Hacker News: wasabinator

New comment by wasabinator in "Claude Code Removed from $20-a-Month "Pro" Subscription for New Users"

wasabinator — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:12:05 +0000

Not all tasks require a frontier model

New comment by wasabinator in "Claude Code Removed from $20-a-Month "Pro" Subscription for New Users"

wasabinator — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:28:37 +0000

This should be a warning to those who feel that it's ok to offload your creativity to a subscription service. Always need a local model in some form.

New comment by wasabinator in "Claude Code removed from Anthropic's Pro plan"

wasabinator — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:05:44 +0000

The enshitification intensifies.

New comment by wasabinator in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

wasabinator — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:03:05 +0000

I find this pretty interesting. I am curious though: Did you dislike coding? You sound genuinely excited to not be doing it anymore.

For me I have been a coder since a very young age and I am nearing the end of my career now. I still love writing code to problem solve just as much as the first day I learnt to code. The thought of something taking that task away from me doesn't fill me with glee.

A parallel for me is if I enjoyed puzzle pages and those brought me with joy and satisfaction employing my grey matter to solve, I just wouldn't find it interesting to have an agent complete the forms to me, with me simply guiding the agent to clues.

New comment by wasabinator in "PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator"

wasabinator — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:37:33 +0000

Hopefully this can work on PS2-based Namco System 246 systems, would be amazing if it can.

New comment by wasabinator in "Sued by Nintendo"

wasabinator — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 04:12:53 +0000

So you are saying what is listed there currently doesn't warrant that reputation?

New comment by wasabinator in "Keep Android Open"

wasabinator — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 05:55:39 +0000

Between this and a growing number of oems not permitting bootloader unlocking (latest being Samsung with OneUI 8) Android's "open" future is pretty bleak.

New comment by wasabinator in "Rustroid, a Rust IDE for Android"

wasabinator — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 23:05:08 +0000

This is brilliant. I happily bought it due to how nice and well thought out this is as well as the fascinating write up. I actually see a lot of legitimate situations for when an idea pops in my head and I want to quickly try it out when I only have my phone on me. I tried the egui sample and get a link error but will look more closely at why. One initial thought i would have is to make the swipe down to dismiss terminal gesture less aggressive as one often needs to scroll back the build output a fair bit.

New comment by wasabinator in "Proton Meet"

wasabinator — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 23:03:19 +0000

Nice there were a few years early on where progressed seemed really slow but they are delivering so many great products now.

New comment by wasabinator in "Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe"

wasabinator — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:42:12 +0000

Sadly a future that Android is bound to once el Google controls all signing.

New comment by wasabinator in "Commodore acquired for a 'low seven figure' price – CEO from retro community"

wasabinator — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 22:41:15 +0000

Not sure yet more emulation boxes are what the world needs. Peri did touch on the concept of producing products that would exist if commodore existed through today.

New comment by wasabinator in "Nvidia won, we all lost"

wasabinator — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 03:30:23 +0000

It's not the voltage, it's the current you'd want to halve. The wire gauge required to carry power is dependent on the current load. It's why when i first saw these new connectors and the loads they were being tasked with it was a wtf moment for me. Better to just avoid them in the first place though.

New comment by wasabinator in "JWST reveals its first direct image discovery of an exoplanet"

wasabinator — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:04:47 +0000

Another way to put that 111 light year distance into perspective, the Voyager space probes are yet to pass 1 light day from earth.

New comment by wasabinator in "Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting"

wasabinator — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 05:09:51 +0000

For the current running through these wires I would have never imagined that the gauge they have and the pin spacing would never work. It's nuts.

New comment by wasabinator in "DeepSeek AI collects your keystrokes and may never delete them"

wasabinator — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 08:13:26 +0000

You mean, like how Windows already does?

New comment by wasabinator in "Scale Model of Boeing 777-300ER, Made from Manila Folders"

wasabinator — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 11:02:46 +0000

This is amazing. I’d feel safer flying in this than the original.

New comment by wasabinator in "macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time"

wasabinator — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 00:20:17 +0000

The perfect DevOops tool

New comment by wasabinator in "Keynes Predicted We Would Be Working 15-Hour Weeks. Why Was He So Wrong? (2015)"

wasabinator — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 18:32:33 +0000

Basic human greed is why. It has made the cost of shelter astonishingly expensive. That has a knock on effect to all other aspects of life.

Oh and because a new iDevice comes out every year.

New comment by wasabinator in "Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence"

wasabinator — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 21:50:21 +0000

Ironic how one demonstrates a questionable grasp on maths if they think an expensive iDevice will revolutionise maths education for the masses.

New comment by wasabinator in "Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence"

wasabinator — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 21:48:01 +0000

It is and will always be rocket science to most people, and orders of magnitude more difficult than swapping a drive or ram sticks.