Hacker News: ikidd

New comment by ikidd in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

ikidd — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:24:37 +0000

Actually, figuring it on generating tokens 24/7 is the best case scenario. if you figure it at 8 hours a day of actual use, you still have the fixed cost of the hardware being the highest portion of the budget, but now you generate 1/3 the tokens so you triple that cost per token.

New comment by ikidd in "All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot"

ikidd — Sun, 10 May 2026 18:50:55 +0000

I had a company trying to sell me some farm management software, looked good, but every page had a chatbot window that hovered in the bottom middle and could not be dismissed. Took up like 20% of the readable area. Sales guy called me up to see how the trial was going and I said I wasn't going to continue with it because of the chatbot. He tells me I wasn't the first person he'd lost sales to because of it, but the owner was married to having that always visible as it was.

I have no compunctions about using AI, frankly, but when I don't need or want it, it needs to fuck off.

New comment by ikidd in "OpenClaw had a rough week"

ikidd — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:44:08 +0000

I switched to Hermes Agent and it's been night and day how much more stable and usable it is over OpenClaw. What a mess that's turned into

New comment by ikidd in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

ikidd — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:59:49 +0000

"Smash that Like button."

New comment by ikidd in "Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?"

ikidd — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:36:28 +0000

I'm sure the company is only doing what's best for the employees. How ungrateful of them.

New comment by ikidd in "Spirit Airlines Is Winding Down All Operations"

ikidd — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:42:16 +0000

>thanks administration that drove them out of business with a pointless war, or at least finished them off.

New comment by ikidd in "Show HN: Hollow is an open-sourced self-modifying agentic system"

ikidd — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:26:05 +0000

I remember the idea of "swear at the LLM to get better results" and I even think it somewhat worked, at least for a while.

This is probably how we'll end up with a HAL9000 burning the world to the ground.

New comment by ikidd in "What did you love about VB6?"

ikidd — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:00:04 +0000

Man, I wrote a lot of things that used OLE. Microsoft was heavy on building things like that. I wrote a program that would load up patient data and build referral letters for physicians and send them via electronic fax. It freed up like three admin staff that were dealing with that before and hating it.

The funny part was some of them must have been so seldom used that I'd run into problems and uncover bugs that were very quickly apparent, and I'd call MS support and they had never had them reported. I sometimes wondered if I was the only person that used them. WebDAV for Exchange was another on of those things.

New comment by ikidd in "HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund"

ikidd — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:01:06 +0000

Obligatory Python argument sketch.

New comment by ikidd in "UK to permanently ban future generations from buying cigarettes"

ikidd — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:52:41 +0000

Cowardly way to legislate.

New comment by ikidd in "Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again"

ikidd — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:42:24 +0000

That's how I took that; if I installed CC and worked in CC to modify OC, all good. If I ran the openclaw gateway itself with a CC oauth key, my bad.

New comment by ikidd in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

ikidd — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:24:27 +0000

Humor seems difficult for people.

Don't worry, I got it.

New comment by ikidd in "A Pascal's Wager for AI doomers"

ikidd — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:33:54 +0000

>order John Deere to switch off all the tractors in your country:

For a smart guy, sometimes he says the dumbest things in the most confidently incorrect way.

New comment by ikidd in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"

ikidd — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:41:49 +0000

I had seen reports that it was clamping down on security research and things like web-scraping projects were getting caught up in that and not able to use the model very easily anymore. But I don't see any changes mentioned in the prompt that seem likely to have affected that, which is where I would think such changes would have been implemented.

New comment by ikidd in "New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims"

ikidd — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:45:47 +0000

The documents can be subpoenaed for a new proceeding from the source.

New comment by ikidd in "The M×N problem of tool calling and open-source models"

ikidd — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:43:17 +0000

This sounds like a problem that LLMs were built to solve.

New comment by ikidd in "The Physics of GPS"

ikidd — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:57:37 +0000

Also, RTK is an interesting way to correct the signal to get sub-centimeter accuracy. Using the timing differences between satellites with a stationary unit and then sending the that to the rover is a cool workaround and can be used without expensive equipment now.

New comment by ikidd in "OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break"

ikidd — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:57:32 +0000

Hermes Agent

New comment by ikidd in "Claude mixes up who said what"

ikidd — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:19:50 +0000

I'd like to share my project that let's you hit Tab in order to get a list of possible methods/properties for your defined object, then actually choose a method or property to complete the object string in code.

I wrote it in Typescript and React.

Please star on Github.

New comment by ikidd in "Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill"

ikidd — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:22:15 +0000

Go read https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796

This isn't a OC yahoo.