Hacker News: rubslopes

New comment by rubslopes in "Airport Simulator"

rubslopes — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:06:13 +0000

Yes, they did, which is unfortunate, as the game is very good in itself. They gave a nice twist to the formula.

New comment by rubslopes in "Qwen 3.8"

rubslopes — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:52:45 +0000

Why? Price? If the reason is performance, I've been using non-frontier models for cheap, and they run great for my needs (GLM 5.2, DeepSeek v4 Pro).

New comment by rubslopes in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

rubslopes — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:27:02 +0000

Wow. Sci-fi stuff!

New comment by rubslopes in "The brain was not designed for this much bad news"

rubslopes — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:50:03 +0000

Same here, but I live in a developing country. I usually switch to international news (or tech news, or no news at all) because local news is mostly about murders and other terrible things. I have family in Portugal, and when I visited, I remember the local news being mostly about pastries and folklore events. I watched TV every day while I was there.

New comment by rubslopes in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

rubslopes — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:44:31 +0000

I've been using Zen since almost the beginning of the project. I'm pretty happy with it! Great QOL features, and being Firefox, I have perfect ad block and syncs nicely with Firefox for Android.

New comment by rubslopes in "Ask HN: Which cheap Chinese LLM are you using?"

rubslopes — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:27:15 +0000

I was going back and forth between kimi k2.6 and deepseek v4 pro, but it's been 2 weeks that I've been using deepseek alone. It's very good and very cheap, I pay the opencode go $10 subscription and don't have to worry about quotas.

New comment by rubslopes in "Rio 3.5 Open 397B – from Rio de Janeiro's city government"

rubslopes — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:24:23 +0000

I've met some of the IT team of the city government of Rio de Janeiro years ago, before LLMs were a thing. They were already doing state-of-the-art data science projects. Glad to see how far they've gone.

New comment by rubslopes in "Show HN: Verso – A $14.99 Mac word processor with no subscription"

rubslopes — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:15:16 +0000

If it's really fully compatible with docx files, I'm very interested in this. No matter the advances Apple makes with the M chips, Office apps are always slow to open. Not to mention the obligatory background services.

New comment by rubslopes in "A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life"

rubslopes — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:04:57 +0000

Samsung routines can do this.

New comment by rubslopes in "MCP is dead?"

rubslopes — Sat, 30 May 2026 11:55:52 +0000

MCP allows you to easily separate API requests from their access tokens, so that the LLM only has access to the requests part. Giving an LLM CLI access removes all boundaries, anything goes.

EDIT: to add an example: I have a personal claw agent that I only use CLI, I don't care. But I'm also building an agent inside a company product, and there we use MCP all the way.

New comment by rubslopes in "Task Paralysis and AI"

rubslopes — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:01:57 +0000

I feel lucky to have been promoted to a management position recently, just as I was starting to feel less excited about dev work because of AI. I still enjoy building systems, but I have to admit that the loss of challenge made the work much less enjoyable for me.

Now I have a team of interns to mentor. They're sharp and use AI constantly, so my guidance is less about code and more about UI/UX, understanding what the client actually wants, good work practices, well-documented tickets, thorough reviews, and so on. Thankfully, I like this work, it has been very rewarding.

New comment by rubslopes in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

rubslopes — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:55:09 +0000

Yes, I do think it is.

HTML made by Claude will, by default, be "sleek, modern", with colorful tables, cards, maybe Tailwind for styling. And, of course it will, if you wanted a barebones HTML, you would just have asked for markdown!

So the LLM decided to present some content using 4 cards, and you now want to add new itens. You can't just add new lines of text: you need to copy the whole HTML of the cards. But the LLM used different colors for each card, so now you have the first cards with varying colors and the new cards all the same color as the last card. Now you have to think about colors... etc etc

New comment by rubslopes in "I'm scared about biological computing"

rubslopes — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:35:00 +0000

> Although it will make up for a "wow, we really did it" moment, it will be met with hollowness

I hadn't heard this view before, but it does make sense...

New comment by rubslopes in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

rubslopes — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:55:21 +0000

People are afraid to touch dangerous things, like passwords and payment systems. Depending on their skill level, they should indeed be afraid.

New comment by rubslopes in "I'm scared about biological computing"

rubslopes — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:45:19 +0000

Correct.

Still, the day we manage to run a full LLM on biological neurons, even if using conventional code under the hood, will be a very interesting day for consciousness discussions.

New comment by rubslopes in "Why TUIs Are Back"

rubslopes — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:26:09 +0000

I thought that that was the case for me, but then I tried using Claude Code through the desktop app last week and it was so bad. Slow, glitchy... I went back to the TUI in no time.

New comment by rubslopes in "Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge"

rubslopes — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:03:24 +0000

I don't think the real-world evidence supports your argument... OpenAI and Anthropic have all of those advantages today, and Chinese models are reaching the same level. Clearly, the Chinese labs are doing something very right that is not directly related to infinite money.

New comment by rubslopes in "Becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum (2022)"

rubslopes — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:12:43 +0000

Happy birthday to the youngest and oldest!

New comment by rubslopes in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

rubslopes — Fri, 01 May 2026 02:56:57 +0000

I think OP means standardized benchmarks.

New comment by rubslopes in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

rubslopes — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:31:50 +0000

A fellow user replied below, but it refers to the software that uses the LLM (Claude Code, Opencode, pi.dev, etc.).

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Funny you mention that, because I started noticing the word 'harness' being used everywhere about a month ago, even though I hadn’t seen it before (in this context). As I don’t trust my memory, I assumed I had just been overlooking it and added it to my vocabulary. However, a Google Trends search does show increased usage since the end of March: https://trends.google.com.br/trends/explore?date=today%203-m...