Hacker News: ghilston

New comment by ghilston in "Ask HN: How do you guys keep up with the most cost-effective AI models?"

ghilston — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:23:05 +0000

Our of curiosity what do you use to run this? An actual cron or a tool like hermes etc

New comment by ghilston in "Understanding ChatGPT Work"

ghilston — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:26:12 +0000

As someone who hasn't used Work or Codex but has used Claude Code and Pi a lot, may you describe how to set this up? I'm interested enough to try this out

New comment by ghilston in "Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop"

ghilston — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:09:05 +0000

I have a m4 max mbp with 128 gb. What model would you folks recommend? I'd ideally like to integrate with a tool that can auto read context like Claude code (via a proxy) or cline. I'm open to any advice

New comment by ghilston in "Blog Feeds"

ghilston — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 23:02:53 +0000

I've tried a few solutions and have landed on just storing them in an unordered list in a markdown file

New comment by ghilston in "Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS"

ghilston — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:21:05 +0000

Okay will do. Yeah, I just finished my calendar reading code. I haven't prepared the data for my LLM ingestion yet. Sounds great, I'll refresh this thread in a few days

New comment by ghilston in "Experimenting with Local LLMs on macOS"

ghilston — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:58:39 +0000

Any willingness to share this script? I've been working on some code to ingest things and summarize for them and I haven't gotten to email just yet.

New comment by ghilston in "Run a legal LTE network at home for $100"

ghilston — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 01:46:49 +0000

Wifi calling unfortunately has its quirks even if it could be used

New comment by ghilston in "Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room"

ghilston — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:51:44 +0000

Warcraft 3 remains my favorite game to this day, simply due to the sheer volume of custom maps you could play.

I can't explain how excited I was for the Reforged version of the game and how disappointed I was when it flopped.

My favorite part of games is learning the mechanics and coming up with strategies. Which paired well with an endless supply of new game modes to try.

I have been unable to find any modern game that is both active and has a series of custom maps. If anyone knows of any, please let me know.

New comment by ghilston in "Why Metaflow?"

ghilston — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 15:05:46 +0000

I was a big fan of Metaflow a few years back. I thought it was neat how I could write some code and easily run some functions locally versus remote.

Hey Savin, it's been a while since chatted. I hope things are going well ;)

For those unaware, onsone of the co

New comment by ghilston in "Show HN: An Alfred workflow to open GCP services and browse resources within"

ghilston — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 23:00:53 +0000

Anyone know if something similar exists for raycast?

New comment by ghilston in "Show HN: Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability"

ghilston — Fri, 23 May 2025 02:36:16 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by ghilston in "Show HN: Defuddle, an HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability"

ghilston — Fri, 23 May 2025 00:24:38 +0000

Interesting! Your website does not explain what the free tier limits are. Can you explain those?

New comment by ghilston in "Two new PebbleOS watches"

ghilston — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:56:43 +0000

I have an original backer watch and bought one when they launched. Both stopped working within maybe 6 months and support at the time suggested I just buy another...

New comment by ghilston in "Beej's Guide to Git"

ghilston — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 12:41:51 +0000

Hey Beej, can you talk about what tool you use to create your guides? I'm assuming something like pandoc is involved for supporting your various formats?

New comment by ghilston in "How to turn off Apple Intelligence"

ghilston — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 20:17:12 +0000

Definitely no need but more of curiosity and current smith of time I'm willing to spend on my site.

I've had my site for many years and the analytics set up were set up from the start. The amount of free time I can decorate to my site and the length of my blocks of free time have drastically changed, which made me focus the time I spend on my site to only writing. I have a large backlog of non writing things I wish to do, but can't justify them as of right now.

I'm going to remove the UI tracking component as I never look at the data. It was just something I thought was neat and was exploring for a work situation at the time.

The usage of GA is nice as it tells me what posts are popular but that's really not important in the grand scheme of things. As I always blog about what I find interesting regardless of how popular it is.

So in short, if I was willing to dedicate my time I spend on my site to non blogging right now, is rip out our of the analytics tool. And look for a replacement on the other, or rip it out entirely.

The flip phone component was mostly to decrease the availability of distractions in my life. Which doesn't necessarily mean I'm against analytics but yeah. I hope that answers your question. Thanks for taking an interest in my setup :)

New comment by ghilston in "How to turn off Apple Intelligence"

ghilston — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 18:00:33 +0000

I don't post on hacker news often so forgive me if sharing a link to my own blog post is not kosher. I'll remove it if so.

I've been experimenting with using a flip phone for a few months now. It's got some quirks and has been more interesting of a switch then I thought.

I wrote about it here:

https://www.greghilston.com/post/switching-to-a-flip-phone/

Disclaimer, I have two analytics JS libraries running. One is gA, the other is one I've been meaning to rip out but haven't yet. I also want to add a comment system that ties into say GitHub posts or something else. Open to any advice on making these posts more "hacker" friendly

New comment by ghilston in "Show HN: Simple to build MCP servers that easily connect with custom LLM calls"

ghilston — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 09:40:35 +0000

I came here to share the same link as I found it, and saw you already provided it :)

Thanks!

New comment by ghilston in "Show HN: Simple to build MCP servers that easily connect with custom LLM calls"

ghilston — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 06:10:30 +0000

I hadn't heard of miracope before, so thanks for sharing. I like how the website shows examples of source code for interscting with different providers using miracope and not. That was exactly what I was interested in.

With respect to MCP servers, I saw the comment below about integration with librechat. Is there any other documentation on integrations with other self host able solutions? Be it ollama or other.

New comment by ghilston in "We're bringing Pebble back"

ghilston — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:27:33 +0000

I loved my pebble and ended up backing the original product and buying a second. Both broke and when I reached out to support they said there was nothing they could do...

I loved the devices but that put a pretty bad taste in my mouth for longevity

New comment by ghilston in "Ask HN: Is maintaining a personal blog still worth it?"

ghilston — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 04:14:35 +0000

To answer your question in the title, it is still worth it to me, as I get a lot of joy by writing. Pretty much as you put it, there's value to me for writing for it's own sake. Even if no one is reading. It's a cherry on top of someone stumbles upon my posts.

It just so happens two individuals have reached out to me in the past week, saying they enjoyed what I wrote and one of them cited that I saved them time. That just feels incredible.

To answer your questions I don't find my readers at all. I share my content when relevant on reddit or here. I keep writing because I enjoy it.

I'll link my blog post and will remove if asked to:

https://www.greghilston.com/