Hacker News: kylec

New comment by kylec in "Chuwi Minibook X"

kylec — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:59:04 +0000

Netbooks aren't dead, they're just called Chromebooks now

New comment by kylec in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

kylec — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:45:40 +0000

I, too, have a server running 16.04 that I'm afraid to update. It currently has an uptime of 1281 days... at this point I'd feel bad rebooting it

New comment by kylec in "Googlebook"

kylec — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:43:48 +0000

Different iterations of the product were called both those things

New comment by kylec in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

kylec — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:37:39 +0000

I did go through the Go tutorial many many years ago, but it's been so long I don't remember anything. I do remember it was an enjoyable process though, and I'd love to pick it up again.

New comment by kylec in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

kylec — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:10:29 +0000

This post resonates. I recently built a little web service to scratch an itch I've been having and after discussing the options with Claude we settled on Go, and honestly it's been fantastic. Highly performant, native threading, dead simple to deploy with containers. And I don't even know how to read or write Go.

New comment by kylec in "Dav2d"

kylec — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:46:20 +0000

I wonder if the author is a Dave2D fan?

https://www.youtube.com/@Dave2D

New comment by kylec in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

kylec — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:45:16 +0000

The $20 plan showed me how good Claude Code was, and now I'm paying $100/month. I never would have paid $100 just to try out Claude Code.

New comment by kylec in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

kylec — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:49:48 +0000

I think they usually record on Tuesdays, so not long

New comment by kylec in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

kylec — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:21:28 +0000

The limit of 2 is just for virtualizing macOS. You can run as many Linux VMs as you want at once on macOS.

New comment by kylec in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

kylec — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:24:27 +0000

This is a very silly restriction, at least to apply uniformly to all Macs. I think if you buy a more powerful Mac they should let you virtualize more Mac instances. Like an M5 maybe limit to 2, but maybe let an M5 Pro do 4 and an M5 Max do 8 or something.

New comment by kylec in "Am I German or Autistic?"

kylec — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:00:50 +0000

I'm neither apparently, which I guess is a relief? Some of the questions I felt didn't have an answer I would select, like the inner monologue one. I generally don't have an inner monologue as I understand it described by people who do. Also, there's way more wrong with the world than those four answers.

New comment by kylec in "The MacBook Neo"

kylec — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:45:25 +0000

I feel like Apple wouldn't want to make full Linux work on their hardware, but they could enable their Darwin kernel to emulate Linux syscalls and provide a way to boot into a mode that basically loads the kernel and whatever Linux shell you want

New comment by kylec in "First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In"

kylec — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:39:16 +0000

I'm going to echo what others have said, Xcode will run on 8GB but the moment you need simulators or iOS canvas previews it will need more memory. You can probably get by on the Neo, but it won't be ideal. I suggest an M4 Mac mini instead.

New comment by kylec in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

kylec — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:20:14 +0000

I'm assuming you're in the EU or UK, Apple is required by law to not include a power adapter:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/10/15/eu-gets-what-it-a...

In the US they provide one in the box free of charge.

New comment by kylec in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

kylec — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:16:01 +0000

Apple doesn't tend to use "RAM" in their marketing materials, they usually use "memory", which appears 9 times in the press release.

New comment by kylec in "Burger King will use AI to check if employees say 'please' and 'thank you'"

kylec — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:41:34 +0000

I wonder if a similar system is in place at McDonald's because they never fail to ask if I'm using the app, it's pretty annoying

New comment by kylec in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

kylec — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:27:30 +0000

"I don't know what did it, but here's what it does now"

New comment by kylec in "Show HN: I built a macOS tool for network engineers – it's called NetViews"

kylec — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:19:02 +0000

Huge win on the name change. I'm never going to install an app called Pingstalker on my computer, it would feel gross and I'd worry other people might see it and be alarmed by it.

New comment by kylec in "AI is a horse (2024)"

kylec — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:06:22 +0000

A tractor does exactly what you tell it to do though - you turn it on, steer it in a direction, and it goes. I like the horse metaphor for AI better: still useful, but sometimes unpredictable, and needs constant supervision.

New comment by kylec in "Local AI is driving the biggest change in laptops in decades"

kylec — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:22:20 +0000

The M4 starts with 16GB, though that can also be tight for local LLMs. You can get one with 24GB for $1149 right now though, which is good value.