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New comment by n_kr in "The $8 Linux Computer (2022)"

n_kr — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 18:09:12 +0000

One of these days, I will do a project with linux on a cheap Rockchip handheld game console. Many already have builds of rocknix which is a retro game focused OS with mainline latest kernels. Many of these can be had for < $50 and boot from sdcard, and have wifi and bluetooth.

New comment by n_kr in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

n_kr — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:55:25 +0000

I'm not doubting you but could you provide sources for your claims? TIA

New comment by n_kr in "The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube"

n_kr — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:09:30 +0000

As a guitarist with over 30 years of playing, and owner of many tube and non-tube amps, I disagree. Even experienced guitarist cannot reliably distinguish between transistor and tube circuits in a blind test. Having said that, if only the knowledge of playing a tube amp gives someone a better experience, even if its not empirically distinguishable, thats a perfectly valid reason to prefer it.

New comment by n_kr in "Researchers print structural colour with an inkjet printer"

n_kr — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:44:28 +0000

Whoa...I worked on this exact thing around 20 years ago. But in my time, we were using laser pulses to ablate noble metals. Printer would have made life so much easier.

New comment by n_kr in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

n_kr — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 11:50:36 +0000

Wait, helix has a file explorer now? The lack of one has been preventing me from using it more

New comment by n_kr in "Ardour 9.0"

n_kr — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:03:42 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion and sorry for late reply.

I have almost switched over to Bitwig now :D

But I still miss the ease of LoopyPro on iPad.

New comment by n_kr in "Ardour 9.0"

n_kr — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:49:26 +0000

I'll take this as an opportunity to thank the Ardour developers for making a truly great product. Its really really good.

Off topic but is there a linux DAW which focuses on live loop recording? Something like what the LoopyPro app does on iOS ?

New comment by n_kr in "Show HN: ZigFormer – An LLM implemented in pure Zig"

n_kr — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 04:06:41 +0000

OP said in the submission that this is educational.

Not everything has to be useful.

New comment by n_kr in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

n_kr — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 10:43:29 +0000

That is exactly Linux Mint ( https://linuxmint.com/ ) . I encourage you to give it a try. It is what I have settled on after 25 years of using linux, and trying near about every distro in existence.

New comment by n_kr in "EQ: A video about all forms of equalizers"

n_kr — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 13:20:58 +0000

"The best hifis are professional equipment"

This is gold. I wish so many people understood and used this. Pro equipment is more robust and more versatile. And if you know some people you can get amazing used stuff at bargain prices from your local musicians or sound engineers. Lot of times, people I know (and I too, though I'm not a pro sound engineer) will help you choose and setup just because you showed interest in the things we are interested in. Beers are assumed.

One drawback is that pro audio stuff may look ugly to non pro people. I made my wife listen to the cheapest studio monitors I could find on amazon, equalized with the same pink noise method in this video, and compare it to her bose and marshall speakers. She liked the sound better but my speakers are "yuck ugly" :(

New comment by n_kr in "Show HN: A tiny (480 LOC) AI coding assistant for your shell"

n_kr — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 05:49:15 +0000

Hey sorry for the late reply. Yes I use PEP 723 already, but there is also a requirements.txt so that vscode can be happy and do typechecks etc.

I really wish there was a way to tell vscode to understand inline metadata.

New comment by n_kr in "Ollama's new app"

n_kr — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:30:08 +0000

Could you plz link to your repo? would love to look at it.

> this is not coder this help typing instructions.

'Coding' technically is just that. If you mean engineering, yes sure, I agree. Nothing right now automates engineering. Maybe some day.

New comment by n_kr in "OpenAI Leaks 120B Open Model on Hugging Face"

n_kr — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:36:46 +0000

It may be the way I use it, but qwen3-coder (30b with ollama) is actually helping me with real world tasks. Its a bit worse than big models for the way I use it, but absolutely useful. I do use ai tools with very specific instructions though, like file paths, line numbers if I can, and specific direction about what to do, my own tools, etc. so that may be why I don't see such a huge difference from big models.

I should try Kimi K2 too.

New comment by n_kr in "Ollama's new app"

n_kr — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 03:15:00 +0000

I have a 1yo too, and I could do it. I used the other tools to make one which I liked.

New comment by n_kr in "Ollama's new app"

n_kr — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 03:13:28 +0000

Yes I do that too. The important bit is the model. Rest is almost trivial. I had posted a Show HN here about the script I've been using which is open source now ( https://github.com/n-k/tinycoder ) ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44674856 ).

With a bit of help from ChatGPT etc., it was trivial to make, and I use it everyday now. I may add DDG and github search to it soon too.

Show HN: A tiny (480 LOC) AI coding assistant for your shell

n_kr — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 19:15:14 +0000

Hi HN. This is a script I have been using for some time for coding tasks, which I have polished a bit and published.

The motivation behind this script was to have an agent with persistent session which I can use from the shell like a regular command. It _can_ also be scripted, although I don't use it in such a way.

The script uses a minimal prompt, which just tells it to use standard unix tools to do everything. I was surprised at how well it worked, when using a good model. Qwen3-coder is on openrouter, and it works well with the minimal instructions. I also tested qwen2.5-coder with ollama and that works well too.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44674856

Points: 5

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New comment by n_kr in "Aesop in Words of One Syllable"

n_kr — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:06:35 +0000

You made my day with this link

New comment by n_kr in "A glob of 99M-year-old amber trapped a zombie fungus erupting from a fly"

n_kr — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 06:41:03 +0000

> Trees, for example, have separately evolved at least 100 times.

Can you explain more? Sounds interesting

New comment by n_kr in "DeepMind releases Lyria 2 music generation model"

n_kr — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 06:41:59 +0000

Is there a model which can generate vocals for an existing song given lyrics and some direction? I can't sing my way out of a paper bag, but I can make everything else for a song, so it would be a good way to try a bunch of ideas and then involve an actual singer for any promising ideas.

New comment by n_kr in "[Deploying a basic React site pt 1] Setting up a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster"

n_kr — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 04:18:15 +0000

Heh, this will be a fun series.

I noticed that you are not using Letsencrypt operator and CRDs :-|