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New comment by tadasv in "OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked"

tadasv — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:22:49 +0000

This is one of the reasons I don't trust opencode. It looked very nice on paper when it first came out and there were no alternatives. However, today I'd probably stick with simple pi setup (not sure how much better than opencode, but it looks like they don't have all this cloud stuff) or just use one of the big tech agents and call it a day.

New comment by tadasv in "Fuck Zig (and maybe low-level programming in general?)"

tadasv — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:52:29 +0000

I share the sentiment. I've been programming for ~20 years and I've done a fair share of low level development in c and c++. I like the idea of zig and honestly I want to adopt it, but the language syntax feels so counter intuitive. Maybe I'm just less patient the older I get.

New comment by tadasv in "Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden"

tadasv — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:22:41 +0000

Lol, if we're talking about a scenario like this, do you think these billionaires are like Noah with their arc, just collecting people to survive? I cannot see a sane person joining them or not ratting them out if things really go bad.

New comment by tadasv in "Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden"

tadasv — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:20:47 +0000

I don't understand why people have this silly take that billionaires somehow will hide in the bunker and be fine. Do you really think that if we get to that point, they will happily live in a bunker by themselves lol. These people are unable to survive by themselves, let alone in a bunker. Do you think food and shit will get delivered to some random location just like that when shtf.

New comment by tadasv in "Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design"

tadasv — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:30:36 +0000

3d modeling for use in software (games or similar) imo is fine, but I would love to not see this stuff in civil engineering. People without AI are unable to design buildings that don't collapse (e.g. recent NYC apartment highrise), adding AI into the mix will just make things worse.

New comment by tadasv in "Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards"

tadasv — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:52:29 +0000

I used claude and gemini to edit/debug kicad schematics. And it was pretty good. What is the point of this agent?

New comment by tadasv in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

tadasv — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:28:26 +0000

Ram, hdd, ssd, even blu-ray writers are expensive. I purchased mdisc blu-ray writer for $70 in 2021, I see people are trying to sell the same device for $500+ wtf

New comment by tadasv in "Show HN: BitBang – Reach machines behind NAT from a browser, no account"

tadasv — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:58:00 +0000

It is minimal and somewhat neat. It claims to be P2P, but it still needs to bootstrap the connection via central server. I think that always might be a limitation of P2P.

I had a similar idea but for wireguard only, where you would allow people to join a vpn through a "shared" jumpbox. To get started with wg is very simple, the problem is the same you need public IP address to scaffold everything.

Out of the two options I probably would prefer going wg route, just because it generalizes better. But this is a pretty cool demo of webrtc.

New comment by tadasv in "Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day"

tadasv — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:51:57 +0000

Fixed IP would be a way to go. Some people pick dynamic dns server so they can periodically update if their IP changes. But IMO it's just too complicated. I don't think there's a good way to go around ISP restrictions, especially in USA.

I host my site on my own home server, but I do have a proxy ec2 server to tunnel public traffic via wireguard back to my home server. This keeps things a bit more protected and my router/home network not directly exposed. I'm also not locked into AWS, I just use them for convenience, but could get any other cheap proxy to run wireguard. No dependency on tailscale either, it's just nicer interface to wireguard. Wireguard config is like 5 lines btw.

New comment by tadasv in "Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day"

tadasv — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:44:43 +0000

This will get worse with new generations. They grow up on tables and phones where file system is a completely foreign concept. You need an app for everything.

New comment by tadasv in "Designing and assembling my first PCB"

tadasv — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:03:27 +0000

This is great! Thanks for the detailed write up and suggestions to improve. Like I said, this is my first time doing it and I have no background in EE or PCB design. If I make something else I'll give your suggestions a try.

New comment by tadasv in "Designing and assembling my first PCB"

tadasv — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:57:39 +0000

It's so funny that you had a similar idea. Are you an electrical engineer or swe? What are you building these days?

New comment by tadasv in "Designing and assembling my first PCB"

tadasv — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:58:22 +0000

I was actually very surprised myself. As I mentioned in the post, I don't do that type of work so it's all new to me. This got me also interested in CAD. You can design parts and don't need to own the 3d printer, could just get parts manufactured online.

Designing and assembling my first PCB

tadasv — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:56:56 +0000

Article URL: https://vilkeliskis.com/b/2026/0711.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48885728

Points: 165

# Comments: 93

New comment by tadasv in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

tadasv — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:10:19 +0000

I hope that open models will dominate. The difficult part to reconcile for me is the amount of compute that's required to create and run such models. Small models are fine, I run local llms 27b param on a gpu, but it's not even close to frontier in capability. Who wants to drop $40k+ on hardware to run these things. Companies, maybe/perhapts. On the other hand, to run a DB I can get a server for $3k and handle tons of traffic on it and other things too.

New comment by tadasv in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

tadasv — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:58:46 +0000

This is great IMO. I like zig as a language and the idea behind it. But boy, it has a syntax issue. I with they figure out better syntax before 1.0, developer ergonomics I think are as important.

New comment by tadasv in "Optimal Strategy for Connect 4"

tadasv — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:25:28 +0000

for those who are into books i'd recommend taking a look at alphago simplified by mark liu. It has rule based strategies + DL for connect for and other simple games.

Show HN: Vibe Coded Text Categorizer

tadasv — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 03:01:08 +0000

Used gemini-cli with gemini 3 pro preview to vibe code this thing. Share your vibe coded projects or discuss the feature of software engineering lol. │ │ Wall Time: 1h 50m 45s │ │ Agent Active: 35m 34s │ │ » API Time: 19m 57s (56.1%) │ │ » Tool Time: 15m 36s (43.9%) │ │ │ │ │ │ Model Usage Reqs Input Tokens Cache Reads Output Tokens │ │ ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │ │ gemini-2.5-flash-lite 40 73,035 0 7,131 │ │ gemini-3-pro-preview 105 668,945 5,509,166 33,723 │ │ gemini-2.5-flash 15 53,544 2,782 8,580 │ │ gemini-3-flash-preview 70 451,003 2,988,500 24,096

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642510

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by tadasv in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

tadasv — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:42:31 +0000

https://vilkeliskis.com/ - rebooting as of recently to a self-hosted solution from under my desk.

Btw, https://nownownow.com/ is a great place to discover people. This project is somewhat similar to what you're doing.

New comment by tadasv in "Become unbannable from your email"

tadasv — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 23:54:32 +0000

I'm thinking about trying something similar to this on top of AWS SES. They make it fairly trivial to accept email and store it to S3. So email forwarding would be straight to S3 backup. But still would need a system to backup these emails to some local storage.

Not sure what's the best way to handle this, I had my gmail account since the early days and it's baked into so many important accounts. It definitely crosses my mind what it'd be really difficult if I were blocked out somehow.