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TN1ck

544 karma · joined July 22, 2013

meet.hn/city/52.510885,13.3989367/Berlin

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Interests: Fintech, Entrepreneurship, Hiking, Mentorship, Open Source, Remote Work, Programming, Startups, Web Development

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TN1ck··on Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
Update: Jeeves took about 2 hours to moderate 394 data points and performed really well. It’s not as good as Jev, but it’s super close! In general, it’s super cool that you can tune how strict you want content moderation to be with these models.
TN1ck··on Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
I just did a run with a benchmark I just used to test other models against. (It's about detecting irony in german soccer tweets). On my M5 Pro with 48GB it took over 30min to decide on just 100 tweets, the thinking definitely takes long.

It performed quite below Jev, but above other open decision models I tested (68 correct vs 79 correct for Jev - see [1]). I'm running it for the moderation benchmark as well, but that will probably take a few hours on my machine.

[1] https://tn1ck.com/blog/jevdit

TN1ck··on Divide by depth for instant 3D
The sliders are great UX on mobile, love the detail to attention.
TN1ck··on Hacking IKEA Furniture
I recently did my own hack that turned out great - it’s a drawer + desk hack. It takes some planning, but so satisfying when it works out:) https://www.reddit.com/r/ikeahacks/comments/1srj3g9/malm_m%C...
TN1ck··on We rebuilt the Linux MicroVM stack on Apple Silicon
Thought I was tripping, someone made the same point today in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49381236
TN1ck··on I love LLMs, I hate hype
Both can be true and I have both opinions also in me. Love the progress, worry about the consequences of not being careful with it.

He does say in this post:

> I’m getting better at using them and get some boost from the models. It is a new skill, and it’s not like I haven’t constantly been trying them. You have to be really careful, they can increase cognitive fatigue, and all the vibe coded stuff is still slop (where’s all this new magical software that the productivity improvements should imply?).

TN1ck··on AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence
But even that can be difficult at times. My roommate had once a racing bike with a tire so tight, we struggled immensely getting it on.

And even without such a difficult tire, imo most people would struggle if you’d ask them to change a tire of a bike, especially the back wheel.

TN1ck··on Beer CSS – Build material design in record time
They didn’t mean that Safari had a problem on rendering, but that their phone is so narrow, it often highlights pages that weren’t tested properly for mobile.

It seems the 13 mini is 375px wide, which isn’t even that narrow. The smallest I normally tested against was the width of the iPhone SE with 320px.

TN1ck··on Rive, Fast and reliable background jobs in Go
I’ve used asynq [1] at my past job. And although development is not as active anymore, they have a new contributor and we never encountered any bugs. It has been really solid and we relied on it heavily.

[1] https://github.com/hibiken/asynq

TN1ck··on Which sparkling water is the best?
I recommend to try out Vichy Catalan[0], tastes really good and has a slight salinity to it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_Catal%C3%A1n

TN1ck··on Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can
I switched to Apple Passwords this week. Really good passkey support, 2FA support, best iOS integration. You can even share passwords with others. Sadly no first party cli support. If you only use Apple devices, it’s really solid.
TN1ck··on Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
Check this post for example: https://tn1ck.com/blog/how-to-generate-sudokus

I use it for the interactivity.

TN1ck··on Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
Why not? I do the same, I tell it the exact content, but I don’t have to do all the rest. My blog is a react based (because I like interactivity) and has no asset pipeline, so it’s not as user friendly to edit the content as e.g. a markdown file.
TN1ck··on I shipped a transaction bug, so I built a linter
In that instance, you are right, but there are often cases where you need to do multiple queries / updates spanning multiple tables in a single transaction, then you do need a generic transaction wrapper.
TN1ck··on (Ab)use HDR images for marketing
This is a post of me investigating an oddly bright company logo on LinkedIn, have fun!
TN1ck··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://tn1ck.com
TN1ck··on Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB
Be aware that it is bits, so 62.5kb. But I agree, the internet is still usable with that.
TN1ck··on What happened to WebAssembly
Thanks!
TN1ck··on What happened to WebAssembly
> Figma runs untrusted user plugins in your browser by running them in a QuickJS engine that is compiled to Wasm.

According to the linked blog article, this is not what they are doing, but rather an option they explored. They use JavaScript Realm shims to isolate the execution.

TN1ck··on AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating
Curious, what did you get out of it? Counseling? Some action plan? A reflection? Seems intriguing to do, but would like to know how it helped you exactly if you don’t mind sharing.
TN1ck··on The Eggstraordinary Fortress
That’s true, at least I would have eaten it. I did leave out boiled eggs with holes after cooking them for at least a day in the past. It depends of course, I don’t live in a super humid and hot climate, results may differ there.
TN1ck··on The Eggstraordinary Fortress
Does the same apply for cooked eggs? I would have thought all bacteria is gone from the shell after the process, making EU and US cooked eggs virtually the same. A short search seems to agree with that.
TN1ck··on The Eggstraordinary Fortress
That egg was totally still edible, even if you pierce it for the cooking, it should be good for at least a few days. If you do it right, it can be weeks. In Germany you can buy cooked eggs in the super market and they are not refrigerated.
TN1ck··on Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale
Had a similar thought recently: With the advent of AI, custom software became extremely attainable. DHI syndrome suddenly becomes less of an issue - and can actually become a perk, as you build the most minimal software that works for your org, skipping potential vendor / saas fees. Really curious how the landscape of software will change in the next years due to that.
TN1ck··on Gemini Embedding: Powering RAG and context engineering
VP of Engineering of re:cap here (featured in the article), if anybody has any more detailed questions, happy to answer!
TN1ck··on GCP Outage
Cloudbuild completely down for us. Getting "Visibility check was unavailable" errors.
TN1ck··on Apache ECharts
Can recommend visx as well, it's great as it's basically a thin layer around d3, giving you maximum flexibility while providing lots of built in components to get you started.
TN1ck··on Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)
Maybe she is in a holdback experiment. To understand how a feature affects the metrics (such as running ads), they often have some people in a holdback. I worked there and we did have such experiments for our features.
TN1ck··on One of my papers got declined today
I think it’s that a paper submitted by one of the most famous authors in the math field is not auto approved by the journals. That even he has to go through the normal process and gets rejected at times.
TN1ck··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)
re:cap | REMOTE (EU) | Full-time | Senior Backend Engineer

re:cap is a fintech company that provides tailored funding solutions and data-driven financial insights for digital companies. Backed by top-tier VCs, our team of experienced fintech entrepreneurs is on a mission to refine capital for economies to come. We’re hiring a (Senior) Backend Engineer to own and build key parts of our backend systems. You’ll work on our financial funding product, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to our scalable and reliable infrastructure. Tech stack: Go, PostgreSQL, GCP

Apply here: https://www.re-cap.com/careers

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