Hacker News: locusofself

New comment by locusofself in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

locusofself — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:44:59 +0000

I assume it is just meant to imply light-weightness, either in the application itself or making you feel as though you can float / fly .

New comment by locusofself in "The quiet grief of adult friendship"

locusofself — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:22:16 +0000

Wonderful piece. I feel this so acutely as a 42yo father and tech worker. It's hard to even keep up with my own siblings. I see my some of my "best friends" once a year if that. Sending the occasional text and stupid memes back and forth is no replacement for how things were when we were younger. I keep telling myself I'm going to do something about it, start a book club, plan more trips with old friends, etc., and another year slips by.

New comment by locusofself in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

locusofself — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:32 +0000

TIL you can run OpenBSD on apple silicon. With how much effort has gone into Asahi Linux, I'm surprised.

New comment by locusofself in "Making the news available at no cost is a victory"

locusofself — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:11:57 +0000

Not to be a cynic, but it doesn't seem to explicitly state if there will be advertisements.

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

locusofself — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:57:27 +0000

Most of the article makese sense but what is this supposed to mean? "Native Rust binaries are hostile to serverless runtimes" . I don't think that is true.

New comment by locusofself in "Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog"

locusofself — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:13:29 +0000

I have such a love/hate with this band. They have some great songs. Great musicians. John Frusciante is one of my favorite guitarists. But they are such cheeseballs, and in the case of Anthony Kiedes, pretty creepy.

New comment by locusofself in "Ask HN: How have you spent time outside work for the past couple of weeks?"

locusofself — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:32:13 +0000

I took the last week and a half off work. I've been reading a great book - "Street of Crocodiles" by Bruno Schulz.

After six years at the same company, I started realizing I might be ready for a move, but I'm not interview-ready, so I started brushing up on system design, python/leetcode stuff, and other stuff.

It's been interesting to use claude to generate study guides, and even "books" related to technical topics, and send them to my kindle for reading while out for a nice long walk.

New comment by locusofself in "Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem"

locusofself — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:27:17 +0000

Walking at a regular pace helps slow my brain down so that I can think more effectively. My favorite hobby right now is hour-long walks with my kindle (I walk in places where there are very long uninterrupted stretches).

When I read at home, I fall asleep in 2 pages. I have to be moving around. I have a bunch of "flashcard" like stuff on my kindle related to coding, interview prep, etc. The only chance I have is doing this while walking.

New comment by locusofself in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

locusofself — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:25:17 +0000

I've created a number of apps for myself using just html or, simple node+sqlite running locally. Great for learning apps, personalized todo/priority tracking, etc.

New comment by locusofself in "Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (May 2026)"

locusofself — Sat, 02 May 2026 02:37:30 +0000

This last week was one of my most challenging weeks in my ~20 year work life. I work in big tech, but am a relative latecomer to it (6 years). I'm a manager, and someone who was a very senior IC, a mentor, and work friend of mine, became my manager 6 months ago. It was a "boiling frog" situation that blew up spectacularly last week. I had to talk to my skip-level manager about it and the only viable solution was me leaving my team behind to go manage another team. I'm still bummed about it and taking some time off before starting the new role.

Do I want to be fired? No, because the job market sucks, I make good money, and I live in a HCOL area with a mortgage, a wife and a young kid. I need to sustain (and grow) this for another 10+ years minimum before having any kind of financial independence.

New comment by locusofself in "Humanoid Robots Will Work as Baggage Handlers at Tokyo Airport"

locusofself — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:07:48 +0000

what are the odds that this won't fail spectacularly?

Ask HN: Will local models on normal hardware ever compete?

locusofself — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:18:49 +0000

I have a Macbook Air M3 with 24gb RAM. The other day, I wanted to try running an LLM locally for the first time ever. I ran gemma-4-e4b and threw some chats at it.

It reminded me of my very first experiences with ChatGPT a bit. Clearly less capable than something like Opus 4.6, but I made me excited about the possibilities.

I know that fairly capable models can be run by mere mortals who have a fancy GPU.

My real question is, will some combination of hardware and software optimizations get us anywhere close to "state of the art" models running on truly basic hardware?

With all the ridiculous capex being spent on datacenters etc, what if something akin to Moore's Law, or other algorithmic breakthroughs, will get us super capable LLMs that can run on the average machine?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917655

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New comment by locusofself in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

locusofself — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:03:47 +0000

Instagram has something like this where it shows you "least interacted with". It seems broken to me though, as it showed me people who I do interact with.

New comment by locusofself in "Claude Code Removed from $20-a-Month "Pro" Subscription for New Users"

locusofself — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:13:48 +0000

Are there local models that are anywhere near as good at coding as opus 4.6?

New comment by locusofself in "Show HN: Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB)"

locusofself — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:28:52 +0000

I've had excellent luck using Claude Code to generate "mermaid diagrams" for me, and convert them to .png format headlessly using mmdc/puppeteer. Really helped me out with an engineering proposal I just finished. In past years I would have fumbled around with Visio forever and the result would have been worse.

New comment by locusofself in "Show HN: LangAlpha – what if Claude Code was built for Wall Street?"

locusofself — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:14:48 +0000

Agreed. Unless this really helps people somehow make better trading decisions than existing tools, the vast majority of them are probably still better off index investing.

New comment by locusofself in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

locusofself — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:09:02 +0000

Yeah, it’s not a great name. But it originates from the government. When somebody without a security clearance needs to go to a secure area, they must be escorted by somebody.

New comment by locusofself in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

locusofself — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:05:40 +0000

You also make it sound like getting a JIT approved is getting keys to the kingdom. It's not -- every team has it's own JIT policies for their resources. Should there be far less manual touches? Ideally. But JIT is better than persistent access at least, and JIT policies should be scoped according to principle of least privilege. If that is not happening, it's a failure at the level of that specific org.

New comment by locusofself in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

locusofself — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:57:17 +0000

I'm only commenting on parent comment's understanding of what digital escort process is specifically. Escort is used by all kinds of teams that are just doing day-to-day crap for various resource providers across azure. I've never worked anywhere close to Azure Core so I don't know about these more low-level concerns. Overall I agree and sympathize with your assessment of the engineering culture.

New comment by locusofself in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

locusofself — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:37:57 +0000

That's not what the "problem" was. It's that cheap American support people were "escorting" foreign Microsoft SWEs, so they could manage and fix services they wrote and were the subject matter experts for in the sovereign cloud instances which they otherwise would have no access to.

And this was NOT for the government clouds we have that hold classified data. Those are air-gapped clouds that physically cannot be accessed by anyone who doesnt have a TS clearance and physically go into a SCIF.

source: I work in a team very closely related the team who designed digital escort.