Hacker News: jareds

New comment by jareds in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

jareds — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:38:48 +0000

How long until the $10 Github Copilot subscription goes away? That was a great deal for my limited personal programming. The only reason I switched from it to Claude was to get coding and general ai in a single bill.

New comment by jareds in "Claude Code to be removed from Pro Tier?"

jareds — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:31:26 +0000

I just switched from the $10 Copilot subscription to a $20 Claude subscription to get general AI and coding in one bill. I guess I'll try out GPT Codex.

New comment by jareds in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

jareds — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:28:20 +0000

All I want is a reasonably priced subscription combining both coding AI and general AI in a single bill for non professional use that allows me to opt out of my data being used for training. Google limits history to 72 hours if you opt out of training even if you pay them $20 a month which rules them out for me. I guess I'm going to try the $20 chat gpt plan. At this point I am wondering if I need to accept that were moving to a token based model and get comfortable with opencode and manually switching models.

New comment by jareds in "Any experience with the BrailleRap open source Braille embosser?"

jareds — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:22:05 +0000

Does anyone have experience with this Braille embosser? I haven't found any reviews or testimonials for this, but that may be because it appears a lot of the development has been done in France instead of the U.S. I'm totally blind and am interested in it for producing Braille graphics, specifically as a way to get an idea of what a design I create using OpenSCAD will look like before 3d printing it. I can't justify $2000+ for commercial embossers that can print graphics for what is a hobby I'm not sure if I will stick with.

Any experience with the BrailleRap open source Braille embosser?

jareds — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:22:05 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/braillerap/BrailleRap

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494585

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by jareds in "Breaking the spell of vibe coding"

jareds — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:01:00 +0000

The issue I have with using LLM's is the test code review. Often the LLM will make a 30 or 40 line change to the application code. I can easily review and comprehend this. Then I have to look at the 400 lines of generated test code. While it may be easy to understand there's a lot of it. Go through this cycle several times a day and I'm not convinced I'm doing a good review of the test code do to mental fatigue, who knows what I may be missing in the tests six hours into the work day?

New comment by jareds in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

jareds — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 04:05:35 +0000

Thanks for the clarification, I can see banning disposable vapes but still allowing reusable ones.

New comment by jareds in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

jareds — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:56:38 +0000

Why do we need to ban these? I'm not trying to be contrarian, but why do some people appear to be for banning tobacco but not alcohol? I don't claim to have all the answers or even strong opinions, but if your going to ban one recreational drug with negative externalities you should ban them all. I'd much rather hear people's opinions then ask AI.

New comment by jareds in "Show HN: Ever wanted to look at yourself in Braille?"

jareds — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:44:05 +0000

I've been blind since birth. When it comes to 2d things such as linear and quadratic graphs, shapes such as triangles, circles, squares, etc, I had no issues when the material was provided using braille graphics. I can't comprehend representing a 3d object in two dimensions. When I was in college I switched from Computer Science to Telecommunications the second time I failed calc ii. I just couldn't comprehend rotating a shape around the access of a graph to get a 3d shape. This may be something solvable by 3d printing, but that was not easily available when I was in college.

New comment by jareds in "A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time"

jareds — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:32:10 +0000

Is there a good place for easy comparisons of different models? I know gpt-oss-20b and gpt-oss-120b have different numbers of parameters, but don't know what this means in practice. All my experience with AI has been with larger models like Gemini and GPT. I'm interested in running models on my own hardware but don't know how small I can go and still get useful output both for simple things like fixing spelling and grammar, as well as complex things like programming.

New comment by jareds in "Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?"

jareds — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:24:44 +0000

I don't know how it works now, but in my case the Doctor had nothing to do with it. It's obvious I'm blind since I use a cane. I showed the person in charge of accommodations how bulky a braille printer along with all its paper is, and the noise it makes that's loud enough to wake anyone who may be trying to sleep in the same room. They granted me the accommodation since I had to use braille for math, physics, chemistry, and computer science. I think in some ways it's easier having an obvious disability. You can't hide it, and the only time people don't believe your blind when using a cane is at the bar on Halloween.

