<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: sails</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sails</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:52:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sails" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sails in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For what it’s worth I tried an experiment where I had a similar harness (where LLMs competed head to head playing snake) and made them aware of their budget and it had very little impact. This was cheaper open weight models</p>
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<p>I do this too, the recent MacBook chargers have 2 usb-c and I have 4 of the plug parts that adapt it. Very minimalist but for short trips with single charger it is great<p>This might if you’re from the US as I’ve collected the ends over time, but I’ve never seen them for sale except the US one:
AC Power Adapter Wall Folding Plug Duck Head,US Standard Plug Duck Head Compatible with MaBook Pro Air/Maci Book/Phone/Pod Power Adapter Brick</p>
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<p>Is this possibly a replacement for Orbstack?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:03:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48828559</link><dc:creator>sails</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48828559</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48828559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sails in "Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great thanks for giving it some thought, I’ll share a video as it’s all quite an early concept but saving me a lot of time on the bench!</p>
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<p>Ah no I hadn't seen that, very interesting.<p>I'm finding a gap just before running those experiments.<p>The process of updating firmware, doing basic smoke tests on each device and validating it is live, and can function correctly.<p>Basically the pre-deployment green light that you get on github, but for hardware.<p>Have you seen or thought about that at all?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:17:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597716</link><dc:creator>sails</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597716</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sails in "Building a robotics research setup that lives next to my desk"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Love this, I’m playing around with the cheapo esp32+servos version of this, super fun.<p>Something I’m working on is a hardware CLI for agents to run experiments, with a “CICD” pipeline that validates everything and means I can delegate more of the experiments to the agents. I wonder if you have any thoughts on this?<p>The idea is to allow the coding agent to run the full loop of experiments and validations, with vision, audio, button pressing, speaking etc to interact in place of the human</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:04:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595324</link><dc:creator>sails</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595324</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48595324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sails in "TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seemed the closest, of quite a few! <a href="https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=610532235" rel="nofollow">https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=61053...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:32:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558803</link><dc:creator>sails</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558803</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sails in "TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great! I feel well positioned to say this is great :) I’ve been hoping for something like this.<p>My ideal: slower, more real time, full maps based on actual locations, replay specific naval battles. Multiplayer (maybe it is?), realistic fog of war. I could go on<p>Edit: a few more. Sail trim is clunky and seems unresponsive or unclear how it maps to physics. Would be better to have trim on one side and steering on the other. Also to turn off tacking with tap. Steering too sensitive. The battles are great. (All on mobile)</p>
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<p>What is the best way to give coding agent a full website so that it can see what I see? With animation and design I’m never sure what it gets when I save the website in the browser. Maybe this is suitable?</p>
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<p>> but customers kept pulling us toward their data analysis problems<p>I hear this all the time, I still don’t think it’s a good justification to build a BI tool, but I hope this time it is different.<p>Product looks cool! I’m hopeful that agents do actually unlock business analytics and we can move on from the BI concept<p>Edit: a rough explanation of why you get pulled towards data problems is that they are intractable symptoms of upstream process issues. Customer sees a capable startup and co-opts them into trying to solve their tarpit problems. Happens all the time!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:20:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513978</link><dc:creator>sails</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513978</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sails in "Show HN: Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>primary use is Document processing automation, or Intelligent Document Processing (IDP)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:04:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491341</link><dc:creator>sails</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491341</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sails in "Show HN: Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Experienced the same nightmare a few times over with citations.<p>React/next is limiting, we have rebuilt this for  angular and now redid it again using lit for better compatibility. Our old one is very similar to this.<p>Loading citations for each field across 1000s of pages, colliding citations for all the messy formats, zoom, rotate etc. what a mess!<p>Great that you took the time to MIT this as it would have saved us many hours, though I think today Fable + Codex makes it pretty quick<p>I could recreate these in lit as a fork, would be very useful to have the full set</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:48:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487079</link><dc:creator>sails</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487079</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sails in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes.<p>I often laugh (cry) at the Kindle Product Manager team who ship nothing but DRM updates.<p>How about a dictionary modal where the font is the same size as the page text..? Hard to imagine what they do all day, given they do seem to force updates but nothing seems to improve</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 12:11:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256624</link><dc:creator>sails</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256624</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sails in "Claude for Small Business"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think, without much doubt, that AI will be most positively impactful on small business owners.<p>My experience running a few LTDs is that there is a gap between the accountants and what you need, and running an SME business means you are too busy not to do stupid things and the net effect is lost productivity, less entrepreneurial activity and less growth overall. Dealing with VAT, PAYE, and a million other stupid small things prevents most people from succeeding at running an effective business.<p>Claude and OpenAI have been surveyed to be most impactful to SMEs, and I think it’s only going to accelerate.<p>Hopefully this is hugely positive, I see risks, but I don’t see real societal downsides if people get AI to make their basic business operations better, cheaper and most importantly simpler and easier.</p>
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<p>I think this is right ( a big gap ) but I don’t think data companies even now what the right shape is for AI.<p>It’s definitely not old school ETL + dbt + BI tool, it might be something like this, but it’s very early</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 14:51:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48036958</link><dc:creator>sails</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48036958</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48036958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sails in "How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can feel what is possible using Gemini speech to speech model, it can do tool calls and is very fast. It lacks somewhat in thinking capability but you can setup a tool call to a smarter model and it acts as a relay. I’ve been very impressed.</p>
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<p>What is the best way for someone without a licence to get this working as quickly as possible? I have used CAD before but would like to have Claude code do it all locally from CLI</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 07:02:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984037</link><dc:creator>sails</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984037</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sails in "Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks. 
I mean self hosting a shared version of this on internal infra but designed to be slightly collaborative.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:41:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901017</link><dc:creator>sails</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901017</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sails in "Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How do you anticipate teams deploying this? I’m wary of GitHub for sensitive business documents, and wonder what an easy secure agent friendly deployment looks like. Cloudflare or GCP are maybe good candidates</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:22:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900554</link><dc:creator>sails</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900554</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sails in "Show HN: Gemma 4 Multimodal Fine-Tuner for Apple Silicon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Accent, dialect, and low-resource language adaptation — adapt a base Gemma model to underrepresented voices and languages with your own labeled audio.<p>Is this for TTS? Have been looking for something to do a local fine tune to get a specific accent</p>
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