Hacker News: techwizrd

New comment by techwizrd in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

techwizrd — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:48:05 +0000

I am a big fan of fountain pens, and I think they're a great hobby.

New comment by techwizrd in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

techwizrd — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:03:22 +0000

I also got Fira Code, followed by Ubuntu Mono, Source Code Pro, and Oxygen Mono.

New comment by techwizrd in "Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions"

techwizrd — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:29:46 +0000

I agree. If the real concern is the flood of low-effort slop, unmaintainable patches, accidental code reuse, or licensing violations, then the process should target those directly. The useful work is improving review and triage so those problems get filtered out early. The genie is already out of the bottle with AI tooling, so broad “no AI” rules feel like a reaction to the tool and do not seem especially useful or enforceable.

New comment by techwizrd in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

techwizrd — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:39:58 +0000

Whoa, I have been looking for AI-enhanced tab grouping for a while. This is actually pretty awesome.

New comment by techwizrd in "Intellectual Junkyards"

techwizrd — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:47:19 +0000

I had this same issue early on when trying to adopt Obsidian. I was overwhelmed by all the "systems" and I was worried I was creating a headache for myself later on. Now I just focus on dumping text in, using search, and linking only as needed. Basically don't overdo it.

New comment by techwizrd in "Volvo Centum is Dalton Maag's new typeface for Volvo"

techwizrd — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 04:04:19 +0000

That makes sense for code or technical text, but it is less relevant for car UIs. In an infotainment system you almost never see ambiguous strings where O vs 0 or I vs l matters. Everything is highly contextual, short, and glance-based. These fonts are tuned for distance, motion, glare, and quick recognition, not for reading arbitrary identifiers. If it tested poorly in real driving conditions that would be a real problem, but judging it by programmer font rules feels like the wrong yardstick.

New comment by techwizrd in "A guide to local coding models"

techwizrd — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:42:23 +0000

Have you looked at tldr/tealdeer[0]? It may do much of what you're looking for, albeit without LLM assistance.

0: https://tealdeer-rs.github.io/tealdeer/

New comment by techwizrd in "Making Google Sans Flex"

techwizrd — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:56:05 +0000

I had no issues using Firefox on a 2021 M1 Pro or my Framework 13. Reader mode does not work, however.

New comment by techwizrd in "Minimum Viable Arduino Project: Aeropress Timer"

techwizrd — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 03:53:27 +0000

I've had good results from the James Hoffman recipe [0], although I brew inverted. You can push the plunger down with just the weight of resting your arm on the plunger. For something very different, you can brew something not-quite-espresso using the Fellow Prismo cap for the Aeropress.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6VlT_jUVPc

New comment by techwizrd in "My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)"

techwizrd — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 15:52:57 +0000

We have been fine-tuning models using Axolotl and Unsloth, with a slight preference for Axolotl. Check out the docs [0] and fine-tune or quantize your first model. There is a lot to be learned in this space, but it's exciting.

0: https://axolotl.ai/ and https://docs.axolotl.ai/

New comment by techwizrd in "GitDroid: A third party Android app manager for apps uploaded to GitHub releases"

techwizrd — Sat, 03 May 2025 04:05:18 +0000

This is what I use, and it works well. It's very straightforward to add apps and automatically update them as new releases are pushed to Github or wherever they are hosted.

New comment by techwizrd in "Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped"

techwizrd — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:55:30 +0000

This idea feels a little like bullet journaling or logseq [0] to me. For what it's worth, I do this in Obsidian and clean-up my thoughts on a regular basis. It hits the right balance of minimalism and usefulness for me.

0: https://logseq.com/

New comment by techwizrd in "Ladder: Self-improving LLMs through recursive problem decomposition"

techwizrd — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 12:24:24 +0000

Is this quote real? I'm familiar with George Pólya's, "If you cannot solve the proposed problem, try to solve first a simpler related problem" but I cannot find any source for the Lenstra quote.

New comment by techwizrd in "Mistral OCR"

techwizrd — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:47:09 +0000

The challenge I have is how to get bounding boxes for the OCR, for things like redaction/de-identification.

New comment by techwizrd in "JetBrains Fleet drops support for Kotlin Multiplatform"

techwizrd — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:59:41 +0000

This is definitely surprising given they announced a KMP standalone IDE only a few months ago. For now, Flutter still seems to make more sense than KMP while the KMP world is still maturing.

New comment by techwizrd in "Using pip to install a Large Language Model that's under 100MB"

techwizrd — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:20:00 +0000

If it can call tools, then it could be used to download a larger, more useful model. Or send API requests to another model.

New comment by techwizrd in "Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport"

techwizrd — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 03:34:42 +0000

As someone working in aviation safety, this is heartbreaking and awful to watch. The efforts of CAST and ASIAS in reducing aviation safety accidents have been very successful, but of course we still have so much to do.

New comment by techwizrd in "Authors seek Meta's torrent client logs and seeding data in AI piracy probe"

techwizrd — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 00:30:29 +0000

This approach is used in Federated Learning where participants want to collaboratively train a model without sharing raw training data.

New comment by techwizrd in "Dungeons and Dragons rolls the dice with new rules about identity"

techwizrd — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:40:11 +0000

Not all changes are for the players. The changes to remove perceived racial biases may improve inclusion for some minority of players. It may be a serious issue for those players, the game designers, or some executive. Just like real world changes to improve inclusivity, most are unaffected and simply move on.

For the changes people care about, Wizards of the Coast (WotC) publishes "Unearthed Arcana" or pre-release versions of content (e.g., bastions, the Monk class, a new Druid subclass). People will playtest the new content and WotC surveys players to get feedback. Based on the feedback, they may make additional changes or even scrap some things entirely.

New comment by techwizrd in "Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen rejoins tournament he quit over wearing jeans"

techwizrd — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 15:57:35 +0000

This is very good context. I've seen this poorly reported across news outlets and social media, and everyone seems to be spinning this as a discussion about whether jeans should be permitted and whether Magnus is acting like a diva.