Hacker News: sligbad

New comment by sligbad in "Investing in the public benefit"

sligbad — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:12:13 +0000

This was really loud in my mind reading this post. It seems so obvious!

New comment by sligbad in "DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017"

sligbad — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:16:50 +0000

Same. I'm just happy sticking with them and am consistently impressed. Cost is so good and kind of keeps you honest.

New comment by sligbad in "DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017"

sligbad — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:00:41 +0000

Once read, I think from G Huntley, "pick a model and stick with it," they have been making that very easy, daily driver since V4.

New comment by sligbad in "A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes (2024)"

sligbad — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 07:49:56 +0000

Thanks for writing this up. The prose was really pleasant to read, a treat in this day.

New comment by sligbad in "Ultramarine 1 Flash"

sligbad — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 07:36:56 +0000

I really like Deepseek Harness. It has some quirks but I like the flexibility and the web UI is solid. The self-configuration is pretty nice.

New comment by sligbad in "Show HN: Free open source Adobe Lightroom alternative, completely local with AI"

sligbad — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:37:53 +0000

This is unfortunately exactly the kind of project I wouldn't want to trust my photo management workflow to...software is cheaper than ever, thoughtful maintenance and longevity is worth much more to me.

Not that Adobe's getting my money either.

New comment by sligbad in "What would a serious AI product look like?"

sligbad — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:48:38 +0000

Really refreshing read. This feels glaring in so many of these, and the methods to get things to "behave" of just slapping additional markdown prompts at various levels is both silly and ineffective.

New comment by sligbad in "Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap"

sligbad — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:31:56 +0000

Pro: it can be an excellent way to learn if you realize good problems don't come easy, many such cases where I abandon something having learned from it and that's life

Con: the machine will tell you you have easily found a good problem, and engineered the perfect and necessary solution, if you let it

New comment by sligbad in "I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Training AI"

sligbad — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:01:09 +0000

If this is your takeaway, it's what you were looking to believe anyway...

New comment by sligbad in "HEALPix"

sligbad — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:04:01 +0000

I've seen some similar geohash-words stuff, this is super cool, thanks for sharing!

New comment by sligbad in "HEALPix"

sligbad — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:24:49 +0000

Also very cool: Google's S2 geometry - https://s2geometry.io/

Used by https://catch.astro.umd.edu/

New comment by sligbad in "HEALPix"

sligbad — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:48:21 +0000

Love the HEALPix scheme, super useful for indexing too (some similar characteristics to geohashes).