Hacker News: shifto

New comment by shifto in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

shifto — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:26:33 +0000

In my case, co-pilot will be training on co-pilot code. I'm probably not alone so I don't think they're getting what they hope they're getting.

New comment by shifto in "Fermented foods shaped human biology"

shifto — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:14:32 +0000

But the bad bacteria know how to tell me what to eat. The good ones never do!

New comment by shifto in "Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode"

shifto — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:55:25 +0000

Maybe Oracle should just buy Anthropic.

New comment by shifto in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

shifto — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 08:34:34 +0000

Having never touched Perl in my life, Claude has enabled me to create a plugin for this ancient Perl software a lot of people are still using to this day. This felt different from just creating some new code with some LLM. This felt like ancient gods we're whispering their knowledge into me.

New comment by shifto in "I used AI-powered calorie counting apps, and they were even worse than expected"

shifto — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:32:29 +0000

What is the added value of the app? Ive been using ChatGPT to track my calories for 6 months now and dropped 20kg because of it. This is mostly me just telling it everything that enters my mouth and adjust the output I deem wrong. This isn't super accurate but apparently enough to get an idea, and thus lose weight.

New comment by shifto in "US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she'd died"

shifto — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 11:35:20 +0000

That's some conspiracy stuff, got proof? I mean... You're not even a real doctor, you make pizza's.

New comment by shifto in "Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM"

shifto — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 12:44:11 +0000

His videos are like cool fever dreams.

New comment by shifto in "ESPHome"

shifto — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:37:34 +0000

Not to be pedantic but it's ESPhome not ESPinthemiddleofnowhere. There are other solutions for far away sensors.

New comment by shifto in "Microsoft is driving users away"

shifto — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:30:45 +0000

For the longest time, I was a die-hard MS guy, fully immersed in their ecosystem. From my Surface Pro to the Lumia Windows Phone, I embraced every facet of their landscape. It was like the stars had aligned perfectly, granting me a seamless and efficient workflow across all my devices. But then, as if the planets themselves shifted out of harmony, everything fell apart and now we are here.

We get these slivers of full-integration from time to time. We see it today with the Vision Pro. It's not hard to imagine what could be! But I'm not counting on it anytime soon.

New comment by shifto in "Fossil is quitting smartwatches"

shifto — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:07:10 +0000

I own a Lamborghini that I received as a gift for my 20th anniversary. It's my second high-performance car. The first one was a Honda Civic that I drove for a while and then parked in the garage, eventually forgetting about it. (It was an amazing vehicle and well-crafted, but the driving experience just didn't align with my preferences.)

The Lamborghini effortlessly (performance-wise, it's quite powerful) does what I want it to do, and I'm perfectly fine taking it on a week-long trip without worrying about refueling. I'm also comfortable driving it in any situation.

In eco mode, it has an impressive fuel efficiency, which is fantastic since 95% of the time, I'm using it for regular commuting.

New comment by shifto in "Psytrance Guide"

shifto — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:10:39 +0000

"Infected Mushroom - Becoming Insane" got me from mostly metal into psytrance.

New comment by shifto in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2023)"

shifto — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 12:32:34 +0000

"Macbook, Neuro-scientific games, Take home exercise" Nou succes daarmee dan, lol.

New comment by shifto in "Self hosting in 2023"

shifto — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 10:33:29 +0000

Self-hosting shouldn't be a chore. Self-hosting should be fun! Sometimes I just do maintenance because I can and I like it, not even because it's needed. I could be making the dumbest incremental changes that don't even net a profit in the end just because I like doing it so much.

To me they are definitely pets and I love them for it.

New comment by shifto in "Shell script best practices, from a decade of scripting things"

shifto — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 12:39:13 +0000

Just so you know. You can abbreviate almost anything in powershell or make your won aliases. I love Powershell, hands down best investment in my personal career was to really learn and understand Powershell.

New comment by shifto in "An ode to that “coffee friend”"

shifto — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 11:40:37 +0000

During birthdays and days like Christmas, I ask friends and family to not buy me anything but if they can think of something fun for my kids. I have all the stuff I want already so either you have an awesome idea and really have a specific gift you want to give me or I'd rather you don't get me anything at all. This is well respected in my circles and I don't get as much junk anymore.

New comment by shifto in "Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utility of browsers forward?"

shifto — Mon, 16 May 2022 11:00:32 +0000

Shoutout to WLED[0]. When I was able to flash my ESP with the latest version just from the browser I was kind of blown away. I was blindsided by it even though I have a lot of ESP projects myself and consider myself 'into the space'.

[0] https://kno.wled.ge/

New comment by shifto in "Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004)"

shifto — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 14:12:33 +0000

Was my first dual GPU setup! An AGP TNT2 and another PCI TNT2 for my third monitor.

New comment by shifto in "Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)"

shifto — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 10:57:16 +0000

It's science if he did the experiment and documented it (he did, see post). It's proven science when others verify the results.

New comment by shifto in "I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)"

shifto — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 10:34:48 +0000

Don't hate the player, hate the game. It's annoying but I think he has some very worthwhile content.

New comment by shifto in "XiangShan open-source 64-bit RISC-V processor to rival Arm Cortex-A76"

shifto — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 09:47:19 +0000

Are you talking about the riscv esp32-3c SDK? Because I think the Espressif SDK has really matured over time for their other cores.