Hacker News: rckclmbr

New comment by rckclmbr in "Knoppix"

rckclmbr — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:41:52 +0000

compiz was amazing, I remember playing with the wobbly windows for hours

New comment by rckclmbr in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

rckclmbr — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:05:37 +0000

I keep hearing “Claude creates subtle bugs”, but how is that different than people engineers? I’ve never worked in a bug free codebase

New comment by rckclmbr in "PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon"

rckclmbr — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:26:33 +0000

I bought a car radiator and dremeled out my case, visited Home Depot for all the tubes and connectors. It’s too easy nowadays to add watercooling

New comment by rckclmbr in "A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong"

rckclmbr — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:16:48 +0000

Exactly. I was building an app to track bike part usage. It was an okay app, but then I just started using ai with the database directly. Much more flexible, and I can get anything I need right then. AI will kill a lot of companies, but it won’t be the software it develops, it will be the agent itself

New comment by rckclmbr in "Backing up Spotify"

rckclmbr — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:17:17 +0000

You can’t talk about what.cd without talking about its precursor OiNks Pink Palace. Even Trent Reznor was public about what an amazing place it was. Music aside, the community existing just for the shared love of music and not for any other kind of monetary or influencer gain is what set it apart. We just don’t have those kinds of communities for music online anymore

New comment by rckclmbr in "Rivian's TM-B electric bike"

rckclmbr — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:06:23 +0000

I’ve had an ebike that had regen (Stromer ST2). It wouldn’t have any effect on the battery, but was great for savings life of your brake pads

New comment by rckclmbr in "Kagi Reaches 50k Users"

rckclmbr — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 05:17:38 +0000

I have 515 since may 16 putting me as 22. So ya, math checks out. Love the service, been using them since March 2024

New comment by rckclmbr in "Schools reviving shop class"

rckclmbr — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 22:44:33 +0000

We had a metal lathe in our high school shop class. I still can’t believe someone didn’t kill themselves on that. I think wood lathes are fine, but honestly that should be kept out.

New comment by rckclmbr in "Fair Pricing"

rckclmbr — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 10:13:52 +0000

Similar stats for me. It’s become an invaluable tool, sometimes I’ll use another browser that’s has Google as default and immediately notice how much worse it is — all the ads, irrelevant cards, etc. Kagi is like the way Google was 10 years ago, which is MUCH better… with the benefit of more personalization

New comment by rckclmbr in "Why pay for a search engine"

rckclmbr — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 05:33:14 +0000

I’ve been a subscriber for about a year. It’s best at technical searches. I would say other topics, particularly niche questions I have about like sports or something, it has a more difficult time on. Absolutely do not regret subscribing though

New comment by rckclmbr in "What adults lost when kids stopped playing in the street"

rckclmbr — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 01:03:39 +0000

I don’t think anyone is saying we don’t need cars. They want to decrease dependence on cars. The things that are in bicycle range should be accessible by bicycle. Today, they typically aren’t

New comment by rckclmbr in "He created Oculus headsets as a teenager, now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine"

rckclmbr — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 16:19:42 +0000

Where does it say the AI weapons make decisions?

New comment by rckclmbr in "What's Next for Kagi?"

rckclmbr — Thu, 30 May 2024 16:24:08 +0000

I've been really happy with Kagi, I've been using them a while.

One feature request, I actually wanted to brag about how long I've used it, and went to my account but couldn't see a "member since...", or a full purchase history. Seems like it would be a small but awesome feature :)

New comment by rckclmbr in ""My Bike Is Everything to Me""

rckclmbr — Thu, 30 May 2024 16:09:39 +0000

Oh wow didn’t realize that, hadn’t heard anything since the initial reports. Thanks for the clarification!

New comment by rckclmbr in ""My Bike Is Everything to Me""

rckclmbr — Thu, 30 May 2024 05:16:35 +0000

Mark Eaton too, unfortunately got hit and killed on his bike

New comment by rckclmbr in "280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars"

rckclmbr — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 19:13:25 +0000

I agree that an ebike isn't a replacement for a car in all circumstances. However, it is a replacement for a 2nd car. We have kids, groceries, vacations, beach trips, etc and have to have a car for. My wife usually has the car

I use the ebike every day to commute, and for lots of groceries or coffee runs. I've ridden that (or my road bike) ~40k miles over the last 5 years. For the "emergencies" that I do need a 2nd car, I uber. I think I've done it 5 times in the last 5 years.

In terms of dollars saved, at this point an ebike almost costs me nothing. I just use miles traveled * .55 for cost savings over a car.

In terms of co2 saved, I don't know but I consider it a win.

In terms of life enjoyment, I'd MUCH rather be on my ebike than stuck in a box.

New comment by rckclmbr in "Roblox Ryanair"

rckclmbr — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 23:20:49 +0000

My kids just beg other players for Robux. I guess there's all kinds...

New comment by rckclmbr in "Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser"

rckclmbr — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 23:20:35 +0000

I wrote mine in markdown and convert it to pdf (well, first html then pdf). It's worked well

   markdown resume.md > resume.tmp.html
   cat template/header.html resume.tmp.html template/footer.html > resume.html
   cp resume.html resume.tmp.html
   sed -i -e 's/"normal"/"pdf"/g' resume.tmp.html
   xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 640x480x16" wkhtmltopdf resume.tmp.html resume.pdf
   rm resume.tmp.html*

New comment by rckclmbr in "Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts"

rckclmbr — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:27:04 +0000

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New comment by rckclmbr in "Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts"

rckclmbr — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:18:48 +0000

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