Hacker News: spunker540

New comment by spunker540 in "Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM"

spunker540 — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 17:16:44 +0000

You are stating that any move away from electron is a junior engineer decision—also not serious imo.

New comment by spunker540 in "Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM"

spunker540 — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 17:12:34 +0000

It seems like the value is having something performant. Their choices were 1) stick to a web framework their employees know well 2) a performant native app their employees don’t know as well. And they chose 2.

If a model can tell you anything you’d hope to have a human tell you, what’s the difference? It’s a different point of failure— models can go offline, but employees can also quit anytime too.

New comment by spunker540 in "Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders"

spunker540 — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 01:34:42 +0000

I use it extensively once im at a destination to generate ideas for where to go and what to see based on my interests and likes and dislikes, e.g "I'm in X city for the next 3 days, and I enjoy hiking and wwii history, what are some things to do?" "my mother in law and wife want to take a daytrip in region X, whats a good day plan given my MIL cant walk or hike far and my wife wants to take photos of scenic views?" I've gotten some great off-the-beaten-path suggestions this way.

But yeah im not using to book flights or hotels.

New comment by spunker540 in "HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN"

spunker540 — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 03:51:23 +0000

I also used to photoshop funny images of friends and family when i was younger, it also was only fun the first one or two times IMO.

New comment by spunker540 in "Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers"

spunker540 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 02:50:38 +0000

I dont have kids (but may in the future) and one thing I'd like to do before then is get a NAS /plex server and build a kid friendly UI on top of it to keep them off of youtube/netflix/fire tv and greatly limit the content available to them to high quality vetted stuff. Acquiring the content for the server may be its own project in and of itself I admit. I also want to do this for myself too, but I especially want it should I have kids. I'm excited by some of the recent examples of hacking smart TVs too, which seems complimentary.

New comment by spunker540 in "No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector"

spunker540 — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 02:46:37 +0000

The differentiation is in how you prompt the LLM — the prompts actually influence the output

New comment by spunker540 in "Tesla Roadster"

spunker540 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:49:45 +0000

It’s more likely that the person doesn’t like Musk, and unless he’s solving world hunger they aren’t going to be happy. There’s a lot of legitimate reasons to not like Elon Musk, but “not helping the bees enough” isn’t a great take

New comment by spunker540 in "Tesla Roadster"

spunker540 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:46:05 +0000

That’s 150 out of 472 for those curious— thanks for sharing details about access-a-ride, honestly seems like the right solution, at least until 2055 when supposedly 95% will be accessible.

New comment by spunker540 in "Noodle Gallery- Open-source, self-hosted alternative to Google Photos and Immich"

spunker540 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:47:49 +0000

Thanks for chiming in. Is the issue that they are vibecoded, or specific issues with the changes themselves?

New comment by spunker540 in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

spunker540 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:42:17 +0000

That is the norm where I work , heck I’d say 99% seems low

New comment by spunker540 in "Nvidia is the central bank of AI"

spunker540 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:03:22 +0000

Do you use coding agents? Just curious bc from my experience using coding agents, open ai’s codex is neck and neck with anthropic’s claude code if not ahead. I wouldn’t agree that OpenAI hasn’t done anything since ChatGPT since codex is my daily driver for software engineering

New comment by spunker540 in "It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta"

spunker540 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:42:16 +0000

Do they use Instagram or WhatsApp?

New comment by spunker540 in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

spunker540 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:29:18 +0000

If an LLM can do a rote task for me, I don’t see why I wouldn’t use it

New comment by spunker540 in "RAG Is Simpler Than You Think"

spunker540 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:29:48 +0000

That sounds more like semantic search and vector db.

RAG is simply fetching external data (retrieval) and adding it to LLM context (augmenting) prior to generating a final response.

Any time LLMs do a grep or a web search to answer the query, it’s RAG. Many people use vector db for their own RAG implementation bc of the semantic search benefits.

New comment by spunker540 in "The myth of Snow Leopard"

spunker540 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:54:47 +0000

I agree- I also dont think OS features of the kind that get shipped in these updates are convincing anyone to switch from pc to mac or upgrade their mac sooner. Tons of stuff just changing for the sake of change. Meanwhile LLMs increasingly only need the command line to do everything.

New comment by spunker540 in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

spunker540 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:53:22 +0000

I think the truth is most printed copies of books are rarely read even once, so the idea of preserving them is noble but realistically not that important. And may be outweighed by benefits accrued to the person currently owning and reading it making the most of it and marking to their hearts content.

I admit I don’t mark up my books but I feel tempted to try

New comment by spunker540 in "China's open-weights AI strategy is winning"

spunker540 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:55:09 +0000

Could you explain what you mean by this? I thought all of their insane profitability and returns are from crazy margins on their GPUs. I know they started/partnered/invested in some data center businesses, but I thought they were fledgling

New comment by spunker540 in "Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide"

spunker540 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 05:21:09 +0000

The gpu inference happens on anthropics side, but the output of the gpu inference is often many local tool calls. The agent is locally reading files, writing files, compiling programs, downloading artifacts, running tests, invoking CLIs, monitoring logs, inspecting web sites, grepping etc, and can be doing all of that at once, in parallel via subagents, much faster than a single human ever could.

New comment by spunker540 in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

spunker540 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 05:07:14 +0000

Can't a democracy vote and agree to kill innocent people abroad? Not sure those things are discordant.

New comment by spunker540 in "Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages"

spunker540 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:50:42 +0000

Last I checked they still do exactly that. Not sure why that case is used as an example when literally every OS bundles a preferred browser