Hacker News: ghosty141

New comment by ghosty141 in "Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?"

ghosty141 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:58:34 +0000

Terra Medium/High for most implementations, Sol High for tracking down hard bugs and planning more complex systems.

New comment by ghosty141 in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

ghosty141 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:48:20 +0000

PayPal and Apple Pay use my debit card so they somewhat do use it.

New comment by ghosty141 in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

ghosty141 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:34:59 +0000

In germany a similar scheme exists (Schufa) but it's less important.

New comment by ghosty141 in "QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes"

ghosty141 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:24:31 +0000

Yeah I think we all agree that this double standard is a huge problem and has no merit to it.

Its sadly very similar to corporate vs private responsibility.

New comment by ghosty141 in "QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes"

ghosty141 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:21:24 +0000

I never understood how anybody would think this way. At work for example from day one of using AI our rule was, AI is just a tool and if you break something due to not reviewing the code properly etc. it's on you as if you wrote that code yourself.

New comment by ghosty141 in "GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter"

ghosty141 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:11:16 +0000

We have a very lean development process and are in early stages of releasing the software, so almost no meetings and 90% of my time is development time (obv I talk with colleagues etc in that time). For example working with yocto eats through tokens like crazy since codex has to work with a pretty big codebase and look up tons of stuff.

New comment by ghosty141 in "GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter"

ghosty141 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:04:03 +0000

We have ChatGPT Pro at work and I usually use Terra medium/high and only bring out Sol High when the big or feature actually requires "thinking"/complex behavior. This has worked pretty well for me and it's very token efficient

New comment by ghosty141 in "GPT-6 Astra"

ghosty141 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:00:39 +0000

Correct I'm biased against technologies that only run on a single OS for no benefit to the user.

New comment by ghosty141 in "GPT-6 Astra"

ghosty141 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:58:01 +0000

I noticed the same. I wanted a simple crud webapp and suggested an insane techstack involving C#, Razor Pages, MSSQL and more. I went with my planned setup of python flask with an sqlite db which served me well for years.

It's still incredibly important to have a human in the loop correcting design decisions and having good taste.

New comment by ghosty141 in "Fastpotify"

ghosty141 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:17:13 +0000

I'd argue nobody writes such long commit messages this consistently. I'm VERY sure this is fully AI generated.

New comment by ghosty141 in "Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI"

ghosty141 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:23:47 +0000

Imo a good example are soccer teams. To be in the top 5 the team has to work as one hivemind which only works if the people making up the team (coaches and players) actually work together on both the sport side as well as on the social side of things.

Different to corporate jobs those teams spend tremendous amounts on scouting, analysis etc.. They don't just look for the best player but also one who fits as a person.

I think the core issue is that management hasn't picked this up yet and understanding team chemistry etc is totally undervalued. I'd argue this is partly due to this being hard to measure and very hard to do.

New comment by ghosty141 in "Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022"

ghosty141 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:51:26 +0000

Trees are that and they don't even need human intervention.

New comment by ghosty141 in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

ghosty141 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:29:37 +0000

I have a lot of contact with the CRA at work and I actually think its a very good piece of regulation. There are barely any parts where I think they are straight up bad.

I think it only hurts super small one man part time developers but even then: If I pay for a piece of software I expect it to be secure and have a bit of support.

New comment by ghosty141 in "Black hole singularity is a surface not a point"

ghosty141 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:59:26 +0000

I always suggest looking at the quantum eraser experiment to see how bad common sense works with quantum mechanics. It's fairly simple but intuition fails most people when it comes to explaining how it works.

New comment by ghosty141 in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

ghosty141 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:43:44 +0000

No you misunderstood it:

https://www.enisa.europa.eu/topics/product-security/single-r...

> Reporting process starts at the moment manufacturer becomes aware of active exploitation of vulnerability or incident.

If your business is closed (due to vacation or sickness for example) you don't become aware until you are back.

New comment by ghosty141 in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

ghosty141 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:53:28 +0000

And arguably the most important when it comes to mobile and small form factor usecases.

Apple doesn't optimize for raw performance but rather perf/watt. So comparing only performance is not really useful.

New comment by ghosty141 in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

ghosty141 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:43:29 +0000

Those will obviously be exempt?

New comment by ghosty141 in "Everything I own, owned"

ghosty141 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:57:20 +0000

The CRA that will be active starting december 2027 will also do similar things like RED. Cant ship with fixed static credentials anymore or manufacturer backdoors (unless the user activates them)

New comment by ghosty141 in "Should you stop cracking your knuckles?"

ghosty141 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:49:01 +0000

This can definitely happen, I had a like crooked hip for a few days after I bumped into a table while lifting something. I dont think this could ever result in something good though like chiropractors claim.

New comment by ghosty141 in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

ghosty141 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:46:25 +0000

xiaomi mimo is very cheap and not bad.