Hacker News: glitchcrab

New comment by glitchcrab in "Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter"

glitchcrab — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:57:51 +0000

Only the opening sentence has an AI smell; the rest is definitely written by a fleshy meatbag

New comment by glitchcrab in "LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life"

glitchcrab — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 19:31:27 +0000

I have a December 2024 XPS 15 and I regularly get 7-8 hours out of a charge whilst doing a mixture of tasks. On Linux too, no less.

New comment by glitchcrab in "Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149"

glitchcrab — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:46:39 +0000

At least now I'll be able to view all those broken Imgur links here in the UK.

New comment by glitchcrab in "Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all"

glitchcrab — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:49:33 +0000

Yes this is my use-case for it too - it's great to generate a structure which I will keep but I always end up reworking all the actual content so it sounds like me. It is a great way to get past the 'getting started' hurdle though.

New comment by glitchcrab in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

glitchcrab — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:03:21 +0000

This is a you thing. I had the same pair of Sony wireless headphones for years and I only replaced them because the ear cups started disintegrating. Their replacements (also Sony) have already lasted me a couple of years with no issues. I also have absolutely no problems with Bluetooth either, the headphones are paired with maybe 6 devices across iOS and Linux and they never fail to connect.

New comment by glitchcrab in "Agents that run while I sleep"

glitchcrab — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:43:04 +0000

I (and I'd wager most other meatsacks here) use HN to engage with real people with real opinions. Not with robots.

New comment by glitchcrab in "We installed a single turnstile to feel secure"

glitchcrab — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:56:41 +0000

I believe like that was the intent, but the (very few) mentions of Jira feel like a bit of a non sequitur; they don't belong.

New comment by glitchcrab in "My AI Adoption Journey"

glitchcrab — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 11:02:37 +0000

I sandbox everything inside https://github.com/strongdm/leash

That way the blast radius is vastly reduced.

New comment by glitchcrab in "My AI Adoption Journey"

glitchcrab — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 11:01:51 +0000

This is why I won't run Claude without additional sandboxing. I'm currently using (and quite pleased with) https://github.com/strongdm/leash

New comment by glitchcrab in "Students using “humanizer” programs to beat accusations of cheating with AI"

glitchcrab — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:14:58 +0000

Why? The AI is just regurgitating tokens (including the sycophancy). Don't anthropomorphise it.

New comment by glitchcrab in "Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking"

glitchcrab — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 07:04:50 +0000

> But the quality is really no different.

Hard disagree. As someone who is somewhat into the home brewing rabbit hole, I can tell you that the gulf between what I can make at home and what you get in Starbucks is enormous. And I'm no expert in the field by any means.

The rest of your analogy holds up, but not that sentence.

New comment by glitchcrab in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

glitchcrab — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:40:39 +0000

yep, my 3 year old gets a very limited amount of screen time and he only watches educational programs (not whatever cartoons his peers watch). There's is no way I want to make it _easier_ for him to watch TV, especially as he has very little interest in it already.

New comment by glitchcrab in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

glitchcrab — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:02:46 +0000

How so? Winapps lets you run windows applications as if they were native to Linux, you interact with them the same way you would anything installed by apt/pacman/dnf etc. Unless I'm very much misunderstanding things (which I don't believe I am)

New comment by glitchcrab in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

glitchcrab — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:54:11 +0000

I am in a similar boat; my media editing machine ruined windows 10 so that I can use Lightroom. But I would dearly love to ditch windows so I'm currently looking to try out running Lightroom under Winapps to see if it is usable. There's no way of passing the GPU through without something like SR-IOV so I'll have to see how it goes.

https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps

New comment by glitchcrab in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

glitchcrab — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:13:28 +0000

Your experience (as a single data point) doesn't mean that everyone the age of the interns you work with uses Discord.

New comment by glitchcrab in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

glitchcrab — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:09:50 +0000

Sure, but then you're putting all your eggs in one basket (hard drive). If you really want to divest yourself of the cloud then you need to set things up in a redundant and fault-tolerant fashion. And at that point the outlay is much more than 'just a hard drive'.

New comment by glitchcrab in "2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web"

glitchcrab — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:56:57 +0000

Good lord, Oink was only around for 4 years? I was one of the earlier signups and it felt more like 10 years.

New comment by glitchcrab in "iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]"

glitchcrab — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:34:00 +0000

You can install gboard on iOS - I haven't used the default keyboard in years

New comment by glitchcrab in "A thousand-year-long composition turns 25 (2024)"

glitchcrab — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:51:36 +0000

I remember listening to Longplayer when I visited the Millennium Dome [1] way back in 2000.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Dome

New comment by glitchcrab in "Chernobyl protective shield can no longer confine radiation after drone strike"

glitchcrab — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 07:51:22 +0000

You can be human and not care about other humans.