Hacker News: sodacanner

New comment by sodacanner in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

sodacanner — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:37:20 +0000

In my personal experience I currently get a lot, lot more usage on the 5x Claude plan than the 5x Codex plan.

Having limitless webUI ChatGPT usage is much better user experience, though. I'll give them that.

(edit: Sol-6 is half the price, so maybe the usage limits are going to be way better.)

New comment by sodacanner in "Goose Programming Language"

sodacanner — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:55:16 +0000

I just can't understand why you'd let an LLM write your README. The code, the implementation? Sure! That's the purpose of a coding agent.

The README, though? That's the first thing I read about your project. Anybody familiar with LLMs is going to pick up that one wrote it in an instant. Surely you understand your own project well enough to write it in your own words, right? If not, what's even the purpose of the project in the first place?

New comment by sodacanner in "Tor VPN Beta: What we've learned building our own VPN for Android from scratch"

sodacanner — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:59:45 +0000

Someone should really invent some sort of system to prevent any one node from knowing a user's traffic. You know, like layers. Reminds me of a vegetable. We can call it the artichoke network, maybe?

New comment by sodacanner in "'We are broken': One family's fight against gambling addiction"

sodacanner — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:13:07 +0000

Directly under this article, if you keep scrolling, is another article detailing odds and betting instructions for football.

New comment by sodacanner in "[dead]"

sodacanner — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:25:07 +0000

This might be the most shameless GPT wrapper yet.

New comment by sodacanner in "Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates"

sodacanner — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:13:43 +0000

You provide an official Windows 11 ISO and the tool modifies it to get the new ISO. The tool is open-source here: https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

I don't see the issue.

New comment by sodacanner in "Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey"

sodacanner — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:22:06 +0000

The author mentions that she tried to get an explanation for how the models identified her and got nonsense, but I'd be curious what the CoT looked like. Surely that'd be a little more accurate in showing how the LLM arrived as its conclusion, rather than asking it after-the-fact.

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!