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New comment by mittermayr in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

mittermayr — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:09:48 +0000

20 solid years of experience, self-employed at the moment, but I got curious a while back and started browsing jobs, and it's ... well, tough to even find something unless you're an extreme specialist and trust to bank on that technology or niche sustaining you through the next few years.

New comment by mittermayr in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

mittermayr — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:07:03 +0000

just wanted to give you another perspective to consider: I teach a class where they're designing websites and small apps with ChatGPT, but we're failing to host this. I built a simply copy/paste HTML renderer, so they can at least share and try it outside of ChatGPT, but for our final project, I felt like it would've been nice if something like all those JS playgrounds would exist, but much, much simpler. I upload an HTML and it becomes accessible publicly so students can share their projects. The domain never matters, any subdomain is fine, but it needs to be without an account and that makes it incredibly hard to host (spam). Why without an account? Our onboarding of the same class (30 students or so) to Figma took us two full days, it was a disaster. Nobody wants to go through that again. That said, university budgets are nearly untouchable, so I'm not sure if and/or where there's reason enough to do this other than purely academical.

New comment by mittermayr in "Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects"

mittermayr — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:44:59 +0000

Just got a Wireguard update on Windows a minute ago, so seems resolved?

New comment by mittermayr in "My university uses prompt injection to catch cheaters"

mittermayr — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:07:41 +0000

I teach a tech class to marketing students, and it definitely works very well. They are allowed to use ChatGPT and other tools, with one caveat: you remain responsible for the output. I hide white-text prompt injections in specs or longer task instructions (usually in PDFs, works well enough there with copy and paste), and sometimes place a phrase near the end of the text that prompts the LLM to append something like, "I submit this assignment without checking its output, and I accept point deductions as agreed."

I used to do this for a laugh and not deduct points, next year, I showed them this before class as an introduction to working with AI and kind of as a warning, I'll deduct points, expecting nobody falling for it, then they fell for it over and over again. Well.

New comment by mittermayr in "Conway's Game of Life, in real life"

mittermayr — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:54:45 +0000

Totally off-topic, and I may be wrong, but I immediately loved the non-LLM writing-style and felt glued to the content just through the writing alone. It's getting rare.

New comment by mittermayr in "Ask HN: Why isn't there an open-source model trained by the community?"

mittermayr — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:51:12 +0000

wow, thanks for all the links, I'll have a look and see if anything interesting with recent updates comes up there.

Ask HN: Why isn't there an open-source model trained by the community?

mittermayr — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:23:37 +0000

Couldn't find anything online, but just wondered what the chances would be, if, much like SETI at the time, people would share some of their GPU processing time (small slots, here and there, when underutilized) to train an open-source community-owned model? Basically a model by the people, for the people :)

I wonder for how much longer we'll get to see (high quality) open models be shared freely, it's already quite a limited landscape.

Would there even be enough GPU power? Would something like it be doable with a reasonably realistic community effort? The human part of training could also be a part of this effort, which is yet another thing a single company is having to pay a lot of money for (well, I guess not anymore, as everyone is now helping out for free, by using the hosted LLMs).

Then, of course the problem of the data, not sure how far off the data private companies have bought, stolen, ...found is from what's available out there.

Curious if anyone more involved in with the topic has a thought or two about it.

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New comment by mittermayr in "FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font"

mittermayr — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:57:59 +0000

Amazing way to show-case a tool (all in-browser, can be done so simply), super disappointed in the result. I took care writing all the letters, but when I looked at the generated font, even some of the corner markers ended up as letters!?

Not sure if this was meant to work with cursive handwriting?

New comment by mittermayr in "Show HN: I turned Claude Code into a personal assistant"

mittermayr — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:19:00 +0000

OpenClaw vs. OpenPaw? Seems like a very similar thing, or am I misunderstanding the concept here? Is the lock-in to Claude Code the feature here?

Can't be long until we see a BaseClaw repo, where everyone can clone and name their own local claw-like loop.

