Hacker News: vitaflo

New comment by vitaflo in "I built a browser-native SysEx librarian for 80s/90s synthesizers"

vitaflo — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:14:36 +0000

And these old manuals make it trivial to build a midi app for your old synths. The sysex specs are usually so detailed that it makes it very easy for Claude to follow and whatever it comes up with usually "just works".

I've built apps for all my old synths, not just to save sysex patches but also for midi control. It's actually amazing some of the hidden features these old synths have that you didn't even really know about because Claude finds all the connections in some cryptic sysex addendum in the manual.

New comment by vitaflo in "US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money"

vitaflo — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:48:17 +0000

A person eating one single hamburger uses more water than an entire year of LLM use for the same person. Yet we are very concerned about water use in data centers, but nobody cares about McDonalds.

New comment by vitaflo in "DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices"

vitaflo — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:34:00 +0000

I have to assume this means that they are about to release the final version of v4 Pro and it uses more resources than the preview did

New comment by vitaflo in "Tell HN: Upcoming DeepSeek API Billing Adjustment"

vitaflo — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:31:05 +0000

I have to assume this means that they are about to release the final version of v4 Pro and it uses more resources than the preview did.

New comment by vitaflo in "You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript"

vitaflo — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:06:54 +0000

Preact is 3kb. The size argument doesn’t hold weight.

New comment by vitaflo in "Don't be a meat proxy"

vitaflo — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:44:44 +0000

Where I work we call these people “very expensive keyboards”.

New comment by vitaflo in "Google has abandoned Google News?"

vitaflo — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:30:33 +0000

Finance is utter garbage now. 80% of the screen is AI bullshit and my portfolio is like 10%. And the design of it all is just a wireframe and not easily scannable at all. I’ve just stopped using it since I can’t get back to Classic view anymore.

New comment by vitaflo in "What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately?"

vitaflo — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:33:22 +0000

If you don’t want 1 or 2 then pay by the token. If that’s too expensive for you then now you know why 1 and 2 exist.

New comment by vitaflo in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

vitaflo — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:18:46 +0000

Also on Avinox motors on e-mtn bikes. Originally made by DJI, then spun off into their own company, and they are starting to eat the competition on all e-mtn bikes at this point. Bosch, TQ, Shimano, et al just can't compete, especially because Avinox is iterating at startup pace and all the rest are iterating at bike pace (slowly).

New comment by vitaflo in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

vitaflo — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:21:08 +0000

I don’t know how something like this makes it to prod. That’s multiple levels of failure.

New comment by vitaflo in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

vitaflo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:45:16 +0000

It’s like trying to give up smoking when all your friends still smoke. Even if you do give it up you either also give up your friends or still reek of cigarettes.

New comment by vitaflo in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

vitaflo — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:41:35 +0000

I’ve seen people say stuff made in china is junk while holding their iPhone. People say the dumbest things.

New comment by vitaflo in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

vitaflo — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:15:56 +0000

Also for every game dev working on GTA6, there's another working on Barbie's Horse Adventure. When positions are limited, you take what you can get and most of them are making games that are not at all interesting.

New comment by vitaflo in "Claude Opus 4.8"

vitaflo — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:06:34 +0000

We just want it to understand how to write code. We don’t also need it to know how to grow a potato.

New comment by vitaflo in "Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us"

vitaflo — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:59:32 +0000

Same. Realized this guy is a total hack.

New comment by vitaflo in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

vitaflo — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:02:49 +0000

Gaining 700 users "speaks for itself"? All this stats page shows me is how few people actually use Kagi. You'd think it was millions of users based on the way people astroturf it here.

New comment by vitaflo in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

vitaflo — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:11:12 +0000

Deepseek has instructions on how to do this on their website (along with many other agents):

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/agent_integrations...

New comment by vitaflo in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

vitaflo — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:27:30 +0000

Everything analog/physical in every discipline will make a comeback.

New comment by vitaflo in "Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"

vitaflo — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:57:20 +0000

Find a better bank I guess. I’ve never used my phone for banking of any kind ever.

New comment by vitaflo in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

vitaflo — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:58:06 +0000

People just want to bitch online about printers not being open enough while they type their comments from their fully closed and locked down phones.