Hacker News: tonfreed

New comment by tonfreed in "There is minimal downside to switching to open models"

tonfreed — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:23:41 +0000

Even just one of the smaller models is good enough for the grunt work I use them for 90% of the time. Currently doing most of my home hobby projects with OpenCode Go and Qwen 3.7 Plus, it's not great at diagnosing issues in the code, but if I can clearly articulate a test suite or boilerplate refactoring it works fine.

New comment by tonfreed in "'Capitalism has to become more humane': a Stanford economist on big tech"

tonfreed — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:37:48 +0000

I think you're missing the point OP was making. He's saying it's profitable but not optimal, those who recognised that quickly outstripped the slave owners in wealth.

I could ask you about your spending habits and why you don't pump all your money into an S&P 500 ETF, but that's ignoring time and consumption preferences you have, as well as perceived opportunity cost. It's not a useful observation to make at an individual level.

New comment by tonfreed in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

tonfreed — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:42:36 +0000

This reeks of the start of enshittification. Very doubtful it was a "test"

New comment by tonfreed in "GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research"

tonfreed — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:42:11 +0000

Who's at fault when it suggests feeding someone cyanide?

New comment by tonfreed in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

tonfreed — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:37:05 +0000

I'm working on moving as much as possible to self hosted options. Have forgejo, Authentik and Nextcloud set up so far. Slowly finding alternatives for things, I think my next goal is Nostr

New comment by tonfreed in "An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]"

tonfreed — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:53:04 +0000

I think it's awesome that AI is enabling this. I think the the future of software engineering is in helping make this kind of thing resilient and removing the fragility that AI generated code always seems to inject

New comment by tonfreed in "Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs"

tonfreed — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:54:10 +0000

Must have just been the ones I liked that died. Will have to go looking

New comment by tonfreed in "Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs"

tonfreed — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:01:18 +0000

I miss the decentralized web and phpBB forums. If you didn't like one community, it was super easy to find one you did.

New comment by tonfreed in "GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" with x86_64, SMP and ~75% of Debian Packages Building"

tonfreed — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:51:41 +0000

I always liked reading about it in uni in the mid-late 00s. It made me feel smart in my OS tutorials when I could rattle off all the design choices and how they differed from Linux and Windows

New comment by tonfreed in "Two kinds of AI users are emerging"

tonfreed — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:07:12 +0000

My observations match this. I can get fresh things done very quickly, but when I start getting into the weeds I eventually get too frustrated with babysitting the LLM to keep using it.

New comment by tonfreed in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

tonfreed — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:30:17 +0000

Last place I worked had long running end to end tests that would take 30 minutes on GHA (compared to maybe 5 locally) on every PR. This is going to make that a very expensive endeavour

New comment by tonfreed in "Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands"

tonfreed — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:11:07 +0000

Real mask off comment here, respect

New comment by tonfreed in "Steam censors LGBTQ+ content on behalf of the Russian Government"

tonfreed — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:59:58 +0000

Amazing that we can propagandise people for decades to accept cultural relativism and then expect people to get upset over this.

New comment by tonfreed in "OpenAI asks U.S. for loan guarantees to fund $1T AI expansion"

tonfreed — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 06:03:30 +0000

In an era where the working poor are struggling to buy groceries and pay rent, these clowns want government money to make a better chat bot.

What a complete circus.

New comment by tonfreed in "Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux"

tonfreed — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:43:26 +0000

Yeah, had no luck getting windows tools running. I'm only an amateur mixer thank God, but I found this list a while ago and have been having mixed success here and there https://github.com/alex-tee/lv2-plugins-ultimate-list

Just running these through reaper and it's ok enough.

New comment by tonfreed in "Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux"

tonfreed — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 23:26:01 +0000

I've been full-time Linux again for about 12 months, gaming isn't my main problem anymore. I think the only thing I'm having a bit of difficulty with is trying to get Jedi Knight working without crashing my entire computer.

Biggest problem I'm running into now is replacing all my music mixing tools. It's getting there, but it's a whole process.

New comment by tonfreed in "Recall for Linux"

tonfreed — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:45:10 +0000

I recently went back to full time Linux and the gaming aspect is fine with my RTX-3090. I don't really play anything like COD or Battlefield with all the invasive anticheat though, so your mileage may vary

New comment by tonfreed in "Half of America's Voting Machines Are Now Owned by a MAGA Oligarch"

tonfreed — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 21:05:15 +0000

We use paper in Australia and generally have a result by the next day (2010 being an exception due to hung parliament). We also have a very strict chain of ownership and auditible vote counts ledgers, if they're really looking for anti-fraud measures they could come and observe our AEC

New comment by tonfreed in "Inkjet printer with DRM-free ink will be launched via a crowdfunding campaign"

tonfreed — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:08:25 +0000

Patents around printing are out of control. All the major manufacturers cross license everything from each other

New comment by tonfreed in "YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content"

tonfreed — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:01:51 +0000

The best disinfectant is sunlight. I'm similarly appalled by some of the behaviour after a certain political activist was murdered, but I don't want them to get banned or deplatformed. I'm hoping what we're seeing here is a restoration of the ability to disagree with each other