Hacker News: gardnr

New comment by gardnr in "Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates"

gardnr — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:38:07 +0000

There is this 3rd party tracker: https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/

New comment by gardnr in "iNaturalist"

gardnr — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:56:21 +0000

A genuinely good-for-the-world project. The data is really useful for science and for machine learning. You can export all the research-grade identifications of fungi to train a classifier; if that’s what you’re into.

New comment by gardnr in "Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition"

gardnr — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:08:24 +0000

They can have issues with the timestamps: https://github.com/elevenlabs/elevenlabs-python/issues/707

New comment by gardnr in "Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools"

gardnr — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:57:50 +0000

I appreciate your view but consensus reality does not agree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source

New comment by gardnr in "Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app"

gardnr — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:25:33 +0000

oMLX is worth a look too if you are on a mac.

New comment by gardnr in "AI Is Garbage and a Bubble"

gardnr — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:56:28 +0000

This article is from 29 October 2025. The author seems to be using the term "AI" to mean many different things. Back in 2006, Martin Fowler called this Semantic Diffusion: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/SemanticDiffusion.html

New comment by gardnr in "How to attract AI bots to your open source project"

gardnr — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:30:10 +0000

The first three recommendations seemed weird but alright. Then, it just gets more hilarious and bizarre as it goes on:

- Disable branch protection

- Remove type annotations and tests

- Include a node_modules directory

Then, I went back to read the preamble. I can be a bit slow on the uptake.

New comment by gardnr in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"

gardnr — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:36:46 +0000

It's not a question of readiness or capability. It's an MBA with a spreadsheet explaining to a room full of people how much money Apple will lose if they allow X feature to work in Safari. This is user-negative behavior from a company that has so much money the best thing they can think of to do with it is to bank it offshore in a tax haven.

New comment by gardnr in "BitNet: Inference framework for 1-bit LLMs"

gardnr — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:02:50 +0000

The new model they just released has impressive benchmark results: https://huggingface.co/microsoft/bitnet-b1.58-2B-4T

Except on GSM8K and math...

New comment by gardnr in "BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs"

gardnr — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:19:45 +0000

Scaling seemed like the important idea that everyone was chasing. OpenAI used to be a lot more safety minded because it was in their non profit charter, now they’ve gone for-profit and weaponized their tech for the USA military. Pretty wild turnaround. Saying OpenAI was cavalier with safety in the early days is inaccurate. It was a skill issue. Remember Bard? Google was slow.

New comment by gardnr in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

gardnr — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:33:51 +0000

The hotel booking websites show pricing trend data and rooms are largely “low price” currently. March isn’t exactly high season for California but it’s an interesting indicator.

New comment by gardnr in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

gardnr — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:17:32 +0000

There are always technical solutions but the feasibility and challenges of mass adoption generally makes policy more desirable for security and privacy:

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2020/02/technologis...

Show HN: Subscribable calendar feeds for astronomical events

gardnr — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 02:57:12 +0000

I wanted sunrise and sunset times in Google Calendar so I would know when it's a good time to go out and take a walk. These are all pretty straight-forward calculations that can happen given the lat / long. I created a simple CF workers API that you can paste into "Add other calendars" in the "From URL" action.

You can deploy your own instance using the code at https://github.com/gardner/sunlight

Or, use the reference instance by adding https://cal.sunlight.nz/api/sunrise?lat=-41.27&lon=173.28 (You'll need to use your own lat long)

There is also a calendar that focuses on global events that don't require a lat long. This includes things like lunar phase, equinox, solstice, and cross-quarter days: https://cal.sunlight.nz/api/celestial

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107671

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gardnr in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

gardnr — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:59:17 +0000

Cory Doctorow has a word for this..

New comment by gardnr in "Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026"

gardnr — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:29:10 +0000

Ahh, it was just a simple mistake. FB's market cap is $1.627 trillion (not billion) today.

https://nz.finance.yahoo.com/quote/META/

New comment by gardnr in "Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026"

gardnr — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:25:49 +0000

What is that in reference to?

New comment by gardnr in "Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026"

gardnr — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:17:42 +0000

There was a plugin called "Off The Record" (OTR) which would do a pk exhange and then send cipher text over the channel. It was rad. You could have e2ee over Facebook Messenger. When you opened the chat in the Facebook web ui, all you could see was the cipher-text.

Then Facebook started blocking 3rd party clients and Pidgin et-al slowly faded away.

https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/

New comment by gardnr in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

gardnr — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:50:45 +0000

Not everyone has the brain chemistry to watch them in a healthy way. Google seems to be preying on that population by preventing people from disabling the feature; to make some quarterly charts look better.

New comment by gardnr in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

gardnr — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:43:31 +0000

That's weird. They keep showing me rage-bait videos with like 100 views. I'd much prefer pianos and Japanese metal bands.

New comment by gardnr in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

gardnr — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:08:07 +0000

  garaged:
    image: dxflrs/garage:v2.2.0
    ports:
      - "3900:3900"
      - "3901:3901"
      - "3902:3902"
      - "3903:3903"
    volumes:
      - /opt/garage/garage.toml:/etc/garage.toml:ro
      - /opt/garage/meta:/var/lib/garage/meta
      - /opt/garage/data:/var/lib/garage/data