Hacker News: zf00002

New comment by zf00002 in "Genie 4"

zf00002 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 01:49:45 +0000

Yes, Opus 5.5 can build out quite a bit on its own that is super impressive when you first look at it. But spending just a couple minutes will make you realize dozens of things that are off.

New comment by zf00002 in "New iMac with M6"

zf00002 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:51:02 +0000

The M5 Ultra with 256GB went from a early Dec estimated delivery to Feb now. I wonder what the 512GB lead time will be.

New comment by zf00002 in "A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents"

zf00002 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:55:01 +0000

Configuration and maybe prompting problem in my experience. Are you doing the prompting or are you letting claude or something do it?

New comment by zf00002 in "Gemini 4 Argon"

zf00002 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:12:49 +0000

Finally, gemini 3.8 has been falling way behind opus and sol in my experience. It's showing up in my antigravity. My work account though still has 3.6, 3.8, 3.1.

New comment by zf00002 in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

zf00002 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:16:53 +0000

I can blow through my weekly on astra in a few hours; hopefully this really is as good.

New comment by zf00002 in "Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard"

zf00002 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:54:24 +0000

Really fun op!

New comment by zf00002 in "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"

zf00002 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:28:21 +0000

I've got the 100 paid to all 3, gemini and chatgpt are a level above claude for a lot of my work now. claude i actually fight with if its not just write code.

New comment by zf00002 in "No Man's Sky Cosmos"

zf00002 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:33:59 +0000

no matter what, that always happens with this game. Any news about it causes the people who played for 10 minutes at launch however long ago come back to tell you how much they didn't like it.

New comment by zf00002 in "Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos"

zf00002 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:44:57 +0000

Something I've noticed in a couple hobbies on youtube, is that the popular channels are not the ones that show up when I search. Like for cars, there ar 2 particular youtubers who show up all over search results, but amongst the car community you will never hear people talk about watching their videos.

New comment by zf00002 in "Credit Card Rewards Became a $9.2B Wealth Transfer"

zf00002 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:20:22 +0000

Car mechanics, dealerships, house fixing contractors, city (property taxes), these are the ones that I can think of in the past year I've come across charging a fee for credit card payments. What's most irritating is that most of them do not setup for and drop the fee if you pay by debit card.

New comment by zf00002 in "The Amazon tax"

zf00002 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:09:22 +0000

Etsy is even worse for sponsored ads, way worse.

New comment by zf00002 in "Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI"

zf00002 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:02:57 +0000

The idea that they got an archive of my coworkers tickets that just say "its broke", is amusing.

New comment by zf00002 in "Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full"

zf00002 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:15:39 +0000

I remember Microsoft had a time limited version of Office on cd-rom that was sold for a couple bucks at Kinko's. You could replace a .dll in it and that removed the time limit.

New comment by zf00002 in "Just because a game is on disc doesn't mean it will work in the future"

zf00002 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:47:09 +0000

Steams policy means that Marvel Heroes, a game that was shutdown and its developer closed, can still be downloaded by prior owners and used on the private servers.

Kind of interesting but I also had a game on GOG that got delisted and had to get a refund because it got removed.

New comment by zf00002 in "Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks"

zf00002 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:44:18 +0000

I recall installing Slackware from floppy.

New comment by zf00002 in "I Don't Maintain My Homelab"

zf00002 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:58:39 +0000

I used to think of my home setup as a homelab but I've realized for about 4 years now I barely do anything with it beyond what it's supposed to do. I just have some basic services running, most time spent over the last 4 years has to do with broadcom acquiring vmware so I had to switch to Proxmox, and then just moving houses and having to setup again.

New comment by zf00002 in "Librepods: AirPods liberated"

zf00002 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:37:04 +0000

There was some problem with the first gen that you would hear static, Apple replaced those if you contacted support. Happened to me just before end of 1 yr warranty and kinda funny but they had me mail in my airpods to be replaced and lost them. So they ended up sending me a new pair and iirc $100 gift card for the trouble.

New comment by zf00002 in "I Fired Google"

zf00002 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:52:24 +0000

Stopped after repeating the false claim that bmw charges a subscription for heated seats.

New comment by zf00002 in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

zf00002 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:53:06 +0000

I find the "wrong" FN keyboards annoying like OP, but the Home/End to Pgup/Dn grouping of keys is what really makes or breaks a great keyboard layout for me.

New comment by zf00002 in "America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen"

zf00002 — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:23:08 +0000

I read the whole thing, found this fascinating.