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caro_kann

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caro_kann··on First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In
It's wild that iPhone 16 Pro has better benchmark than macBook Air. I think this Neo is gonna be a good sell, especially among students and people don't do heavy stuff and just need decent laptop.
caro_kann··on Glaze by Raycast
I haven't used v0 or replit before, I have the same feelings as you. But I've been thinking about building macOS apps for my personal use for a long time now. Also I'm a long time Raycast user. I have a bias here, so I've joined the waitlist, I can't be sure until I try, right?
caro_kann··on How far back in time can you understand English?
As a non-native and I could understand only down to 1500s. And it sounded (read?) like scottish for me.
caro_kann··on uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts
I think this is the best way of using Youtube if you're trying to avoid brain rot and doomscrolling. This way helped me alot and gives you full control over what you consume.
caro_kann··on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
When I saw the first liquid glass demo I decided not to upgrade both my phone and macbook for couple of years to come till they fix it.
caro_kann··on Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?
Looks like I'm in that path you've already passed. From January I have to learn CDK because my current job requires me to do. Also planning on to obtain those AWS Cloud Certificates.
caro_kann··on Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model
I tried three different genre books, for each I got 1984 - George Orwell recommendation.
caro_kann··on Why Are So Many New Cars' Gear Selectors So Stupid?
It seems replacing every knob and physical buttons with just one big screen is much cheaper for car manufacturers.
caro_kann··on Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';
It's easy to be on the moral high ground when you don't have to risk anything.
caro_kann··on macOS Tahoe
I hope they'll acknowledge what they've done and fix most of this nonsense. I like macOS how it is right now, and I switched from Linux partly for this. I always wonder why don't they just add new stuff based on user feedback?
caro_kann··on iPhone Air
I'm dying to find an answer to this. The last decent company to product sub 6 inch phone was Asus, but they stopped :(
caro_kann··on Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up
Especially Steam games graph as well. Most of the non game developers at least once wanted to release their own games and feels like this is the good time to do that.
caro_kann··on Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up
Even scaffolding a new project is not easy work, especially a new stack or new versions of existing tools. For example, I have never been able to create a Vue 3 project with Vite and Tailwind setup correctly. I tried top SOTA models. Maybe my prompting skills are not good, but everytime it fails to set up a project correctly. Everytime it gives me some old configurations that's not relevant anymore.
caro_kann··on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS
That's why marketing/distribution/sales is very important. As a developer most of us think if we build a good product everyone will start using it, which is very wrong in 99% of the cases.
caro_kann··on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS
This is exactly was my first thought. Having good paid product which at least covers the expenses of the developer is much better than having a product for just a love of it.
caro_kann··on Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling?
My company is still hiring engineers like it was doing before. About the work itself I can say LLMs are good with PoC or new projects, I can't say the same about already existing codebase. For me it's a good tool, but not THE solution. Lately I'm making a lot of AWS Serverless configurations with Cloudformation and LLMs hallucinate a lot for that. At this point, I always verify if it exists in the doc or not, because it spits out stuff that doesn't exist at all.
caro_kann··on Coffee-shop pitch change helped founder unlock traction for laptop campers
I don't usually work from the coffee shops, but when I'm grateful enough to order some coffee (that amount I'd spend it anyway if I were somewhere else). Also coworking spaces are expensive for irregular visitors like me. In my city, even a day pass is 4-5 times the price of a cappuccino. So a couple of days of visit to a cafe is excellent for me.
caro_kann··on Coffee-shop pitch change helped founder unlock traction for laptop campers
Cafe owner can pay the commission after/if the user spends. Also a user who books a space and skips the spending can be marked in the app so that next time booking can be impossible or hard.
caro_kann··on A receipt printer cured my procrastination
I've been thinking gamification of my daily chores too and this article pops up! Amid health concerns of receipts, I think I'm gonna try this with just sticky notes and a jar. But how about making this a platform on its own, that just runs on a secondary monitor (I think everyone has one of those nowadays anyway). The idea is to just make this a GAME. For example, various stats of a player can be shown, history of every achievement, goals, chapters etc. Great article by the way!
caro_kann··on Ask HN: What HN posts inspired or changed your perspective the most?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43773813

This post changed my view on how UI/UX of AI tools should be. It also somehow triggered "the urge to build something" inside me.

caro_kann··on Ask HN: What's the best way to get started with LLM-assisted programing?
Running any decent local llm (I mean at least on 4o-mini lvl) with Ollama or in any other way is still very expensive.
caro_kann··on Ask HN: Can I really create a company around my open-source software?
Past couple of months, I've been researching how to market a product and how to "put your product out there". What was I learned that creating tutorials and writing blogs about your product will help to reach people naturally. Looks like this really helps as this company did.
caro_kann··on Show HN: SQL Noir – Learn SQL by solving crimes
> - The "submit" box isn't clear on whether it needs the name or the suspect id for the first case

I think it's implemented to be general, they wrote what to submit in 'Objectives' section though. For me as a user, I deduced that they wanted "suspect" name, after all, this is a detective game.