Hacker News: w0m

New comment by w0m in "Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash"

w0m — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 14:53:05 +0000

I think the gap here is you're thinking that you are their customer.

New comment by w0m in "DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order"

w0m — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:47:02 +0000

> Are we pretending the same isn't true of American firms?

Are we really pretending it's equivalent?

New comment by w0m in "Gemini 4 Argon"

w0m — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:39:41 +0000

> If that ain't a moat, then what exactly is a moat?

And Anthropic has still generally been eating their lunch at the top end.

New comment by w0m in "Gemini 4 Argon"

w0m — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:01:43 +0000

i have active disagreements with teammates on the value of compaction/months-long sessions.

Same teamates also post 'Sol deleted my git repo!' or 'Sorry, ignore those 300 PR comments i was just looking!' ~once a month.

New comment by w0m in "Gemini 4 Argon"

w0m — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:57:36 +0000

I take that more as the user is mixing business with pleasure. When i joined a company using `gcp` heavily, I didn't attach my personal gmail to it - I created a 'business' account and used that. Slightly inconvenient - agree, but it's on the individual to draw the distinctions.

New comment by w0m in "Gemini 4 Argon"

w0m — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:00:28 +0000

I'd agree if it wasn't so much faster than ~all the other models. Maybe they nerfed reasoning to get that speed.

New comment by w0m in "Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August"

w0m — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:21:46 +0000

if the answer to 'the model is bad at X' is "you're over-reliant on it" - then yes, the model is bad at X in comparison to alternatives.

New comment by w0m in "The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities"

w0m — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:42:26 +0000

I'd feel guilty, but you're likely correct.

New comment by w0m in "MCP was always a bad idea?"

w0m — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:22:20 +0000

This surprises me a bit. I've found much better token usage with a proper/efficient MCP as even with a deep /skill defining usage, parsing MCP results is generally just better/more efficient than parsing CLI results. I say this having written a CLI tool explicitly for harness usage, and leveraging MCPs for the same.

I'm sure there are bad MCPs and great CLI tools that parse poorly/well via harness, but I'd be curious on an better research study.

New comment by w0m in "Running Ubuntu on the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet"

w0m — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:08:33 +0000

someone needs to do this for the arm Surface Pro 11.

New comment by w0m in "The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities"

w0m — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:30:21 +0000

> Are you sure they even will want it back?

75 y/o MIL is still fighting my wife to take her middle/highschool 'stuff' back to this day. She won't throw it out though.

New comment by w0m in "Feeling Sad about AI"

w0m — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:42:13 +0000

> He's looking at how it used to be done

I mean, you're probably thinking 30 years ago; not any time recent. Indy devs are still a thing though.

New comment by w0m in "AirPods 5"

w0m — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:42:52 +0000

HEDDphone D1 is my current happy place without going into the thousands. Compare it to an iBud on a spotify lossless track and it's kind of shocking.

New comment by w0m in "AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems"

w0m — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:38:57 +0000

'ai slop' is hard for me to complain about when it's better than 95% of code prior. The issue is more people trusting it too much to go too far, and you end up with lots of extraneous bullcrap you don't need. Doing too much and too big of a change is still a problem in the agentic world.

New comment by w0m in "Omakase Computing"

w0m — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:45:59 +0000

the ~only reason I don't have a macbook in active rotation currently is feeling burnt by the terminal experience on my last go-round. I admit to not having recent experience (~5-7 years) - maybe it's gotten better?

New comment by w0m in "Omakase Computing"

w0m — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:44:34 +0000

> His sudden flip to being anti-Mac after years of being pro-Mac follows the pattern

I mean, I used Mac on ~every machine i touched for about a decade, got annoyed and haven't touched one in ~5 years now. It's not unheard of.

New comment by w0m in "Omakase Computing"

w0m — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:42:05 +0000

the tag line for the distro on it's home page.

> Beautiful, Fun & Agentic Linux

'agentic' linux

New comment by w0m in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

w0m — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:01:14 +0000

This is a solid summary of Apple to me. Generally great hardware (outside of when they fuck up the keyboard or for ~5 years or something), and you have to piece general usability in from a myriad a third party apps while hoping Apple doesn't generically decide to lock out whatever API they're relying on unceremoniously.

New comment by w0m in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

w0m — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:51:34 +0000

I ran my ~2011 i7 MBA for 12 years as primary laptop before the battery finally killed it (had to run linux on it due to apple killing support the last few years).

Great hardware. I don't miss OSX though.

New comment by w0m in "I'm becoming AI-blind"

w0m — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 01:59:31 +0000

If a coworker sends me a copy/paste from a chatbot - I can't bring myself to read it. I know it probably* has something useful; but it's just a visceral reaction.