Hacker News: hidelooktropic

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

hidelooktropic — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:16:22 +0000

I don't know what you're talking about. I always reserve right up to the knife's edge of what I actually use.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Show HN: Hackerbrief – Top posts on Hacker News summarized daily"

hidelooktropic — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:00:24 +0000

Oh relax. Let people make things. It's okay to have more than one take on an idea.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Don't make me talk to your chatbot"

hidelooktropic — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:40:15 +0000

I understand the article is actually not about support chatbots specifically but seeing the conversation here talked about that it's not out of place to join in that discussion. Attempting to shame people by accusing them of not reading is hardly constructive. This isn't Reddit.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Don't make me talk to your chatbot"

hidelooktropic — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:30:47 +0000

I agree that's why I would prefer to have AI if it does the job better and if it can be further trained to understand when to escalate in the case of a more technical user which I have found humans rarely do.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Don't make me talk to your chatbot"

hidelooktropic — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:39:58 +0000

It matters less to me that the helper is an AI/human than the kind of help I'm getting.

The bigger problem to me is "help" is always framed as my needing to be educated, not a problem with the service. This is especially prevalent for technical customers who are legitimately trying to draw attention to a bug in the platform only to get how-to help articles pasted back to them.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Zclaw – The 888 KiB Assistant"

hidelooktropic — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:45:21 +0000

There are many concerns and areas for improvement with open claw and other similar projects (continuous loop script with broad OS access that manages your agents and interfaces with a standard messaging app)

However, file size I have never seen on that list. I would rather offer for something that is even bigger in file size so it afford certain functionality like better security tighter permissions however it would do that.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Right-sizes LLM models to your system's RAM, CPU, and GPU"

hidelooktropic — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:31:10 +0000

The whole point is to measure your hardware capability. How would you do that as a website?

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase"

hidelooktropic — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:28:13 +0000

So you do things one step at a time and timebox as you go? This method probably doesn't need its own name. In fact I think that's just what timeboxing is.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning"

hidelooktropic — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:24:19 +0000

Not sure what you have against it. Works great for me. No subscription required. And if I do want to pay for ad free shows and support creators it's easy to do so.

Use whatever you like but I don't think Podcast app users are rare by any stretch of the imagination.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

hidelooktropic — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:20:47 +0000

Yes. I want AI in some things (some)

New comment by hidelooktropic in "The English language doesn't exist – it's just French that's badly pronounced"

hidelooktropic — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 18:16:38 +0000

You might want to review the influence of William the conqueror on the English language.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Our LLM-controlled office robot can't pass butter"

hidelooktropic — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:58:47 +0000

How can I get early access to this "Human" model on the benchmarks? /s

Show HN: A to Do List That Helps You Forget

hidelooktropic — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:12:55 +0000

Article URL: https://adamjgrant.github.io/tides-over-sand/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45658408

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Qwen3 30B A3B Hits 13 token/s on 4xRaspberry Pi 5"

hidelooktropic — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:38:26 +0000

13/s is not slow. Q4 is not bad. The models that run on phones are never 30B or anywhere close to that.

New comment by hidelooktropic in "996"

hidelooktropic — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:36:49 +0000

Do those of us not cool enough to know already get to find out what 996 means?

New comment by hidelooktropic in "A poet's long-forgotten daughter created the first algorithm"

hidelooktropic — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 21:28:03 +0000

She was long forgotten. Her notoriety is actually a recent phenomenon.

A poet's long-forgotten daughter created the first algorithm

hidelooktropic — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 21:24:56 +0000

Article URL: https://adamgrant.micro.blog/2025/08/13/how-a-poets-longforgotten-daughter.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44894046

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Try and"

hidelooktropic — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 03:08:40 +0000

Reminds me of the incorrect "A whole nother"

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker"

hidelooktropic — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 10:06:27 +0000

Unfortunately the GPL license makes it dead in the water for using something like this at work

New comment by hidelooktropic in "Alto turns your Apple Notes into a website"

hidelooktropic — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 03:37:20 +0000

Notes is a writing tool that approachable and easy to use. It also works across the ecosystem on a syncing platform I already pay for and whose privacy I am comfortable with. I like the idea of setting up a simple text based website without needing to adopt a new editor. That's plenty value prop to me.