Hacker News: onair4you

New comment by onair4you in "Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit"

onair4you — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:21:56 +0000

I’ve been loving it for personal projects. But for work, some of our homebrew tooling relies heavily on hashes. So any operation that causes snapshotting to occur tends to lead to breakage that utterly confounds Claude. I tried giving it rules and instructions to make sure to sync git up to the correct commit for the current snapshot, but as soon as the signal for that is too week in the context it blows a gasket trying to figure out what has gone wrong.

New comment by onair4you in "A Dumb Introduction to Z3 (2025)"

onair4you — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:55:49 +0000

It might have more to do with the first release of Z3 being in 2012, with the first stable Rust release being in 2015. Rather than the authors of Z3 passing some kind of judgment on Rust…

New comment by onair4you in "I'm spending 3 months coding the old way"

onair4you — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:37:36 +0000

Not sure what you are using, but that’s easier said than done. I just set up an agent to ensure that my other agent would follow my coding guidelines by using hooks. The coding agent responded by switching to editing with `sed`, etc. to circumvent the hooks.

Claude Opus is going to give zero fucks about your attempts to manage it.

New comment by onair4you in "Push events into a running session with channels"

onair4you — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:29:18 +0000

My employer keeps Slack so locked down it is not really possible to use anything useful with it anyway…

New comment by onair4you in "Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language"

onair4you — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:21:41 +0000

https://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/~plclub/contest/results.php

New comment by onair4you in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

onair4you — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 01:54:26 +0000

I’ve been hoping these folks do well.

New comment by onair4you in "The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia"

onair4you — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:37:22 +0000

I’m more worried that by the time I’m 50 it will no longer be available…

New comment by onair4you in "The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks"

onair4you — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:34:20 +0000

That’s not the issue. I have the images. I just can’t find any Linux or macOS tools that can interpret the data.

For example, I can mount the FAT images I have for MS-DOS 35 years ago, but not these.

New comment by onair4you in "The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks"

onair4you — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:09:14 +0000

A bit back I got a https://kryoflux.com/ to try to get some data off old Apple II disks. I think I successfully captured the images, but then I couldn’t really find any tools that would left me examine the filesystems.

New comment by onair4you in "Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model"

onair4you — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:32:55 +0000

Thanks! Yeah. It definitely isn’t the absolute best in quality but it trounces the default TTS options on macOS (as third party developers are locked out of the Siri voices). And for less than the size of many modern web pages…

New comment by onair4you in "Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model"

onair4you — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 01:59:07 +0000

Okay, lots of details information and example code, great. But skimming through I didn’t see any audio samples to judge the quality?

New comment by onair4you in "Literate programming tool for any language"

onair4you — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:07:39 +0000

Oh you beat me to it!

New comment by onair4you in "Literate programming tool for any language"

onair4you — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:04:16 +0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noweb

New comment by onair4you in "Show HN: I’ve built an IoT device to let my family know when I’m in a meeting"

onair4you — Wed, 14 May 2025 03:50:38 +0000

I like the ingenuity, but I didn’t want have to build custom hardware. My solution:

Lutron smart plug

“On Air” sign off of Etsy

Script to watch log file indicating the state of my webcam. On changes, triggers an Apple Home command to turn the Lutron switch off and on.