Hacker News: stuartq

New comment by stuartq in "Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users"

stuartq — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:14:10 +0000

Terra is far from awful. I've not used Luna enough to judge whether it's significantly better than Luna, but at least via GitHub Copilot, Terra is leaps ahead of Sonnet 5.

New comment by stuartq in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

stuartq — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:58:08 +0000

At least Anandtech just shut down rather than turning into a zombie tech blog.

New comment by stuartq in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

stuartq — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:13:36 +0000

According to the article, because components are really expensive right now, particularly RAM and storage.

New comment by stuartq in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

stuartq — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:31:15 +0000

But the prices haven't been going up by multiples of 6 for the past few years. Things are actually changing now. I don't think it's over, but in the short term, it's going to be considerably more expensive.

New comment by stuartq in "My long goodbye to Windows XP (2022)"

stuartq — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 21:25:26 +0000

I don't think that's true. Vista was so hated, that 7 was pretty much universally heralded as a big improvement, even if half of that was the ecosystem getting used to the new driver model introduced by Vista.

And as others have observed, 2000 was an immediate hit with everyone who tried it.

New comment by stuartq in "Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in England tonight and tomorrow"

stuartq — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:38:05 +0000

It's very cloudy for me in NW England.

New comment by stuartq in "Met Office says Northern Lights will be visible in England tonight and tomorrow"

stuartq — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:17:28 +0000

Yes

New comment by stuartq in "A tale of webpage speed, or throwing away React"

stuartq — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 21:09:06 +0000

Not constructive.

New comment by stuartq in "Pathological Lying: Theoretical and Empirical Support for a Diagnostic Entity"

stuartq — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 21:03:38 +0000

Santa Claus is an old man with a beard that uses magical reindeer to deliver presents to every child on Christmas Eve.

Definitely a lie. Saying he's not is another lie, even if you're lying to yourself.

New comment by stuartq in "I tried to cancel Virgin Media broadband contract"

stuartq — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 23:28:24 +0000

I rang up several years ago to try to get a discount for reasons I can't remember. I ended up being upsold and today I'm spending far more money than I should, but my Internet is so, so fast. And my IP address, whilst not "static", changes about once every three years. Not something you'd run a website on, but very convenient as a developer when being restricted by IP range.

I've heard the customer service is bad, but to be honest, I never need it speak to them. On the whole, a happy customer over the last 18 years (whoever they were when I signed up in 2002- NTL? Cable& Wireless?)

New comment by stuartq in "Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure"

stuartq — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 11:08:41 +0000

This tool is wonderful - mindbogglingly fast. I can't believe how long it has been around, without equivalent performance or consistency baked into Windows. I think I first used this before Vista came out - has it really been that long?

New comment by stuartq in "Show HN: Everlook – Find and list remote job opportunities"

stuartq — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 08:57:49 +0000

I searched for c# contract

None of the jobs were c#. As far as I could tell, none of them were contracts either.

New comment by stuartq in "Iodine: A full superset of Java with enhancements"

stuartq — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 19:18:56 +0000

The difference is that it's a superset, whereas Kotlin is a different language with Java interop, that's designed to be familiar to Java programmers.

To use a JavaScript analogy, Kotlin is CoffeScript, and Iodine is Typescript.

New comment by stuartq in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2017)"

stuartq — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 17:55:53 +0000

SEEKING WORK Manchester (UK)/Remote

C#, MVC, SQL Server, Winforms, WPF, Xamarin.

15 years experience with the .net stack, building relevant solutions for clients. Also offering mentoring for junior team members on clean coding.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuart-quinn-consultant/ http://quinnconsulting.co.uk