Hacker News: supersparrow

New comment by supersparrow in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

supersparrow — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:18:53 +0000

The people who don’t know how to use an LLM to make them more productive, or are scared it’s going to take their job, are louder than the people who are making good use of them to make them more productive.

That just seems to be human nature unfortunately - the complainers are always louder.

New comment by supersparrow in "Show HN: Decided to play god this morning, so I built an agent civilisation"

supersparrow — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:30:12 +0000

Just because he didn’t write the readme himself doesn’t mean it’s irrelevant. The OP will have (hopefully) at least read through it before committing it and at that point the content is relevant and if the OP cares, accurate. You’re generalising if you think everyone blindly copy pastes LLM output

New comment by supersparrow in "Unifi Travel Router"

supersparrow — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 09:13:09 +0000

These travel routers have an option to impersonate the device you are using to get round this.

New comment by supersparrow in "Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study"

supersparrow — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:03:26 +0000

“Unaffected by legalisation” - so at least there’s more proof than outlawing drugs doesn’t work.

New comment by supersparrow in "The biggest heat pumps"

supersparrow — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:50:36 +0000

Old and new both condensing and both non-combi.

New comment by supersparrow in "The biggest heat pumps"

supersparrow — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:51:28 +0000

I’ve lived in the UK for 35 years and lived in various properties built in every decade from 70s-10s. Some much older and less loved ones did have single pane windows but have never seen plumbing on the outside. Maybe on much older houses? Certainly not on anything remotely new. A lot of new builds here have solar, heat pumps and insulation has been excellent for at least 20 years.

New comment by supersparrow in "The biggest heat pumps"

supersparrow — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:45:12 +0000

A boiler should actually be lasting more like 20 years. I recently replaced my 20 year old one purely because if anything went wrong, it’d become an expensive/long job to fix as parts were hard to find, otherwise it was still running perfectly at its manufacture specified efficiency. Running them for 20 years isn’t uncommon.

I had a quote for a heat pump - £20k, plus the cost to replace 13 radiators, plus cost to replace pipework to support heat pump rads.

Pretty sure the government ‘incentive’ was £3k at the time. Doesn’t come remotely close!

New comment by supersparrow in "Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio"

supersparrow — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:02:07 +0000

Wow! Seriously, well done! I love it.

New comment by supersparrow in "Navy SEALs reportedly killed North Korean fishermen to hide a failed mission"

supersparrow — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 13:58:46 +0000

Sounds like a Jack Reacher novel!

New comment by supersparrow in "Developer's block"

supersparrow — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 13:18:43 +0000

If I’ve had a break, gone for a walk, left it overnight, worked on something else simple for a bit and tried the other usual ‘fixes’ and am still stuck then I find ‘just do it’ really helps me. I find if I just write some code even slightly related to the goal, even if it’s complete garbage that gets deleted later, then I get unstuck. Although unfortunately even getting to that point takes a couple of days sometimes. We can’t always perform immediately on demand.

New comment by supersparrow in "The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public"

supersparrow — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 08:26:16 +0000

Because it can, will and has increase productivity in a lot of fields.

Of course it’s a bubble! Most new tech like this is until it gets to a point where the market is too saturated or has been monopolised.

New comment by supersparrow in "The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public"

supersparrow — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 08:22:34 +0000

Huh? I’ve been programming for 20 years now and LLMs/GenAI have replaced search and StackOverflow for me - I’d say that means they are pretty good! They are not perfect, not even close, but they are excellent when used as an assistant and when you know the result you’re expecting and can spot its obvious errors.

New comment by supersparrow in "Swarms of robots could go up your nose, melt the mucus and clean your sinuses"

supersparrow — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 13:05:46 +0000

I am personally looking forward to shitbots that live under my toilet seat and clean my butt for me.

New comment by supersparrow in "Marijuana is associated with higher risk of heart attack and stroke"

supersparrow — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 06:59:49 +0000

Yet another study that doesn’t distinguish between smoking and other forms of using weed.

_Smoking_ literally anything is clearly going to harm your health.

New comment by supersparrow in "Tuxracer.js play Tux Racer in the browser"

supersparrow — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:59:33 +0000

It could be a webpage but the developer would have to host it on a server somewhere (which would cost something). With the instructions to run it on the GitHub page, you are effectively running a server which is hosting the game.

New comment by supersparrow in "Experts have it easy (2024)"

supersparrow — Sun, 18 May 2025 08:24:11 +0000

Not just juniors. Seniors too! They (we!) are not immune to stomping 5 miles down the wrong path without realising and only seeing the light after talking it through with a peer.

New comment by supersparrow in "Show HN: memEx, a personal knowledge base inspired by zettlekasten and org-mode"

supersparrow — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 14:47:43 +0000

This! I have all my notes in markdown files in folders. I self host Silverbullet on top which is a nice web UI for managing notes, tagging them etc. All tags are stored in the individual markdown files using frontmatter. I also push my notes to forgejo (gitea) which means I have versioning. Works well for me!

New comment by supersparrow in "Please help me find better blogs to read"

supersparrow — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:48:04 +0000

I have been enjoying indieblog recently, which will add some random blog posta to your feed every day - I find it a good way to find new ones https://indieblog.page/

New comment by supersparrow in "Why making friends as an adult is harder"

supersparrow — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 20:17:26 +0000

I think for a lot of people it’s hard precisely for that reason - it’s a very social time of year for most which increases the feeling of loneliness for those who maybe don’t know a lot of people or don’t have family or friends they can visit for whatever reason.

New comment by supersparrow in "Why making friends as an adult is harder"

supersparrow — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:54:59 +0000

Christmas