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New comment by haxel in "Building for an audience of one: starting and finishing side projects with AI"

haxel — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:13:33 +0000

Consider Tiny Tool Town? "A place for stupid-delightful tools made with love."

https://www.tinytooltown.com/

New comment by haxel in "Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss, review finds"

haxel — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:09:48 +0000

I also ride bike, and used to bonk, but it didn't take long for my body to adapt to using fat as fuel. Half the battle was mental: accepting that I truly didn't need to eat anything; my body already had all the fuel it needed.

Then I could wake up, ride hard for hours (hilly terrain), and feel no need to eat until the afternoon.

New comment by haxel in "What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent"

haxel — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:28:47 +0000

There's a fair chunk of irony here in that Mario is being both anti-memetic with his naming choices and contrarian in his design decisions, and yet he still finds himself dunked in the muck of popularity as the backbone of OpenClaw.

New comment by haxel in "What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent"

haxel — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:58:12 +0000

It's batteries-not-included, by design. Here's what it looks like with batteries (and note who owns this repo):

https://github.com/mitsuhiko/agent-stuff/tree/main

Perhaps benchmarks aren't the best judge.

New comment by haxel in "What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent"

haxel — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:50:14 +0000

AI studio also has a bug that continuously counts the tokens, typing or not, with 100% CPU usage.

Sometimes I wonder who is drawing more power, my laptop or the TPU cluster on the other side.

New comment by haxel in "What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent"

haxel — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:47:21 +0000

The creator is very aware. Its original name was "shitty coding agent".

https://shittycodingagent.ai/

The Eonic Prize for Transcendent Intelligence

haxel — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:45:48 +0000

Article URL: https://haxelian.substack.com/welcome

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42551588

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by haxel in "Ask HN: What do you do with Local LLMs?"

haxel — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 21:16:10 +0000

Indeed. Currently, my primary concerns are a) surprise b) accessibility c) efficiency and d) self-containment.

Surprise, because that draws my attention better. Not interested in guardrails here.

Accessibility, because I can involve my sons without friction.

Efficiency, because using Discord lets me skip building or finding a component (for now).

And I still get a degree of self-containment because Discord is the only piece I'll need to swap out. Bonus that it doesn't have a recurring cost until then.

Yet privacy still matters to me. Despite being Discord-compromised, the detailed personal context within the prompts remains private. The data that determines the timing and topic of each message remains private as well.

New comment by haxel in "Ask HN: What do you do with Local LLMs?"

haxel — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:26:05 +0000

I use Mistral (7B v0.2 instruct, 6-bit quantized) to generate the title-text for messages that I send to myself via a Discord bot.

Right now, I'm prompting Mistral to generate these titles in "clickbait" style. I fold the topic of the message and other context into the prompt.

My intention is to shift my attention to the message, which shifts my attention to something else I need to do, because I tend to over-focus on whatever I'm doing at the moment.

It doesn't matter whether what I'm doing at the moment is "good" or "bad". Based on probability, I should almost always switch my attention when I receive such a message because I should have switched an hour ago.

To guarantee consistent JSON output, I use a llama.cpp grammar (converted from JSON schema)

Generation is via CPU (Ryzen 5800) because it's an async background operation and also because my 1070 GPU is being used by Stable Diffusion XL Turbo to generate the image that goes along with the message.

New comment by haxel in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2024)"

haxel — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 05:35:26 +0000

SEEKING WORK - Mostly remote

Location: West coast Canada. Remote: Yes (occasional Vancouver onsites OK).

Frontend: SolidJS, React, Material UI, and more.

Backend: FastAPI, Flask, and more (mostly Python)

Services: PostgreSQL, OpenZFS, GlusterFS, Redis, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, and more.

Additional: Article writing, report writing, diagramming, research, conceptual communication, and more.

I have decades of experience at all levels of the tech stack, from provisioning hardware up through services, backends, frontends, and including architecture, app design, and UIs from scratch.

When necessary, I will synthesize and implement a novel solution (while making the most of existing components).

I've been brought in multiple times as an emergency fixer and executed the rescues successfully.

I've also taken on high-level roles requiring decision-making, planning, and communication skills to go along with demonstrated high integrity.

Willing to take a crack at anything substantial.

Email: clyde6@gmail.com

Emboxified by the Wrong Kind of Button

haxel — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 20:11:20 +0000

Article URL: https://serioushelp.substack.com/p/emboxified-by-the-wrong-kind-of-button

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39208723

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by haxel in "Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev environment"

haxel — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 06:36:39 +0000

Not OP, but I swapped over to Regolith a couple of months ago on my laptop and now it's on my main workstation too. Coming from Ubunutu MATE on both. Very happy with it.

It's my first time using i3 or any tiling WM for that matter. Took about a day to get used to the basics (sane defaults), and that's mostly all I've needed so far.

My one attempt to use the dedicated installer didn't work properly so instead I installed Ubuntu and then Regolith from PPA.

New comment by haxel in "Show HN: Measure and compare your viral risk the easy way"

haxel — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:50:12 +0000

Developer statement

IMPORTANT: Android + Chrome only! (for now)

They say you can't manage what you don't measure.

This is a system to help people who feel fine but are worried about becoming infected by COVID-19 or any other dangerous virus. If this is you, now you can actively measure your risk and see a live dashboard in your Android phone's notification bar.

Your regularly refreshed dashboard shows your own risk pattern and compares it with your recent past as well as the risk patterns of other people. This makes it easier for you to manage both your behavior patterns and your mental health.

It's an early release by a single developer, extended from an existing platform. Please don't expect perfection.

Geographical awareness is an obvious next step. Infection/symptom awareness is another.

Feedback welcome!

Show HN: Measure and compare your viral risk the easy way

haxel — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:50:01 +0000

Article URL: https://howfunctional.com/viral-risk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22730967

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by haxel in "Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?"

haxel — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 21:21:02 +0000

I'm building a way to roughly (and simply) track your own viral risk in real-time and compare it with others.

https://howfunctional.com/viral-risk

Android-only right now. Precision is not the intention. Getting the ball rolling is.

The tracker is currently in prototype form so it may look or act a bit odd, not least because I quickly extended an existing platform.

New comment by haxel in "Show HN: Track and share your viral risk (experimental prototype)"

haxel — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 21:17:10 +0000

Submission statement:

Android-only right now.

This is an experiment in roughly measuring your own viral risk as simply as possible, then comparing that with other people. Precision is not the intention. Getting the ball rolling is.

The tracker is currently in prototype form so it may look or act a bit odd, not least because I quickly extended an existing platform.