Hacker News: nextlevelwizard

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu"

nextlevelwizard — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:53:58 +0000

New tools are cool, but from what I have seen jj is literally just git with aliases

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "GenCAD"

nextlevelwizard — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:38:01 +0000

doesnt really help if I cant find them and I guess if I could find them so could GW and they would be taken down. Having an application you can host at home that could do the job from pictures would be awesome

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "GenCAD"

nextlevelwizard — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:35:50 +0000

I dont know that app specifically, but from all videos of different lidar and other 3d scanning tools I have seen the results are pretty bad and require a lot of sculpting after the scan. Whole point was that with few images the ML model could construct the actual 3d model for you

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "GenCAD"

nextlevelwizard — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:34:15 +0000

I dont know how that solves this. How do you get STLs out of gausian splats?

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "GenCAD"

nextlevelwizard — Mon, 18 May 2026 05:14:57 +0000

If down the line this model could create 3D model from 2D images that would be very neat way to pay less for war gaming models

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

nextlevelwizard — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:22:18 +0000

Yeah that’s not good for current Copilot usage since you are paying per request not by token

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

nextlevelwizard — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:01:40 +0000

You are prompting the same model to review what it just did?

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

nextlevelwizard — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:01:04 +0000

Hope people doing those kinds of automations are paid to waste prompts and tokens. Any cron based LLM run is just stupid waste

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

nextlevelwizard — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:59:53 +0000

That is a lot of prompts. What kind of prompts do you usually give?

Mine are usually giving specification and telling Claude to implement some part of it, referring to existing code base, writing unittests and running e2e until it passes. This can easily take 4-5 hours.

Then again, I have seen colleagues prompt “are you sure?” And other nonsense like that

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

nextlevelwizard — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:05:44 +0000

How you burn 300 requests in a day? From my Copilot usage Opus consumes surprisingly few requests to do a lot of stuff. It isn’t paying by token but instead by prompt or something.

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

nextlevelwizard — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:16:57 +0000

Because there is no negatives, only positives.

I can maintain the Python code myself and I can execute it everywhere.

If I let my LLM write in Rust then when things break I am out of luck. Also Rust needs to be compiled which means I can't just share the code as freely.

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Dithering with CSS"

nextlevelwizard — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:27:28 +0000

Is this actually dithering?

I have dabbled with some dithering algorithms and while this is way faster than my naive js implementations, this looks pretty bad

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

nextlevelwizard — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:24:24 +0000

Let’s put age limit on gaming then.

Gamblers will always find a way to gamble. I like getting cosmetics for free even if they are randomized. I don’t think I have ever bought keys to loot boxes, I just don’t see the point.

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

nextlevelwizard — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:11:27 +0000

And I see no problem with that. I have never bought a single skin for Counter Strike nor Team Fortress 2 and I have bunch. Well, I used to, but then CS2 came out and all of a sudden my skins and unopened boxes were valued at hundreds of euros and I sold them on steam.

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

nextlevelwizard — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:44:41 +0000

Maybe hot take in this age, but loot boxes for cosmetics aren't a problem when you can get cosmetics by just playing.

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Write some software, give it away for free"

nextlevelwizard — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:54:19 +0000

Even in these comments I keep hearing the same complaint: "when you do open source people come asking for support and complaining about your software"

I don't get why this is such an issue. You can just ignore these people if you don't want to interact with them. You shouldn't take bug reports or support requests personally.

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

nextlevelwizard — Mon, 04 May 2026 05:22:28 +0000

Yes. I misspoke. It dropped very very late on Wednesday, most of the work started on Thursday and Friday was a Mayday which is a holiday in many if not most places. So fine, on a technicality it wasn't a Friday release, but it might as well have been. They could have easily waited for Monday.

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

nextlevelwizard — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:25:28 +0000

So why not just tell immediately on discovery? After all every flaw exists already so what’s the difference?

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

nextlevelwizard — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:35:22 +0000

That is just being pedantic. Why did they absolutely need to release this into the wild now? Why couldn’t they have waited?

“30 days should be enough time” why? Why is 30 days a magic number? Especially in open source.

Yeah it isn’t the researchers problem to tell every distributor of the kernel about the fix or verify that everyone has the fix, but fuck maybe wait until at least someone has the fix and maybe don’t drop it on a Friday. That is just malicious

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

nextlevelwizard — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:09:46 +0000

Maybe. I stopped using OpenAI a while ago. But taking pictures of the nutrition labels was good enough