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New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

lovehashbrowns — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:14:04 +0000

I'm trying Hermes right now. I can't really find a good use for it. I tried to use it for research type stuff but Google Scholar literally by itself is faster, better, doesn't get rate-limited. Idk. I am pondering connecting it to my other bot I built that has more useful things like access to my thermal receipt printer and task management stuff but even that is kinda dumb because it already does everything I need, so I don't really know where I'm going with it. Honestly, I don't get the idea behind openclaw and hermes.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

lovehashbrowns — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:22:06 +0000

This was so unbelievably obnoxious when I first started trying to use Cursor last year at some point. Also because if you tried to not use tailwind the AI would eventually try to force it in anyway. I don’t know how it is nowadays but that was so frustrating and funny at the same time. And! When I setup Tailwind v4 ahead of time, got it working, and told the AI about the v4 changes, it would “correct” it to v3 anyway. Another fun “metric” was to ask an AI how to setup react because it was still recommending create-react-app though nowadays I’m sure it’ll be harder to find any model that still has that in its training set.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

lovehashbrowns — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:29:06 +0000

On the platform at my work they scrape the same page multiple times, over and over. They do not care to cache anything. And it’s ridiculous to account for because for example for our properties, everything is news-based so warming the cache was as simple as loading the first X articles to get them into cache. But with AI that is not viable because they scrape as much as possible, articles from 2018, 2017. Management doesn’t want to block them though. It’s just suffering through the endless barrage. I was able to do a lot for this like heavier caching even with pgpool but it’s so crazy that this small subset of bots effectively accounts for like 60%+ of our spend.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

lovehashbrowns — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:59:05 +0000

The 8-ball joker is even more BS. I think I’ve only seen it trigger once ever.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most"

lovehashbrowns — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:18:34 +0000

No it was someone playing a street car drifting game idk which. They were doing car reviews of people’s designs

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most"

lovehashbrowns — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:46:37 +0000

really fun! already found an MLB stream, someone streaming Age of Empires 1 no talking and chat in emote mode, someone going absolutely crazy on a racing game I think multi-streaming with their audience primarily on YT. and now I'm on a BG3 playthrough I'm pretty sure.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

lovehashbrowns — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:13:45 +0000

Oil fires cause immense damage to property and life! I don’t know why stoves are allowed in homes at all. Worse yet, they don’t implement any age verification, so a child can just turn on the burner! It’s crazy!

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues"

lovehashbrowns — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:43:24 +0000

I became a super fan for a brief second during the Napster days, that’s literally what got me into metal in the first place. Decades later and I’m still soured on them too. Napster days were so good for music discovery. I mean, they’re better now with all these algos, obviously, but it was weirdly fun to download a track with tons of random strings in the name and end up with some parody Weird Al track and that’s how you discovered something new.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon"

lovehashbrowns — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:31:33 +0000

My first pc I built was with an AMD athlon 64 4000+ and a GeForce 6600GT. Going to that from an e-machines piece of junk was INSANE. It’s so hard to come up with a similar experience shift nowadays. Even websites seemed to load instantly with the same DSL connection. Everything felt soooooo good.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

lovehashbrowns — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:18:27 +0000

Happy to be a paying Anthropic customer right now.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

lovehashbrowns — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 05:24:28 +0000

I love this decision from Bandcamp. If you have seen sites like DeviantArt collapse because of AI generated trash you’ll know what it’s like for these services to completely collapse under the flood of inauthentic AI slop. They become unusable. I ended up deleting my DA last year and it looks like I’ll continue to be a Bandcamp user for many more years. I’ve found a bunch of my favorite bands from Bandcamp! No Point in Living, Iapetus, Unreqvited! Just to name a few.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

lovehashbrowns — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:27:48 +0000

Which is why LLMs are so much more useful than SO and likely always will be. LLMs do this even. Like trying to write my own queue by scratch and I ask an LLM for feedback I think it’s Gemini that often tells me Python’s deque is better. duh! That’s not the point. So I’ve gotten into the habit of prefacing a lot of my prompts with “this is just for practice” or things of that nature. It actually gets annoying but it’s 1,000x more annoying finding a question on SO that is exactly what you want to know but it’s closed and the replies are like “this isn’t the correct way to do this” or “what you actually want to do is Y”