New comment by jareds in "Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?"

jareds — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:28:58 +0000

Why are frequent attendance exemptions granted? I'm totally blind and when I went to college my lack of attendance had nothing to do with the fact that I was blind and everything to do with the fact that I made poor choices like other college students. If I didn't have the mobility skills to get to class then I shouldn't have been granted an exception, I should have been told to get better mobility skills before going to college. I think the only time I asked for an attendance exemption was during finals week. There was a blizzard at the same time as one of my finals and the sidewalks and streets were not plowed. This made it incredibly dangerous for me to go to take the test. I just emailed explaining the situation and took the test the next day.

New comment by jareds in "Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?"

jareds — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:20:26 +0000

I didn't realize that using disability accommodations to get a single was so common. I used the fact that I was blind to get a single in the early 2000's. It may not have been strictly necessary, but I justified it by the fact I had an incredibly loud braille printer that took up a bunch of space. I didn't try to stack accommodations though, since I could walk as well as anyone else I didn't get preferential treatment when it came to location.

New comment by jareds in "OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months"

jareds — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:35:52 +0000

It's also useful if your blind, I know this from personal experience. The ability to recognize objects, read package labels, read bios and boot menus, etc has been very useful to me. Claiming that the only things it's good for is white collar work or battlefield targeting isn't accurate. In spite of how useful I've found it I'm not claiming it's going to be net positive, I have no idea how this will all turn out.

New comment by jareds in "OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months"

jareds — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:27:40 +0000

Where are these providers and do they offer batch processing? If they don't how does there cost compare to Gemini and OpenAI batch processing? For the hobby project I'm working on batch processing is a great fit. The only cost comparison tool I've been able to find is openrouter and it doesn't support batch processing for cost savings.

New comment by jareds in "Java 25 officially released"

jareds — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 02:53:09 +0000

My major issue is that the IDE doesn't use the same hotkeys or similar interface to VS Code. This isn't necessarily a problem, but the fact that it's so different means the learning curve is absolutely brutal so it's not worth the effort for me to look at it. If there was a basic getting started tutorial that walked you through building a simple program, finding and fixing compilation errors, performing basic debugging etc, that was written from the perspective of a screen reader user that would be incredibly helpful. Something like this may exist, but if it does I haven't found it.

New comment by jareds in "Java 25 officially released"

jareds — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:27:16 +0000

Thanks, I've starred the project so I can keep up with it. I don't currently have any plans to do anything with Kotlin but will look at this if I do in the future.

New comment by jareds in "Java 25 officially released"

jareds — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:44:35 +0000

I'm rooting against Kotlin since it appears to be only usable with the JetBrains ide. I'm totally blind and Jetbrains tools are not nearly as accessible or easy to use as VS Code with all the Java extensions in my experience. At all the jobs I've had no one cared if I didn't use Idea, but considering it looks like there's no good VS Code tooling for Kotlin if I have to use Kotlin professionally it's going to be painful.

New comment by jareds in "Is it possible that these two chips have hardware trojans in them?"

jareds — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:47:45 +0000

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. AMD's processors got much better, more people started buying them, the stock went up.

Ask HN: Devices to allow children to listen to podcasts on my local network?

jareds — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:32:21 +0000

Does anyone have advice for a device I could lock down that would allow my children to listen to podcasts I've downloaded to my local network using Audio Bookshelf? So far the best I've been able to come up with is to buy a cheep Android phone, install the Audio Bookshelf app, and configure my network to not allow the device to access the internet. The only issue with this plan is that as far as I can tell there's no easy way to only install the Audio Bookshelf app, and remove all other apps. While if the device does not have internet access I'm not concerned about them poking around in the email, calendar, etc it'd be nice if there were fewer distractions. I'm an iOS user so may be missing something involving Android and third party launchers or device controls.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016406

Points: 2

# Comments: 2