Hacker News: usermac

New comment by usermac in "The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern""

usermac — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:53:05 +0000

A bit off-topic but I super enjoyed the UI on the Windows Phones at the time. Only topped by the WebOS from Palm even before it I recall.

New comment by usermac in "New Beam Spring Keyboards"

usermac — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:21:07 +0000

I've been twice the past year to buy their keyboards in-person in Lexington Kentucky US. They treated me very well. I can say this much, the full-size keyboard has a slightly nicer feel to it than the 10-key-less version, the key travel that is.

New comment by usermac in "Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark"

usermac — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:08:11 +0000

I've been using LLM's to do my OpenSCAD work for over two years now. It's always where I start (and end).

New comment by usermac in "Killed by Apple"

usermac — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:03:46 +0000

Macbook 12" was the best form factor computer ever.

New comment by usermac in "David Attenborough's 100th Birthday"

usermac — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:11:04 +0000

Glad to hear. I thought all those videos recently of him were AI.

Ask HN: Are small local LLMs good at coding?

usermac — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:08:32 +0000

I deal with the professional LLMs, of course, but I'm really intrigued by the possibility of local coding offline. I've got a MacBook Air M4 16gb. Does it have any chance at all of doing coding? NOTE: I am not too worried about the context window because the way I work is very targeted and surgical. I'll have it look at one file and have it do something very exact to that file.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988241

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by usermac in "Artemis II Photo Timeline"

usermac — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:53:54 +0000

And in Hanks vid he mentioned it might become expensive to host on Vercel as I recall.

New comment by usermac in "1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)"

usermac — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:10:24 +0000

Having seen this image since inception, I never noticed Mt. Fuji in the background.

Ask HN: Local small LLM with retries vs. STOA Frontier, will it work?

usermac — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:21:19 +0000

I would just like to know, most machines don't have a ton of memory. If I put a super small LLM, and if I were to have unit test, do a loop until it passes this unit test. Is that a real possibility or is it just out of the question?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47445380

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by usermac in "LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review"

usermac — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:39:38 +0000

For an org I worked for not long ago, I had them buy many of the previous incarnations of this monitor. They all died of an internal power supply issue within a year each. Even the replacements I got died within a year.

New comment by usermac in "GitHub to Codeberg: my experience"

usermac — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 01:50:32 +0000

I spent some time last week adding Forgejo/Git to my local NAS via docker and tailscale.

New comment by usermac in "UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport"

usermac — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:04:59 +0000

Relative of mine is a real estate agent in the Louisville area. This year she sold two homes to two UPS pilots. One of them, his first day was yesterday. The day of the crash. He was bumped from that very flight.

Ask HN: Any US based PCB makers?

usermac — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:22:18 +0000

When I search using the search engines, they lie and tell me about a maker who I know is not US based or am I wrong and they have a plant here in the US?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43611869

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by usermac in "Apple Reveals ‘Lisa’, Its $50M Gamble (1983)"

usermac — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 11:37:50 +0000

I recall Macs being AppleTalked together to move anything anywhere—it was magic.

New comment by usermac in "Introducing a new HTML element – welcome "

usermac — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 11:30:24 +0000

I read it—hilarious. Thanks. "move fast, break things" really got me.

New comment by usermac in "Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002 (2015)"

usermac — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:41:28 +0000

I, for one, welcome our dark background.

New comment by usermac in "Apple’s $1000 monitor stand is a massive and unnecessary PR fail"

usermac — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:36:01 +0000

With all the press, I'm thinking about just buying the stand, putting it on my desk... alone.

New comment by usermac in "macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including Python, Ruby, and Perl"

usermac — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:34:05 +0000

And I have a 4+ year old Perl script I use daily. Yeah, yeah, I know I can install Perl myself but when I distribute it I was expecting it, Perl, to be there—never mind that it is an out-of-date version—I wrote it accordingly.

Author Brian Shul on Piloting the SR-71 – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

usermac — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 00:49:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=brian+shul+lawence+livermore&&view=detail&mid=3F5CB67FA93A1CD19F0D3F5CB67FA93A1CD19F0D&&FORM=VRDGAR

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20072758

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by usermac in "I Grew Up Gifted, but My Life Didn’t Turn Out the Way I Expected"

usermac — Fri, 31 May 2019 11:48:54 +0000

The first two lines, wow—You very clearly wrote what I've struggled to think of how to convey. Thank you.