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

lovehashbrowns — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 11:04:54 +0000

Pewdiepie’s linux video alone is almost at 8 million views. There’s another 3-4 million views in reaction videos to it. I think primagen also stayed on archlinux after his ricing experiment

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Accenture dubs 800k staff 'reinventors' amid shift to AI"

lovehashbrowns — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:02:28 +0000

Should’ve gone the art-industry route instead of this. Posting any kind of ai-generated art in an art community gets hostile pretty quickly.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Two recently found works of J.S. Bach presented in Leipzig [video]"

lovehashbrowns — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:16:50 +0000

This piece is my favorite: https://youtu.be/Piw53UPooYU?si=WJIjWDKJUJ8HrDPO Können Tränen meiner Wangen

Karl Richter’s version is my personal favorite but there’s lots of different recordings. IMO Bach’s St Matthew Passion is the best piece of musical art, maybe art in general too idk.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Helm 4.0"

lovehashbrowns — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:30:43 +0000

I’d wager that like half the teams (at least) using kubernetes today should be using Nomad instead. Like the team I’m on now where I’m literally the only one familiar with Kubernetes and everyone else only has familiarity with more classic EC2-based patterns. Getting someone to even know what Helm does is its own uphill battle. Nomad is a lot more simple. That’s what I like about it a lot.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Strudel REPL – a music live coding environment living in the browser"

lovehashbrowns — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:51:41 +0000

I'm not very musically inclined but this is what I was able to make:

$: arrange( [4, "(4,8)"], [4, "(4,8)"], [1, "(6,6)"] ).s().fast(2).layer(x=>x.add("0,2")).gain(".4!2 .5").phaser(2).phasercenter("<4000 800 4000 4000>")

$: s("gm_tinkle_bell").distort("<1 2 1 2:.5>").crush("<8 8 8 6 6 8 8>").chop(4)

$: arrange( [2, "(3,8)"], [1, "(3,8)"], [1, "(3,8)"] ).note().chop(4).fast(4).distort("<3:.5>").phaser(4).phasercenter("<800>").fm(4).fmdecay("<.05 .05 .1 .2>").fmsustain(.4)._scope()

I don't know what half this stuff does but it was still so much fun and this is probably one of my favorite projects ever. What made it most fun for me is that the reference docs are in the page so it's really easy to pick something at random and just see what it does.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Qualcomm to acquire Arduino"

lovehashbrowns — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 20:18:47 +0000

As a complete beginner to hardware stuff, I do find the Arduino Cloud thing to be pretty compelling. Being able to push out updates over the cloud is nice! Buuuut.. once I'm mostly done with a project, there's just no need at all for it anymore. The Arduino I'm using for a receipt printer is just sitting there and now the cloud bit doesn't do anything for me.

And the problem I have is that ESP32s aren't much more difficult to set up nowadays, are wildly cheaper, and I'm soso excited to start messing around with ESP-NOW which I don't think Arduino has? But having like 10 ESP32s for messing around freely is more valuable than the cloud thing for me. And there are some super fun projects for ESP32 also like the Cheap Yellow Display thing. I ordered what I thought was one display, except it was 3, and I thought I would have to provide my own ESP32s but nope, they come with them. And these three CYDs were cheaper than a single Arduino it's actually crazy.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI"

lovehashbrowns — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 05:50:54 +0000

I think for me personally although I don’t use maths often enough in any practical sense, the one thing I think has stopped me progressing in life how I feel I want to has been my lack of maths knowledge. I don’t mean in a career sense but in an enjoyment sense. I watched a video about proving that the square root of two is irrational and that made me irrationally happy, and I’d love to keep going but a lot of the maths in other proofs or concepts gets absolutely insane. I don’t know how to express that to kids learning maths for the first time, though. It also almost feels like the world of math is so vast there’s something for everyone to enjoy casually. That feels like a video game analogy to me with all the different genres built around basic fundamental concepts.

New comment by lovehashbrowns in "We all dodged a bullet"

lovehashbrowns — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:48:58 +0000

I'm looking at Verdaccio currently, since Artifactory is expensive and I think the CE version still only supports C++. Does anyone have any experience with Verdaccio?