Hacker News: kristofferR

New comment by kristofferR in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

kristofferR — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:41:55 +0000

If anything it seems like you are the one with an attention span problem when you can't remember that he posted the correct consise definition earlier in this thread. Being a dick when justified is counter-productive, but being a dick while also being the one who is confused is a way worse look.

New comment by kristofferR in "Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users"

kristofferR — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:04:09 +0000

Sure, but you don't represent the average ChatGPT free user in that case probably. I regularly do super complicated queries that Pro spends ages replying to, but yesterday I also asked if chilis are toxic, or just unpleasant, for dogs, and if other species other than flamingos get colored by the food they eat.

New comment by kristofferR in "Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users"

kristofferR — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:40:22 +0000

90+% of queries are probably so common/evergreen that, if a cheaper model made all the different language varients and ways of asking the question into one query, they could be cached quite effectively.

New comment by kristofferR in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions"

kristofferR — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:13:59 +0000

I built my own financial dashboard and used Enable Banking Accounts API, it's free to use for such limited usage, and they support most European banks at least.

https://enablebanking.com/accounts-api/

New comment by kristofferR in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"

kristofferR — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:02:26 +0000

And Vibepollo solves many issues Apollo has

New comment by kristofferR in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"

kristofferR — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:46:45 +0000

Vibepollo is damn great, best solution on Windows by far. Totally painless and damn smooth, don't diss it because of its vibecoding.

New comment by kristofferR in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

kristofferR — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:15:03 +0000

That's fine for flat videos, but 360 videos usually need processing before they're usable. I'm unsure if there are other software options that handle Insta360 360 videos well.

New comment by kristofferR in "Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark"

kristofferR — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:19:44 +0000

The Chinese just saved the world economy by draining their absurdly enormous oil storage reserves nobody knew they had, wouldn't surprise me if they had lots of hidden compute too.

New comment by kristofferR in "Librepods: AirPods liberated"

kristofferR — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:39:27 +0000

Microphonics = cable noise, like when the cable drags against your zipper.

New comment by kristofferR in "Librepods: AirPods liberated"

kristofferR — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:51:05 +0000

Not to mention the microphonics

New comment by kristofferR in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

kristofferR — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:47:37 +0000

What a party pooper the current US government is... I'm not excited right now at all, while normally a new GPT release would be so much fun to test out.

New comment by kristofferR in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

kristofferR — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:22:25 +0000

Why would they use Max 5x instead of Max 20x, which is cheaper relatively speaking?

New comment by kristofferR in "Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good"

kristofferR — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:06:18 +0000

It's hard, but I try to verify it as best as possible by doing multiple independent runs, often one with GPT-5.5 and one with Opus, and then verify that they agree. When I'm as certain as possible I release it and rely on feedback when something doesn't work properly.

New comment by kristofferR in "Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good"

kristofferR — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:46:05 +0000

Yeah, this describes me perfectly. I can't really program, but I'm now building a bunch of different projects and submitting PRs that people seem to appreciate.

https://github.com/kristofferR

One of them, a Home Assistant integration for controlling adjustable beds, would be borderline impossible to do well manually - I've vibe-reverse engineered the Bluetooth protocols of more than a 100 Android apps.

New comment by kristofferR in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

kristofferR — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:35:30 +0000

Hyundai EVs are great though, the Hyundai Ionic 5N is probably the best EV there is (for car enthusiasts).

New comment by kristofferR in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

kristofferR — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:36:41 +0000

This seems like the exact project you should try out Codex Security for. It catches a lot of stuff:

https://chatgpt.com/codex/cloud/security/

New comment by kristofferR in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

kristofferR — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:12:54 +0000

Running a couple of "scan for potential refactors"/"any duplicated code" prompt threads is already a long way there.

New comment by kristofferR in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"

kristofferR — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:40:33 +0000

claude --dangerously-skip-permissions -p "get this all installed https://www.thran.uk/writ/hdid/2025/12/simcity-3k-in-4k.html"

New comment by kristofferR in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

kristofferR — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:19:44 +0000

I'd rather have AI slop appear on the top of HN than regurgitated old low effort thoughts like this.

There's absolutely nothing new or interesting here that hasn't already been said better by a thousand different random HN commenters.

New comment by kristofferR in "New York, California pension leaders oppose 'extreme' SpaceX control structure"

kristofferR — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:02:36 +0000

That's what I'm saying, they pretend that the only way to fix SS is to cut services/replace it, because actually fixing it without cuts would involve removing the lobbyhole/cap that makes their rate close to zero.