Hacker News: velcrovan

New comment by velcrovan in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

velcrovan — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:54:08 +0000

I hope you have spam filtering happening somewhere upstream of your local computer. Spammers are constantly adjusting to find ways around filters, and there is no way a third class open source legacy email client I going to be able to give their filter the continuous attention it needs to stay effective.

Hollywood in the 60s and the Good AI Future

velcrovan — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:00:45 +0000

Article URL: https://opcraft.co/writing/2026/04/getting-the-good-ai-future/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681879

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by velcrovan in "Ruckus: Racket for iOS"

velcrovan — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:09:18 +0000

I was surprised to be able to install packages from the Racket package server. The search is case sensitive (be sure to use all lowercase instead of the default first capital letter) and the install can take a while, but it works!

New comment by velcrovan in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)"

velcrovan — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:30:54 +0000

I love me a good massage

New comment by velcrovan in "Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs"

velcrovan — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:48:33 +0000

    "What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators,
       Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?"
    So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply
       "They are merely conventional signs!

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43909/the-hunting-of-...

New comment by velcrovan in "Something is afoot in the land of Qwen"

velcrovan — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:49:19 +0000

What the US has done is dumped truckloads of cash to make it likely that as a legal immigrant you will be abducted and sent to a camp.

New comment by velcrovan in "Indefinite Book Club Hiatus"

velcrovan — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:42:50 +0000

Agents have always had more queries than they could handle, this is not new to the AI era.

New comment by velcrovan in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

velcrovan — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:40:20 +0000

This wasn’t a statement about capability. It’s just a detail about what model they used to compare the speed of two chips for this purpose. You want a bigger model, run a bigger model.

New comment by velcrovan in "Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available"

velcrovan — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:07:20 +0000

> It's difficult for us to maintain documentation of exactly the kind you'd want there

Suggestion: let an LLM maintain it for you.

Alternate suggestion for OP: let an LLM generate the explanations you want from the code (when available).

New comment by velcrovan in "Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing"

velcrovan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:06:32 +0000

Wow, you use Word, Google Docs and Scrivener to author the content on your website? Tell me more.

New comment by velcrovan in "Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing"

velcrovan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:03:27 +0000

https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/

New comment by velcrovan in "Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code"

velcrovan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:01:48 +0000

If I had to guess, I would say that this method might be applicable to other books besides the one featured in the post.

New comment by velcrovan in "IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption"

velcrovan — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 03:49:46 +0000

I would like to know what models people are running locally that get the same results as a $20/month ChatGPT plan

New comment by velcrovan in "Improving 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed"

velcrovan — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:03:57 +0000

https://joeldueck.com/manually-type-punctuation.html

https://joeldueck.com/ai-is-right-about-em-dashes.html

New comment by velcrovan in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

velcrovan — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:30:31 +0000

I'm confused, I thought we were talking about people who are installing and running openclaw. You're right, if this is now a thread about teenage dating habits, I'm out.

New comment by velcrovan in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

velcrovan — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 02:13:13 +0000

who's "afraid" of green bubbles? it's like saying a toyota corolla driver is afraid of the ford pinto

New comment by velcrovan in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

velcrovan — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:02:22 +0000

Human beings are also liable for the results of their actions.

New comment by velcrovan in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

velcrovan — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:22:44 +0000

Tell me about your auditing workflow and procedures.

New comment by velcrovan in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

velcrovan — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:20:46 +0000

Different from other religions how? /s

New comment by velcrovan in "AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals"

velcrovan — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:14:12 +0000

Removing the skill does remove a level of indirection.

It's a difference of "choose whether or not to make use of a skill that would THEN attempt to find what you need in the docs" vs. "here's a list of everything in the docs that you might need."