Hacker News: mvanbaak

New comment by mvanbaak in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

mvanbaak — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:30:00 +0000

It sounds really insane. Too bad there is 0 proof or anything in the article, so I am very skeptical. Without proof etc this is just a very nice doom story.

New comment by mvanbaak in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

mvanbaak — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:41:51 +0000

large enterprises dont pay openai or anthropic, they get this thing called copilot and get a nice price there. At least on this side of the pond (eu)

New comment by mvanbaak in "FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving FreeBSD on laptop"

mvanbaak — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:03:15 +0000

this. I have been running FreeBSD for over a decade, but not on my laptop.

New comment by mvanbaak in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

mvanbaak — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:47:38 +0000

Check out the project called superpowers. It can use different models for different agents. I use it witb opencode to have different models for reaearch, planning, execution, testing etc

New comment by mvanbaak in "Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'"

mvanbaak — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:36:00 +0000

the problem is not the model, but the infrastructure needed to run the model. so yeah, gpus, cpus, network, etc etc

New comment by mvanbaak in "Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise"

mvanbaak — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:22:11 +0000

also, it's very much possible that the chinese companies get heavy investments from the state. Since it's very hard to get this info we have no idea wether they really make a profit or not.

New comment by mvanbaak in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

mvanbaak — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:06:09 +0000

if all the resources spent in useless wars were poured into working towards this goal, we would be there for some time already

New comment by mvanbaak in "Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin"

mvanbaak — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:18:51 +0000

Ppl want developers to work for free. Especially here on hn

New comment by mvanbaak in "Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin"

mvanbaak — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:17:17 +0000

The article misses a couple points: - sharing. With plex this is easy using plex accounts - 3rd party integrations. There’s a whole ecosystem around plex. - a lot of things that are built in into plex are either not available in jellyfin or are offered as (no longer maintained) plugins - clients are far from the quality one needs

New comment by mvanbaak in "Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin"

mvanbaak — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:06:10 +0000

> I don't think anyone considers buying an item at a site like target.com considers them paying for software.

You do know target adds the cost for their web presence to their cost centre, and you as customer pays for it right?

New comment by mvanbaak in "Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin"

mvanbaak — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:59:30 +0000

I logged in 6 years ago. Since then its just working. Yes, plex. On my appletv

New comment by mvanbaak in "Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service"

mvanbaak — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:04:32 +0000

accepting the update TOS is not the same as signing a new contract. But yeah, a lot of stuff is constantly blocked behind: accept the new terms before continuing.

New comment by mvanbaak in "Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service"

mvanbaak — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:43:08 +0000

There's this nice config option that you enabled that stores originals in iCloud, and removes them from your device to save storage space. I think it is called something like 'Optimize Storage'.

So, you enable an option to not eat up all your storage and have the originals stored in iCloud, iCloud gets a new TOS, and you complain your originals are 'held hostage'? riiiiiight. I mean, it's doing what you told it to do.

New comment by mvanbaak in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7"

mvanbaak — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:03:10 +0000

boring ... the ways all the models fail at a simple task never gets boring to me

New comment by mvanbaak in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"

mvanbaak — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:55:04 +0000

BT and (although very very limited) NFC can be used for tracking and location detection.

New comment by mvanbaak in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"

mvanbaak — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:51:09 +0000

> I am curious why Safari in particular is getting a lot of the hate here

Here is HN, where apple is the bad boy in town.

New comment by mvanbaak in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

mvanbaak — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:32:19 +0000

I'm a vim user. for decades. Your post does not align at all with my experience.

If you prompt and hand-hold the LLM it is a big help. Things like boilerplate, basic crud etc etc is something I dont have to worry about anymore. And if I am looking at an unknown codebase or area, the llm can explain things to me, it's the rubber duck that talks back.

I'm not using vim plugins (yet) for LLM, tmux and a couple of panes etc is all I need at the moment.

New comment by mvanbaak in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

mvanbaak — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:03:02 +0000

I am reading the comments to see if there’s a merch shop haga

New comment by mvanbaak in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

mvanbaak — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:01:28 +0000

> You don't talk about all the assembly high level languages make, or at least it's no longer how people view things. We don't say "look at this assembly I compiled." Instead the entire concept fades to the back.

Some still do. Os and compiler devs to name a few

New comment by mvanbaak in "The happiest I've ever been"

mvanbaak — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:47:43 +0000

What if the the alternatives are worse?