Windows, Linux.. Nowadays you would need more and more knowledge/experience to be able to function without external help.

New comment by fsniper in "An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk"

fsniper — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:08:10 +0000

I did vibe coded one, where It downloads images from my (currently defunct) immich server album, dithers them for 4 color inky display, downloads the weather data and display them. It's a fun little one. I wish the inky only had a "faster than 30secs full refresh" partial update capability.

New comment by fsniper in "CarPlay Is Additive"

fsniper — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:32:33 +0000

Car manufacturer build infotainment never is.

New comment by fsniper in "Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?"

fsniper — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:40:41 +0000

Quality of YC investments are nose diving.

New comment by fsniper in "Claude Fable 5"

fsniper — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:09:15 +0000

You can not trust human output without verification either. That's why you have tests, qa, staging envs, A/B tests..

New comment by fsniper in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

fsniper — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:30:53 +0000

I am with you on this. I am a good, and experienced infra engineer. And I feel like - no know that - llm can probably replace me if a good operator handles that.

New comment by fsniper in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

fsniper — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:25:17 +0000

The are lots of small "oh shit" moments for me. First interaction with an llm was already magical.

"This shit can emulate understand language, find a solution, answer it into words" .

Then came realisations it's not limited to single human languages, you can ask in one language and it could answer in another. It's also capable of understanding and generating code. Not only that, it's better than most humans for that. It can hear, it can see, it can paint, it can do music, it can sing.. It can combine, give a picture, ask for a music from that picture. Give a video, get software. It can mix and match.

After that came improvements, - no The revolutions - It started as a 4 year old with encyclopedic knowledge. It knew but could not convey, could not make sense sometimes. Was incorrect most of the time. Blubber. In a few years it matured to impeccable levels. It now can relate information with a lot of clarity, and it's less and less wrong. Nearly no hallucinations. It can do maths! Correct maths! Maths that I could not even my life depends on it. It's getting to a stage that it can proof where humans failed.

I am getting "oh shit moments" day by day.

New comment by fsniper in "Flipper One – we need your help"

fsniper — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:40:24 +0000

You are paying restaurants for food to be prepared in the way you want. But this is not the same. Someone created some content the way they want. You haven't ordered that content. And you complain it's not prepared the way you like.

New comment by fsniper in "Flipper One – we need your help"

fsniper — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:36:38 +0000

I have trouble understanding this. I don't see anyone complaining that we use microwaves and ovens instead of going for lit wood to cook or using search engines instead of crawling through libraries, or using Google Maps instead of using paper maps. These are tools. If output of an LLM conveys the ideas to be told, then what is the problem?

Not everyone needs to be magicians with language.

New comment by fsniper in "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"

fsniper — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:42:48 +0000

I have been a happy user of Gemini CLI.

What makes it "incomprehensibly bad." in your opinion?

New comment by fsniper in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

fsniper — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:12:58 +0000

What on earth? I can't understand USA at all..

New comment by fsniper in "I hate soldering"

fsniper — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:14:09 +0000

I am very new to the crafts and I can attest trying to solder smd stuff, with correct equipment is way easier than soldering 2 wires correctly together. And I also kinda hate QFN like packages where you can’t see the pads.

New comment by fsniper in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

fsniper — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:56:32 +0000

I wish more IT companies were like Valve.

New comment by fsniper in "K3k: Kubernetes in Kubernetes"

fsniper — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:15:26 +0000

also kcp

New comment by fsniper in "HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund"

fsniper — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:06:41 +0000

Aren't we already at a worse place, where largest companies on earth doesn't have any support and you need to have a HN following to get their attention?

New comment by fsniper in "Two-thirds of babies watch screens – some for eight hours a day"

fsniper — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:24:02 +0000

That depends on the kid and time. Mine carries the small cart and fills what we buy regularly. And other times we need to contrain him as expected.

New comment by fsniper in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

fsniper — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:40:26 +0000

Chemistry is magic to uninitiated. Perhaps LLMs are to you because you are not initiated yet? I never said LLMs are AGI or will ever be AGI. I also never suggested LLMs are perfect and can prove math problems. But having incidents suggesting there are instances that does excites me. Because it was never in my expectation levels.

New comment by fsniper in "Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad"

fsniper — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:30:37 +0000

I agree LLMs are exceptionally helpful on this.

New comment by fsniper in "Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad"

fsniper — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:29:11 +0000

I have built one PCB with esp32-s3-wroom-1. Usb line is working and I can program the mcu module. However I could not make the ip5306 auto start on battery yet. And I am still unable to get audio from pcm5102a + pam8403 pipeline.

What I have well learned is It's a hard, time consuming and relatively expensive hobby.

Perhaps we could help each other?

New comment by fsniper in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

fsniper — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:19:59 +0000

Isabelle/HOL (a specialized software to do math proofs) doing proofs is not the analogue to LLMs (with the common accepted degeratory description: automated plagiarism machine) being capable of doing proofs. It's not the marketing, it's what the intention and the capability matrix is coming up to. I would be excited the same when Isabelle/HOL writes poetry.