Hacker News: windex

New comment by windex in "I am building a cloud"

windex — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:41:30 +0000

Yes and an LLM checks it as well. I am yet to find a sysadmin task that an LLM couldn't solve neatly.

New comment by windex in "The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?"

windex — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:00:13 +0000

During the Covid lockdowns in India, I saw birds I had not seen in decades. It was amazing; the skies had cleared up, and nature truly was recovering.

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

windex — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:12:24 +0000

I moved out of software things myself and now do things around the home and outside more and more.

New comment by windex in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

windex — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:15:36 +0000

A lot of people are finding the Mac Neo very interesting given how unfriendly the whole Win11 experience has become. Either MS learns or the market teaches them the same lessons IBM learnt.

New comment by windex in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

windex — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:46:35 +0000

With the Mac neo, some of us will not have to tolerate Win 11. They were forcing us to upgrade, well, they made people upgrade to the Mac neo. An all metal Apple notebook that isn't actively user hostil is a massive quality upgrade for most people.

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

windex — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:30:04 +0000

>so you can make fries and ketchup from the same plant!

We should be friends. I like your ideas.

New comment by windex in "Right-sizes LLM models to your system's RAM, CPU, and GPU"

windex — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:58:21 +0000

What I do is i ask claude or codex to run models on ollama and test them sequentially on a bunch of tasks and rate the outputs. 30 minutes later I have a fit. It even tested the abliterated models.

New comment by windex in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

windex — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:58:06 +0000

Far more people are coding and participating and creating things now than before. Doesn't matter what you call it. There is enough excitement.

New comment by windex in "U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections"

windex — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:48:23 +0000

The US' honor system hasn't worked out with this level of rule breaking and brazen corruption. The Nazis seem to be on their way back to power.

New comment by windex in "CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun"

windex — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 04:12:44 +0000

I had problems with tailscale being flaky about a year ago and it would stop responding taking down networking with it. I've since ripped it out and went with a VPS based wireguard for all PCs and mobiles. Stable since then.

New comment by windex in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

windex — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:41:24 +0000

Summary: Venezuela just lost its oil.

New comment by windex in "Global software engineering job postings outlook – 2026"

windex — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 05:44:59 +0000

India has a huge fake jobs problem. I think it is because of the number of "HR consultants" who constantly need to refresh their databases with "fresh" resumes. I've seen the same jobs being posted for over 8 years with no change whatsoever other than the keyword updates.

New comment by windex in "Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?"

windex — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:39:37 +0000

That's fine IF tech stays out of politics, but that's not the case anymore. US tech bros are buying themselves policy with this administration.

If tech is influencing politics and consequently, all of us, why should there be an asymmetry when the tech plebs want to talk politics?

New comment by windex in "Why were all stories about the '60 minutes' leak removed from HN?"

windex — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:16:53 +0000

I see a similar theme with most techbros or rich VC groups. They say they dont like politics but they move fast to influence policy by buying influence. See what's happening with Trump and the tech companies.

What tech connected leaders really hate is the plebs being informed and having an opinion on policy. I see the same thing with the All-In podcast. All round glee on that podcast with things that negatively impact the working classes.

Billionaires are for billionaires while controlling the media.

New comment by windex in "'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them"

windex — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:14:31 +0000

Atleast in Europe there are some basic rules around data collection. In places like India, linkedin is a free for all vacuuming up resume data. I've seen the same jobs on linkedin appear for nearly 4 years with no changes and hundreds of people applying every week.

You cant flag it on linkedin either. I guess LinkedIn's business model likes the fake job postings.

New comment by windex in "AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs"

windex — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:04:26 +0000

I think devs have now split into two camps, the kvetchers and the shippers. It's a new tool, it's fresh. Things will work itself out over the next couple of years/months(?). The kvetching helps keep AI research focused on the problem which is good. Meanwhile continue to ship.

New comment by windex in "Vibe coding creates fatigue?"

windex — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:47:42 +0000

This is why I document my ideas and then go for a walk. It also helps me stay within the quota limits.

New comment by windex in "AI agents are starting to eat SaaS"

windex — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:07:51 +0000

I dont think any opinion right now is going to be definitive. This is like mixing paint, the edges are still white, while the centre is colored.

What Iam seeing is that customers are delaying purchases of large expensive software. Prime example; SAP. ECC migrations to SaaS model RISE/GROW-PublicCloud are stalling, same with onprem S4 to RISE. I see a whole bunch of my customers instead go with retaining the core but modernize surround apps with intelligent custom apps without feature bloat. For now, SAP/oracle/whatever remains the system of record, the edges are going away. I guess the same is likely happening in other spaces.

This change is coming. Definitely. The current moats around SaaS will fall and the alternate ecosystem might not have moats at all.

New comment by windex in "Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration"

windex — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:56:13 +0000

Google's interface, UX and information flow is complete spaghetti. You never know what you will find and where. There is no one you can call either. I suspect they abandon their products because 50% of potential customers abandon their cart due to the workflow.

New comment by windex in "Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products"

windex — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:56:41 +0000

Between the RAM shortage and the forced migration to Win11 along with a forced HW upgrade, I'd start shorting MS asap. This bit about lack of adoption of Copilot is just icing on the cake.