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New comment by thefunnyman in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

thefunnyman — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:10:38 +0000

This is tricky since it can and will ignore your md directions. When possible I try to lean on tool call hooks or skills that invoke deterministic scripts. As much as you can remove the "choice" the better though still there's a lot of randomness in how reliably it invokes skills ime.

New comment by thefunnyman in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

thefunnyman — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:02:30 +0000

Yup, been using it on an older roborock s5 for several years now. It's excellent and works flawlessly with home assistant. Cannot recommend enough. The robot running its own webserver while it cleans my apartment is still so funny to me.

New comment by thefunnyman in "Steam Frame"

thefunnyman — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:32:59 +0000

I'm surprised no one is talking about the fact that the headset is ARM and that valve has been heavily contributing to the translation layer FEX.

I love my steam deck, but lately find myself reaching for emulation handhelds like the Retroid Pocket 5 more due to smaller size, especially when I'm leaving the house. There's already projects like GameNative that try to hack steam onto these devices, but if valve offers an official client on Android and other arm devices that would be incredible.

Edit: Some interesting insights in the FEX FAQ about why it's not a great fit for Android right now [0]. Interested to see if this ARM version of steamos is installable on other devices though. RP5 can already run alternatives like Rocknix

[0] https://wiki.fex-emu.com/index.php/FAQ

Google Online Insights Study

thefunnyman — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 01:02:12 +0000

Article URL: https://onlineinsightsstudy.google/signup/invitecode

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36625614

Points: 2

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New comment by thefunnyman in "Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server"

thefunnyman — Mon, 30 May 2022 18:23:53 +0000

I’d try both, they tend to target different use cases. Proxmox doesn’t come with a lot of the tooling for things like SMB, LDAP, etc that Truenas ships with but you may find you don’t actually want any of these extras. In that case Proxmox would be a better choice IMO since it’s Debian based and a bit more streamlined.

New comment by thefunnyman in "Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server"

thefunnyman — Mon, 30 May 2022 18:20:56 +0000

IMO NAS setup is much more straightforward on truenas. It’s doable in Proxmox inside a VM or LXC, but true as exposes this all directly via a nice UI. I personally use Proxmox with a simple Debian NFS VM, but for less technical users that just want stuff to work I tend to recommend they stick with truenas.

New comment by thefunnyman in "Kindle, ePub, and Amazon’s love of reinventing wheels"

thefunnyman — Thu, 19 May 2022 20:33:17 +0000

Prime video has always been extremely buggy in my experience. It’s baffling that a product backed by someone as big as Amazon and part of their core prime offering can be so difficult to use. Then again Netflix has been getting much less usable over time and HBO is similarly buggy so maybe that’s just par for the course in streaming.

New comment by thefunnyman in "Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”"

thefunnyman — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 17:57:45 +0000

Also worth noting that editing recommendations are a part of the M365 office suite. I agree with those voicing concern as AI is very new still and can have huge implications at FAANG scale, but I’m not surprised to see Google at this.

New comment by thefunnyman in "Little rant about GNOME's file manager (a.k.a. Nautilus)"

thefunnyman — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 06:04:49 +0000

The worst thing for me is slow docker performance. Not usually an issue on my work MacBook since I tend to do stuff on remote build servers, but it can be really annoying to spin up projects on MacOS without polluting your OS with all the dependencies.

New comment by thefunnyman in "Ngrok 3.0"

thefunnyman — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 19:08:25 +0000

Just wanted to give praise to the ngrok team. Solves a real hurdle for corporate developers and has been working great for our team.

New comment by thefunnyman in "We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to on-prem infrastructure"

thefunnyman — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:39:11 +0000

I think the reality is that most companies don’t have the skill set needed to maintain on-prem infra. A lot of us here take this kind of knowledge for granted, but most businesses don’t have the time or resources to build some of this stuff themselves so they reach for the cloud. You also see a lot of VC backed companies splurge on cloud as a trade off of money for rapid growth.

