Hacker News: melonpan7

New comment by melonpan7 in "Astra for Law"

melonpan7 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:06:34 +0000

I do believe entry-level paralegals will be made obsolete. In the grand scheme, perhaps it reduces overall cost of legal assistance, which is a net benefit for society.

New comment by melonpan7 in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

melonpan7 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:36:11 +0000

This is clever, I typically use Cider on my Mac or Linux machine, the notification that music is trying to play from another device (the cheapest plan only supports 1 simultaneous stream) is really annoying. I think it happens when I connect or take off my Airpods connected to my iPhone.

New comment by melonpan7 in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

melonpan7 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:19:55 +0000

I love the initiative, I understand the transparency, although it doesn't really look that great imo.

New comment by melonpan7 in "I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC"

melonpan7 — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:42:01 +0000

Great value for money if you have the time for tinkering and getting the compatibility to work.

New comment by melonpan7 in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

melonpan7 — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:40:37 +0000

I share the same sentiment, although recently my mindset has changed that not everything has to be open source.

New comment by melonpan7 in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

melonpan7 — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:03:11 +0000

Yes I believe that’s what being a manufacturer partner entails

New comment by melonpan7 in "The Emacsification of Software"

melonpan7 — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:29:58 +0000

Merely an example but I would not, one of my gripes with LLMs is the training on general sentiment and trends, so they tend to recommend whatever is popular.

New comment by melonpan7 in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

melonpan7 — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:26:42 +0000

The author doesn’t seem to understand that Apple places RAM orders years in advance. I’m not sure if it’s even feasible or possible for Apple to fully integrate their supply chain and open up memory fabs, the cost of entry must be enormous.

New comment by melonpan7 in "The Emacsification of Software"

melonpan7 — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:09:16 +0000

The barrier to entry for writing personalized software is lower, but you still need expertise for instruction and maintenance.

I don’t think we’re at the point where any random stranger on the street can get Claude to make a perfect Electron app for their use case.

New comment by melonpan7 in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

melonpan7 — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:06:26 +0000

I stopped using Windows all together two years ago, and since then Linux gaming has made huge strides. Almost everything is playable now with the exception of Kernel AC games - which I don’t play anyways. The success of the Steam Deck has been an integral part, and Vulkan performance is similar if not equal to DX.

New comment by melonpan7 in "BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets"

melonpan7 — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:35:29 +0000

Tesla severely lacks competition in the North American market. They lost all their first mover advantage by sitting back and spending significant R&D into FSD. Chinese manufacturers have some incredible innovations such as Nio’s battery swapping.

New comment by melonpan7 in "BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets"

melonpan7 — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:28:49 +0000

Provided they are available in Canada. There’s only roughly 50k imports in the first year and that will be split across all Chinese manufactured EVs (not necessarily Chinese brands). I assume the majority will be Teslas from their Shanghai factory.

New comment by melonpan7 in "What makes a good smartphone camera?"

melonpan7 — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:21:42 +0000

Any modern flagship has good enough camera capabilities, as long as it has okay low light performance that’s enough for me.

Having tried the iPhone Pro lenses, while impressive, the sensor size is never going to match a full-frame mirrorless.

New comment by melonpan7 in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

melonpan7 — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:23:00 +0000

If anything I feel like Clerk adoption is becoming the norm in recent years. I started using it about a year ago and found it to have troublesome reliability.

New comment by melonpan7 in "Cursor Camp"

melonpan7 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:57:35 +0000

It even works on mobile, brilliant.

New comment by melonpan7 in "Zed 1.0"

melonpan7 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:54:41 +0000

After hearing Zed has vim mode, I might give it a try. Currently my workflow is just opencode + nvim/opencode

New comment by melonpan7 in "HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund"

melonpan7 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:49:12 +0000

Another reason to avoid Anthropic products now.

New comment by melonpan7 in "'Seeking connection': video game where players stopped shooting, started talking"

melonpan7 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:16:39 +0000

I’ve always been fascinated about Arc Raiders since I’m more of a solo player these days. Might try it out next time it’s on sale, especially since I heard it runs flawless on Linux.

New comment by melonpan7 in "CPUs Aren't Dead. Gemma2B Out Scored GPT-3.5 Turbo on Test That Made It Famous"

melonpan7 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:48:45 +0000

Gemma is genuinely impressive, for many trivial quick questions it can replace search engines on my iPhone. Although for reasoning I definitely wouldn’t say it (Gemma 3n E2B) is smart, it unsurprisingly struggled with the classic car wash question.

New comment by melonpan7 in "NASA Artemis II moon mission live launch broadcast"

melonpan7 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:44:17 +0000

Wish them all the best and safe travels. I’ll be tuning in as you never know when the next crewed mission will be, probably not another 50 years if advancements in space travel happen.