Hacker News: slipwalker

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Which model do you use for work?"

slipwalker — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 12:25:27 +0000

mostly GLM-5-turbo for coding,

and gemini-3.6-flash for brainstorming problems

( why ? token cost and availability at work )

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Which harness do you use with Qwen3.8 27B? And why?"

slipwalker — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:41:14 +0000

pi.dev with

"packages": [ "npm:context-mode", "npm:pi-subagents", "npm:pi-web-access", "npm:pi-bar", "npm:pi-opencode-bridge", "npm:@ssweens/pi-leash", "npm:pi-caveman", "npm:@ff-labs/pi-fff", "npm:pi-ui-hephaestus", "npm:@alexanderfortin/pi-zai-usage", "npm:pi-cache-optimizer", "npm:@hypabolic/pi-hypa" ]

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Do you love your job?"

slipwalker — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:23:55 +0000

i "love" my vices and luxuries that my paycheck provides...

( and i hate the little time my job allows me to enjoy those )

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: How do you interview devs in a post-AI world?"

slipwalker — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:13:07 +0000

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbvMpuhKmXk

New comment by slipwalker in "Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023"

slipwalker — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:41:18 +0000

but what sort of people keep their bitcoins on the exchange ? the whole point is about not being seizable by dirty governments...

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: What is the most career altering course or book you have gone through?"

slipwalker — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:57:47 +0000

Programming Perl, 1st Ed. from Larry Wall. The three great virtues of a programmer were enlightening for a fresh-outta-college beginner.

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?"

slipwalker — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:56:08 +0000

same here. GLM-5.3-flash is my current daily runner for coding and reviews, and Deepseek-v4 when a second opinion seems beneficial.

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: How do you survive a job you hate which is slowly making you sick?"

slipwalker — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:56:33 +0000

you should take this job as what every job is: means to a comfortable living. Take the paychecks, if the backlog of weeks take months and the c-levels are used to it, it only means more paychecks for you.... save/invest as much as you can, and spend the rest with whatever gives you pleasure, this alone should prevent your health deteriorating.... maybe even "stop worrying and love the bomb".

New comment by slipwalker in "I'm a CTO. We took PE money 6 months ago. AMA"

slipwalker — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:26:56 +0000

How did the AI/agentic-engineering/LLMs changed your engineering and operations ( maybe product management ) teams and activities over these last 2 years ? How did it affected your cost structure ?

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: OpenBSD or FreeBSD?"

slipwalker — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:37:04 +0000

for what purpose ? i would prefer FreeBSD for a laptop/desktop/workstation, but openbsd for a lean/mean server...

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: What is your covered call options trading strategy?"

slipwalker — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:17:43 +0000

calendar spread.

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Which model do you use with Pi coding agent?"

slipwalker — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:06:06 +0000

GLM 5.x coding plan from z.ai, and opencode go plan.

New comment by slipwalker in "Fable 5 dropped from subscriptions before the promised July 19 date"

slipwalker — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:45:42 +0000

looks a lot like a rag pull...

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: How long do you use your personal laptop before replacing it?"

slipwalker — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:50:13 +0000

0. SWE turned manager against my better judgment

1. MacBookPro M4 base model.

2. roughly 10 years ( my last one was a MCP retina 2015, and before that linux notebooks lasting about the same time ).

New comment by slipwalker in "Nginx Vulnerabilities"

slipwalker — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:58:35 +0000

for a long time i have replaced my nginx instances with openresty ( the open source version with Lua scripting ) and the CVEs seem to be less critical and solved faster:

https://app.opencve.io/cve/?q=product%3Aopenresty+OR+vendor%...

https://app.opencve.io/cve/?q=product%3Anginx

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: How do you keep documentation up to date with AI generated code?"

slipwalker — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:16:13 +0000

replace documentation for an agent/chatbot accessing a RAG with the collection of requirements/design docs plus the code repository. I have been doing a POC at my day job and it works surprisingly well even with SLMs ( Gemma3 4B, i smy current favourite )

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: What GUI/desktop app do you use to keep track of different AI sessions?"

slipwalker — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:50:02 +0000

wezterm running herdr.dev with several pi.dev sessions.

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Should I buy mac studio M4 max or macbook M5 pro?"

slipwalker — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:45:32 +0000

i am assuming he is suggesting a 3 year depreciation cycle for the equipment, quite common on enterprises.

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Homeless, Former Software Developer, What Now?"

slipwalker — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:59:01 +0000

"former software developer" does not say much... which field of expertise, which tech stack are you comfortable with ? In current AI trends coding means very little compared to system design, solution architecture and (argh!) prompt/context engineering... any proven experience there ? a public portfolio ? and i am sorry, but it does not seem feasible you can afford pets currently...

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Where is our profession (programmer) going?"

slipwalker — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:41:15 +0000

towards system design and solution architecture.