New comment by mittermayr in "Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase"

mittermayr — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:57:52 +0000

While great in theory, I think it almost always fails on "non-existent" testing structures that reliably cover the areas you're modifying. I change something, and if there's no immediate build or compile error, this (depending on the system) usually does not mean you're safe. A lot of issues happen on the interfaces (data in/out of the system) and certain advanced states and context. I wouldn't know how Mikado helps here.

In other words, I'd reword this to using the Mikado method to understand large codebases, or get a first glimpse of how things are connected and wired up. But to say it allows for _safe_ changes is stretching it a bit much.

New comment by mittermayr in "Microslop Manifesto"

mittermayr — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:37:43 +0000

Attention, attention, and more attention. That's what that is.

First it was crypto, now it's things like this, literal slop that helps absolutely nobody, doing the very thing it claims needs to be stopped: polluting the internet.

I get it, everyone wants attention, but figure out a better way, do it right.

Also, "Microslop is a satirical mirror" seems like some heavy lifting on overselling the message here. People need to stop pooping in the pool, so, to bring awareness to this, I will now poop in the pool.

New comment by mittermayr in "Right-sizes LLM models to your system's RAM, CPU, and GPU"

mittermayr — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:55:32 +0000

this is visually fantastic, but while trying this out, it says I can't run Qwen 3.5 on my machine, while it is running in the background currently, coding. So, not sure what the true value of a tool like this is other than getting a first glimpse, perhaps. Also, with unsloth providing custom adjustments, some models that are listed as undoable become doable, and they're not in the tool. Again, not trying to be harsh, it's just a really hard thing to do properly. And like many other similar tools, the maintainer here will also eventually struggle with the fact that models are popping up left and right faster than they can keep up with it.

New comment by mittermayr in "Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers"

mittermayr — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:11:00 +0000

> Your complimentary subscription will expire at the end of the Benefit Period. After expiration, any existing subscription will continue unless you cancel. You may independently choose to purchase a paid Claude subscription at the then-current price through Anthropic’s standard signup process.

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-for-oss-terms

New comment by mittermayr in "Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers"

mittermayr — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:50:09 +0000

I may sound unthankful here, but it just very strongly smells of Antropic amping up their PR campaigning lately, even the headline on the post reads offputting.

Plus, while 6 months is better than 1 month, why isn't it a recurring deal (or token-limited), which renews after check-ins (like educational discounts do). This sounds like an Apple TV+ offer you get for every Apple product you buy. A hook, more than a treat.

In this case, I guess it's just a slimy approach to building a self-selected lead list of people you can hard-hit with upsells after the 6 months.

Thank you for everything you ship*

*there's a 6 months limit we have on gratitute.

New comment by mittermayr in "Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love"

mittermayr — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:00:46 +0000

> Dropbox wasn’t a massive money generator

Depends on who you ask. I guess Drew, who posted it here, may beg to differ.

New comment by mittermayr in "Acme Weather"

mittermayr — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:35:14 +0000

Smells heavily like the Wunderlist approach, just re-do and re-sell the same thing over and over.

New comment by mittermayr in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

mittermayr — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:29:17 +0000

I wonder how long it'll take (if it hasn't already) until the messaging around this inevitably moves on to "Do not self-host this, are you crazy? This requires console commands, don't be silly! Our team of industry-veteran security professionals works on your digital safety 24/7, you would never be able to keep up with the demands of today's cybersecurity attack spectrum. Any sane person would host their claw with us!"

Next flood of (likely heavily YC-backed) Clawbase (Coinbase but for Claws) hosting startups incoming?

New comment by mittermayr in "Qwen3-Coder-Next"

mittermayr — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:51:17 +0000

what do you run this on if I may ask? lmstudio, ollama, lama? which cli?

New comment by mittermayr in "Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI"

mittermayr — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:44:04 +0000

At first I was like, well, what can I offer, hmm, most notably, 25 years of programming, so maybe I'll add a profile that offers tha....

Oh, wait... the agents HAVE NO USE FOR ME

New comment by mittermayr in "Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking"

mittermayr — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:11:26 +0000

yeah the amount of nodes I had on the public internet, when all I really needed was some internal connectivity (exactly like you have here, a machine sending logs to an internal-only loki instance, and then a grafana node that is also only internally relevant and never needs to see the public internet), etc.