Hacker News: thebigspacefuck

New comment by thebigspacefuck in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

thebigspacefuck — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:26:05 +0000

Your fist link is to “10 skinny cocktails”. As far as I know there is no safe amount of alcohol.

https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-...

New comment by thebigspacefuck in "Someone just converted Claude Leark from TypeScript to 100% Python"

thebigspacefuck — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:40:31 +0000

In the age of agents, why on earth would you rewrite something from Typescript to Python?

New comment by thebigspacefuck in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

thebigspacefuck — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:43:22 +0000

Configure it to show on your status line

New comment by thebigspacefuck in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

thebigspacefuck — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:57:23 +0000

Grok 4.20-beta1 scores above GPT-5.4-high and just behind Opus 4.6 on LMArena for Text https://arena.ai/leaderboard

I guess for coding if you’re not first you’re last, but this is damn impressive considering. It looked like they pulled the coding model from the benchmarks, but it was similar.

New comment by thebigspacefuck in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

thebigspacefuck — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:49:57 +0000

I used this for a bit and I felt like it was slower and generally worse than using 200K with context compaction. Context compaction does lose some things though.

New comment by thebigspacefuck in "ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal"

thebigspacefuck — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:26:58 +0000

Why won’t you buy a Tesla?

New comment by thebigspacefuck in "Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy"

thebigspacefuck — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:16:26 +0000

I’ve been using Rakuten more recently and it’s provided some alternatives to Amazon where I’m able to get things more cheaply from other stores. If you don’t mind waiting for shipping, give it a try.

Or ask Gemini what the best deal is, it’s found some good ones.

For smaller stuff, Amazon is usually better than Target or whatever box store nearby.

New comment by thebigspacefuck in "GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex are now 40% faster"

thebigspacefuck — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:19:25 +0000

Speed was always my main complaint, these models always felt really good but too slow. I’ll have to give them a try again.

New comment by thebigspacefuck in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

thebigspacefuck — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:29:10 +0000

My mom enjoys her knitting circle. It’s an older crowd of women though

New comment by thebigspacefuck in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

thebigspacefuck — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:00:24 +0000

For me, the answer was smoking. I made a ton of friends that way. Always went out to a pool hall, a bar, or a nice patio so I could smoke. It was great. You can’t smoke in your rental so you gotta get out and find places to smoke. Few states you can do it in anymore though. I moved to a state with a smoking ban and quit smoking, no point to it. Don’t get out as much nowadays.

New comment by thebigspacefuck in "OpenAI Is in Trouble"

thebigspacefuck — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 01:07:00 +0000

New comment by thebigspacefuck in "Australia's Social Media Ban for People Under 16 Takes Effect"

thebigspacefuck — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:58:41 +0000

https://archive.ph/Ba2JR

New comment by thebigspacefuck in "Google is powering a new US Military AI platform"

thebigspacefuck — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:57:07 +0000

Skynet?

New comment by thebigspacefuck in "Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop"

thebigspacefuck — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:16:40 +0000

> I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels Apple’s quality is degrading.

Tbh I don’t really feel this way. We all agree hands down that Macbook has the best hardware. Apple Silicon has been a huge success for speed and power consumption. I haven’t used the newest macOS but like the butterfly keyboard and touch bar I assume they’ll work out (or fix by reverting) the issues. It’s probably not even that bad. Sonoma is still receiving security updates so I’m good for now.

And most of the things that people want in a non-MacBook laptop are still a few years before falling off patent.

I’m fine waiting and playing around with Framework or Steam machines until then if I need another hobby.

New comment by thebigspacefuck in "Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit"

thebigspacefuck — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:33:53 +0000

https://blog.perprogramming.com/posts/framework-ortholinear-...

New comment by thebigspacefuck in "Kids who own smartphones before age 13 have worse mental health outcomes: Study"

thebigspacefuck — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 01:13:02 +0000

I wonder how many 5-6 year olds are getting smartphones because parents are divorced and one parent wants to be able to check in on the other, could be something like that is the issue

New comment by thebigspacefuck in "Kids who own smartphones before age 13 have worse mental health outcomes: Study"

thebigspacefuck — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 01:08:32 +0000

How’s this compare to computer/internet usage? I’ve been chronically online most years since age 7 but didn’t get a smartphone until 22 or so.

New comment by thebigspacefuck in "Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts"

thebigspacefuck — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 02:38:44 +0000

What’s normal anyway?

New comment by thebigspacefuck in "Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts"

thebigspacefuck — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 02:34:34 +0000

You should have tried placebo first

New comment by thebigspacefuck in "Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts"

thebigspacefuck — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 02:32:24 +0000

Placebo can be life changing