Hacker News: tills13

New comment by tills13 in "WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload"

tills13 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:57:06 +0000

Anecdata: Windows has been rock solid for me for over a decade, including the latest versions.

Given raw Linux or WSL I'd choose WSL 9 times out of 10.

Honestly I feel the Windows hate is forced or due to self-inflicted issues.

New comment by tills13 in "We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare"

tills13 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:57:10 +0000

I consider myself an AI power user. There's nothing wrong with Git or GitHub. Both work perfectly both personally and at my org.

New comment by tills13 in "Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space"

tills13 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:59:39 +0000

Don't worry, they'll just ask Grok.

New comment by tills13 in "iPhone Duo"

tills13 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:32:57 +0000

Google is not a serious player in this space. They make benchmark phones for their industry partners.

New comment by tills13 in "Apple Watch Series 12"

tills13 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:31:52 +0000

The best thing I ever did was buy an e-paper display watch (pebble) which lasts weeks not hours.

New comment by tills13 in "iPhone Duo"

tills13 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:30:32 +0000

new foldables are surprisingly strong along the spine. Not impossible to snap or damage but would support being accidentally sat on without it being catastrophic, for example.

New comment by tills13 in "Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM"

tills13 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:42:23 +0000

The blanket application of "reading Claudish makes you tired? You must be illiterate", for one.

New comment by tills13 in "Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM"

tills13 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:35:41 +0000

It's not that we can't understand what it's saying (for the most part) it's just when something is very jargon-dense, our brains have to pause or take an additional step to deobfuscate the actual meaning of the word or phrase. It's mentally draining.

New comment by tills13 in "Puppy PPE"

tills13 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:26:35 +0000

> foxtail grass

ah yeah we call this spear grass locally (and probably also foxtail) and never read what it can do. (spoiler below)

they can burrow their way into the bloodstream and travel down to the heart & lungs. So incredibly dangerous for something so pervasive and normal.

New comment by tills13 in "Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves"

tills13 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:10:09 +0000

It's very disheartening as someone who enjoys recreational fishing that the river closures -- typically legally closed to fishing, but otherwise ethically closed -- are getting earlier and earlier. That is, if the rivers aren't straight up bone dry peak summer.

I'm pretty young, too, so I have this, if not worse than this, to look forward to for the majority of my life.

Not to mention here in BC we're up to three summers in a row where entire towns have burned down ... not a positive sign of things to come.

New comment by tills13 in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

tills13 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:18:21 +0000

"Sure I'm indirectly funding the erosion of basic human rights in the States, but at least I made my Hello World app cheaper!"

New comment by tills13 in "LLMs reward expertise"

tills13 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:02:18 +0000

And unfortunately, more ineptitude, more chaos.

New comment by tills13 in "Superlogical"

tills13 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:24:27 +0000

reading "those who pay more in taxes should have a greater say in how the government is spending the money" and NOT taking that to mean what the OP is suggesting it to mean is naive. Everyone knows what Tobias meant when he said that.

New comment by tills13 in "Superlogical"

tills13 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:13:22 +0000

It's really unfortunate that the same traits that make you great at building a business (within capitalism) also often make you have psychopathic tendencies.

New comment by tills13 in "Superlogical"

tills13 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:02:29 +0000

Kind of funny that he lists himself as "Creator of Ghostty" first and not Hashicorp.

New comment by tills13 in "Writing fingerprint analysis of responses reveals Kimi's similarity to Claude"

tills13 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:07:19 +0000

I get what you're saying and two wrongs do not make a right but the irony, and why people are even talking about this, is that the thing being distilled clearly, and knowingly, violated copyright & terms across the entire internet.

New comment by tills13 in ""How 500 HN users crashed my 2GB server in 60 seconds – postmortem"

tills13 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:48:25 +0000

An AI slop article about the limitations of vibe coding. How ironic.

New comment by tills13 in "Fixed three bugs that made Qwen3.5-122B a daily driver on Mac Studio"

tills13 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:26:02 +0000

Sorry but I'm not reading an AI slop article no matter how pertinent or interesting the subject is. You want my attention? Earn it. Write it yourself.

New comment by tills13 in "Ray Tracer in SQL"

tills13 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:02:52 +0000

Yes: because it will simply steal (rather, has stolen) this guy's genuine, human, work.

New comment by tills13 in "GPT‑Live"

tills13 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:45:29 +0000

I use AI for my job. I understand the impact (as much as anyone can) that it will have on society. I recognize the value.

But I just want to say that talking with AI casually is critically lame. I cringe every time I have to ask my Google Home to turn on the lights and people are having full-on conversations with it? And, imo, dangerous considering how sycophantic AI is. The stupidest, most gullible, most insecure person right now is looking at this thinking they are about to make a new friend.