Hacker News: karmajunkie

New comment by karmajunkie in "Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations"

karmajunkie — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:17:54 +0000

you’ve got to give it a way (eg rendering with playwright and friends) and tell it to use that way to verify correctness. it’s not going to create the guard rail for you but if you provide it with one the output is much better.

New comment by karmajunkie in "Continue local sessions from any device with Remote Control"

karmajunkie — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:13:34 +0000

per the docs each instance gets its own remote control session and environment, so it should handle multiple CC instances.

New comment by karmajunkie in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19"

karmajunkie — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 22:41:49 +0000

Austria, not Australia.

New comment by karmajunkie in "Claude's new constitution"

karmajunkie — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:32:11 +0000

maybe it uses the g word so much BECAUSE it’s in the constitution…

New comment by karmajunkie in "Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced"

karmajunkie — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:03:17 +0000

Thank goodness, I thought it was just me...

New comment by karmajunkie in "Design and Implementation of Sprites"

karmajunkie — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:54:53 +0000

ahh finally success—a fresh sprite goes to sleep as it should. unfortunately the original one i created doesn't, so I guess I'm going to have to kill that one off.

New comment by karmajunkie in "Design and Implementation of Sprites"

karmajunkie — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:41:54 +0000

This is great news! If we upgraded our sprite already how long should it take to suspend? I noticed the upgrade earlier and installed it but my sprite is still running.

New comment by karmajunkie in "Design and Implementation of Sprites"

karmajunkie — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:39:23 +0000

I think the idling feature still needs some work. I created one over the weekend that hasn't idled once, and I've run several tests with sprites that have nothing in them—just `sprite create` and log out, just to see what happens (which unfortunately is nothing, left alone it keeps on running as well.)

I love the idea and most of the execution, I've really enjoyed getting my first sprite configured just the way I want it. It just needs the idling feature to work as advertised before I think I can use it as cost-effectively as it promises.

New comment by karmajunkie in "Code and Let Live"

karmajunkie — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:53:17 +0000

Is there something we have to do to get a sprite to idle? Because I started one over the weekend that's still running despite no network usage, so that seems to be currently broken.

New comment by karmajunkie in "Code and Let Live"

karmajunkie — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 04:45:18 +0000

yeah reading further into the docs it looks like that’s the model. storage is pretty cheap, $.00068/gb-hr, so a 100GB disk runs you about 1.6 cents per day.

New comment by karmajunkie in "Code and Let Live"

karmajunkie — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 04:00:59 +0000

something that isn’t clear to me: what’s the billing when i’m not actively using a sprite? does that go to zero as well, or am i still being billed for storage?

New comment by karmajunkie in "Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max"

karmajunkie — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 04:42:22 +0000

mostly because of slop-squatting i’d imagine…

New comment by karmajunkie in "Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation"

karmajunkie — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:05:15 +0000

My personal theory of startups starts with "Series F is for F*cked", I have no idea what it takes to get to a Series K...

New comment by karmajunkie in "Assignment 5: Cars and Key Fobs (2021)"

karmajunkie — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:59:42 +0000

My father used to be a prosecutor in MS, and one of my earliest going-to-work-with-dad memories is watching him sign off on warrants for people writing hot checks. I asked him once if he thought that was a bit heavy-handed and he gave me a very stern lecture about people who write hot checks.

So yeah, don't do that in Mississippi.

New comment by karmajunkie in "Kilo Code Launch Week: From Zero to #5 in Five Days"

karmajunkie — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:11:53 +0000

I think what you're likely to find if you start requiring a credit card on file is that you're now a portal for scammers to test credit card numbers. (Yes, this is why we can't have nice things...)

New comment by karmajunkie in "The FAA's Troubles Are More Serious Than You Know"

karmajunkie — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 17:26:47 +0000

> passing over qualified individuals over less qualified individuals

Citation needed.

RAG: Elixir Library for RAG

karmajunkie — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:57:34 +0000

Article URL: https://bitcrowd.dev/a-rag-library-for-elixir/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43344581

Points: 4

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New comment by karmajunkie in "Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights"

karmajunkie — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:44:44 +0000

the first amendment has become a national security threat, it would seem…

New comment by karmajunkie in "The ideal candidate will be punched in the stomach"

karmajunkie — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:00:33 +0000

that's funny, i just got out of the hospital for a case of dysphagia that turned into a perforated esophagus. small world!

New comment by karmajunkie in "Cosmos Keyboard: Scan your hand, build a keyboard"

karmajunkie — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:12:10 +0000

do you end up with a finished keyboard or is this giving you DIY plans?