Hacker News: simlevesque

New comment by simlevesque in "Fable is not a useful model"

simlevesque — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:56:53 +0000

I've had Fable read and write code. Never saw any downgrades.

New comment by simlevesque in "Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents"

simlevesque — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:28:21 +0000

Absolutely. This is DOA honestly and not really better than what we had before.

New comment by simlevesque in "TypeScript 7"

simlevesque — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:32:14 +0000

It's coming in 7.1

New comment by simlevesque in "Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens"

simlevesque — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:25:11 +0000

I've done many custom low token output CLIs like this for my day job and it's something I expect to see much more of.

New comment by simlevesque in "Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk"

simlevesque — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:15:03 +0000

They were faking artificial intelligence by using real individuals.

New comment by simlevesque in "The Rise and (Potential) Fall of Letterboxd"

simlevesque — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:19:22 +0000

It now drives the "actors in this scene" feature in Amazon Prime.

New comment by simlevesque in "Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You"

simlevesque — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:53:21 +0000

Article name: "everything the doc doesn't mention"

You: "they missed this feature that's in the docs !"

You're right that it's an important part of CC's config. But it doesn't fit the article's raison d'être.

New comment by simlevesque in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

simlevesque — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:15:42 +0000

AI versus AI, the final faceoff. Who's gonna win? Probably not us.

New comment by simlevesque in "Google I/O"

simlevesque — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:28:38 +0000

"we can't wait to see what you'll ask our models to build !"

New comment by simlevesque in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

simlevesque — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:24:56 +0000

I'm confused too as to how my comment can be interpreted as a personal attack on anyone.

I was indeed talking about Bun as a whole and not any particular person. I'd even include the Bun community in my "them".

But I'll take dang's word for it and will watch what I say.

New comment by simlevesque in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

simlevesque — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:03:05 +0000

They've been shady since day one, claiming wild performance improvement compared to their competitors and never proving any of them.

New comment by simlevesque in "Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol"

simlevesque — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:47:30 +0000

SQLite isn't a moving target like DuckDB is. It's scope is very well defined.

I'm not knocking Quack or DuckDB but I'm starting to get a bit confused.

New comment by simlevesque in "Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol"

simlevesque — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:46:06 +0000

MotherDuck is very expensive.

New comment by simlevesque in "Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol"

simlevesque — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:42:43 +0000

I like DuckDB but I'm not sure what it wants to be. There's always new ways to use it and it's not easy to see what's the right one.

New comment by simlevesque in "Dav2d"

simlevesque — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:31:33 +0000

Then how can there be a decoder if it's not final ?

New comment by simlevesque in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

simlevesque — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:15:24 +0000

I went with MiniMax. The token plans are over what I currently need, 4500 messages per 5h, 45000 messages per week for 40$. I can run multiple agents and they don't think for 5-10 minutes like Sonnet did. Also I can finally see the thinking process while Anthropic chose to hide it all from me.

I'm using Zed and Claude Code as my harnesses.

New comment by simlevesque in "The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables"

simlevesque — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:59:38 +0000

But then every rotation would break production, wouldn't it ?

New comment by simlevesque in "Introduction to Obsidian"

simlevesque — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:56:10 +0000

Haha now your comment might make it seem like I was trying to advertise for you, hence the downvotes.

As a disclaimer, no I wasn't paid and have never been contacted before by Syncding, just a happy customer.

New comment by simlevesque in "The Orange Pi 6 Plus"

simlevesque — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:54:30 +0000

The N100 is way larger than a OrangePi 5 Max.

New comment by simlevesque in "Introduction to Obsidian"

simlevesque — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:22:36 +0000

I recommend using syncthing. It's very easy to self host but I actually use a SaaS for it: syncding.com. It gets me 100gb to 1tb of disk in which I can create folders and keep them synced with my 2 laptops, my phone, my server etc... I have an Obsidian vault with Meld Encrypt to encrypt some files, a keepassxc file I share across my devices and my todo.txt

It's simple to setup and will work forever instead of paying for different providers that might shut down or increase their prices.