Hacker News: johntash

New comment by johntash in "I Still Live in the Terminal"

johntash — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:01:11 +0000

For some reason, I can only scroll down a little bit on medium articles and then firefox freezes that tab and won't let me scroll up or down. I assume it has something to do with adblock, but I've noticed it a lot recently.

New comment by johntash in "Migrate from OpenClaw"

johntash — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:16:39 +0000

what model(s) did you end up using with pi?

I want to move away from claude but don't have the hardware for "good" local llms, and would rather use a ZDR api instead of one of the big apis for privacy reasons.

New comment by johntash in "Show HN: Gitdot – a better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

johntash — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:43:17 +0000

fwiw when I opened the site, my fans spun up and firefox slowed a lot. No idea what it's doing, but it's definitely using a ton of cpu.

New comment by johntash in "I am giving up on VM Gaming"

johntash — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:07:44 +0000

have you tried using proton//steam on linux lately? I find almost every game I want to play actually works decently well now. The ones that don't are multiplayer/online ones that require some sort of anti-cheat.

New comment by johntash in "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?"

johntash — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:32:50 +0000

If you already use jira, maybe try putting the specs directly in the jira ticket? And/or in a confluence page?

I'm not sold on SDD yet, but part of that is because we already have decently detailed tickets and designs.

New comment by johntash in "Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface"

johntash — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:16:22 +0000

Gotcha, I guess I should have asked if you were using 'claude -p' or something else to re-use the subscription.

It looks pretty interesting though, I'll give it a shot

New comment by johntash in "Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series"

johntash — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:05:57 +0000

Don't forget to watch SGU too, and I think there were a few other movies too?

New comment by johntash in "Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface"

johntash — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:53:27 +0000

Any idea if claude code will continue working with paseo after the billing/usage changes in a couple weeks?

New comment by johntash in "I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)"

johntash — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:43:21 +0000

Did you set up solar nodes in random spots or only areas you own/control?

I've wondered if it'd be legal to just chuck a couple into some random trees.

New comment by johntash in "I analysed 20 years of my chats"

johntash — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:31:05 +0000

Sometimes I feel bad that I lost years of chat history from then too, but you made me realize that might be a good thing.

New comment by johntash in "Show HN: Fungible – A local personal finance app in the terminal"

johntash — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:53:00 +0000

It might be too late, but have you thought about using something like ledger/beancount for the storage?

Having a nice tui/plaid sync for plaintextaccounting would be nice.

https://plaintextaccounting.org/

New comment by johntash in "ASMTP – SMTP for Agents"

johntash — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:16:53 +0000

Why not actually use smtp+imap/pop3 if that is the intention?

Also I'm going to complain a little bit about the name: SMTP is for sending (not reading) mail, so asmtp to me at first glance looked like 'async-smtp' which didn't really make sense. And 'agent-smtp' sounds like "let your agents send e-mail" vs an api spec.

New comment by johntash in "Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust"

johntash — Mon, 18 May 2026 05:56:50 +0000

My understanding is that zed wrote a wrapper around 'claude -p' for ACP support so I imagine there isn't too much of a memory savings there since it's still actually running claude code.

New comment by johntash in "Subnautica 2 Early Access"

johntash — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:23:31 +0000

I really liked Subnautica, but haven't been following the drama of subnautica 2 since the old creators were fired.

_Should_ I give my money to unknown worlds?

New comment by johntash in "New Claude Code programmatic usage restrictions"

johntash — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:28:33 +0000

frontier models are still way better than local models from what I've seen. To get close to them with large context windows and decent performance, you need more than a reasonable machine imo.

I'm hoping local llms start rapidly improving even more though.

New comment by johntash in "Tell HN: Starting June 15, claude -p usage will change"

johntash — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:24:16 +0000

I assume this will affect things like using claude code inside of zed or vscode too?

New comment by johntash in "Ask HN: Best static site generator for a docs site in 2026?"

johntash — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:24:13 +0000

How are you expecting search to work without JS? I'm pretty sure you would need either some sort of backend OR JS for any sort of search to work.

Or maybe another option would be to outsource the search part to "site:yourdomain" on google or something similar.

New comment by johntash in "Officially canceling our Anthropic plan, it's [too expensive]"

johntash — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:20:44 +0000

I'm assuming they're using the enterprise plan where you have to pay per token and there's no included usage?

New comment by johntash in "Ask HN: Is a hands-off, family-friendly, de-Googled "home lab" feasible?"

johntash — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:42:20 +0000

> You need all those speakers? One for each room?

Not op, but one reason I have a speaker in _almost_ every room is for notifications. Simple stuff like "the garage door is still open" or weather alerts, etc. I rarely actually play music on all of them.

New comment by johntash in "Your CEO is suffering from AI psychosis"

johntash — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:32:58 +0000

> what is it with C level executives and AI?

My assumption is that they are extremely excited about AI, because they are also extremely excited about being able to reduce their workforce while expecting more output from smaller teams.