Hacker News: skyberrys

New comment by skyberrys in "Hey, it's Earth Day today"

skyberrys — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:03:29 +0000

Thanks! Their videos are already being recommended to me. I'm persistent with my flower seeding, this is my third year and in the big picture 'mowed by the town/county" is one of the less distressing things to happen. Once I had several beautiful zinnias growing near the county creek and someone came with a shovel and dug them all up! The seeds won't be stopped though.

New comment by skyberrys in "Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish"

skyberrys — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 05:41:06 +0000

Just curious, how long did you operate without AI? The burst in productivity I feel implies a time to accumulate these many small needs.

New comment by skyberrys in "The Free Universal Construction Kit"

skyberrys — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 05:15:11 +0000

The idea send wild, it reminds me of the katamari video game where you roll up assorted stuff.

New comment by skyberrys in "Ask HN: Do you read differently now that anything could be AI generated?"

skyberrys — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 04:42:32 +0000

That's funny, I actively seek out books written post 2022, because I enjoy the injection of AI related humor and commentary that some authors include.

Similar to how movies now include texting dialogue sometimes, it's now part of art to imitate life. I imagine modern film has couples who met through AI now and so on.

New comment by skyberrys in "Ask HN: Do you waste AI assisted time looking for answers?"

skyberrys — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 04:26:21 +0000

Everyone needs to get some deep sleep, and it would be nice to leave an AI running at it while I am sleeping. Are you proposing to experiment with leaving AI models with a big question and time, while you get well rested for the physical mission it will propose? The you wake up and take the actions it couldn't?

New comment by skyberrys in "Hey, it's Earth Day today"

skyberrys — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:17:59 +0000

Practicing green prompting? It seems like you tried you be attentive today to you computer to return ratio.

New comment by skyberrys in "Hey, it's Earth Day today"

skyberrys — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:56:17 +0000

Happy Earth day! Although I'm having a somewhat sad earth day since I've been scattering wildflower seeds and two days ago the city came though and mowed them all down. So it's less happy than usual, now the flowers are all dead.

New comment by skyberrys in "What killed the Florida orange?"

skyberrys — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:56:40 +0000

Those lines are just hanging out on the trees around for most of the year! Best storage for citrus is on the tree.

New comment by skyberrys in "Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns"

skyberrys — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:30:06 +0000

Don't people just tell you if something is made by AI? It doesn't seem like something to hide. Look, I made something cool using an AI tool. That's great to hear, the thing I'm interested in is the Something Cool, but I do also want to know how, so I can learn how to build Something Cool myself.

New comment by skyberrys in "What killed the Florida orange?"

skyberrys — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:24:51 +0000

I love concord grapes so much. Im eagerly awaiting their annual return to the farmers market (early September). I love them so much the vendors know to get me and tell me when they are here. I don't understand why the demand for them is small.

New comment by skyberrys in "Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything"

skyberrys — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:20:05 +0000

Ah man, you are too right there. Now cool stuff requires wading through trash to find it.

New comment by skyberrys in "Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything"

skyberrys — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:57:01 +0000

I was a teenager around the dot-com and to this day I feel an idealized sense of longing for participation in the exciting times of the dot-coms. You guys got to enjoy the blazing innovation of the new internet, so full of endless possibilities. Tough luck on your bubble popping moment though.

New comment by skyberrys in "Ask HN: May be a basic question, but how can I use AI well?"

skyberrys — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:35:30 +0000

So I am taking a different approach than instead of just focusing on software. I have Gemini app, Claude app, Grok app and then chatgpt still using web interface. And periodically I ask them questions about what I can do to improve the wellbeing of humans. I think trying to use them for work is okay, but it's not the best way to use these tools, we can use them to broaden our thinking and find challenges we never considered before.

New comment by skyberrys in "AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing"

skyberrys — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:38:48 +0000

This is my take too. When we were imagining AI what were the use cases we had in mind back then? They are these grand visions of AI will take care of major problems. We should be pushing for responsible AI deployment, starting on low risk areas and moving up to more serious uses once we know the tools work for less catastrophic situations.

New comment by skyberrys in "Show HN: A collaborative SSH copilot for on-calls/DevOps/MLOps"

skyberrys — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:52:15 +0000

Going after a problem almost everyone will have at some point, with a safe and secure approach. It seems like a great way to use AI, it boosts your ability to walk away from your laptop and spend time outdoors, as long as you have your phone with you it's possible to keep your long running jobs supervised and moving forward.

How many tokens did it take to develop this project? Do you know what models you used? It feels like a Claude assisted project, but do you have to keep maintaining it with AI or is it a question of architecture skill that keeps it safe and reliable now?

New comment by skyberrys in "Hardware Is Hard?"

skyberrys — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:52:54 +0000

I would say this reading took a sharp turn from what I expected on the title, but it does make sense. There is plenty of hopeful potential in this type of public learning. The author starts off with wild intentions and eventually practically works out a solution, even though you can tell it was not quite what was envisioned.

That happens to me too, I start doing something and a result isn't the end of the learning, but a chance to repeat the experience.

New comment by skyberrys in "Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code"

skyberrys — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:33:03 +0000

This is an interesting use case with Claude. It sounds like you took away some tedious work with the checking of waveforms, and you are able to speed up your design loop because of it.

New comment by skyberrys in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

skyberrys — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:49:42 +0000

The reasons laid out in this article are why it's so important to share how we are using AI and what we are getting in return. I've been trying to contribute towards a positive outcome for AI by tracking how well the big AI companies are doing at being used to solve humanitarian problems. I can't really do most of the suggestions the article, they seem like a way to slow progress. I don't want to slow AI progress, I want the technology we already have to be deployed for useful and helpful things.

New comment by skyberrys in "Meta spins up AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to engage with employees"

skyberrys — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:59:03 +0000

I have to say it's a world first for a big company to have an AI of their CEO right there for anyone to talk to. Or is it not anyone? It looks selectively rolled out.

New comment by skyberrys in "Android now stops you sharing your location in photos"

skyberrys — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:55:28 +0000

I am developing an Android application that uses image location data, in fact, the primary purpose of the app is for the user to curate the location data so it is accurate enough to depict the location and life cycle of a flower from a series of timestamped photos of the flower.

I guess I share to point out that the solution of developing a android native app is not that burdensome, and it is some kind of data you want the user to be intentional with.