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New comment by gingersnap in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

gingersnap — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:43:22 +0000

I think this is the way. Not control, but just make it simpler for parents to handle their childrens devices. You dont have to make everyone share their age, you just make it so that parents can in a simpler way choose what the children should be able to access. Make it easy to do right, dont add more control. Its kind of the old anti-piracy copyprotections. The pirates always cracked it, and in the end, the ones who got to sit there trying to figure out what is the word in the manual is the user who actually paid for the game. So making it worse for the ones who paid, and better for the cracked version. So, make it simple.

New comment by gingersnap in "The 49MB web page"

gingersnap — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:26:54 +0000

I'm thinking that I gonna start making all my webpages <1mb in size, and compensate that with adding windows 95 to each page load.

How to make your own static site generator

gingersnap — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:23:09 +0000

Article URL: https://gaultier.github.io/blog/how_to_make_your_own_static_site_generator.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362557

Points: 1

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New comment by gingersnap in "iPhone 17e"

gingersnap — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:08:31 +0000

I was hoping for this too, but when I saw that Eric Migicovsky went back to building pebble I lost my hope for it

New comment by gingersnap in "If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?"

gingersnap — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:20:41 +0000

My instinct is to say that I don't want the session as part of the commit. For me that is like a Slack thread discussing the new feature, and that is not something I would commit. I think that the split shouldn't be "is this done with a machine"=> commit, I think the split for AI should be the same as before. Is it code or changes of code, then it should be included. Is it discussing, going back and forth, that is not commited now. On the other hand, if you do a plan that is then implemented, I actually do think it makes sense to save the plan, either as commit, or if you save that back to the issue.

New comment by gingersnap in "First Website (1992)"

gingersnap — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:17:49 +0000

Still faster than most websites

New comment by gingersnap in "Voxtral Transcribe 2"

gingersnap — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:12:04 +0000

But I actually think that one if the bigger arguments for single language models is the ability to have more languages. Im from Sweden, so I would like to have swedish on extremly high level, but I wouldnt like to have all other small languages on that level beacuse it would inflate the size. So, I actually think having multiple single language models, make it wider and deeper

New comment by gingersnap in "Two kinds of AI users are emerging"

gingersnap — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:58:43 +0000

Yes, I see the same thing. My working thesis is that if I can keep the codebase modular and clear seperations, so I keep the entire context, while claude code only need to focus on one module at a time, I can keep up the speed and quality. But if I try and give it tasks that cover the entire codebase it will have issues, no matter how you manage context and give directions. And again, this is not suprising, humans do the same, they need to break the task apart into smaller piecers. Have you found the same?

New comment by gingersnap in "What Will You Do When AI runs Out of Money and Disappear?"

gingersnap — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:45:13 +0000

But he's not wrong. Training + inference on free customers is the black hole here.

New comment by gingersnap in "What Will You Do When AI runs Out of Money and Disappear?"

gingersnap — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:43:38 +0000

But they are not losing 100x on inference on high paying customers. Their biggest loss is free user + training/development cost

New comment by gingersnap in "We rolled our own documentation site"

gingersnap — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:03:22 +0000

Talking about search on a static docs site, has anyone tried a static pre-generated search like https://lunrjs.com/ ?

New comment by gingersnap in "Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines"

gingersnap — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:28:16 +0000

This must be illegal in so many ways

New comment by gingersnap in "Eat Real Food"

gingersnap — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:41:55 +0000

The pyramid references in the link is from 1992, it even says so on the page. I think that going to war against the recommendations from 1992 feels a bit...dishonest?

New comment by gingersnap in "Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone"

gingersnap — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:38:41 +0000

Can you do it with signal?

New comment by gingersnap in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

gingersnap — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:42:58 +0000

Starting to use Opus 4.5 I'm reduces instrutions in claude.md and just ask claude to look in the codebase to understand the patterns already in use. Going from prompts/docs to instead having code being the "truth". Show don't tell. I've found this patterns has made a huge leap with Opus 4.5.

New comment by gingersnap in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

gingersnap — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:02:31 +0000

A few days ago there was a post on year of the Linux desktop due to Windows getting worse. The sense is that MacOS isn't degrading as fast, but it still also is looking its lead to linux in usability.

New comment by gingersnap in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

gingersnap — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 09:21:50 +0000

I've been using Linux now as my personal desktop OS for 10-15 years. I actually really liked windows, and still think that windows XP and 7 was great OS for me. My Linux mint is still in style of the old windows versions.

But this year I used windows at a new work, and tested using my wife's windows computer. And for the first time I really feel it's shit.

First when I moved to Linux, 10-15 years ago, windows was better and smoother. 10-5 years ago Linux was getting close and worked equally for everyday, only being problem when things really break. Now is the first time that Linux actually is equal and probably overtakes windows. Microsoft making the move of discontinuation windows 11 puts the nail in the coffin

So I agree, 2026 is the year of Linux desktop.

New comment by gingersnap in "Show HN: Claude Reflect – Auto-turn Claude corrections into project config"

gingersnap — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 09:13:42 +0000

Lately I've been thinking the opposite of this.

I use claude code extensively, and lately it does all the coding for me. I've been asking it to go through claude.md to see if it needs to be updated after making changes.

I'm now thinking that I will let claude code write code, but never touch claude.md. It needs to be as short and I need to have full control over it.

As i lead the direction of the development the claude.md is my primary way of influencing it, in every single session.

New comment by gingersnap in "The future of software development is software developers"

gingersnap — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 08:28:20 +0000

I think programmets often underestimate the power of Excel for non-programmers, it in practice runs the business world.

I think that it also is a comparable to the ai side we see now. Do something for real, use real database or programmer. Non-programmer needs something, vibe code or excel

New comment by gingersnap in "Proton Drive SDK Preview"

gingersnap — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 10:33:47 +0000

"Linux users will be happy to hear that this SDK is a step toward offering a client, something we know is highly anticipated. Today, we’re sharing an early preview of our SDK work."