Hacker News: tra3

New comment by tra3 in "Agentic Mfw"

tra3 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:28:30 +0000

Plot twist, it was artisanally typed in emacs.

New comment by tra3 in "Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT"

tra3 — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:20:26 +0000

Question for the wifi experts in this thread...

What's a good off the shelf multipoint wifi system these days? I have Amazon's Eero right now and it's ok.

I'd love to go back to my linksys wrt54 roots but that's not in the cards currently..

New comment by tra3 in "Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code"

tra3 — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:17:24 +0000

I say this as someone who's found LLMs incredibly beneficial.

Is this a way to increase token burn?

I thought we covered this with Claude's C compiler. What changed?

New comment by tra3 in "The Eternal Sloptember"

tra3 — Mon, 25 May 2026 04:49:41 +0000

When every prompt produces a thousand line PR, you’re not very far from another million line monolith.

I’m a little more hopeful than the author though. I feel like it’s possible to manage the process so that does not happen.

New comment by tra3 in "$100 to upgrade Fresh IDE for ePub TUI reading"

tra3 — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:43:17 +0000

Maybe Nov.el could be an inspiration: https://depp.brause.cc/nov.el/

New comment by tra3 in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

tra3 — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:48:31 +0000

There's definitely a way to use Claude code that is token conscious.

I've tried throwing unsupervised agentic software factory workflows against the wall, and they burned through my tokens like nobody's business but didn't produce much.

Supervised, human-in-the-loop process on the other hand is much more productive but doesn't consume nearly as much. Maybe that's why everyone's pushing agentic approaches so much.

New comment by tra3 in "Map of Metal"

tra3 — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:06:56 +0000

Ya'll should checkout https://everynoise.com/. Similar in spirit.

Just read the update:

> 2024-01-05 status update: With my 2023-12-04 layoff from Spotify I lost the internal data-access required for ongoing updates to many parts of this site. Most of this, as a result, is now a static snapshot of what, for now, will be the final state from the site's 10-year history and evolution..

what a shame. I didn't realize the author worked for Spotify. Guess it makes sense. Spotify should've acquired it from the author or made a deal with him to keep it live since all the links lead to Spotify anyway.

New comment by tra3 in "A nicer voltmeter clock"

tra3 — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:57:06 +0000

You’re exactly right..that’s how I end up learning tech stuff. It’s not working very well with modelling though. I’ve set my sights too high, the projects are too involved

New comment by tra3 in "A nicer voltmeter clock"

tra3 — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:12:46 +0000

This is gorgeous. I really need to hunker down and learn 3d modeling. It unlocks so many options from cnc to 3d printing.

New comment by tra3 in "Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer"

tra3 — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:23:38 +0000

You bring up a good point -- I have the same issue with mouse keys. I wonder how the track point gets around this. Is the tracepoint "progressive" in that it allows various speeds depends on deflection from center?

New comment by tra3 in "Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer"

tra3 — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:18:20 +0000

Yes, of course. I’ve accidentally fallen down the split keyboard rabbit hole and now I can’t get out. UHK seems like it’s got everything that I might ever need but I’m going to stick with my Aliexpress Corne for a bit longer before I take the plunge.

New comment by tra3 in "Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer"

tra3 — Sat, 16 May 2026 05:49:39 +0000

Ultimate hacking keyboard has modules that include a track point, touchpad or a trackball. I’ve been eyeing it for a while: https://uhk.io/

Kanata has mouse emulation so you can drive a mouse using arrow keys: https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/blob/main/docs/config.adoc#m...

New comment by tra3 in "I hate soldering"

tra3 — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:16:26 +0000

Appreciate that, ordered!

Hopefully it'll bring my soldering to the next level.

Can you recommend something for "helping hands"?

New comment by tra3 in "I hate soldering"

tra3 — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:50:01 +0000

Can you share a link?

New comment by tra3 in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

tra3 — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:58:54 +0000

There’s definitely an option with 24 gigs of ram: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/121552

New comment by tra3 in "Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing"

tra3 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:22:43 +0000

to me it's, it's about framing.

before, things that would block me were acts of an unkind universe. I'm exaggerating for effect here. These days, I look at obstacles more like an opportunity. Does this make sense?

New comment by tra3 in "Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall)"

tra3 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:50:30 +0000

I haven’t had much like with memory implementations. I tried a few.

What I do now is preserve all my claude code conversations and set the context from there.

This allows me to curate memory and it’s been the best way so far.

New comment by tra3 in "Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing"

tra3 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:15:54 +0000

In one of his speeches, Obama said "Better is good". I think about this a lot. It feels like better compounds over time, too. Small improvements add up. From experience, nothing new is perfect the first go round, so sitting around trying to come up with a perfect design is counterproductive because there's no such thing.

"impediment to action advances action. what stands in the way, becomes the way".

New comment by tra3 in "Tim Davis – Probabilistic engineering and the 24-7 employee"

tra3 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:57:03 +0000

> Agents are opening pull requests, reviewing each other's work, and closing them without a human ever touching the keyboard, with a continuously live log monitoring loop to rapidly fix issues.

I know gas town made a splash here a while back and some colleagues promote software factories, but I haven’t seen much real output..have any of you?

I prefer the guided development approach where it’s a pretty detailed dialog with the LLM. The results are good but it’s hardly hands off.

If I squint I can almost see this fully automated development life cycle, so why aren’t there real life examples out there?

New comment by tra3 in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work"

tra3 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:55:27 +0000

I think you're maybe oversimplifying a bit. I dont think the argument here is that "AI" is not 100% so we shouldn't use AI. There are issues we need to be aware of.

Specifically, AI companies want to inflate the utility of AI because that's how they make money. There should be guardrails where appropriate. Unfortunately, as usual, we need to make mistakes before we can learn from them.

Robotaxis do exist, but they are not made equal. Tesla's for instance are 4x worse than humans: https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-robotaxi-adds-5-more-cr...