<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: strobe</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=strobe</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:55:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=strobe" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strobe in "Claude Design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Winamp been really unique, probably because they able to combine that unique design with very practical UX. Even when better players released a lot of users got hard times to switch because of UI, visualizations, skins...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:48:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47812200</link><dc:creator>strobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47812200</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47812200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strobe in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>try Unsloth recommended settings<p><pre><code>    Thinking mode for general tasks: temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=1.5, repetition_penalty=1.0

    Thinking mode for precise coding tasks (e.g. WebDev): temperature=0.6, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=0.0, repetition_penalty=1.0

    Instruct (or non-thinking) mode for general tasks: temperature=0.7, top_p=0.8, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=1.5, repetition_penalty=1.0

    Instruct (or non-thinking) mode for reasoning tasks: temperature=1.0, top_p=0.95, top_k=20, min_p=0.0, presence_penalty=1.5, repetition_penalty=1.0
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(Please note that the support for sampling parameters varies according to inference frameworks.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:04:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801439</link><dc:creator>strobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801439</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strobe in "Give Django your time and money, not your tokens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OSS projects usually has culture which adopting quality aimed development practices much faster that commercial projects (because of cost of adoption) so it looks like same concerns eventually will hit other kind of projects.</p>
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<p>unlikely, FOSS is mostly driven by zero-cost maintenance but AI tools needs money to burn. So only few FOSS project will receive sponsored tools and some definitely reject to use by ideological reasons (for example it could be considered as poison pill from copyright perspective).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:13:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47126298</link><dc:creator>strobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47126298</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47126298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strobe in "Don't rent the cloud, own instead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>With AWS the knowledge is at least transferable<p>unfortunately it lot of things in AWS that also could be messed up so it might be really hard to research what is going on. For example, you could have hundreds of Lambdas running without any idea where original sources and how they connected to each-other, or complex VPCs network routing where some rules and security groups shared randomly between services so if you do small change it could lead to completely difference service to degrade (like you were hired to help with service X but after you changes some service Y went down and you even not aware that it existed)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:52:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904246</link><dc:creator>strobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904246</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strobe in "If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>probably more beneficial for business not for a users.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 03:54:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46664654</link><dc:creator>strobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46664654</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46664654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strobe in "If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>and still in 2026 is wide market of those pens with price ranges ~$2000-$3 and ink chooses where some bottles costs ~$50 for 30-60ml.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 03:52:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46664648</link><dc:creator>strobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46664648</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46664648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strobe in "Show HN: AI in SolidWorks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>maybe some combination of visual representation with text. For example it's not easy to come up intuitive with names of operations which could be applied to some surface. But if you could say something like 'select top side of cylinder' and it will show you some possible names of operations (with illustrations/animations) which could be applied to it then it's easy to say back what it need to do without actually knowing what actually possible. So as result it maybe just much quicker way to interact with CAD that we are using currently.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:04:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46593481</link><dc:creator>strobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46593481</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46593481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strobe in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>You need to follow up with a set of strict requirements to set expectations, guard rails, and what the final product should do (and not do).<p>that usually very hard to do part, and is was possible to spent few days on something like that in real word before LLMs. But with LLMs is worse because is not enough to have those requirements, some of those won't work for random reasons and is no any 'rules' that can grantee results. It always like 'try that' and 'probably this will work'.<p>Just recently I was struggled with same prompt produced different result between API calls before I realized that just usage of few more '\"' and few spaces in prompt leaded model to completely different route of logic which produced opposite answers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:50:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527770</link><dc:creator>strobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527770</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strobe in "Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it looks like some kind marketing push or 'growth hack', just to get some viral thing around which justify why do you extra reason to pay for Claude or Tailscale subscription.<p>I personally not even convinced that Claude Code any better on average than something like Aider+Gemini 3 or other good model. May be in some specific cases it actually better but in those Aider+'Antropic Model via API' most likely will work too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:30:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527501</link><dc:creator>strobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527501</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strobe in "A website to destroy all websites"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>is one of the issues of modern web as it's optimized for quick most efficient reading, but something like this website is more optimized for slow thoughtful experience. Like some of the books about art history where you not only trying to get extract meaning of words but trying imagine how that time felt and try look on things from different perspective or different values.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:59:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469928</link><dc:creator>strobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469928</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strobe in "HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From what I heard, even if a person is an EU citizen and does not have dual citizenship but was born in some ex-USSR/CIS countries. For example, if they migrated with their parents at the age of 1y, they will always be considered a higher-risk client by EU banks and will always be under some suspicion. So if that true is not possible to stop being related at least fully.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:42:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46443622</link><dc:creator>strobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46443622</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46443622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strobe in "Scala 3 slowed us down?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>another issue with kotlin, because it encourage Java ecosystem usage like Spring is not much differentiation that could drive adoption.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:15:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46186372</link><dc:creator>strobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46186372</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46186372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strobe in "Garbage collection for Rust: The finalizer frontier"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Scala but it's on JVM (also is <a href="https://scala-native.org" rel="nofollow">https://scala-native.org</a> without JVM but that not really has big user base)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:26:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45600121</link><dc:creator>strobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45600121</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45600121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strobe in "You might not need tmux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>same, and those 2 plugins together completely eliminated need for tmux/zelij locally<p>- <a href="https://github.com/MLFlexer/smart_workspace_switcher.wezterm">https://github.com/MLFlexer/smart_workspace_switcher.wezterm</a><p>- <a href="https://github.com/MLFlexer/resurrect.wezterm">https://github.com/MLFlexer/resurrect.wezterm</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 10:53:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44755163</link><dc:creator>strobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44755163</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44755163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strobe in "Ruby on Rails Audit Complete"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>yeah, and sometime it getting really ridicules: N years of experience in language doesn't count if no libraries from approved list was used.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 17:15:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44283513</link><dc:creator>strobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44283513</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44283513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strobe in "Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm switching a lot between Sonnet and Gemini in Aider - for some reason some of my coding problems only one of models capable to solve and I don't see any pattern which cold give answer upfront which I should to use for specific need.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:42:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44193910</link><dc:creator>strobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44193910</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44193910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strobe in "Cursor 1.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not sure about bots but it looks like they have real peoples on payroll or who paid per comment or something like that. And they trying push narrative 'use it now or you will be left behind' on every place where someone could share experience of using ai tools.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44191287</link><dc:creator>strobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44191287</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44191287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strobe in "I think it's time to give Nix a chance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In most cases is enough to have emacs installed as part of OS with all required general cli tools and then open project specific shell with all project dev dependencies like compilers and libs.<p>However is some cases when it could be little more tricky, for instance I'm using LSP for Scala (<a href="https://scalameta.org/metals/" rel="nofollow">https://scalameta.org/metals/</a>) which on start trying to automatically detect JDK version for project from environment. So if my project depends on JDK 11 it might required for me manually start LSP from nix-shell to force it use right JVM version.<p>With Rust is in someway similar, I need to bring some shell with 'rust up' setup so it could install everything for rust-analyzer then emacs can use it.<p>Regardless emacs itself is few options to manage emacs packages in nix way but for me it not really gives anything so I just use it as on any other OS.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 19:49:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100991</link><dc:creator>strobe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100991</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by strobe in "Google is hurting new apps that have less users than competitors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was involved in mobile game development for several years, but I’m no longer active in that field.
In my opinion, one of the reasons they do this is to maximize Ad revenue. In this case, it’s obvious that if you see this warning on your product page, the quick fix would be to spend money on Ads to gain a few more users as soon as possible. This also creates a competitive bidding situation across the market, as more developers buy ads, forcing others to do the same to keep up.</p>
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