Hacker News: ulimn

New comment by ulimn in "Anthropic S-1"

ulimn — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:40:48 +0000

I somewhat agree to what you said, but also, the whole point of agentic coding is that "code is cheap". So I can't imaging companies like Google not having the resources (whether human or token) to build a better agentic assistant/harness than what Anthropic can. I mean Google has a pretty good starting point with Google Docs, etc.

New comment by ulimn in "Setting Up SSH Keys on macOS with Touch ID"

ulimn — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:57:23 +0000

I've been using Secretive for years because I didn't bother looking it up how to do it without. I think this is worth doing without an additional third party, especially since it's only a few commands.

New comment by ulimn in "Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling"

ulimn — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:20:35 +0000

It was unpleasant on a 27" 1440p monitor as well. I think the content is just too narrow in general.

New comment by ulimn in "Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac"

ulimn — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:38:23 +0000

How do you keep your prompts from getting just ramblings as you do the thinking?

It sounds like a fun way to "code", but I just can't imagine how it works in reality.

New comment by ulimn in "Bitwarden Dual License Model"

ulimn — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:12:40 +0000

While keeping feature-parity, right...?

New comment by ulimn in "Bitwarden Dual License Model"

ulimn — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:09:33 +0000

I think the memory hog you're thinking of is the official Bitwarden self-hosted backend. Vaultwarden is pretty light on resources.

New comment by ulimn in "I'm still around.. I'm just not writing here"

ulimn — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:57:13 +0000

Oh, one of the few blogs I was following. Sad to see this news.

New comment by ulimn in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"

ulimn — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:36:57 +0000

I am curious: Why is it bad to merge chat and work? In Claude I didn't have a porblem with it (although I switched to an OpenAI subscription shortly after they made the merge). Isn't the model capable of deciding if it needs the extra capabilities of Work?

New comment by ulimn in "Mistral Large 4"

ulimn — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:25:51 +0000

You yourself also kind of pointed out why the discussion about USA and China is not off-topic. The niche Mistral wants to fill (afaik) is that it's European. I, as a European am really happy that they made such progress in so much worse (financial) conditions. I guess it's mostly geopolitics.

New comment by ulimn in "Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server"

ulimn — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:37:04 +0000

I'll be sure to check this out but in the meantime, I'd like to ask: Isn't it generally a good practice to run coding agents in a VM? It provides a security boundary so that the agent is restricted to the VM.

How does this compare? I see it's an "isolated sandbox", but what exactly does that mean?

New comment by ulimn in "Gitea 28.0"

ulimn — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:55:00 +0000

Not for long if the next release will be Gitea 290 instead of 29.

New comment by ulimn in "Gitea 28.0"

ulimn — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:53:23 +0000

I have a feeling that nobody will die (most likely) for choosing forgejo or gitea... Apples and oranges...

New comment by ulimn in "GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence"

ulimn — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:32:09 +0000

I suspect it's partly because people didn't jump from GPT-3 to GPT-6.1 Sol and partly because SOTA models from the last few(?) months have been able to tackle most of the regular tasks. It means this new model isn't different in that regard from Opus 4.8, if your mental benchmark is that they both are capable of implementing something like a CRUD app.

New comment by ulimn in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

ulimn — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:05:38 +0000

A few words which everyone would understand, like "small, medium, large"? I wish we had something, yeah...

New comment by ulimn in "The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy"

ulimn — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:41:10 +0000

Oh my... Thank you for the link but I couldn't bear to watch it so I just read the summary. It hurts to watch these people.

New comment by ulimn in "The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy"

ulimn — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:55:00 +0000

But who buys these drugs with fentanyl and why? There might a link I'm missing, sorry! :)

New comment by ulimn in "CVE-2025-13032: Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2"

ulimn — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:34:53 +0000

Isn't the model of AppArmor or SELinux a good approach to tackle this problem?

New comment by ulimn in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

ulimn — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:00:30 +0000

Sorry I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. I'm happy you also found yourself a good machine! :)

And btw my Air has 16 GB of RAM.

New comment by ulimn in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

ulimn — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:49:11 +0000

I am still rocking my M1 MacBook Air and performance-wise I have no complaints. Even doing heavy workload, it manages surprisingly well.

What I don't like is the direction MacOS is heading to. In my opinion, it always catered to the "casual" people UX-wise, but somehow I feel more and more that I, as a developer am just an afterthought.

On the other hand, I replaced Windows on my gaming PC and I keep thinking about buying a Laptop for Linux. I always had a sweet spot for KDE, but the amount of configuration it allows, while having nice defaults is such a nice experience after the Mac...

New comment by ulimn in "OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework"

ulimn — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 09:56:10 +0000

Please don't take this as offense, I'm honestly curious as I'm pretty bad at these things.

You say this is your first time seeing openspec, but you've been working on a pretty similar project for a year now. Openspec and Speckit both seem to have similar (almost same?) goal as yours. Do you just jump into such a project as yours without worrying about others already existing?

I tend to overthink such stuff...