Hacker News: nickandbro

New comment by nickandbro in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

nickandbro — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:42:52 +0000

I agree completely and that’s exactly what I did for my site:

https://vimgolf.ai

New comment by nickandbro in "The entire city of San Francisco as a video game"

nickandbro — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:44:34 +0000

Crazy how they have GTA San Francisco before GTA 6

New comment by nickandbro in "SparrowMap – Cameras that watch government vehicles"

nickandbro — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:21:50 +0000

Nvm, just clicked on the link and took me to the GitHub. I guess that’s what I get from skimming the website.

New comment by nickandbro in "SparrowMap – Cameras that watch government vehicles"

nickandbro — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 03:23:52 +0000

Are the .exe to install a always on computer as part of a open source repo I can verify with a hash? Otherwise I am not going to trust it.

New comment by nickandbro in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

nickandbro — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:33:13 +0000

Agreed

New comment by nickandbro in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

nickandbro — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:27:52 +0000

This is genuinely a competitive model, considering it beats Claude Sonnet 5 on almost all benchmarks and is more than half its price. Seems like Google is back in the game, though not leading the frontier anymore.

New comment by nickandbro in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update"

nickandbro — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:47:51 +0000

Can you post the link to the leaked interview? From what I understand he has been pretty tight lipped for a guy who has a larger stake worth more in his company than Dario does in Anthropic.

New comment by nickandbro in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update"

nickandbro — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:20:03 +0000

That's a good point. Yeah their caching input is insane.

New comment by nickandbro in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update"

nickandbro — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:59:13 +0000

I wouldn't doubt GPT 4.6 Luna being in the top left quadrant's center on the Cost per Intelligence Index is not concerning for Liang Wenfeng. You have to remember DeepSeek v4 flash even though a bit cheaper, does not have vision abilities, which is a big draw for agentic tasks.

I admire DeepSeek's openness, but even they have been raising prices after their discounts.

New comment by nickandbro in "Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels"

nickandbro — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:10:25 +0000

Thanks for trying!

New comment by nickandbro in "Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels"

nickandbro — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:54:37 +0000

I don’t know I feel pretty crazy having created this all to make learning vim easier. Not all Vim users are like me. Why don’t you try it out?

New comment by nickandbro in "Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels"

nickandbro — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:50:39 +0000

6 months of access to current and updated version from purchase date. But considering making it lifetime if there’s popular demand for it via feedback.

New comment by nickandbro in "Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels"

nickandbro — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:00:49 +0000

Brilliant, I’ll add that today

New comment by nickandbro in "Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels"

nickandbro — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:21:40 +0000

I’ll look into making it more user intuitive. I tried in a way through the gifs, but I could find other ways to help guide the user more.

New comment by nickandbro in "Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels"

nickandbro — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:19:17 +0000

My app is actually cheaper than vim-adventures or other popular paid Vim learning sites. If you are against using my app, I encourage you to use vimtutor. A great free way to learn Vim.

New comment by nickandbro in "Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels"

nickandbro — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:16:14 +0000

Vimgolf.com is another great way to learn Vim. I created Vimgolf.ai mainly to challenge users by comparing their score against bot entries.

New comment by nickandbro in "Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels"

nickandbro — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:11:40 +0000

Hmm, I’ll look into the CPU processing performance. Maybe it’s the menu animations? And yes vimtutor continues to be a great resource that Braam made. I mainly made this app to gamify learning the vim skills.

New comment by nickandbro in "Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels"

nickandbro — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:05:44 +0000

Thank you so much for your feedback!

New comment by nickandbro in "Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels"

nickandbro — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:57:46 +0000

Thank you, investigating this

New comment by nickandbro in "Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels"

nickandbro — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:24:25 +0000

I’ll look into it! Definitely worth pursuing