<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: redlewel</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=redlewel</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:33:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=redlewel" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redlewel in "Six months of writing code exclusively with agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I couldn't agree more.<p>Its like I'm reading a claude chat response but worse in every way.  Its such quantity over quality nonsense. On the off chance it isn't obvious from the get go and you learn its AI written halfway through you feel taken advantage of as you assumed you were reading someone's actual thoughts.  But instead you spent several minutes reading something thats just some generic LLM output.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:35:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483250</link><dc:creator>redlewel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483250</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redlewel in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah I would rather just have a single interface(the terminal) for all of the tools that I use that are keyboard driven by default.  There isn't anything I need from a GUI that the terminal doesn't give me.<p>I also can't cleanly nest and stack GUI applications in tmux like I can with TUI programs.   I think GUIs are for the most part tailored towards non-power users unless its something like video editing or 3d modeling that is aimed more towards professionals</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:32:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483217</link><dc:creator>redlewel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483217</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redlewel in "Six months of writing code exclusively with agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How do people read these types of post with this AI flair, I couldn't read more than a couple sentences</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:33:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466523</link><dc:creator>redlewel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466523</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redlewel in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hope the first thing Nvidia does is change the name and logo</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:56:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464988</link><dc:creator>redlewel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464988</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redlewel in "OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>massive aura loss from a moronic name though</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:32:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449931</link><dc:creator>redlewel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449931</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redlewel in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>blame openai they started it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:00:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365770</link><dc:creator>redlewel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365770</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redlewel in "Mojo 1.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I know right?  Would be better to have a banner with the language logo than some totally out of place aislop image, almost makes you think this is a random person's blog and not the official Mojo site</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:17:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263110</link><dc:creator>redlewel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263110</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redlewel in "Mojo 1.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sure but at those times C and C++ had no immediate replacement, and if you were doing embedded C/C++ was your only option.  
The same cannot be said for Mojo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:16:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263097</link><dc:creator>redlewel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263097</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redlewel in "Mojo 1.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This exactly.  Doesn't scream confidence that its still closed upon release.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:15:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263073</link><dc:creator>redlewel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263073</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redlewel in "Mojo 1.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't see the value of using a language with a closed source compiler...<p>Much better options out there.  Python already has libraries like Pydantic that offload performance to functions written in Rust under the hood.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:48:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262764</link><dc:creator>redlewel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262764</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redlewel in "It's getting harder to focus every day"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pretty much the reason why I reset my X password, sent that to a friend then used HN for my tech news fix instead.<p>On HN eventually there isn't much interesting stuff on the front page, on X it pulls you in with great effectiveness</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:04:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035843</link><dc:creator>redlewel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035843</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redlewel in "Making"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean its not the same at all.  There is a very satisfying and gratifying experience from writing software yourself, AI hardly comes close.  
When writing the code and having to understand, I feel real connections being made in my brain and a deeper understanding of the language, domain area, and logical concepts.  AI is simply not the same level of mental engagement and exertion.<p>But clearly for work/business requirements using AI is a no brainer for efficiency and speed(which are key concerns for a business).  This is under the assumption that a professional is able to review and guide the agentic tooling for a proper output. 
In order to truly be a professional in terms of software engineering, you need to write a significant amount of programs manually for some time.  I don't think that people with 0 prior experience with programming will be effective if handed AI.  
I use AI for programs for work, and have written manual programs in the past.  I want to go back to writing things manually(as to not atrophy important brain regions) so will probably do some personal projects in this manner.<p>But I don't see a point in writing a book with AI, writing an email with AI, composing a message with AI.  Because using AI is leveraging a predictive machine to expand on intent, and the intent in communicating is best done yourself.  
In my opinion sending AI content as posts, messages, or correspondence is poor application of AI at best, downright disrespectful at worst.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:22:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49012067</link><dc:creator>redlewel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49012067</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49012067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redlewel in "Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You need cooling, power, and at the data center I used to work at they literally ran out of power and couldn't get any more from the city.  They actually built a new building in the parking lot so they had cause to request more power</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:00:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011750</link><dc:creator>redlewel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011750</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redlewel in "Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, this is exactly what I was talking about.  The datacenter I used to work at ran off the grid and was essentially quiet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:59:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011733</link><dc:creator>redlewel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011733</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redlewel in "Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this is because the demand is so extreme for datacenters now that companies are building them in a manner that disrupts the environment around them.  
The newer ones are using on-site generators that are insanely loud and require multiples more power than datacenters have historically needed. For a rack with traditional servers with just RAM/CPU/Drives, 5kW is sufficient in most cases.<p>When you have racks that are full of 4U GPU systems that pull 3-6kW each, the power requirements per rack shoot up to 60kW+(with whole rack setups blowing past 100kW). So an AI datacenter requires over 20x the power compared to what they needed in the past.  This either strains the power grid near the DC or they need to create on-site power to fulfill demand, which has noise and other concerns.<p>I work near a datacenter and you can't hear significant noise from the outside, maybe a slight humming sound but quieter than traffic.  This is a DC that has been around for over a decade and uses power from the grid since most of the loads are non-GPU based.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:31:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008418</link><dc:creator>redlewel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008418</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redlewel in "HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Rolling release is actually the closer to bleeding edge version, I have been running fine with it.  You can just set VyOS to auto update in the config if you want.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:17:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996036</link><dc:creator>redlewel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996036</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redlewel in "HomeLab #1: MikroTik as a Home Router"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Rolling release has zero issues for me and is completely free.<p>If you want LTS(or you can just pin a rolling release around the same build) you can pay for a support contract.  Similar to proxmox.  The no-subscription product works just fine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:16:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996024</link><dc:creator>redlewel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996024</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redlewel in "Claude Is Not a Compiler"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the shill is strong with this post</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:15:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996007</link><dc:creator>redlewel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996007</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redlewel in "AI, Vim, and the Illusion of Flow"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Man I just stick with the defaults on vim.  I want to be able to install vim on any server I'm SSH'd into and have it all work the same way.<p>I do use Neovim as an IDE but thats a bit different, as lazynvim does 90% of what I need and the rest is just tiny changes that improves the experience for me.  I also use AI to change my lua files simply because its faster and I'd rather focus on programming.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:48:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993048</link><dc:creator>redlewel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993048</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redlewel in "LEDs’ potential to save our night skies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Would prefer very dim or red lighting.  Also preserves your night vision</p>
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