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monkey26··on GPT-5.6 Luna vs. GPT-6 Astra: Is a $1.20 Model Good Enough for Code Review?
We’ve added AI to our auto review process. It does expose when the author is not confident in their solution to push back. Which is interesting. But we do try to target specifically at our patterns and safety.
monkey26··on My favorite keyboards
I'm a keyboard nerd.. After nearly 15 years on an Advantage, I went down the rabbit hole all the way down to 34 key boards, and everything in between. But you know? The *best* developers I know, use a cheap keyboard, usually a Dell one, that you can find closets full of and have never thought about switching. Funny. I've bought of a few of these devs nicer mechanicals as gifts, and they've never been appreciated.
monkey26··on Claude Fable 5
The same happened here. Also approved.
monkey26··on I am retiring from tech to live offline
It's nice that some people have the option to do this.
monkey26··on Building Pi with Pi
"Clanker" has outlived its cuteness. Armin and Mario are intelligent guys, then I hear them say clanker on the podcasts, whatever... Enough already ;)
monkey26··on OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
I do like OpenCode, and have been using it in and off since last July. But I feel like they’re trying to stuff too much GUI into a TUI? Due to this I find myself using Codex and Pi more often. But am still glad OpenCode and their Zen product exist.
monkey26··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
A couple months ago, the battery in my Sony wh1000xm3’s failed to hold any charge at all. Was an easy replacement tho and they’re as good as new.
monkey26··on Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
50s here. I love building and designing software to solve problems. For years now I haven’t liked the actual coding part. AI has given me a super power.
monkey26··on Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness
I do this with an extension. I run all bash tools with bwrap and ACLs for the write and edit tools. Serves my purposes. Opens up access to other required directories, at least for git and rust.

I think I published it. Check the pi package page.

monkey26··on MinIO repository is no longer maintained
Do you feel the same way if the CLA is to assign copyright to an non profit foundation that is a steward of that open source project?
monkey26··on Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser
This initially excited me, but its pretty poor compared to what Chrome and Chrome based browsers provide.
monkey26··on Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser
I want profiles. For example, work and personal. Different bookmarks, different plugins. Even some different settings.
monkey26··on Anandtech.com now redirects to its forums
Not free after a certain point then gets expensive fast as you move out to CDNs.
monkey26··on Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker
I recently tried Vibe (https://github.com/thewh1teagle/vibe) from a recording of a meeting taken on one side. It was able to identify the speakers. As Speaker 1, 2, etc. But still useful to see.
monkey26··on Claude Code is a slot machine
I’m grateful for the likes of you out there.
monkey26··on Claude Code is a slot machine
I fall into the 25 year of experience category. Probably a few more. For me, this agentic coding couldn’t have come at a better time. I still love thinking about solutions to problems and creating those solutions. I’m becoming less and less interested in the implementation details of those solutions.

I tend to use Claude Code in 2 scenarios. YOLO where I don’t care what it looks like. One shot stuff I’ll never maintain.

Or a replacement for my real hands on coding. And in many cases I can’t tell the difference after a few days if I wrote it or AI did. Of course I have well established patterns and years of creating requirements for junior devs.

monkey26··on Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths
Both of my wife's parents died with cancer in their 60s before MAID. These days we're seeing the parents of others, and even our peers choosing MAID. It breaks my wife's heart every time that MAID wasn't available to her parents.
monkey26··on Ask HN: If you are starting in 2024, what is the most productive solo dev stack?
Solid-Start.
monkey26··on When 'open core' projects reject contributions for competing with the EE
I work on a fully open project that sustains itself… And we really push for a ticket before any major work is done just to make sure it fits our scope.

At the end of the day most contributions come from people as part of their job, and they move on. We’re left to maintain it.

monkey26··on Ask HN: Best resources on starting a lifestyle business?
I don't want to hijack this thread, but what does Django do?

I ask, cause I have a service that is a Rust backend (kind of specialized in what it does) + a SolidJS frontend... But I've seen a potential area for growth, I didn't imagine at first, and that would be stuff like user profiles, authentication, and managing stuff. And I really don't want to cut all this more "CRUD" like stuff in Rust and an SPA. I don't know Ruby, but have done some rather large Python projects in the past, just never ventured into Django land.

monkey26··on Unison Cloud
A great tool I still use everyday.
monkey26··on Duplicity: Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup
I've been using Restic since 2017 without issue. Tried Kopia for a while, but its backup size ballooned on me, maybe it wasn't quite ready.
monkey26··on Removing official support for Red Hat enterprise Linux
I do the RedHat side of support for our open source project. And when I do have to spin up real RedHat for something, it’s always a pain of fixing up some licensing or another.
monkey26··on Building a Personal VoIP System
I use Callcentric for this. Ported a land line over years ago. It now has SMS which I can do using the Callcentric app. And it forwards voicemails to me with email. Otherwise I don’t use that line for actual calls anymore.
monkey26··on Exciting SQLite Improvements Since 2020
Can you expand on that a little?
monkey26··on Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?
I've asked if this practice is OK or normal in the past. People really don't like it, and I think we're trending away from it.
monkey26··on OpenDolphin: Contribute to a truly open social network
I lump participating in Hacker News comments as social media.
monkey26··on Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale
Not special. I couldn’t have said it better myself.

I often reach for Rust when Python could do, but it’s a bit bigger than a one page of code program. I also forget I’ve been doing Rust nearly full time since late 2015. And before that 15 years of C and understanding memory, etc. Maybe we’re just a rare breed.

monkey26··on Ask HN: How to solicit resumes when not actively hiring
Thing is, if that applicant comes in that we just can’t refuse then we might create an opening. Which kind of goes back to my original question.
monkey26··on Ask HN: How to solicit resumes when not actively hiring
What would have you apply?

I'm old, been in this business a long time but never really on the hiring side. And the few job switches I've done have all been because a contact convinced me to come on over sorta thing.

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