Hacker News: klardotsh

New comment by klardotsh in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

klardotsh — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:18:15 +0000

Funny enough, the only part of Apple Pay I use with any frequency is the browser/app integration part, basically as a much more convenient alternative to PayPal sometimes.

IRL I do use it on occasion but everything I use it for, I could just fall back to the contactless chips in my physical plastic CCs - just like I did for all those years on a deGoogled Android phone with no Google Wallet support. The unique value add of Apple Pay in the physical world is nearly zero to me, other than acting as a market force that made US point of sale systems finally catch up to Canada years late and offer tap to pay.

New comment by klardotsh in "Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra"

klardotsh — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:00:12 +0000

Unfortunately yes. It's awful, other than that they at least support both open-weight and proprietary models to route to. So I guess their model router is "fine", but the harness? As I said in a sibling thread on this page:

> Devin CLI is easily the worst-in-class coding harness I've ever been subjected to using, rife with bugs (up to and including dropping answers to the question tool), so I can't say I'm exactly inspired to try anything else the company produces.

New comment by klardotsh in "Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra"

klardotsh — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:56:43 +0000

Devin CLI is easily the worst-in-class coding harness I've ever been subjected to using, rife with bugs (up to and including dropping answers to the question tool), so I can't say I'm exactly inspired to try anything else the company produces.

New comment by klardotsh in "I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer"

klardotsh — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:56:36 +0000

GLM (both mainline and flash varieties), being trained to speak a very similar Claudeish, is also atrocious about this. My AGENTS.md demands all prose be in STE100, which is trying to solve a similar problem as the skill linked in OP. Getting GLM to STFU by AGENTS instruction is nigh impossible. I use a plugin for OMP/Pi to periodically inject system prompt reminders of output style, and it still largely ignores the request, dumping novels of jargon-dense prose every turn.

DeepSeek v4 Flash isn’t much better (unsurprising- it’s an extremely stubborn model).

Weirdly, GPT Luna excels at following this type of instruction from AGENTS.md, and never forgetting it, even 400k+ tokens into the context window.

New comment by klardotsh in "We built our house for LAN parties (2024)"

klardotsh — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:14:58 +0000

75k bonus? I’ve worked one job ever with a formal bonus structure at all. The annual target for that bonus was less than a third of that amount.

Sometimes I wonder if I work in the same tech industry as some of the other folks around here, but then, I guess I haven’t worked FAANG.

New comment by klardotsh in "The teenage girls behind a $25 minimum wage fight in rural Alaska"

klardotsh — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:38:33 +0000

The problem with doing that in Alaska is that there is not really a funding source for… anything. No income tax, typically little to no sales tax, low property taxes… the state’s other income source is a tax on the oil companies that drill and export from Alaska, which gets turned into the quasi-mini-UBI Public Fund Dividend.

New comment by klardotsh in "Changes to Sourcehut's terms of service regarding LLMs"

klardotsh — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:05:57 +0000

While I am 100% with you that we've arrived at the place local GPUs can do real, good work and that it helps combat the energy arguments against certain LLM usage, Drew is not likely to agree with you. I can't find it on a quick search which tells me I'm probably remembering it from his prior Mastodon account, but I distinctly remember Drew once talking about how gaming GPUs were part of the (climate) problem and that we should all take notes from the Nintendo Switch in terms of gaming joy delivered per watt.

This is not to say I disagree with Drew's desire for efficiency, even in gaming. This is simply to say: from my recollection of that blog/toot thread/whatever it was, even home LLM usage won't meet what I recall his energy bar to be, until we've got planning and orchestrator models that fit on a non-flagship phone.

New comment by klardotsh in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

klardotsh — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:16:06 +0000

They can’t vote in most elections (except a few local elections in some places) and aren’t guaranteed entry at the border. They also can’t work a litany of jobs requiring citizenship.

They get a plenty bad enough shake. Let’s grant them the absolute basics of humane treatment and a fair shake at getting citizenship, sheesh.

Other countries get by just fine not having such a huge delta between haves and have nots on citizenship, and their social cohesion is better for it.

New comment by klardotsh in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

klardotsh — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:11:26 +0000

I can’t think of any other rationale. What, only border officers are able to process a visa renewal? Please. We can have offices inside the country handle this stuff, just like offices handle Trusted Traveler applications and Social Security card issuances.

The point is surely to get another chance to grill the immigrant and potentially bar them entry. Other countries don’t always do this: Canada for example has inland changes of status and I believe renewals.

