Hacker News: ricardobeat

New comment by ricardobeat in "US battery manufacturing output continues to break records"

ricardobeat — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:13:01 +0000

In numbers (cell production capacity, 2025):

    [1] USA         70 GWh
    [2] China     1755 GWh
    [3] Europe     252 GWh

That's excluding small battery production for electronics etc.

[1] https://reasonstobecheerful.world/us-grid-battery-storage/

[2] https://english.news18a.com/news/english_224842.html

[3] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/europes-swelling-wav...

New comment by ricardobeat in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

ricardobeat — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:42:18 +0000

- attempting to vibe-engineer a new JS engine to replace the dying Duktape (almost done!)

- native library to build TUI apps without the 20-60MB bloat of node/bun/go

- terminal coding agent harness focused on orchestration/loops

- a small scripting language that looks like JSX but has signals and render optimizations built in

- open-source software and hardware smart doorbell for a community space

- teaching AI how to write games for the Nintendo Wii

- designing an arcade cabinet

All of this over the past 4-5 months. AI is allowing me to deploy my short attention span very effectively! This is more than all I’ve accomplished in the past five years.

New comment by ricardobeat in "Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops"

ricardobeat — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:38:00 +0000

This is how science works. Share your failed experiments, someone else picks it up. Eventually it may work, or not.

New comment by ricardobeat in "Show HN: 3D print Z reinforcement via injected loops"

ricardobeat — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:37:07 +0000

Is that available in any of the standard slicers?

New comment by ricardobeat in "Trial of 12mph bike lane speed limit grinds gears of Dutch cyclists"

ricardobeat — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:22:21 +0000

Ah, there is no such a thing in Amsterdam (you might be thinking of MTB bikes with fat tires?). They’re all electric.

New comment by ricardobeat in "Trial of 12mph bike lane speed limit grinds gears of Dutch cyclists"

ricardobeat — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:24:38 +0000

Cycling on the road is only allowed where there are no bike lanes, which is very rare.

New comment by ricardobeat in "Trial of 12mph bike lane speed limit grinds gears of Dutch cyclists"

ricardobeat — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:18:20 +0000

> Ordinary fatbikes aren't fast

Most fatbikes have a much more powerful motor than a regular e-bike, and can be used without pedaling at all. They are listed as 250W, but it's actually a software-limited 750W motor. Local vendors provide unlock instructions along with the bike.

Instead of the 25km/h legal limit, they can go 40-50km/h: https://v8fatbike.com/how-to-unlock-ouxi-v8-speed-limit/

It's just a motorcycle in disguise. Then, to make matters worse, they weigh 30-40KG + two 12-year-olds on top - that, combined with reckless riding, can do a lot more damage than a boring cycling incident.

New comment by ricardobeat in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

ricardobeat — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:55:27 +0000

It seems to be on par with Sonnet from my (short) experience. If GLM 5.2 matches Opus that is quite a step up for more complex and longer tasks.

New comment by ricardobeat in "Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.5: Better Planning, Similar Execution"

ricardobeat — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:13:59 +0000

I guess it depends a lot on what kind of programming you are doing. Claude Opus, even Sonnet, are significantly better at frontend development than Codex.

Claude seems to write the exact code that you expect, about 90% of the time, and consistently follows project standards; while Codex goes on wild goose chases creating unnecessary indirection and abstractions – they work correctly, but add cruft. I can spot both with decent confidence in the project I’m currently working.

New comment by ricardobeat in "RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8"

ricardobeat — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:40:33 +0000

I get 28tps for Qwen3.6 27B on a Ryzen AI Max 395+, with enough spare memory to run another two small models on the side. 60tps for 35B. Am surprised this is not more common.

New comment by ricardobeat in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

ricardobeat — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:27:33 +0000

Mostly just tires and minor maintenance. You're unlikely to need pad and rotor replacements unless you're driving as if you were on a racetrack every single day.

With daily EV driving you have the opposite problem - regen means you rarely, if ever, actually activate the brakes, so you get rust on them that you need to clean out.

New comment by ricardobeat in "How to setup a local coding agent on macOS"

ricardobeat — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:45:17 +0000

Do you use that as a daily driver? Claude Code' prompt is huge and causes you to spend a long, long time on prompt processing for local models, then running out of context shortly after.

New comment by ricardobeat in "Leaving Mozilla"

ricardobeat — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:41:59 +0000

> make enough money from just Firefox

According to 2025 filings, 86%+ of revenue came from the Google deal.

Google pays Mozilla because of the browser. How would shifting focus to the browser make that worse?

New comment by ricardobeat in "Leaving Mozilla"

ricardobeat — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:38:38 +0000

De-prioritizing Servo is something I will never understand. Aside from making Firefox attractive again, desktop software has migrated almost entirely to web-based stacks. They could have owned the foundation layer of almost every hardware device if they managed to make Servo faster and slimmer than the options we currently have. What a blunder.

New comment by ricardobeat in "Mmorpg World of ClaudeCraft, vibe coded with Fable 5"

ricardobeat — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:55:41 +0000

Aaand it’s down.

New comment by ricardobeat in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

ricardobeat — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:03:10 +0000

Authorization for their own API doesn't work.. the web 'Authorize' page denies it, eventually goes through, but then you get stuck on 'Waiting for authorization' in the app. The web page says 'Paste this into MiMo Code' but there is nowhere to paste in.

Token plan works fine.

New comment by ricardobeat in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

ricardobeat — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:08:34 +0000

Absolutely is. The “Shelly” harness from exe.dev could already do the same thing, creating pages and debugging them, while having full system access, months ago with Sonnet 4.5

New comment by ricardobeat in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

ricardobeat — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:41:39 +0000

What do you mean by that? If you have mise activate set up correctly in your shell rc file, globally installed tools are available in every shell. There’s also shim mode [1].

I use Claude on a mise-powered project daily without any issues

[1] https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/shims.html

New comment by ricardobeat in "Global population movements from 1990 to 2023"

ricardobeat — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:39:08 +0000

Pakistan being “south asia” makes about as much sense as Turkey and Saudi Arabia being labeled “west asia”. Technically correct, odd choice for modern communication.

New comment by ricardobeat in "Global population movements from 1990 to 2023"

ricardobeat — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:34:05 +0000

Interesting how South America, with several countries made up majorly of immigrants, receives almost no new migrants now.

Meanwhile the middle-east population is fleeing and being replaced with asians?