Hacker News: vanillax

New comment by vanillax in "Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy"

vanillax — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:49:28 +0000

Great use case for solar shed/offgrid/cabin... I think people underestimate how much you can do with a solar shed , batteries, and the sorta reduced risk aspect of a shed catching fire vs a house. That being said its really easy to follow safety precautions. I cant wait to try this out.

New comment by vanillax in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

vanillax — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:33:03 +0000

I mean next on list is Escape From Tarkov.. the list goes on. its more than just Battlefield 6, theres tons of games that require a anti cheat solution for linux..

New comment by vanillax in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

vanillax — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:28:41 +0000

I made the same switch but all linux always feels slightly jank. I think Macos is the best premium decoupling from Winblows, but that comes with its own ecosystem lock in. I use all three equally daily and it just drives me insane. Lots of games on Windows ONLY work on windows due to anti cheat. Ie BattleField 6.... MacOs Gaming is non existent and any attempt with say wine/parallels or whatever brings you back to windows.... Linux / PopOS / Cosmic is so close to being there but the gaming restrictions takes you back to Windows.. I tried the whole WSL2 but lots of apps need so much tuning to work properly.. Ie android studio needs to be specially configured to use the WSL2 paths and it gets broken fast.

New comment by vanillax in "Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible"

vanillax — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 03:13:19 +0000

What is the point of this. just use flutter or react native.

New comment by vanillax in "Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s"

vanillax — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:37:18 +0000

Kubernetes is not hard. Taking the time to read the manual seems to be hard for most people.

New comment by vanillax in "Gemini 3"

vanillax — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:51:17 +0000

I couldn't disagree more

New comment by vanillax in "LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger"

vanillax — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:35:18 +0000

I'll take big - enterprise AI written code, over offshore any day of the week. I for one welcome AI for this exact use case.

New comment by vanillax in "I'm a Senior Developer and I Still Google Everything (Perfectly Normal)"

vanillax — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:28:43 +0000

Do you think most enterprises even care about Big O outside of silicon valley? The answer is no.

New comment by vanillax in "MinIO stops distributing free Docker images"

vanillax — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:08:30 +0000

Garage for s3 emulation is a great tool. https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

New comment by vanillax in "A Guide for WireGuard VPN Setup with Pi-Hole Adblock and Unbound DNS"

vanillax — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:29:25 +0000

This is a neat guide. Its baked in already if you have a Firewalla device. Cool to see this roll your own approach. I always found their guide helpful.

From the Firewalla Site -

How to Choose Your DNS Strategy If you have NO concerns at all, just use traditional DNS from your ISP or configure some public DNS for your LAN networks if you like. If you need simple filtering to protect your network from unwanted online content, choose Family Protect -> Native mode. It won't conflict with other DNS services. If you trust your DNS service provider but don't trust your ISP, choose DNS over HTTPS. If you do not trust any single DNS server other than the root and authoritative DNS server, choose Unbound. If you do not want any DNS queries getting changed or filtered, use Unbound. If you do not want any DNS queries getting changed or filtered and want to add a layer of encryption so that your ISP can't see your DNS requests, use Unbound and turn on DNS over VPN under it.

https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/4570608120979-F...

New comment by vanillax in "Comprehension debt: A ticking time bomb of LLM-generated code"

vanillax — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:38:10 +0000

Offshore coding practices in the 2010's is the same thing as LLM. Id take LLM over offshore 10/hr devs any day of the week...

New comment by vanillax in "Claude Code 2.0"

vanillax — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 18:59:30 +0000

Has anyone figured out how to do claude sub agents without using claude? some sort of opensource cli with openrouter or something? I want to use subagents on differnt LLMs ( copilot,selfhost ).

New comment by vanillax in "Getting AI to work in complex codebases"

vanillax — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:07:48 +0000

Doesnt githubs new speckit solve this? https://github.com/github/spec-kit

New comment by vanillax in "Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation"

vanillax — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:51:56 +0000

Payload CMS Is the best out there. Its free to host yourself.

New comment by vanillax in "Weather Radar APIs in 2025: A Founder's Complete Market Overview"

vanillax — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:24:55 +0000

thanks!

New comment by vanillax in "Weather Radar APIs in 2025: A Founder's Complete Market Overview"

vanillax — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:27:45 +0000

How do apps like Carrot get "hyper local" radar maps? Like ive never understood how these apps like Carrot have like 5-6 radar types if they are just calling someone elses API.. Id have to imagine theres some very heavy vector like DBs of points of xy radar raw data? Then they visualize it?

New comment by vanillax in "We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online"

vanillax — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:57:08 +0000

is there no tool or app or ai agent that cant just automatically request your data to be deleted?

New comment by vanillax in "Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything"

vanillax — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:16:58 +0000

have you tried prompt rules/instructions? Fixes all my issues.

New comment by vanillax in "Ollama Turbo"

vanillax — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:05:58 +0000

nothing lmao. this is just ollama trying to make money.

New comment by vanillax in "Claude Opus 4.1"

vanillax — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 19:35:02 +0000

All the tools, copilot,claude, gemini in vscode are all completely worthless unless in Agent Mode. I have no idea why none of these tools dont default to Agent mode.