Hacker News: kbar13

New comment by kbar13 in "Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion"

kbar13 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:26:47 +0000

i think the gap that needs to be bridged between obsidian and notion is:

obsidian: great for LLMs (local markdown files), bad for collaboration (no multiplayer features like multi editor, comments)

notion: not great for LLMs (network round trips, block-based editing), great for collaboration

New comment by kbar13 in "Rent collections are down in New York"

kbar13 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:52:06 +0000

and the middle class is being destroyed

New comment by kbar13 in "Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct"

kbar13 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:30:11 +0000

i just had to spend a bunch of time (not for work, for hobby purposes) bc broadcom acquired bitnami or something and then decided to kill off the free docker images for various software. very very annoying. can't believe they did this by just yanking the images from the registry too, leaving nodes to fail if they lose their image cache and have to restart

New comment by kbar13 in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

kbar13 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:32:01 +0000

does this mean that 40% of consumers say it's good? or what?

if that is what that means, i would actually say keep improving... since ai is new and there's a lot of mixed feelings about it, it's understandable that sentiment leaks into ai-enabled products.

that being said, there are /a lot/ of ai chatbot product integrations that are actual dogwater and we should not do them. like the stupid amazon integration that is forced upon me that took up like 30% of my screen and straight up just was worthless.

i think the best ai consumer facing workflows you dont actually directly interface with ai via what is expected to be a human interface like chat - it should do processing in the backend, or it supports a human agent.

New comment by kbar13 in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

kbar13 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:21:51 +0000

"much better" in what way

New comment by kbar13 in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

kbar13 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:37:59 +0000

most-all of the algorithm-served content (not from my friends list) is ad content, even if it's not a meta-served ad.

all content (even those who make legitimate content, if they intend on making a living on content) is just ads packaged in fancy UGC. we've reached a point of no return for ads and user targeting

New comment by kbar13 in "Can we have the day off?"

kbar13 — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:21:32 +0000

is this not backwards? salaried employee means you get paid the same amount no matter how many hours you work.

New comment by kbar13 in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

kbar13 — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:05:04 +0000

> Saying “with this transformative new technology, we’re able to deliver 10x the value with half the engineers” is a much stronger message, even though it doesn’t make much sense (if this is true, why not keep your engineers and deliver 20x the value?)

in some orgs it was a good excuse to cut the underperformers. these folks wouldnt deliver 10x value with AI, they would either deliver 0x or -10x (with contributions that the just say no engineer would have normally said no to)

New comment by kbar13 in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

kbar13 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:54:03 +0000

we've seen that most of the people who are only in it for the money don't actually bring much value to the company. a lot of middling software engineers are actually a liability. unlike operational work, engineering needs to have a higher bar than just a beating heart and hands

New comment by kbar13 in "Meta to cut 10% of jobs"

kbar13 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:49:56 +0000

why do we feel that way? it's becoming more and more likely that developments in AI lead to a K graph in experience / value - senior / self sufficient workers will be significantly more valuable than ever.

unless you mean that the quality of domestic workers is declining, which i'd agree in most things (tho for some things like software i think still has a chance)

New comment by kbar13 in ""Disregard That" Attacks"

kbar13 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:40:43 +0000

engines are designed to behave in very predictable ways. LLMs are not there yet

New comment by kbar13 in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

kbar13 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:37:51 +0000

that’s a bit pendantic, there exists such a thing as suburbs. even some rural communities are perfectly reasonable in terms of municipal infrastructure. but we are specifically talking about houses that are miles and miles from the next house that is then miles and miles away etc

New comment by kbar13 in "OrangePi 6 Plus Review"

kbar13 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:29:11 +0000

i use the rpi zero 2 for the IO pins

4b / 5 for the camera stuff.

i don’t think using these boards for just compute makes a lot of sense unless it’s for toy stuff like an ssh shell or pihole

New comment by kbar13 in "Claude Code gets native LSP support"

kbar13 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:38:50 +0000

i'm not sure i agree with the assessment that claude code has been moving slowly... but it is cool that opencode has had this for a while. will def check it out

New comment by kbar13 in "The future of Terraform CDK"

kbar13 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:32:20 +0000

we're using cdk since 100% of our stuff is in aws but will soon need to hook up some external resources like cloudflare. looked at tfcdk a while back but didn't think it was a good idea (glad). still trying to figure out a good way forward and hoping it's not to rip the bandaid and migrate everything to terraform / pulumi

New comment by kbar13 in "Show HN: HCB Mobile – financial app built by 17 y/o, processing $6M/month"

kbar13 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 02:48:22 +0000

seems like this is par for course for hustler “founders” nowadays to say half truths to seem groundbreaking to get attention

New comment by kbar13 in "AI World Clocks"

kbar13 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 20:48:58 +0000

i noticed the second hand is off tho. gemini has the most accurate one.

New comment by kbar13 in "AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B"

kbar13 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:53:27 +0000

holy smokes this is worse for consumers and employees than being bought by PE

New comment by kbar13 in "A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool"

kbar13 — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 18:35:16 +0000

LMFAOOOOOO insufferable

New comment by kbar13 in "HP SitePrint"

kbar13 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:51:56 +0000

yes but a built house is a lifelong thing. multiple decades. a few months here is not worth decades of pain