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New comment by nidnogg in "Impeaching Donald J. Trump, President of the United States [pdf]"

nidnogg — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:48:08 +0000

Can today go any faster? Yikes.

New comment by nidnogg in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

nidnogg — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:15:06 +0000

You're absolutely right here and things have improved significantly at work after dropping this habit even if slightly.

New comment by nidnogg in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

nidnogg — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:59:29 +0000

Guilty as charged. In my mind, when I'm insecure about a response or if I don't have enough expertise in the topic at hand I end up running it through an LLM. Lately I've been really trying harder to keep my original ideas as much as possible. I'm seeing a bit of an improvement, but still early to tell

New comment by nidnogg in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

nidnogg — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:02:46 +0000

NGL had me chuckling a bit there when I remembered I had one of these to code on my backlog

New comment by nidnogg in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

nidnogg — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:01:08 +0000

Nothing comes close to LLM transcription though. I just tried this. I said "globe key dictation, does this work?". Here's the transcription, verbatim:

"Fucking dictation, does this work"

New comment by nidnogg in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

nidnogg — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:59:43 +0000

This got me thinking that the smaller these local first LLMs get - the more they're gonna looking the next bread and butter of app dev. Reminds me how Electron gained a lot of traction for making it easy to package prettier apps. At the measly cost of gigabytes of RAM, give or take.

New comment by nidnogg in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

nidnogg — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:57:55 +0000

I really like the project and am eager to try and fit this into some of my workflows. However, this bothered me a bit:

"All models run locally, no private data leaves your computer. And it's spicy to offer something for free that other apps have raised $80M to build."

I’d straight up drop the comparison to big AI labs. This isn’t rebellious or subversive, it’s downstream of a ton of already-funded work. Calling it “spicy” is a bit misframed.

New comment by nidnogg in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

nidnogg — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:40:21 +0000

I can relate to the feeling - this timing tracks for when most, if not all of my friends, all my co-workers (even the few who were resisting to adopt any AI toloing) flocked to just "Claude Code". Similar to how the masses gobbled VS Code a while back.

Company started doling out Claude Code configs, everything is now cli/agentic AI harnessed and news about "90% of this company's code is now AI Generated" pop up every other day.

It seems the last frontier to breach before this was nailing agentic black boxes to not crap out during the first hour of work. After that, it's really been much smoother for those tools.

New comment by nidnogg in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

nidnogg — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:36:50 +0000

Don't you feel that sabbaticals kinda get you off the new tech wave anyway? I usually check in on news much more often when bored at slow work days.

On the side, this might not have to do at all with your case, but the reason I personally keep putting off sabbaticals is that I feel it can severely compound my routine wrecking habits and I don't think I'd be too strong-willed to give it meaningful purpose. Not to mention the first point, i.e. it would 100% make my industry pessimism worse. I'd like to not bounce away from tech forever. Rather, figure what scratches the same itch I've been seeking since the start.

I'm all about big road trips, big adventures but I think the couch potato risk is all too real for me.

New comment by nidnogg in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

nidnogg — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:18:01 +0000

I don't like it either. But what is really guaranteeing other markets from flunking similarly later on? What's to say other jobs are going to be any better? Back in college, most of my peers would say "I'm not cut out for anything else. This is it". They were, sure enough, computer and/or math people at heart from an early age.

More importantly, what's gonna be the next stable category of remote-first jobs that a person with a tech-adjacent or tech-minded skillset can tack onto? That's all I care about, to be honest.

I may hate tech with a passion at times and be overly bullish on its future, but there's no replacing my past jobs which have graced me and many others with quality time around family, friends, nature and sports while off work.

New comment by nidnogg in "The Indie Internet Index – submit your favorite sites"

nidnogg — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:57:33 +0000

I'm baffled that I only knew wiby.me from this list. Time to dive in!

New comment by nidnogg in "LLM Wiki – example of an "idea file""

nidnogg — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:06:09 +0000

The worst part to me, by far, is having nothing more than a bunch of "smart" markdown files to show as my deliverables for the day. Sometimes this stacks for many days on end. Usually the bigger the knowledge gaps are, the more I procrastinate on real work.

Talk about back to school feelings (!)

New comment by nidnogg in "LLM Wiki – example of an "idea file""

nidnogg — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:01:51 +0000

And what happens when the bucket of knowledge gets too big and starts to overflow? I feel as if, by delegating that process of building knowledge too much, I end up accruing knowledge gaps of my own. Funnily enough it mirrors the LLM/agent's performance.

Maybe my recent prompts reflects how badly up to speed I am at a given time? I don't know. A slightly related note - I recently heard the term AI de-skilling, this treads close to it imo.

New comment by nidnogg in "LLM Wiki – example of an "idea file""

nidnogg — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:05:04 +0000

It is how I feel when I do it. And it certainly shows over time.

New comment by nidnogg in "LLM Wiki – example of an "idea file""

nidnogg — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:04:43 +0000

I've recently lazied out big time on a company project going down a similar rabbit hole. After having a burnout episode and dealing with sole caregiver woes in the family for the past year, I've had less and less energy to piece together intense, correct thought sequences at work.

As such I've taken to delegating substantial parts architecture and discovery to multiagent workflows that always refer back to a wiki-like castle of markdown files that I've built over time with them, fronted by Obsidian so I can peep efficiently often enough.

Now I'm certainly doing something wrong, but the gaps are just too many to count. If anything, this creates a weird new type of tech debt. Almost like a persistent brain gap. I miss thinking harder and I think it would get me out of this one for sure. But the wiki workflow is just too addictive to stop.

New comment by nidnogg in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

nidnogg — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:34:17 +0000

I've been a vim/nvim casual user for the past year or two, and I still feel as if I'm slightly less proficient in it for the amount of time that I put into it.

I really need to get around to playing with it more. I just hope that especially now with genAI that it's not too late for learning it further.

New comment by nidnogg in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

nidnogg — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:31:27 +0000

And once you get tired of fzf and want something better, you reach for https://atuin.sh.

Completely transformed all of my workflows

New comment by nidnogg in "Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)"

nidnogg — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:23:56 +0000

Cool new toys! I like it. I've recently been thinking of branching into more water sports such as rowing, ocean swimming and the like to have a better shot at surviving out at sea. Hopefully I've gotten some mountains covered by now.

New comment by nidnogg in "Rio de Janeiro's talipot palm trees bloom for the first and only time"

nidnogg — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:10:31 +0000

It is so hot in Rio de Janeiro right now. We've had nothing but hazy, humid, UV-infested mornings. Can't wait to spend summer somewhere else. I miss the especially mild winter season we have.

New comment by nidnogg in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

nidnogg — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:22:41 +0000

Oh man this would kinda help me a lot right now. (As a struggling home owner living w/mom and dog)