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The Things I Wanted to Know Before Buying Apple's Studio Display XDR

tymscar — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:22:06 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/studiodisplayxdr/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817091

Points: 6

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Unified Modules for Your Nixfiles

tymscar — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:53:20 +0000

Article URL: https://jadarma.github.io/blog/posts/2026/03/unified-modules-for-your-nixfiles/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452883

Points: 2

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New comment by tymscar in "I put my whole life into a single database"

tymscar — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:12:16 +0000

So it didnt end up working too well seeing that the latest data is from 4 years ago.

New comment by tymscar in "Dumping Lego NXT firmware off of an existing brick (2025)"

tymscar — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 02:11:13 +0000

Jerryrigseverything has a video of him opening one up. Not really what you asked for but it scratches the itch

New comment by tymscar in "GPT-5.4"

tymscar — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:58:07 +0000

I still remember the massive shift to SDRP and HDRP. Honestly, now in retrospect, almost a decade later, I think it was clearly done wrong. It was a mess, and switching over was a multi-week procedure for anything more than a hello world program, and what you got in return wasn’t something that looked better, just something that had the potential to.

Similar story with the whole networking stack. I haven’t used Unity in years now after it being my main work environment for years, but the sour taste it left in my mouth by moving everything that worked in the engine into plugins that barely worked will forever remain there.

Im sure its partly skill issue

New comment by tymscar in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"

tymscar — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:18:12 +0000

I think you might be answering to a different person or misunderstanding what I said but you are right that just as I don’t have an intuition for where the acuity shows up in the corpus, I don’t think Claude does either

New comment by tymscar in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"

tymscar — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:06:38 +0000

Thats cool.

I do wonder where that extra acuity you get from 1% more shows up in practice. I hate how I have basically no way to intuitively tell that because of how much of a black box the system is

New comment by tymscar in "Making MCP cheaper via CLI"

tymscar — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:49:48 +0000

Or you could just have a cli that does that, no MCP needed

New comment by tymscar in "Making MCP cheaper via CLI"

tymscar — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:00:03 +0000

No? You can just have env vars

New comment by tymscar in "Making MCP cheaper via CLI"

tymscar — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:45:09 +0000

So basically the best way to use MCP is not to use it at all and just call the APIs directly or through a CLI. If those dont exist then wrapping the MCP into a CLI is the second best thing.

Makes you wonder whats the point of MCP

New comment by tymscar in "Show HN: Babyshark – Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs)"

tymscar — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:04:02 +0000

Love the idea, but please add some demo screenshots on GitHub. All UI tools should

How to Quiet a Ugreen 4800 Plus Without Sacrificing Drive Temps

tymscar — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:35:56 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/ugreen4800plusquiet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46946361

Points: 2

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Academic Slop Just Reached a New Low

tymscar — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:45:45 +0000

Article URL: https://jadarma.github.io/blog/posts/2026/01/academic-slop-just-reached-a-new-low/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46801248

Points: 14

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New comment by tymscar in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

tymscar — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:43:27 +0000

https://blog.tymscar.com is my blog. I write mostly about technology and programming

New comment by tymscar in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

tymscar — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:02:43 +0000

Are they multipliers when you do less of it and offload more of it to the same tool everyone else uses?

New comment by tymscar in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

tymscar — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 02:33:07 +0000

I agree, however there you don’t compare technical knowledge alone, you also compare managerial skills.

With LLMs its admittedly a bit closer to doing it yourself because the feedback loop is much tighter

New comment by tymscar in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

tymscar — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:47:48 +0000

I do think your datasettes work is fantastic and I genuinely hope you take my previous message the right way. I’m not saying you do something bad, quite the opposite, I feel like we need more of you and I’m afraid because of LLMs we get less of you.

New comment by tymscar in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

tymscar — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:30:29 +0000

I think you are right in saying that there is some deep intuition that takes months, if not years, to hone about current models, however, the intuition some who did nothing but talk and use LLMs nonstop two years ago would be just as good today as someone who started from scratch, if not worse because of antipatterns that don’t apply anymore, such as always starting a new chat and never using a CLI because of context drift.

Also, Simon, with all due respect, and I mean it, I genuinely look in awe at the amount of posts you have on your blog and your dedication, but it’s clear to anyone that the projects you created and launched before 2022 far exceed anything you’ve done since. And I will be the first to say that I don’t think that’s because of LLMs not being able to help you. But I do think it’s because what makes you really, really good at engineering you kept replacing slowly but surely with LLMs more and more by the month.

If I look at Django, I can clearly see your intelligence, passion, and expertise there. Do you feel that any of the projects you’ve written since LLMs are the main thing you focus on are similar?

Think about it this way: 100% of you wins against 100% of me any day. 100% of Claude running on your computer is the same as 100% of Claude running on mine. 95% of Claude and 5% of you, while still better than me (and your average Joe), is nowhere near the same jump from 95% Claude and 5% me.

I do worry when I see great programmers like you diluting their work.

New comment by tymscar in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"

tymscar — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 02:30:02 +0000

Its one of the main reasons why I buy on steam. Makes games much more engaging, especially for me because I prefer hard action games with little to no story.

Automating What Backblaze Lifecycle Rules Don't Do Instantly

tymscar — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:55:25 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/backblazeb2cleanup/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46388170

Points: 3

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