Hacker News: mavamaarten

New comment by mavamaarten in "DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp"

mavamaarten — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:00:33 +0000

Yeah I've seen it a lot. It goes through the effort, unasked, of pulling screenshots off a connected device and then it's like... Oh shit yeah I can't see.

New comment by mavamaarten in "Minikotlin"

mavamaarten — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:27:34 +0000

That's cool. I often write tiny blurbs of kotlin just to test out a simple algorithm. I often do this on kotlin playground because doing so inside a scratch file or test is somehow more cumbersome and slow. This ran and compiled something in 98ms on my smartphone, cool stuff.

New comment by mavamaarten in "We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12"

mavamaarten — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:34:41 +0000

I had the same sentiment. In my limited testing, it didn't perform any better than Opus at all. It wasn't a particularly challenging taskset either, mostly just "add this simple feature" with plenty of context and very clearly defined scope. It worked functionally but there were much better and simpler approaches available. For the cost, I don't see how Fable can ever be worth it.

New comment by mavamaarten in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

mavamaarten — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:54:39 +0000

That's what stood out to me as well, and it struck me as odd that nobody seemed to think it's odd? Almost half of the points to be made is related to contributions to open source projects. Guess my 10+ years of experience in a niche topic is worthless.

New comment by mavamaarten in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

mavamaarten — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:41:40 +0000

That's what I mean with the promise. Nobody knows what they're doing on their end. The data goes over the wire, and then you need to assume they are true to their word and the data is not intercepted by anyone.

New comment by mavamaarten in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

mavamaarten — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:34:07 +0000

It is. Not per sé because the code might be of poor quality, but because someone sent that source code to a public API under the promise that oh noooo we won't use your code for training. Probably.

New comment by mavamaarten in "Jira Is Turing-Complete"

mavamaarten — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:45:09 +0000

Yeah the slowness is what always gets me. Like in essence a ticketing system isn't more than just a database of tickets and relations between tickets and states. And okay you can kinda make it explode by having tons of interconnected tickets and custom fields and plugins. But I will never understand how something that just works with simple textual data and attachments can be so unbearably slow.

New comment by mavamaarten in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

mavamaarten — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:22:45 +0000

I'm honestly not really that surprised by that. All (except clothes) are prime examples of products where you don't really care who sells it to you and how it looks in the packaging. People want a certain product and want it the cheapest. Why would you go to a real store to look at that product inside of packaging you can't open, with the added cost of the person behind the counter?

I mean a Lego set is a Lego set, whether you see the pictures on the box or online.

New comment by mavamaarten in "Googlebook"

mavamaarten — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:39:42 +0000

Yeah especially the AI stuff is so... not a driving force for anyone to buy this?

For me, unless you can run LLM's and whatnot locally (which is not the case on this undisclosed low-end hardware), "AI" just means doing some API call to a web service and have it serve me some freshly made up tokens. You can do that on a potato. The fact that they happily announce something that can be done on any other cheap-ass laptop as the main selling point, means this product is nothing special at all.

New comment by mavamaarten in "Googlebook"

mavamaarten — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:33:44 +0000

I'm super techy but I admit that I just use Signal to send me a "Note to self" whenever I need a file from my phone on my computer quickly. For images I just use immich, but texting myself is honestly the quickest way for files because the experience is indeed terrible.

New comment by mavamaarten in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

mavamaarten — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:24:48 +0000

Yup! All good ideas and solutions to hard problems, after becoming stuck, have come to me after a good night's sleep or after removing myself from the "thinking place" and taking a break. Yes I mean the toilet. Many fantastic ideas come to me on the toilet.

New comment by mavamaarten in "Is my blue your blue?"

mavamaarten — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:24:30 +0000

Haha I got "for you, turquoise is green" and I was like... Yeah, is it not?

New comment by mavamaarten in "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"

mavamaarten — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:30:45 +0000

Has it, though? There's still features that bring large user value and require 10 lines of code, and features that bring a small user value and require AI to burn tokens on huge refactors and babying to make sure it doesn't break anything.

New comment by mavamaarten in "The Gemini app is now on Mac"

mavamaarten — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:55:46 +0000

Well good for you, but that doesn't change the fact that I can't use it. Everything is a mishmash of the old Assistant and Gemini. Sometimes even my Google Home answers in the old Assistant voice (you know... "Sorry, I don't understand"

New comment by mavamaarten in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

mavamaarten — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:24:21 +0000

Well. Running your machine to do inference will utilize more than 50W sustained load, I'd say more than double that. Plus electricity is more expensive here (but granted, I do have solar panels). Plus don't forget to factor in that your hardware will age faster.

I'd say it's not worth it. But the idea is cool.

New comment by mavamaarten in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

mavamaarten — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:10:06 +0000

Haha yeah. I once asked it to make a field in an API response nullable, and to gracefully handle cases where that might be an issue (it was really easy, I was just lazy and could have done it myself, but I thought it was the perfect task for my AI idiot intern to handle). Sure, it said. Then it was bored of the task and just deleted the field altogether.

New comment by mavamaarten in "Show HN: Pluck – Copy any UI from any website, paste it into AI coding tools"

mavamaarten — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:05:55 +0000

I was thinking the same. Plagiarism as a service, lol

New comment by mavamaarten in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

mavamaarten — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:06:07 +0000

I'm growing allergic to the hype train and the slop. I've watched real-life talks about people that sent some prompt to Claude Code and then proudly present something mediocre that they didn't make themselves to a whole audience as if they'd invented the warm water, and that just makes me weary.

But at the same time, it has transformed my work from writing everything bit of code myself, to me writing the cool and complex things while giving directions to a helper to sort out the boring grunt work, and it's amazingly capable at that. It _is_ a hugely powerful tool.

But haters only see red, and lovers see everything through pink glasses.

New comment by mavamaarten in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

mavamaarten — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:49:49 +0000

I doubt it. I noticed a few of these comments too on our PR's. We did ask copilot for a review ton GitHub (we just add copilot as a reviewer) but not through Raycast.

New comment by mavamaarten in "Death to Scroll Fade"

mavamaarten — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:36:50 +0000

On top of that, that page took 10 seconds to load. On a Gbit network connection, lol