New comment by klardotsh in "Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article"

klardotsh — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 23:09:00 +0000

I've definitely considered writing a commit skill and a `cc-safety-net` custom rule to fully forbid `git commit` other than with `--amend` ++ `--no-edit` outside of that skill. Hm, maybe that's a task for an upcoming weekend.

New comment by klardotsh in "Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article"

klardotsh — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 05:13:42 +0000

This one drives me nuts, especially because I divvy up plan documents into such granular sub chunks and Ralph loop over them, I get nonsense commit messages and comments like “PLAN-5.1.A.d.42 load bearing reassertion” unless I AGENTS.md to hell and back… and still end up having to manually reject 5-10% of commit messages because the agent simply forgets AGENTS.md instructions until reprompted.

New comment by klardotsh in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

klardotsh — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:37:43 +0000

Any “navigable waters” fall under this jurisdiction which at a minimum includes all salt water and the Great Lakes, plus a few other odds and ends rivers and so forth. Indeed, almost all state and landside federal law goes out the window on a boat - a frequently bumped into example by boaters here in Washington is getting a civil penalty flavored reminder from USCG that cannabis is still (for whatever reasons) federally an illegal substance, and having it on a boat at all is an offense (with larger amounts or future violations escalating as far as seizure of the vessel).

Marine laws are nuts.

New comment by klardotsh in "'Ghost job' ads are getting so bad that lawmakers want to ban them"

klardotsh — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:04:26 +0000

We already have a law description we could easily expand just a tiny smidge to explicitly include these in its scope, and the punishments would already be fitting: fraud.

New comment by klardotsh in "Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code"

klardotsh — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:46:48 +0000

For me it's the data-hoovering. I don't want Samsung (or Google, or Xiaomi, or whoever) background services phoning home my location every few seconds, or being able to uniquely track my device across apps, etc.

Once my ability to run a "background spyware-less" Android device went away, so did my willingness to put up with the negative sides of the usability tradeoff.

Apple probably sends some telemetry home, but at least their business model doesn't depend on knowing the exact Pantone color of the food I ate for dinner to market a matching wall paint to me.

Edit to add: oh, yeah, you mentioning 3P apps complaining if they detected root or MicroG reminds me of many a horrible night of debugging. Ugh. What a mess.

New comment by klardotsh in "Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code"

klardotsh — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:25:37 +0000

Exactly this. Once the writing was on the wall that deGoogled / FOSS Android was on borrowed time (at best), a ton of the argument against iOS dissolved overnight. We can argue that Apple's anti-repair policies and anti-user-customization policies are their own evils, sure, but at least my phone works for its core tasks, and works phenomenally well at that. My deGoogled Android phones were mostly hobbled together piles of "it sometimes works, as long as I don't look at it too funny". This tradeoff was fine for fully owning my data and being able to install absolutely anything I wanted on my phone. With arbitrary APK installation disappearing, and unlocked bootloaders to install a less hostile fork of Android becoming such a rarity these days, I may as well at least not fear looking at my phone the wrong way when the moon is in alignment with the wrong star.

Source: about 12 years of Android usage (11 of those on unlocked bootloaders and custom ROMs, ~6? of those deGoogled) -> iPhone 16e.

New comment by klardotsh in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

klardotsh — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:55:24 +0000

I have been, on desktop and back when I used Android. When I kicked deGoogled Android out of my life and went to iOS where most things Just Work ™ and I could stop thinking about my phone and its bugs, I had to start using Orion because Firefox iOS sucks so much.

This news from TFA is the biggest step in the right direction; I might be able to use Firefox mobile again finally.

New comment by klardotsh in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

klardotsh — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:53:03 +0000

Same, if anyone figures out what the about:config toggle for this is (does that exist on Firefox iOS or is that a missing feature like how Firefox iOS is missing every other feature?), please share it so I can consider finally moving back from Orion and its myriad bugs and quirks.

New comment by klardotsh in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

klardotsh — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:53:25 +0000

I would not recommend DSV4F (even 0731 edition) without an advisor. On its own it’s an absolute drunk intern in my experience, but with an advisor model watching like a hawk when it gets stuck in loops or goes down boneheaded rabbit holes, it’s fine (and very cheap). I’ve been using GLM-5.2 as my /advisor but might try just a second DSV4F instance.

New comment by klardotsh in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

klardotsh — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:10:30 +0000

Who lives on one of the coasts where that job likely requires them to be, where rent is $3-5k and mortgages within spitting distance of that, sure.

New comment by klardotsh in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

klardotsh — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:49:34 +0000

Especially with anything resembling a usable amount of RAM. Mac Minis and Studios >=64GB are basically permanently sold out everywhere, because everyone, including commercial entities with deeper pockets than most of us plebs, has the exact same idea at the exact same time.