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New comment by jjice in "Harvard particle physicist Matthew Schwartz drops 36 papers authored with Claude"

jjice — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:37:20 +0000

I generally can on Safari on iOS. Sometimes I have to force desktop mode. They're making it very difficult...

New comment by jjice in "Gemini 4 Argon"

jjice — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:07:29 +0000

I assume I'm missing some context because you sound like you have a lot more experience here, but what kinds of capabilities are there that you can't do something like `interface LlmProvider { }` with a few basic methods for attachments and chat and then just implement from there? I'd even say you could not keep the ones you're not using (say, GPT is your go-to for a year) and update the other ones when you want to use them and swap out the `LlmProvider` implementation with a DI'd different implementation at your application's entrypoint.

New comment by jjice in "Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

jjice — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:08:10 +0000

I don't think the OP and your comments are mutually exclusive. If Anthropic usage is lower, and the OP considers it basically unlimited for their case, that just means that they would have virtually unlimited usage with other plans.

New comment by jjice in "Gemini 4 Argon"

jjice — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:15:13 +0000

We're like 3.5 years into this new era - I'm not counting winners or losers yet.

New comment by jjice in "1 in 8 cancer cases worldwide are caused by infections, study finds"

jjice — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:01:23 +0000

I always get a kick out of YouTube and other social media people proclaiming what is "healthy" or not, when we all pretty much know. Eat fruits and vegetables and not too much junk food. Eating too much consistently isn't good for you. Drinking and smoking are bad for you. We've mostly known smoking is bad as a society for a good while now and outside of the old myth that a glass of wine with dinner was good, we know drinking isn't a positive for your health.

And you don't even have to be hard and fast with any of that. Drink on occasion and eat stuff that isn't good for you on occasion and you're probably still getting 95% of the benefits. Not sure about smoking though.

It's very simple at the end of the day. Simple != easy to do. Drinking is fun. People enjoy smoking. Junk food is appealing because it's relatively cheap and tastes good.

The best biohack is to eat like your doctor recommends while we all nod along and silently ignore. Just eat what is widely accepted as good for you and you'll have a good chance at living a happy, healthy life.

New comment by jjice in "MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta"

jjice — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:06:52 +0000

We're early on in the LLM era, so I have hope that it can crush Oracle's business model. That said, your database is probably the hardest part of your application to migrate off of...

New comment by jjice in "Ember-1"

jjice — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:54:40 +0000

Please do! Small, specialized models need more love and the time you spent would be a gift!

New comment by jjice in "F-Droid 2.0"

jjice — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:51:22 +0000

Ah this is good to know. Awful it's required, but glad there is a work around.

New comment by jjice in "F-Droid 2.0"

jjice — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:00:51 +0000

What does the future of something like F-Droid look like once Google does their lock down next year?

New comment by jjice in "The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)"

jjice — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:32:55 +0000

We're small enough of a team that everyone can review anything (with a bit of domain expertise in there). It's less of an issue of who is reviewing and more of an issue of getting anyone to spend a minute to look at it. More of a human problem. Would be curious what people to do remedy this.

New comment by jjice in "Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update"

jjice — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:04:17 +0000

I always joke with people that I hate software in anything but a traditional computers _because_ I'm a software engineer. I want the car with the fewest smart features, a normal door bell, a non-smart washing machine.

Software sucks a lot of the time and it often gets in the way, at least the way it's deployed over the last decade. Very few things in my home should connect to the internet. My phone and computers. Begrudgingly my TV now.

Also, those things that connect to the internet but don't let you have control? They get EOL'd, despite having paid a premium for them. I've never had a stove from this century and they all work fine, because why the hell wouldn't they?

New comment by jjice in "The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)"

jjice — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:33:29 +0000

I agree, but my only gripe is I hate the ceremony required for doc-only updates. It needs a review and CI. The review is a good thing in most cases (want your docs to be correct), but that often takes my team like two days (I'm realizing this is likely our fault now that I'm typing this). For CI, I've just added in a step to all our GitHub actions to skip Markdown only changes. Anyone have any better ideas?

New comment by jjice in "You can defeat the Dream Devourer from Chrono Trigger using an int overflow"

jjice — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:56:56 +0000

Nope, just in the 2010(ish) DS version and later.

New comment by jjice in "Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep"

jjice — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:12:46 +0000

Been running hister on my work machine for a month or two now. It's one of those things I don't look at until I need to, but when I do need it, it solves the dreaded hunting through the last month of browser history.

I also have it index my Obsidian notes, which is another little bonus for global search.

I did need to build up quite a few exclusion rules early on, but it's been hands off since.

New comment by jjice in "I had Gemini train its own replacement for $9"

jjice — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:43:46 +0000

100%. We now have super general tools that reduce the cost to build other specific tools. My favorite thing with LLMs has been building a ton of little utilities for work and personal that I could've built before, but never had the time at work or the want to spend time on in my personal time.

New comment by jjice in "My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it"

jjice — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:45:17 +0000

The man released a fix twelve years ago for free. If someone is really depending on this, they can fork it themselves. I'd argue that that's the beauty of open source, rather than a downside.

New comment by jjice in "Ask HN: Are 80s high school hobby programmers overwhelmingly pro-AI?"

jjice — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:53:25 +0000

Anecdotal, but my dad fits this grouping and he's pretty indifferent. He asks Claude questions, but hasn't incorporated agents for work. He likes it as a better search, but doesn't have a lot of care or opinion in either direction with it. It's a very healthy take IMO.

New comment by jjice in "Java 27 Released"

jjice — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:38:00 +0000

Stability is a good point, although I am curious where JS and Node stand there now. They're not at the level of Java or .NET by any means, but the JS ecosystem has definitely begun to slowdown over the last few years. I've used express for the server and winston for logging for years and years now and they've very stable at this point.

I guess I'm asking this as an open question: Where are we in the "move fast vs stable" spectrum with Node these days? Definitely not rock solid, but it's moving in that direction I feel.

New comment by jjice in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

jjice — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:08:38 +0000

I believe it's a Gemini derived model that they are running on isolated hardware. So it's not the same servers as Gemini and thus will have potentially different performance.

New comment by jjice in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

jjice — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:01:46 +0000

Updated a bit ago to give Siri AI a go for some basic stuff I've been wanting it to do with personal context. It had some false positives in there, but it's notably better now, pretty fast, and handled context well. It allows you to see where it got the context from, which is great considering that doesn't sound like a very Apple thing to do.