Hacker News: sodacanner

New comment by sodacanner in "Zed 1.0"

sodacanner — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:41:02 +0000

I've personally found it uses significantly less memory on large projects than VSCode. VSCode has historically been nigh-unusable for me on Linux, it gets incredibly sluggish.

New comment by sodacanner in "Zed 1.0"

sodacanner — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:52:07 +0000

It works 'well' with Claude Code, but you're going to be missing a lot of features. There's no display for sub-agents/teams, no ability to clear the context without starting a whole new thread window, no ability to view the current context or usage, etc. There's also no built-in ability to view or change the model's current effort level, which I think is a current limitation with the SDK.

I tried it for a bit and it was definitely usable and I got a few features built out, but I eventually moved back to using CC in the terminal. I'm sure they're working on it, though.

New comment by sodacanner in "Why Not Venus?"

sodacanner — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:13:17 +0000

We'll just launch from the Arctic during winter.

New comment by sodacanner in "Reverse engineering Gemini's SynthID detection"

sodacanner — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:58:47 +0000

Sure, and things like this help drive home that SynthID wasn't a solution at all.

New comment by sodacanner in "Reverse engineering Gemini's SynthID detection"

sodacanner — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:51:38 +0000

I don't understand all the handwringing. If it's this easy to remove SynthID from an AI-generated image then it wasn't a good solution in the first place.

New comment by sodacanner in "Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter"

sodacanner — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:56:05 +0000

I'm not sure how you'd be able to interpret that as anything other than passive aggressive.

New comment by sodacanner in "Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain"

sodacanner — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:51:06 +0000

The constitution isn't some divine sacrament that they'll respect any more than the laws being rewritten in other countries. They'll step over it all the same when the time comes.

New comment by sodacanner in "Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain"

sodacanner — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:27:16 +0000

The belief of 'where' your rights come from has very little impact on reality - and in reality, it's the government (those that control the police, military) that grant you any rights whatsoever. The distinction between where your rights come from doesn't matter much when the people in power are willing to trample them either way.

New comment by sodacanner in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

sodacanner — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:46:55 +0000

I was mostly hinting towards the 'connection' part of it, yes - I think that's really where the money is made more than anything else. That's the part that'll start killing the industry once some company tunes it in.

New comment by sodacanner in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

sodacanner — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:59:20 +0000

People already have access to every form of niche pornography they could dare to imagine (for absolutely free!), I really doubt that 'personal taste' is the part that makes OF models their money. They'll be fine.

New comment by sodacanner in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

sodacanner — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:20:13 +0000

It really is unfortunate that such a fun piece of punctuation has been effectively gutted. This isn't even really limited to just the em-dash, but I don't know if there's another example of a corporation (or set of them) having such a massive impact on grammar and writing as OpenAI and their ilk have.

Entire sentence structures have been effectively blacklisted from use. It's repulsive.

New comment by sodacanner in "Show HN: Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions"

sodacanner — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:39:28 +0000

Very useful as someone who's trying to use Vim motions more often, thanks!