Hacker News: nxtfari

New comment by nxtfari in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

nxtfari — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:35:20 +0000

> Do people have extremely complex Actions that I can't fathom?

Yes. Think CI jobs that test every candidate PR against a matrix of build targets, run fuzzing, run simulation tests, run bench regression tests, etc etc. Modern CI workflow automation has reached way beyond what a pedestrian can fathom if you’re not on the wave.

New comment by nxtfari in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

nxtfari — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:42:20 +0000

I had issues with Qwen thinking endlessly when I didn’t know I wasn’t using the temp/top_k/min_p/etc settings specified in the readme. I’ve never had an issue with Gemma 4 thinking endlessly but could possibly be the same.

New comment by nxtfari in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

nxtfari — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:39:37 +0000

This makes a lot of my experience with Qwen make sense. I’ve watched all the benchmarks imply how close it should be to various GPT or Claude releases, but in my own use chatting with it or trying to get it do agentic tasks it was nowhere near as smart as even GPT-3.5 for example. Meanwhile Gemma 4 casually dropped and even the 4B models were performing better than Qwen 3.5 MOE in my chats. Benchmaxxing.

New comment by nxtfari in "AI generates nude images that outrank real photographs in sexual appeal"

nxtfari — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:53:49 +0000

Perennially relevant: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Jq73GozjsuhdwMLEG/superstimu...

Also in comic form: https://stuartmcmillen.com/comic/supernormal-stimuli/

New comment by nxtfari in "Young people are turning to old-school hobbies to get off their phones"

nxtfari — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:51:32 +0000

not anything new. people have been taking up “old timey” hobbies to get away from screens since the late 2000s. you’ll remember the hipster javascript baristas of portland taking up leatherworking and blacksmithing between launching meteorJS sites “made with <3”

New comment by nxtfari in "Ex-Windows chief praises MacBook Neo, laments Surface defeat"

nxtfari — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:44:01 +0000

In his entire screed he never realizes the reason Apple got their transition to work was they genuinely worked hard to make it happen on both ends: they forced developers hard AND still shipped Rosetta 2 to make it seamless for user anxiety for laggard developers. They even had this playbook watching Apple do their first transition from PowerPC to x86. Yet he seems to think Windows 8’s problem was velocity.

New comment by nxtfari in "Personal Computer by Perplexity"

nxtfari — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:30:12 +0000

it’s not ZIRP anymore but it might as well be. you can truly get funded to make anything right now

New comment by nxtfari in "Show HN: Ash, an Agent Sandbox for Mac"

nxtfari — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:09:01 +0000

I believe you’re late to the “ash shell” name by about 36 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almquist_shell

New comment by nxtfari in "The Brand Age"

nxtfari — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:07:37 +0000

very interesting article but i was surprised pg’s conclusion was the opposite of what i expected. to me it was like oh this is brilliant, instead of trading effort linearly for money you can just control image and be paid outside for it. reminded me of, e.g. chamberlain canned coffee, which tastes terrible but has emma chamberlain’s personal brand lifting for it in the aisle every time you see it.

New comment by nxtfari in "Show HN: Rust compiler in PHP emitting x86-64 executables"

nxtfari — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:46:34 +0000

you never know what’s going on in someone else’s claude max plan

New comment by nxtfari in "Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist?"

nxtfari — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:27:04 +0000

i do robots for work (formerly drones, now self driving cars). pick a type of robot that interests you. self driving rovers, industrial manufacturing machines, drones, humanoids, underwater pipe inspecting subs are all robots with very different technologies underlying them. very hard to just “learn robots” you gotta have something in mind that you think is cool that is the direction you wanna go in, otherwise e.g. you learn inverse kinematics and it’s completely unnecessary for delivery drones, or you learn VLMs and it’s completely unnecessary for industrial robots. start with the goal and then peel back the onion. good luck!

New comment by nxtfari in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

nxtfari — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:50:16 +0000

To be fair, writing a takedown blogpost on a maintainer for closing its PR is the most human oss dev thing an agent could do.

New comment by nxtfari in "List animals until failure"

nxtfari — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 04:36:33 +0000

there are so many special cases that this game responds to, i was shocked that it didn’t involve an llm at all at the end. very cool.

New comment by nxtfari in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

nxtfari — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 07:16:59 +0000

I’m a fan of what Comma is working on, but to say it’s about as good as FSD (!!) would be a big misunderstanding of both products. Comma is L2 assist: basically in a lane it will keep the lane, and if a car stops ahead it will stop. It’s equivalent to Tesla standard Autopilot, but FSD is an L3 bordering on L4 system. It navigates traffic lights, intersections, indicating, merging, etc none of which Comma can do. Still good product though.

New comment by nxtfari in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

nxtfari — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:53:22 +0000

Good context, thank you. I think this changes my view, you’re more likely right.

New comment by nxtfari in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

nxtfari — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:53:56 +0000

My guess is Tesla is desperately in need of Q1 revenue and they want people to scarcity buy FSD lifetime @ $8K. Otherwise the strategy doesn’t make any sense. They’re saying FSD and basic Autopilot will go behind subscription and that subscription prices are expected to go up. Basically laying out that they’re planning to lock you into a subscription and then price gouge. It’s so transparent that I think the point isn’t actually the gouge but to make that threat move lifetime FSD sales.

New comment by nxtfari in "I'm a developer for a major food delivery app"

nxtfari — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 08:54:21 +0000

Big fan of Arendt. I will check this out, thanks!

New comment by nxtfari in "I'm a developer for a major food delivery app"

nxtfari — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 08:47:08 +0000

I hear what you’re saying, there are definitely just amoral engineers who truly don’t care. I think the plurality though (and this goes for all disciplines, not just engineering) will start to feel queasy if the impact is too clear and visible. Those people need to stay with the program, as there aren’t enough purely amoral engineers/marketers/PMs/etc to keep the ship afloat alone.

New comment by nxtfari in "I'm a developer for a major food delivery app"

nxtfari — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 08:16:42 +0000

Believability aside (I do think it’s believable personally) this is pretty much how “evil” (from outsider perspective) is done at every company, including mine. Inside it’s all sprint meetings, KPIs and terminology that are either intentionally or unintentionally designed to keep engineers far from thinking about impact on real people. It’s easy to convince a 25 year old whiz kid to optimize human assets, it’s just like Factorio and it feels good to see the number go up. In-jokes and dark humor fly and it all feels not real and just like a game. Sometimes on purpose by management, sometimes automatic as a coping mechanism. Defense (my field) is very much the same way.