Hacker News: snarkyturtle

New comment by snarkyturtle in "Gemma 4 on iPhone"

snarkyturtle — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:06:38 +0000

AFM had a 4096 token context window and this can be configured to have a 32k+ token context window, for one.

New comment by snarkyturtle in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

snarkyturtle — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:34:53 +0000

Google releasing Gemma 4 yesterday was prescient. Toying around with Zed + Gemma 4 on my laptop is 95% as good as using a cloud provider.

New comment by snarkyturtle in "Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac"

snarkyturtle — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:14:43 +0000

Noting that there's an option to require a Bearer token to the API

New comment by snarkyturtle in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

snarkyturtle — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:21:40 +0000

Warner Bros has had their best summer in years (Sinners, Superman, etc). HBO still makes highly regarded prestige TV series (The Last Of Us, Task, etc). This is just false.

New comment by snarkyturtle in "Ask HN: Is AWS down again?"

snarkyturtle — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:39:54 +0000

What's updog?

New comment by snarkyturtle in "U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis"

snarkyturtle — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:17:02 +0000

The link to the Science article is a 404. Not a good look.

New comment by snarkyturtle in "Eternal September"

snarkyturtle — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:33:29 +0000

*Eternal

New comment by snarkyturtle in "Ozzy Osbourne has died"

snarkyturtle — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:56:10 +0000

He's in everyone's good graces because he's now known as a kookie old man from the MTV show _The Osbournes_ that aired in the mid-2000's. Same reason why Michael Jackson, arguably the most famous person of the 90s, isn't as popular after his death given his reclusiveness and scandals. We tend to remember stars for the last impact that they had — not what they started off with.

New comment by snarkyturtle in "Pixar's Newest Movie, 'Elio', Is a Box-Office Dud"

snarkyturtle — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:29:38 +0000

Not super great of them to release an original movie so close to Lilo and Stitch, which is still in theaters and just crossed $900M world-wide. And of course, How to Train Your Dragon, as mentioned in the article.

New comment by snarkyturtle in "Everything Is Down"

snarkyturtle — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:04:54 +0000

The U.S. is notorious for not allowing vacation time, or at least is more focused on the "grindset".

New comment by snarkyturtle in "Caffeine in Your Blood Could Affect Body Fat and Diabetes Risk, Study Shows"

snarkyturtle — Sat, 10 May 2025 17:43:31 +0000

In the article, "calorie-free caffeinated drinks could be explored as a potential means of helping reduce body fat levels"

New comment by snarkyturtle in "Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? (2024)"

snarkyturtle — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:07:12 +0000

Isn't that the use-case for Micro Frontend Architecture? I've always viewed it as a second-coming of Frames. https://micro-frontends.org/

New comment by snarkyturtle in "Why Clojure?"

snarkyturtle — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:22:37 +0000

So they try to make the least-worst JVM environment which is great if you're dead-set on using the JVM, which has a lot of pros.

For most people Python/Javascript also does the job and you don't need to learn another paradigm — a Lisp — to code for it, which also makes sense.

However, learning a Lisp also makes you a better coder because of immutability and less side-effects. Hence why Clojure is still around.

New comment by snarkyturtle in "Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme"

snarkyturtle — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:06:18 +0000

The proper context, too, is that Liz Lemon is in charge of showrunning a Saturday Night skit show and is facing many challenges. "Lemon, it's Wednesday" implies that there are many things that can go wrong in between Wednesday and Saturday.

New comment by snarkyturtle in "Introducing Ads in Threads"

snarkyturtle — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 20:31:24 +0000

It looks like ads generally are posts from business accounts that then get a sponsored badge and some promotion among feeds. From a fediverse perspective, you won't see them unless you follow the pizza hut threads feed (to use a random example.)

New comment by snarkyturtle in "Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser"

snarkyturtle — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:43:25 +0000

Shift-T: triggers a tab switcher

D-U: is Page Up/Page Down

/: find in page

New comment by snarkyturtle in "Some Notes on Upgrading Hugo"

snarkyturtle — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 21:14:59 +0000

Zola is infinitely better for templating alone. It does everything Hugo does.

New comment by snarkyturtle in "X caught blocking links to NPR, claiming the news site may be 'unsafe'"

snarkyturtle — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:48:13 +0000

I like NPR but I wonder why their slugs have that weird bit of code after the date/time

"nx-s1-5092087" looks like a random string that might trigger some automated firewalls or checks

New comment by snarkyturtle in "MiniJinja: Learnings from Building a Template Engine in Rust"

snarkyturtle — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:44:14 +0000

Wait until you have to work in Mustache/Handlebars, you'd love Jinja

New comment by snarkyturtle in "A "Heat Dome" of Immigration"

snarkyturtle — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:10:28 +0000

There isn't a point to this article, it just reiterates the PDF, tacks on some half-baked thoughts about the upcoming election then admits that other countries with less immigration are going through the same problems.