New comment by thefunnyman in "Roll your own Ngrok with Nginx, Letsencrypt, and SSH reverse tunnelling"

thefunnyman — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 03:30:14 +0000

Ngrok is indeed nice for this. I’ve found that Firefox dev tools can replay requests out of the box which is pretty handy.

New comment by thefunnyman in "Countering threats from North Korea"

thefunnyman — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 18:21:38 +0000

I would say this isn’t necessarily unusual for NK. As far as I know, they’re the only nation state actor known to hack for profit and they’ve committed several of the largest cyber bank robberies ever. Nation state actors have an _incredible_ amount of time, resources, and motivation.

New comment by thefunnyman in "Microsoft is tied to hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign bribes"

thefunnyman — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 19:37:43 +0000

Yeah I just mute the tabs and set video speed to as fast as it’ll let me. Ours has little quiz sections but you pretty much always get infinite tries and it doesn’t take a genius to guess the answers.

New comment by thefunnyman in "Ask HN: Best way to help the world with software engineering?"

thefunnyman — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 17:29:02 +0000

This is something I’ve battled with personally quite a bit. In my current role I’m sure I don’t do the world harm, but I’d like to provide more benefit. I’ve dabbled with contributing to open source as well as volunteering my time as a developer with non profits. I find both of these to be rewarding, but not sustainable as a source of income. Instead I’m not trying to work on larger projects at work which benefit multiple teams. Personally I find this kind of larger impact work to be the most rewarding and if I can convince my company to open source any part of this then my contribution can have even greater impact.

New comment by thefunnyman in "Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing"

thefunnyman — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:32:39 +0000

Have you shared this accessibility feedback with the gnome team directly? There’s been a huge push in recent years to make software more accessible and it’s very likely these frustrations are the result of ignorance more than malice on the part of the developers and designers. I think they’d appreciate your perspective. I know I would as a software engineer.

New comment by thefunnyman in "Google open sources solar atmospheric water generator"

thefunnyman — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 21:44:09 +0000

I fully agree, open source is incredibly underutilized. When it works well it can be extremely powerful. Take for instance the recent flipper zero kickstarter/product. It’s finally shopping and even though it’s very incomplete there’s already a vibrant community of hackers tinkering with it.

I feel the same disappointment as you. As a child I envisioned a world where I could go work at somewhere like Google and truly use their resources to give back but every project seems in some way tainted by the underlying drive to make everything profitable for the company funding it.

New comment by thefunnyman in "I discovered thousands of open databases on AWS"

thefunnyman — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 21:32:04 +0000

I work for a large cloud provider and it’s even worse than you imagine because this same thing has happened to us. I don’t work on cloud, but we use cloud internally for our other products and devs on those teams are expected to manage all of this themselves with little guidance. We have no dedicated ops or infra person on my team. Everyone is just considered a generic software engineer. This wasn’t always the case until the recent push for devs to own all parts of the stack.

New comment by thefunnyman in "Amazon moves employees out of downtown Seattle office due to crime"

thefunnyman — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 20:38:25 +0000

Yup, lovingly called McStabbies by all the locals I know.

New comment by thefunnyman in "Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?"

thefunnyman — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 19:01:37 +0000

My weight fluctuates a lot ( especially if I find myself consuming more alcohol) but I have a system that’s always worked for me when I want to drop weight 1. Only black coffee for breakfast. Maybe a banana or granola bar if you really need it but try to avoid any calories before noon 2. Light lunch (~400cal). Think something like peanut butter and jelly or a soylent. 3. Pretty much whatever you want for dinner. 4. Avoid any calories after 8pm.

Counting calories helps a lot at first just to get an understanding of how much you can eat each day. Myfitnesspal works well.

Limiting calorie consumption to an 8 hr window made a huge difference for me. If you get hungry outside that window try decaf coffee, tea, water, or anything else with no calories.