Hacker News: jaggs

New comment by jaggs in "A Figma clone built by GPT-6 Astra"

jaggs — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:02:25 +0000

I have a phone and PC rapidly filling up with apps I've created myself because I'm fed up with subscriptions and invasive advertising. And they do exactly what I want them to do, not one iota more. And you don't need Alpha or Fable. Cheap models or local are now capable of doing the job if you are patient and know what you're doing. Calling this stuff AI slop is so short-sighted it's not true. :)

New comment by jaggs in "Ship Harness Bench – Same prompt, same model, different harnesses"

jaggs — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:35:22 +0000

Really interesting experiment. Are there any other variables which could have been missed though?

New comment by jaggs in "Anyone using llama.cpp willing to test LlamaRack?"

jaggs — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 04:54:08 +0000

I'll give it a go. Currently using TurboLLM, so it'll be interesting to see the difference.

New comment by jaggs in "Brave for Desktop Outperforms Other Browsers in Speed and Performance"

jaggs — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:45:05 +0000

The only problem is it has a nasty habit of wiping all your settings on random upgrades. Did it to me recently. Instant uninstall.

New comment by jaggs in "Manifesto – who we are and what do we want (2002)"

jaggs — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:09:50 +0000

>> artistic manifestos are often very focused on causing some of these feelings in their targets.

I notice you have dropped in 'artistic' which is a new criterion. Sloppy. :) Not interested in chatting with bots for now.

New comment by jaggs in "Manifesto – who we are and what do we want (2002)"

jaggs — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:34:18 +0000

>> the manifesto writer intends for the target of the manifesto to be embarrassed

Huh? Citation please.

(and good catch on 'whom')

New comment by jaggs in "Manifesto – who we are and what do we want (2002)"

jaggs — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:37:57 +0000

Embarrassing for who?

New comment by jaggs in "Manifesto – who we are and what do we want (2002)"

jaggs — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 08:12:11 +0000

Why?

New comment by jaggs in "Manifesto – who we are and what do we want (2002)"

jaggs — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 08:11:53 +0000

Why?

New comment by jaggs in "'Temu Range Rovers' Are Taking over Britain"

jaggs — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:49:32 +0000

Actually it does matter. They were terrible cars when owned by the British. And there's a chance they'll be much less terrible being owned by the Indians. I'm not sure they're that good to drive either. I had a Jag for a while and it was okay. But a bit of a wallowing boat and don't get me started on the roadholding of a Rangy.

New comment by jaggs in "The AI writing taboo begins to fade following WSJ op-ed"

jaggs — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:47:07 +0000

I get what you're saying. It's easy to write something which you're not engaged with. But I do think the future's going be a world where we as humans do much more curation rather than creation. And I'm not sure that that's less creative in the way that we think it is.

New comment by jaggs in "The AI writing taboo begins to fade following WSJ op-ed"

jaggs — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:29:48 +0000

What happens if you use AI to generate good, if not great, stuff?

New comment by jaggs in "'Temu Range Rovers' Are Taking over Britain"

jaggs — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:28:23 +0000

I trust you realise that JLR is now owned by Indian steel company Tata?

New comment by jaggs in "Young Americans increasingly fear AI will take their jobs"

jaggs — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:54:06 +0000

Water is wet. News at 10.

New comment by jaggs in "Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX"

jaggs — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:00:03 +0000

Well it's definitely not a boring company. Anymore.

New comment by jaggs in "Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX"

jaggs — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:51:37 +0000

Nah, it's a taxi company.

New comment by jaggs in "Comma.ai Launches a PCIe Gen4 X4 to USB4 Dock with Open-Source Firmware"

jaggs — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:15:01 +0000

I don't understand, why in the car?

New comment by jaggs in "Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead"

jaggs — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:58:15 +0000

This is so very cool.

New comment by jaggs in "Show HN: Seedance 2.5 video API (30s single-take, 50 refs, 4K) on Atlas Cloud"

jaggs — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:33:33 +0000

Isn't that three times the price?

New comment by jaggs in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731: Is It Cheaper to Run It at Home or Pay per Token?"

jaggs — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:21:35 +0000

In fact they just announced that the pricing will be going up significantly so there's that.