Hacker News: kohlerm

New comment by kohlerm in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

kohlerm — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:25:41 +0000

Yeah well. MCPs are better for use cases where remote access is required, but for development use cases what you need in the majority of use cases is to manipulate local files. Skills are just the more natural solution here. You can argue whether Skills should come with more type information (MCPs are slightly better here), but otherwise it seems pretty clear to me that if you do not need remote access then MCPs are not really needed.

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

kohlerm — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 07:06:07 +0000

I checked the codex source code a few months ago and the implementation was very basic compared to opencode

New comment by kohlerm in "Largest-Triangle-Three-Buckets and the Fourier Transform (2024)"

kohlerm — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:09:29 +0000

It is definitely a real problem to be solved. We used something similar in an IOT application some time ago

New comment by kohlerm in "AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power"

kohlerm — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:30:46 +0000

Very good article. With regards to the guy being a designer, he is IMHO still correct with regards to layouts. Currently LLMs ares till pretty clueless about layouts. Also SWE is much more then coding. Even in the coding area there is much more room for improvement. The idea that you would not need Software Engineers soon, is brain dead.

New comment by kohlerm in "Basalt Woven Textile"

kohlerm — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:17:21 +0000

I think I have seen it being used in Snowboards

New comment by kohlerm in "Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels"

kohlerm — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:18:04 +0000

>All politicians follow their beliefs No they don't they, a lot them will do whatever is needed (change their minds at will) to stay in power. If you ever listened to Habeck, there are simple rational arguments why it did not makes sense to continue running the nuclear plants for longer. There was anyway no easy affordable way to just let them run for many years (contracts). At the end nuclear was only contributing 1.5% to the overall energy production.

New comment by kohlerm in "Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels"

kohlerm — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 11:12:05 +0000

Merkel (CDU) pushed it after Fukushima, because "oh it's dangerous", which wasn't rational, but she knew people wanted it

New comment by kohlerm in "Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels"

kohlerm — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 11:10:52 +0000

He is on of the few politicians who follow his beliefs about what needs to be done, less so about what is popular. He also made sure Germany had enough gas. He had nothing todo with the pushback of nuclear energy (that was the CDU/Merkel). Nuclear energy is not cheap.

New comment by kohlerm in "The RAG Obituary: Killed by agents, buried by context windows"

kohlerm — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 22:13:07 +0000

Cursor's search is still better(faster and cheaper) then Claude Code. I just did some tests. It looks like they do agentic searches with query rewriting.

New comment by kohlerm in "Why Cline doesn't index your codebase"

kohlerm — Wed, 28 May 2025 09:49:19 +0000

Following dependencies is the way to go IMHO. Saying "Code Doesn't Think in Chunks", is IMHO not correct. Developers do thing in chunks of codes. E.g. this function calls that function uses that type and is used here and there. It is not really a file based model like Cline uses. The file based model is "just" simpler to implement :-) . We use a more sophisticated code chunking approach in https://help.sap.com/docs/build_code/d0d8f5bfc3d640478854e6f... Let's see, maybe we should open source that ...

New comment by kohlerm in "The Model Is the Product"

kohlerm — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:15:42 +0000

I am not so sure this makes sense. Training a model to directly use certain tools (web search etc) makes the model very specialized and less flexible. As long as other solutions are more flexible and less costly, training a specialized model would not be worth it.

New comment by kohlerm in "Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI"

kohlerm — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:40:09 +0000

it is also the "right thing to do" IMHO.

New comment by kohlerm in "Extend Extra Extreme: keyboard extend layer mappings"

kohlerm — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:59:53 +0000

I am using a slightly modified Extend layout since a couple of years, and it was really a game changer for me.

New comment by kohlerm in "Monitor replacement – using a projector for a home office setup"

kohlerm — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 08:53:37 +0000

isn't 1080p resolution too low for that size?

New comment by kohlerm in "Go library for in-process vector search and embeddings with llama.cpp"

kohlerm — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:18:00 +0000

Nice! would have needed something like this last year.

New comment by kohlerm in "Vector databases are the wrong abstraction"

kohlerm — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 10:08:49 +0000

I agree that putting the vectors in a separate DB often does not makes. Just use Hana https://news.sap.com/2024/04/sap-hana-cloud-vector-engine-ai... ;-) IMHO putting the calculation of the embedding vectors into the db (even if it is just a remote call) is not a got idea. How do you react to failures of the remote call, security issues because of code running within your DB ..?

New comment by kohlerm in "Sqlite3 WebAssembly"

kohlerm — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 09:15:00 +0000

WASM ATM is IMHO most useful for VSCode Extension, where it can help to avoid the dependency nightmare that nodejs modules with native code cause.

New comment by kohlerm in "LLMs, Theory of Mind, and Cheryl's Birthday"

kohlerm — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 12:00:39 +0000

I agree this is not a great test. What's good about it is that it is a constraint satisfaction problem, and I would expect LLMs to be pretty bad at unknown problems of this kind. Simple reason, an LLM only has a a finite number of layers and it cannot do arbitrary long searches.

New comment by kohlerm in "Visualizing Weather Forecasts Through Landscape Imagery"

kohlerm — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 10:49:05 +0000

Really nice"

New comment by kohlerm in "Intel Unveils Lunar Lake Architecture"

kohlerm — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 06:11:01 +0000

What is the memory bandwidth? I could not find any numbers ..