Hacker News: slipwalker

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.

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser?"

slipwalker — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:12:37 +0000

for my needs, raycast suffices, and it is one less app to install.

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser?"

slipwalker — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:31:32 +0000

homebrew ( indispensable ! all the other apps below are installed/managed via homebrew ):

- raycast ( keyboard shortcuts for clipboard manager, basic window management, pomodoro tracking and app launch )

- stats

- ice ( menubar manager )

- theBoringNotch ( to have some use for the annoying notch )

- mole ( storage cleaner )

- wezterm ( inside which i run zsh, tmux, neovim, zoxide, eza, batcat, ripgrep, fzf, fdfind, yazi, btop, lazygit, lazydocker... )

- textmate

- iina

- zen browser ( with uBlock origin and betterfox settings )

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Whats the best and small open source model?"

slipwalker — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:01:35 +0000

i have toyed around Tiny Llama 1.1B ( https://github.com/jzhang38/TinyLlama ) for the "conversational brain" of NPCs in a game i was dabbling.... it was fun.

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: What are your best Claude hacks?"

slipwalker — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:11:03 +0000

drop horizontal layers architectures and focus on vertical-slices. This alone reduces the needed context window per feature by an order of magnitude.

New comment by slipwalker in "What is the most valuable skill you've learned outside of your job?"

slipwalker — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:17:14 +0000

Role playing… it’s basically lying and pretending with extra steps.

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: What coding agents are you using?"

slipwalker — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:50:19 +0000

multiple pi.dev with opencode.ai/go plan; inside herdr muxer.

works nicely at a very agreeable cost ( USD$10/mo ).

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Any Local LLM can I run without GPU for Local Agentic workflow AI?"

slipwalker — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:40:53 +0000

how about opencode's go ( https://opencode.ai/go ) it is very cost effective and the models are surprisingly competent....

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Suggest Google Antigravity Alternative"

slipwalker — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:01:52 +0000

just out of curiosity, which GPU are you running on your local machine ?

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Suggest Google Antigravity Alternative"

slipwalker — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:24:09 +0000

https://opencode.ai/en/go

evaluate the Opencode's budget friendly "Go plan"

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Do you know the ethics of Developers?"

slipwalker — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:27:19 +0000

ship it !

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Is Anybody Using Codex?"

slipwalker — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:31:21 +0000

are you using opencode ?

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Most technically impressive games of all time?"

slipwalker — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:39:00 +0000

Elite (1984) used procedural generation to create EIGHT entire galaxies, each with 256 star systems, on a floppy disk that was less than 48 kilobytes!

New comment by slipwalker in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

slipwalker — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:26:25 +0000

i like opencode's zen https://opencode.ai/en/zen with opencode's TUI.

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Find a Claude skill is so hard"

slipwalker — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:12:12 +0000

maybe this: https://www.skillsdirectory.com/ ?

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: How are you actively keeping your thinking sharp while using LLMs daily?"

slipwalker — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:28:46 +0000

I set my "personal instructions"/customization for any LLM tool to highly adversarial mode. Explicitly confront and question every word i type.

New comment by slipwalker in "Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?"

slipwalker — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:23:46 +0000

Thomas Edison. He was gangsta ! Stole, cheated and lied everytime he could. If we are limited to recent personalities, then John Mcaffe, same reasons.