Hacker News: radium3d

New comment by radium3d in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

radium3d — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:48:32 +0000

The main thing that sucks with Claude is the extremely low limits before you get fail2banned for 6 hours. I'm out. Refund requested. Grok and Gemini Pro are way better with the throttling, can't comment on ChatGPT, haven't used that for a year.

New comment by radium3d in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

radium3d — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:27:30 +0000

Recent year or two LibreOffice has improved greatly as far as the UX goes and I haven't had to use Word/Excel in decades. When I have to use it for work I use the online app and office online apps are also garbage, especially compared to Google Docs / Sheets stability and performance.

New comment by radium3d in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

radium3d — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:06:55 +0000

You didn't start using libreoffice.org like 15 years ago?

New comment by radium3d in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

radium3d — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:21:51 +0000

These laws just complicate things, make it more expensive to run a game company and these government people don't get it. This will just result in making it more expensive to make games and keep them running. On top of that, it incentivises subscription based games.

> 'it excludes games provided via subscription services, free-to-play games, and games that are inherently playable offline indefinitely. It also prohibits the continued sale or distribution of games that have become unusable due to service termination.'

The only winners are lawyers. NOT gamers. The lawyers always like to call their laws "protect X" lol

New comment by radium3d in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

radium3d — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:44:59 +0000

What about map applications which manipulate the history to store the position of the map as users drag and release to make back and forward work to the users expectation in a single page app? It’s not malicious, but will Google flag it?

New comment by radium3d in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

radium3d — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:36:15 +0000

Did they mount my Canon 7D to the outside? :D reminds me of the familiar grain haha

New comment by radium3d in "Nvidia DLSS 5 Delivers AI-Powered Breakthrough in Visual Fidelity for Games"

radium3d — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:02:49 +0000

The biggest problem I have with DLSS 5 is how it completely upends and ruins the dynamic lighting that the developers spend a huge amount of time perfecting to set the perfect mood for the scene.

New comment by radium3d in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

radium3d — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:45:23 +0000

Back in the day people were all about languages like C that made it incredibly easy too.

New comment by radium3d in "Cloudflare crawl endpoint"

radium3d — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:24:21 +0000

Instead of "should have been an email" this is "should have been a prompt" and can be run locally instead. There are a number of ways to do this from a linux terminal.

``` write a custom crawler that will crawl every page on a site (internal links to the original domain only, scroll down to mimic a human, and save the output as a WebP screenshot, HTML, Markdown, and structured JSON. Make it designed to run locally in a terminal on a linux machine using headless Google Chrome and take advantage of multiple cores to run multiple pages simultaneously while keeping in mind that it might have to throttle if the server gets hit too fast from the same IP. ```

Might use available open source software such as python, playwright, beautifulsoup4, pillow, aiofiles, trafilatura

New comment by radium3d in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

radium3d — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:22:06 +0000

Pretty sure we've seen people coding in essentially every other programming language also shoot themselves in the foot.

New comment by radium3d in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

radium3d — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:20:48 +0000

PHP is insanely great, and very fast. The hate has no clout.

New comment by radium3d in "A case for Go as the best language for AI agents"

radium3d — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:17:20 +0000

Agents are language agnostic actually, I think "best" this "best" that is a little overboard.

New comment by radium3d in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

radium3d — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:12:20 +0000

Yikes, these government folks just sign without even thinking or having a single clue about how the rule will work. They are completely irresponsible.

New comment by radium3d in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

radium3d — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:03:36 +0000

It's insanely dangerous to have so much data stored on so many servers that are inevitably not maintained.

New comment by radium3d in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

radium3d — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:19:01 +0000

Nah, do you honestly think the thousands of sub-packages in your project are actually being maintained? False sense of security there.

New comment by radium3d in "Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer"

radium3d — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:43:16 +0000

You're misunderstanding how websites work. You can install it locally on your computer and run it via localhost https://github.com/GridSpace/grid-apps

New comment by radium3d in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

radium3d — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:17:03 +0000

They don't get a free pass, I think people have spoken with their wallets and it shows with the user base counts: Windows 66–73%, macOS 14–16%, Linux 3–4%.

Apple seems to support their previous generation OS on older macs for ~8-9 years or so from what I've seen. You just don't get the latest generation features, they cut it off and move on similar to how Microsoft did.

New comment by radium3d in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

radium3d — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:56:04 +0000

I actually haven't come across situation 1 2 or 3 mentioned in the attached video. Generally I iterate on the code by starting a new prompt with the code provided, with enhancements, or provide the errors and it repairs the errors. Generally it gets it within 1-2 iterations. No emotions. Make sure your prompts do not contain fluff, and are straight what you want the code to accomplish and how you want it to accomplish it. I've gone back to code months later and have not had what you described as being shocked about bad code, it was quite easy to understand. Are you prompting the AI to also write variables and function names logically and utilize a common coding standard for whichever type of code you are having it write, such as wordpress coding standards or similar? Perhaps claude isn't the best, I have been experimenting with grok 4.1 thinking and grok expert at the mid-level paid tier. I'll take it a step further and adjust the code myself, start a new prompt and provide that updated code along with my further requests as well. I haven't hit the road blocks mentioned.

New comment by radium3d in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"

radium3d — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:57:06 +0000

This is what happens when you make all the h100/h200/equivalent cards exclusive and lock them up in warehouses. We have no way of running these models locally… yet. Keyword is yet, the exclusivity period is going to end just like it did for 3D graphics when 3DFX democratized it with the voodoo cards. They’re only 300gb of memory and a chip ahead. It’ll shrink.

New comment by radium3d in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

radium3d — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:29:14 +0000

This all is just spotlighting the weakness of NVIDIA, AMD, Apple, Microsoft, etc. They all avoided manufacturing in-house for so long and now they're fighting for fab time. Intel on the other hand is interesting...