Hacker News: kelvie

New comment by kelvie in "Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher"

kelvie — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:23:10 +0000

Isn't egui really cpu inefficient though? It repaints at 60fps if e.g. you move the mouse over it

New comment by kelvie in "Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s"

kelvie — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 03:34:00 +0000

These benchmarks seems to suggest that Flash Next performs best on Low thinking compared to the same model on higher thinking levels?

And that Qwen 27b outperforms both when set to high?

What quants are being compared here?

New comment by kelvie in "Herdr Studio"

kelvie — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:02:07 +0000

I've had no problem just asking an agent to do this. Just run !herdr --skill and ask any agent tab to rename all the sessions to something meaningful (use a cheap model if cost is an issue).

Or vibe code a script for this. I use pi so I just use a random cached session for this and rewind using /tree after (using local models so I don't care much about tokens).

New comment by kelvie in "Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory"

kelvie — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 05:16:33 +0000

The prefill rates are way faster on these cards compared to apple silicon, which affects TTFT and therefore usability for a lot of coding tasks, unless you fire and forget most of the time.

New comment by kelvie in "Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere"

kelvie — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:26:18 +0000

How about "genuinely"? Not sure why that one bothers me so much.

New comment by kelvie in "RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland"

kelvie — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:49:50 +0000

I don't understand how this can be, you can play competitive games over moonlight/sunshine, and I really don't recall being able to come close to that latency on RDP (though I haven't tried in about a decade)

New comment by kelvie in "Pixel Watch 5"

kelvie — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:41:06 +0000

I felt like you as well: I like to track sleep and my heart rate during sports and with the pixel watch it felt like I had to almost plan these events (and more annoyingly while travelling) around the charge state of my watch, until I realized I had two separate requirements: notifications (which I don't care about during sports or sleeping), and fitness tracking.

Unfortunately the solution ended up being paying google more money and getting a Fitbit air (which I can use for sleep tracking for an entire week-long trip without bringing a charger)

And only wear the pixel watch for my awake hours, which a 30 hour battery life is more than enough for, even if I forget to charge it for a night or two.

Another bonus is the Fitbit air is a lot more comfortable to sleep in, but of course I no longer care about the charge of my devices.

New comment by kelvie in "`bun init` automatically creates a Claude.md file by default"

kelvie — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:33:43 +0000

Annoyingly Claude doesn't support AGENTS.md out of the box.

New comment by kelvie in "Googlebook"

kelvie — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:18:06 +0000

And I just came back from Seoul where Gemini suggested local clothing labels I would have never found if I hadn't told Gemini what brands I liked already and to find similar ones. And it was bang-on style-wise (some of the shops were really hidden and out of the way).

New comment by kelvie in "How to get better at guitar"

kelvie — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:50:37 +0000

Are you telling me that spending time writing an app to learn the guitar neck isn't the best way?? Blasphemy, I tell you!

Anyway here is my app of shame:

https://kelvie.github.io/chord-finder/

I also came to the realization after making this that my time was better spent transcribing, but I wanted to learn egui (and this was before coding agents, so it actually took some time).

New comment by kelvie in "Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew"

kelvie — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:05:15 +0000

One of the reasons I switched to arch from debian based distros was precisely how much faster pacman was compared to APT -- system updates shouldn't take over half an hour when I have a (multi)gigabit connection and an SSD.

It was mostly precipitated by when containers came in and I was honestly shocked at how fast apk installs packages on alpine compared to my Ubuntu boxes (using apt)

New comment by kelvie in "Hammerspoon"

kelvie — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:05:21 +0000

It's really jittery for me and freezes fairly often on my work macbook. I even have a Sol script to restart hammerspoon.

Still wouldn't work without it though (I run Niri at home)

The Impatient Programmer's Guide to Bevy and Rust: Ch. 7 – Let There Be Enemies

kelvie — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:29:06 +0000

Article URL: https://aibodh.com/posts/bevy-rust-game-development-chapter-7/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866505

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kelvie in "Dead Internet Theory"

kelvie — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 06:19:28 +0000

Of note is theother terrible heuristic I've seen thrown around, where "emojis = AI", and now the "if you use not X, but Y = AI".

New comment by kelvie in "A guide to local coding models"

kelvie — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 05:53:44 +0000

gpt-oss-120b doesn't fit on a 5090 without offloading or crazy quants -- or did you mean you ran it via openrouter or something?

New comment by kelvie in "Reverse-engineered CUPS driver for Phomemo receipt/label printers"

kelvie — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 08:13:52 +0000

I've been using labelle (on github) with my Dymo labelmaker on Linux and it's been great.

New comment by kelvie in "Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version"

kelvie — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 02:39:09 +0000

And solves the wrists problem mentioned earlier

New comment by kelvie in "I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework"

kelvie — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:26:35 +0000

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20231114022503.6310-1-kelvi...

I authored a patch (I still use it to this day, and I think others do too) that allows this, and sent it to the LKML as an RFC, and was rejected, for some background.

New comment by kelvie in "Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs"

kelvie — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 05:23:24 +0000

Don't y'all have a #emacs slack channel or equivalent at your company? I work for a medium-sized tech company and we have a single digit amount of emacs users I feel like. The channel is mostly dead except for a few tips and tricks and the odd time people asking how we each install it on our macbooks.

Anecdotally a lot of managers use Emacs, though that may be an age thing.

(I use emacs for Real Work, unless that Real Work involves a JVM. Still do all the git stuff in emacs/magit, though)

New comment by kelvie in "Canyon.mid"

kelvie — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 17:40:06 +0000

Could media player actually just play midi dumps like this back in the day?

I've been on Linux for so long now, that being able to just play a MIDI file without making a bunch of decisions about soundfonts and synthesizers [1] just seems mind-blowing to me now.

Part of me wishes that just by default, mpv or something would just pick a softsynth and just play it (like WMP here) rather than have me install a separate program, pick a sound font, invoke it in some weird way to let it know what soundfont I want, and not even be able to seek back and forth.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MIDI#List_of_SoundFonts