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New comment by samtheprogram in "Emacs appearances in pop culture"

samtheprogram — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:02:02 +0000

The only times I encounter vi (and so not sure what version, but likely barebones Linux), it doesn't indicate whether you are in insert or normal mode. So I immediately install vim (once possible).

Is that something you just get used to, or was I using some weird vi?

Linear Coding Sessions

samtheprogram — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:57:05 +0000

Article URL: https://linear.app/docs/coding-sessions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499743

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by samtheprogram in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

samtheprogram — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:31:12 +0000

$1100/m for an outsourced engineer… am I missing something? That’s far too low. Even juniors in South America tend to ask for at least double that number before factoring in the DeepSeek cost.

New comment by samtheprogram in "CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude"

samtheprogram — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:42:05 +0000

Security updates still go out for older major releases back 2 versions. You didn’t need to jump to 26 if you weren’t on it.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

samtheprogram — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:49:11 +0000

That estimate doesn't account for context, which is very important for tool use and coding.

I used this napkin math for image generation, since the context (prompts) were so small, but I think it's misleading at best for most uses.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

samtheprogram — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:51:50 +0000

What part of the feature set in particular has been lacking in competitors?

EDIT: asking because I've been working on an alternative of sorts. I used GV a lot before I figured I could go without it/Google.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

samtheprogram — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:57:15 +0000

Same, I keep using 4.6 to get "used to it" but I find myself wanting semi-regularly.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

samtheprogram — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:28:05 +0000

I noticed Claude Sonnet 4.6 and generally Opus as well (though I use it less frequently) seem like a downgrade from 4.5. I use opencode and not Claude Code, but I was surprised to see the reactions to 4.6 be mixed for folks rather than clear downgrade.

I'm regularly switching back to 4.5 and preferring it. I'm not excited for when it gets sunset later this year if 4.6 isn't fixed or superseded by then.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings"

samtheprogram — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:49:25 +0000

Sounds like Apple under Steve Jobs.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Claude wrote a full FreeBSD remote kernel RCE with root shell"

samtheprogram — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:02:40 +0000

As mentioned elsewhere, while this writeup is about exploiting the RCE, Claude was separately used to find and document this specific RCE.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"

samtheprogram — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:08:08 +0000

They kinda added window positioning with Tahoe -- there are things I like more about it than Rectangle (resizing), but I found that it was janky enough I switched back to Rectangle.

I rarely use the Dock, it's somewhat eye candy I leave up, or add stacks for folders that I use, but typically for keyboard action I reach for spotlight (cmd+space). Now, spotlight occasionally shitting the bed, that's another issue...

New comment by samtheprogram in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

samtheprogram — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:17:37 +0000

That is wild. Thanks for the info.

New comment by samtheprogram in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

samtheprogram — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:37:35 +0000

Definitely not Wayland related, or so I doubt. I'm on wayland and never had any issues, and it's a TUI, where the terminal emulator does or does not do GPU work. What led you to that conclusion?

New comment by samtheprogram in "Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices"

samtheprogram — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:42:21 +0000

I'm confused, how does Chrome work on ARM64 Android phones today?

New comment by samtheprogram in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

samtheprogram — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:47:16 +0000

He deletes posts after they are no longer relevant. Given how people dig dirt up on people and take them out of context long after that context is forgotten, more people should do that (or delete social media altogether).

New comment by samtheprogram in "GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation"

samtheprogram — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:43:56 +0000

Linus never cared about that use case of the GPL. He cared about the source code sharing.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Welcome (back) to Macintosh"

samtheprogram — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:27:38 +0000

Tangeltial, can we still run custom Darwin kernels? IIRC that was blocked under security pretenses.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

samtheprogram — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:05:10 +0000

And?

New comment by samtheprogram in "How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week"

samtheprogram — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:23:41 +0000

The irony of this in the README:

- Node.js production server (vinext start) works for testing but is less complete than Workers deployment. Cloudflare Workers is the primary target.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware"

samtheprogram — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:43:00 +0000

And now everyone else is aware of it too... including anyone marginally above a scriptkiddie.