Hacker News: rmsaksida

New comment by rmsaksida in "GPT-6 Astra"

rmsaksida — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:39:31 +0000

I'm not sure. To be more specific, my car has a Delphi MIB2 Standard head unit (which uses NDS.Classic maps). I think the keys are likely to work with all MIB2 Standard head units, as that's how VW categorizes the updates, but I don't know about other MIB versions.

New comment by rmsaksida in "GPT-6 Astra"

rmsaksida — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:11:08 +0000

It does, but someone leaked valid encryption keys on GitHub a few years ago (Codex found them).

New comment by rmsaksida in "GPT-6 Astra"

rmsaksida — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:42:59 +0000

My car has offline maps and navigation. I don't really care for navigation, but I find the maps pretty handy. VW releases updates very infrequently, and I don't know for how long they'll keep doing that. Recently I wondered whether I could convert OpenStreetMaps into the format used by the car. Codex took around a week to do that for me, with some light steering. That project would no doubt have taken me months - maybe a whole year to do on my own, and I'm not fully confident I could pull it off as well as Codex did. I can pull the most up to date maps from OSM, edit them as much as I want, and they look great on the car. It's mind boggling to me that we have this tech.

New comment by rmsaksida in "Orbs"

rmsaksida — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:47:05 +0000

Reminds me of fly.io's sprites (https://sprites.dev), but with a custom-built layer of UI, harness, and features.

Htmx 4.0

rmsaksida — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:28:56 +0000

Article URL: https://four.htmx.org/announcements/2026-08-28-htmx-4.0.0-is-released

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478178

Points: 830

# Comments: 252

New comment by rmsaksida in "Code mode yields a 99.2% cost reduction in our systems"

rmsaksida — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:02:13 +0000

I'm sure there is some valuable information in the article, but the LLM-generated prose is unreadable.

Build a blog engine in 15 minutes with Ruby on Rails (2005) [video]

rmsaksida — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:36:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzj723LkRJY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48775594

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rmsaksida in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

rmsaksida — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:52:06 +0000

That looks great. I want to read it! The techno caste system reminds me of Lord of Light.

New comment by rmsaksida in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

rmsaksida — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:57:53 +0000

Yes, I understand what you're saying perfectly. And I had similar thoughts while I was writing this. I do not want to talk too much about the process of writing it, or the content itself, because I feel it's not right for me (the author) to talk about it. But I'd like to make it clear that I wrote this myself, and that many of the questions and points people have raised here have also been in my mind, and it was my intention to elicit this type of thinking. Thank you and all others for the comments - I really appreciate it, even the very negative ones. This is the first time I published something online and I'm very happy that it resonated with people.

New comment by rmsaksida in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

rmsaksida — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:24:10 +0000

That is not what this is meant as.

New comment by rmsaksida in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

rmsaksida — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:17:52 +0000

It's fiction. I did not use AI to write it. On whether it's worthy of people's time... well, I'm not presumptuous enough to say. :)

Ape Coding [fiction]

rmsaksida — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:07:05 +0000

Article URL: https://rsaksida.com/blog/ape-coding/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206798

Points: 189

# Comments: 142

New comment by rmsaksida in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

rmsaksida — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:15:20 +0000

> Claude helped write the article. It is 2026.

If that's the case, why do we have to suffer through an AI-generated article? Just give us the prompt.

This topic interests me but I stopped reading as soon as I noticed the slop. I'd much rather read a couple of human-written paragraphs with your personal experience.

New comment by rmsaksida in "Sub-Millisecond RAG on Apple Silicon. No Server. No API. One File"

rmsaksida — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:27:14 +0000

The generated post is even in the repo: https://github.com/christopherkarani/Wax/blob/main/SHOW_HN_P...

New comment by rmsaksida in "If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?"

rmsaksida — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:01:43 +0000

Unrelated - it looks like your blog's RSS feed isn't up to date. :-)

New comment by rmsaksida in "Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform"

rmsaksida — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 14:25:28 +0000

> I like how Google AI Studio allows one to delete sections and they are then no longer part of the context. Not possible in Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, I think there one can only delete the last response.

I have the same peeve. My assumption is the ability to freely edit context is seen as not intuitive for most users - LLM products want to keep the illusion of a classic chat UI where that kind of editing doesn't make sense. I do wish ChatGPT & co had a pro or advanced mode that was more similar to Google AI Studio.

New comment by rmsaksida in "Redis is open source again"

rmsaksida — Thu, 01 May 2025 16:56:18 +0000

I've been using Valkey simply because after I updated to the latest Fedora version, it dropped redis and pointed me to Valkey instead. I assume as more distros do this and more people update their systems, the Valkey user base will grow. But perhaps with the AGPL redis that will no longer be the case.

New comment by rmsaksida in "Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant"

rmsaksida — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:25:45 +0000

Yeah Pix lets you choose limits. There's decent granularity for those, you can pick max $ per day, per transfer, per period, and per device. There's a caveat that when you increase a limit it takes a day or two to come into effect (basically to avoid people being forced to increase their limits by criminals).

New comment by rmsaksida in "Bluesky now has 30 million users"

rmsaksida — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 14:56:09 +0000

It was a few months ago, but when X was banned in my country I tried Bluesky for a while. It took a lot of effort (adding blocklists, muting words and blocking individual accounts) to cleanse the timeline of k-pop and furry content. I am not interested in either type of content and didn't follow any such accounts, but still, the "Discover" feed kept showing that stuff to me. It was the strangest onboarding experience I've ever had in social media.

New comment by rmsaksida in "IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star"

rmsaksida — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 22:52:36 +0000

Life in that planet evolved to essentially hibernate during their long winter. Presumably the processes that resulted in the very earliest life forms happened countless times until some surfaced that had that feature.