Hacker News: silversmith

New comment by silversmith in "Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack"

silversmith — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:17:01 +0000

That's bit rich even for sarcasm.

New comment by silversmith in "GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning"

silversmith — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:09:22 +0000

Why is your agent able to call ssh. Why can it trigger 1password. Why are you giving metaphorical guns to metaphorical toddlers. Why is it not sandboxed. Your practices worry me.

New comment by silversmith in "We built our house for LAN parties (2024)"

silversmith — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:26:55 +0000

You don't. I'd guess most of the developers don't. For example, my near 20 years of experience nets me a salary FAANG interns would find offensive. But in this part of the world it's "raise a family comfortably" money. In the end, it all depends on cost of living. And accepting you are not building 20 seat Lan party setup in your spare wing of the house.

New comment by silversmith in "Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode"

silversmith — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:33:49 +0000

What seems to work for me is automation - read file hook that re-injects instructions in the prompt every 15 minutes. Switch on the filename and get language-specific instructions too.

New comment by silversmith in "Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode"

silversmith — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:28:37 +0000

Can you suggest a proper sandbox on mac? One that allows both me and the agent to interact with the processes? Where it can drive browser, for both oauth setup and runtime visual inspection? I've tried building docker setups, but can't figure out the browser driving part.

New comment by silversmith in "Hacking IKEA Furniture"

silversmith — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:06:30 +0000

I also did a butcher block top. Cut it down and routed to perfectly flow around what passes for a "straight wall" in this house, spent entirely too long sanding and finishing.

Then put it on some IKEA drawer blocks, because I want drawers, but I'm not equipped to build those in any reasonable timeframe.

Cutting down a desk top is something you can do with sawhorses and some good weather. More intricate things need an actual workshop for good results.

New comment by silversmith in "Asus Bike Booster"

silversmith — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:24:47 +0000

Are you looking at performance road bikes? Fenders and lights are removed for weight savings, and for pedals there are multiple clip-in systems, you are supposed to install the pedals that match your chosen system.

If, however, they are doing that for commuter bikes...

New comment by silversmith in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

silversmith — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:22:52 +0000

Personal observation: Opus 5, over the last week, has started outputting A LOT more comments. Despite my global instructions being full of variations on "don't use comments unless absolutely necessary".

I might be imagining things of course. But comments would be great fit for this use case.

New comment by silversmith in "Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments"

silversmith — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:08:19 +0000

If you don't have enough of a mastery over a subject to rapidly respond, maybe you are not fit to pass exam certifying your mastery over a subject.

New comment by silversmith in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

silversmith — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:37:47 +0000

Where did that trend start? Who writes like that, with emoji bullet points? I'm seeing it around, but surely nobody looks at that and says "yeah that's good"?

New comment by silversmith in "I don't maintain my homelab, it maintains itself"

silversmith — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:22:05 +0000

I also have a "homelab" with minimal maintenance requirements. I'd wager it works out to much less than 15 minutes a month over a year. The strategy is as follows: pin all services to known good versions, deny access from outside LAN, and don't touch it unless there's a new service release with new features I want. Not something I would do at work, but perfectly fine for home setting.

New comment by silversmith in "Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days"

silversmith — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:44:38 +0000

Hang on, can you actually do something nefarious with just the bank account number?

New comment by silversmith in "The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE"

silversmith — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:30:35 +0000

I usually don't like the "read the article" replies, but in this case it's warranted - the second section explains how multiple transactions interact there, and the "deleted" record still needs to actually exist for older transactions.

New comment by silversmith in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

silversmith — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:56:34 +0000

Hang on, so you are arguing that responsibility for your product is just a phase you grow out of as a company?

New comment by silversmith in "Siri AI"

silversmith — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:38:36 +0000

Still does not. My approach is to keep the file in OneDrive. On windows / mac it's just a file, on android it's via custom onedrive protocol handler but also seamless.

New comment by silversmith in "Siri AI"

silversmith — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:22:11 +0000

Keepassxc is local first and has password history. Check it out before building.

New comment by silversmith in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

silversmith — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:26:39 +0000

For the biggest languages, Spanish, French, maybe.

For smaller ones like my native Latvian, the output could be confused for good translation from across the room, the words do look like Latvian words. But the quality is Google translate circa 20 years ago, tops.

It could probably do a decent enough translation to English, if all you need is to get the gist of text. But for smaller European language outputs, nothing comes close to Gemini.

New comment by silversmith in "The user is visibly frustrated"

silversmith — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:27:01 +0000

So the correct strategy is a global CLAUDE.md with couple lines of colourful "you best behave or else" texts, so all your prompts get routed via the frustrated path?

New comment by silversmith in "'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing"

silversmith — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:19:53 +0000

As far as I know, Elegoo is offline. It has not asked me to log in anywhere, and while it encourages use of their own orcaslicer skin, it works with others too.

New comment by silversmith in "'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing"

silversmith — Sun, 24 May 2026 05:56:34 +0000

That used to be the case. Less so now - the Chinese brands tend to work right out of the box.

I run an Elegoo Centauri Carbon ar home, and the building and managing process was unscrewing couple transport bolts and clicking "self calibrate" button. From what I've seen, Creality is the same way now too.

Yes, the old Ender 3 I used to have demanded attention every other print. But it's not the norm now.

I'm sure Prusa makes a better product, and it probably starts to make economic sense if you run a print farm. But for home use, a 300€ box that happily melts plastic into whatever shape I need is a sweet deal. It even has a 50€ multi material extension box now, however that's on months long backorder.