Hacker News: ihateolives

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

ihateolives — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:18:09 +0000

"in your field"? All small businesses and solo enterpreneurs that I know who are hit by this are not "in this field". Their field is making jewelry or knitted toys or something similar. Now many are just not planning to ship EU wide just because it's too high risk for them.

New comment by ihateolives in "Fable and the end of the free lunch"

ihateolives — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:45:18 +0000

Add new route to API that displays additional information we need, work out query for it, update controllers/models/whatnot. No need for top model for that.

New comment by ihateolives in "Apple is getting this wrong"

ihateolives — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:24:58 +0000

I've worked in strategically important sector and only USB devices that were allowed were keyboards and mice. The use of Bluetooth keyboard/mouse was discouraged.

New comment by ihateolives in "Orion Browser by Kagi"

ihateolives — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:52:47 +0000

It wasn't in Mosaic either so I have no idea where they took that fact from.

New comment by ihateolives in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

ihateolives — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:59:46 +0000

It was just one off task and I already had agent doing categorising with the same data so I just asked it. Otherwise I agree.

New comment by ihateolives in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

ihateolives — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:57:19 +0000

Because I was already doing categorising and analysing same data with agent and I had my session open already. It should've been an easy task for an agent, right?

New comment by ihateolives in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

ihateolives — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:25:57 +0000

Just today I gave my local agent a CSV which listed a bunch files with of human readable size units and asked it to count rows in each GB range. Sounds simple enough but it completely miscalculated, because it parsed MB as GB for some reason. In hindsight it would've be quicker just to do it in Excel or something.

New comment by ihateolives in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

ihateolives — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:48:59 +0000

I live in the center of a capital of small EU country and I'm scheduled to get fiber Q3 this year. Copper is getting tired and flakey, 5G is overcrowded. There's been close to no progress in residential internet for the past 15 years.

New comment by ihateolives in "Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer"

ihateolives — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:28:52 +0000

For long time my daily driver was T480s with 24GB. I still have it, but don't use it anymore because it is slow for my needs now.

New comment by ihateolives in "Herdr: One terminal to rule them all"

ihateolives — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:52:52 +0000

Zellij has context sensitive hint bar that shows possible key bindings. You can turn it off, but by default it's there.

New comment by ihateolives in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

ihateolives — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:02:40 +0000

Would you like them to as a local? That probably is the answer to your question.

New comment by ihateolives in "Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models"

ihateolives — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 05:33:06 +0000

I'm from Europe and never hear indians clumped together with chinese as "asian". When speaking of geography, then yes, but that's about it. It's always "Indian startup", never "Asian startup" for example. Indian food, not Asian food etc. YMMV

New comment by ihateolives in "Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models"

ihateolives — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 05:10:36 +0000

Are you from UK perhaps? Because UK is the only place I know where "asian" also includes India and Pakistan. Everywhere else India is sort of separate entity and always mentioned separately.

New comment by ihateolives in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

ihateolives — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:59:37 +0000

I replaced my M1 Air with M1 Max 64GB few weeks ago, not the biggest upgrade, but memory was that made me decide. It's hard to find even 64GB models nowadays.

New comment by ihateolives in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

ihateolives — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:27:25 +0000

Sure, but Gemini subscription gives you just that - Gemini subscription, but new computer allows you to do other stuff with it as well. When you're upgrading anyway for other reasons then it's not fair to compare full Studio price to just one subscription.

New comment by ihateolives in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

ihateolives — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:57:08 +0000

In my experience they require much more hand holding and more specific directions with less possibilities to interpret a command in several ways. You do the planning, keep on eye on that they're producing and they do the legwork. It's not that their knowledge of Java or PHP or what have you is lacking, it's the long horizon planning that you have to do yourself. Technically they're good. You just have to do more thinking and more reviewing yourself. YMMV.

New comment by ihateolives in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

ihateolives — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:01:47 +0000

Huh, and I thought it's just my crappy old external monitor.

New comment by ihateolives in "New Beam Spring Keyboards"

ihateolives — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:39:06 +0000

20g? How do you use it? I'm light typist, I'm not hammering on keys at all and even 32g is too nervous for me, I can't rest my fingers on keyboard without typing a novel. Can't imagine 20g keys.

New comment by ihateolives in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

ihateolives — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:34:09 +0000

Everything is huge compared to sqlite.

New comment by ihateolives in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

ihateolives — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:09:26 +0000

At my last workplace I was not allowed to install JSON viewer/prettier extension for my browser, but I was allowed to install VScode with random JSON plugins.