Hacker News: statenjason

New comment by statenjason in "How I code with AI on a budget/free"

statenjason — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 01:38:15 +0000

Aider as a non-agentic coding tool strikes a nice balance on the efficiency vs effectiveness front. Using tree-sitter to create a repo map of the repository means less filesystem digging. No MCP, but shell commands mean it can use utilities I myself am familiar with. Combined with Cerebras as a provider, the turnaround on prompts is instant; I can stay involved rather than waiting on multiple rounds of tool calls. It's my go-to for smaller scale projects.

New comment by statenjason in "Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops"

statenjason — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 17:48:23 +0000

I use gen.nvim[1] with for small tasks, like “write a type definition for this JSON” .

Running locally avoids the concern of sending IP or PII to third parties.

[1]: https://github.com/David-Kunz/gen.nvim

Reverse Turing Experiment with AIs [video]

statenjason — Tue, 28 May 2024 03:18:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxTWLm9vT_o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40497013

Points: 2

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New comment by statenjason in "Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)"

statenjason — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 21:37:45 +0000

I tried Hurl after Insomnia went the way of Postman. The highlights you list were the strong drivers for testing it out. Where Hurl fell short was composing requests. Example: X.hurl response has authToken. Y.hurl uses authToken. Z.hurl uses authToken. There's no import ability[1], so you've got to use other tooling to copy X.hurl into Y.hurl and Z.hurl.

Ultimately settled on Bruno. It's backed by readable text files[2] as well. The CLI works for scripting. And the GUI is familiar enough that I've managed to convert Postman holdouts at my dayjob.

[1]: https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl/issues/1723

[2]: https://docs.usebruno.com/bru-language-samples.html

New comment by statenjason in "Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage"

statenjason — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 16:02:25 +0000

I use both.

Restic for various machines to hourly backup on a local server. Rclone to sync those backups to S3 daily.

Keeps the read/write ops lower, restores faster, and limits to a single machine with S3 access.

Chrome Shopping Insights and Price Tracking

statenjason — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 22:08:51 +0000

Article URL: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/11625545?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38537612

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by statenjason in "Ask HN: Which distro do you use? (2023)"

statenjason — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 20:30:19 +0000

I migrated to Alpine for my laptop this year after an extended attempt of NixOS. For development, I’ve found I’m more productive in that I don’t go down the rabbit hole of finding the “Nix way” of using a language/tool. The speed of apk is refreshing for my older machine, and APKBUILDs are intuitive after my past experience with Arch PKGBUILD.

Drew DeVault has a decent write up on Alpine that’s worth a read. https://drewdevault.com/2021/05/06/Praise-for-Alpine-Linux.h...

Data Race Patterns in Go

statenjason — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 19:35:40 +0000

Article URL: https://eng.uber.com/data-race-patterns-in-go/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31698503

Points: 307

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BMW will discontinue 3G ConnectedDrive in February 2022 [pdf]

statenjason — Wed, 26 May 2021 19:57:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bmwusa.com/content/dam/bmwusa/connected-drive/pdf/3G_FAQ.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27295333

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by statenjason in "The digital currencies that matter"

statenjason — Fri, 07 May 2021 23:53:19 +0000

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New comment by statenjason in "Netscape ISP Homepage"

statenjason — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 02:03:15 +0000

That loaded fast.

Also, seeing the network request for background gradients takes me back to an era of CSS I don't miss. Anyone remember the hacks for drop shadows and rounded corners?

New comment by statenjason in "Google showing animated ships when searching “ever given”"

statenjason — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 23:45:18 +0000

Makes me wonder if anyone suggested Ever Given "do a barrel roll"[1]

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=do+a+barrel+roll

Gmail app on Android is down

statenjason — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:59:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=1&iid=aa75515d184a2423be444d676b7ebf45

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26550512

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by statenjason in "Watchy: Hackable $50 Smartwatch"

statenjason — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 22:36:15 +0000

For another hackable smartwatch, see the PineTime.

https://pine64.com/product/pinetime-dev-kit

New comment by statenjason in "RFC6238 TOTP implementation in pure PostgreSQL"

statenjason — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 03:14:14 +0000

First thing that came to mind was in one of the "Postgres-backend" projects like Hasura[1], Postgraphile[2], or PostgREST[3].

[1]: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/

[2]: https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/

[3]: https://postgrest.org

New comment by statenjason in "Lena"

statenjason — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 17:32:05 +0000

Came here to recommend "Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell" as well. I recently finished it. While Stephenson can get long-winded, it was a thought provoking story around how brain simulation is received by the world.

Will check out Bobiverse. Thanks for the recommendation!

New comment by statenjason in "Go is not an easy language"

statenjason — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 04:30:51 +0000

Have you looked at Nim? Python-like syntax, compiles to C, and a considerably sized stdlib (http, parsing, channels)

https://nim-lang.org/

End of Official Support for Facebook SDK for React Native

statenjason — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 21:51:54 +0000

Article URL: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2021/01/19/introducing-facebook-platform-sdk-version-9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25839398

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by statenjason in "If Not SPAs, What?"

statenjason — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 23:03:56 +0000

Displaying a loading spinner in under 50ms while waiting for a 500ms request to complete doesn't necessarily build a strong relationship.

SPAs can start off with the good intention of being low-latency and responsive. But when you're backed by a web server, you still have to account for it though optimistic rendering, prefetching, and loading states. Getting it right can be an excellent UX, but it's easy to get very wrong.

Chrome – How do I remove the puzzle piece?

statenjason — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 15:55:43 +0000

Article URL: https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/51665301

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23691355

Points: 1

# Comments: 0