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neals··on Dear Software Makers
Anybody else seeing ghosty black lines on hn after reading that dark page? Like a negative version of some sort, lingering in your vision?
neals··on Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
Like many of us, I've been hobbying away on some SaaS that wraps an LLM. But I often worry, isn't this just adding buttons to an LLM call? What's the real value here? Quick money grab and wait for copies? Or do my 20 years of saas and business development actually make my SaaS better then others?
neals··on JetKVM Mini
The original one is shaped weirdly and hard to use in my unordered stack of machines and wires. I like the new shape here better.
neals··on Live map of public transport in Belgium
I just figured out that on Mallorca, the busses are shown like that on Google Maps. Which to me was mind blowing. I had never seen it, it's so convenient.
neals··on The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]
Without noise, over time, travel will change.
neals··on “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
How does one distill? Just send a million request asking for information? Start with the letter A?
neals··on Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3
They still update that? I thought it's all bedrock now?
neals··on What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
This made me browse through my StackOverflow history. Funny to see how I though I was such a skilled developer, though the questions I asked and the answers I gave 16 years ago... cringe.
neals··on Announcing Box3D :: Box2D
Made look up some of my game stuff from back in the day, but the apps are not in the store (after 15 years, to be expected) oh well...
neals··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
I was shopping for this past weekend. I found a 16core 128gb-ram(1!) unit for 110€/month with a competitor. Crazy deal. I suspected it to be a mistake, but after 24 hours it actually came online. Runs very smooth.
neals··on Cooling in Space
I think it's a vary valid option to launch swarms of datacenters into space. I think a few decades to a hundred years from now, it will be the norm. Until then, we can find plany of land to do it. Instead a launch, you just need a battery. Much cheaper. All the rest stays the same.
neals··on RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8
I tried implementing qwen through openrouter and deepinfra. Even without thinking, I had to wait 60s+ for the full result, where haiku or flash would be done in 5 or 6 seconds.
neals··on EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war
as a charging station network founder, I can confirm, the summer has never started off this welll.
neals··on Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher
It's why they're cheap though. I fly around Europe for 30 euro's. If this is how that works, it works. And after hundred+ flights with them, believe me, I have had my share or RyanScam. I just play their game and laugh.
neals··on C++: The Documentary
I love a free documentary about something that I'm passionate about. So many thanks.

However, I'm a my own kind of weird. I cannot watch a documentary that's made out of people saying short sentences. I get that it's made to 'have them tell the story', but I need a narrator to tell me what to think because I get distracted.

Still lots of love to the creators, of course.

neals··on Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months
So... did we just basically produce a lot of heat in a bunch of datacenters? Not a lot of value?
neals··on Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
I've had about 4 generations of surface devices. Never again. The frustration of that SP4 where every bodies screen would jitter and they would just stoiclly send me a replacement with the same problem. Until warranty expired.

Or every model after that just slowed down to a crawl after a year. Or the keyboard connection not working reliably.

No thank you very much.

neals··on 1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices
I'm curious how hardware and power cost would stack up to subscription cost
neals··on DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD
Would love to know what it is and what it is doing that others are doing wrong. I don't touch dns for anything other then pointing a domain to a server.
neals··on Don't Roll Your Own
Except...?
neals··on Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era
As many as we can new idea's from and figure out how to do this more efficiently. It's ok to stick with vim, of course!
neals··on Deno 2.8
Interesting, I'm not aware of that many nodejs alternatives...
neals··on AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills
Very recognizable and hard to reason about! I did something similar, but while looking at the code, it looked so procedural, hardly abstract, no vision. How was I ever going to maintain this? I guess Ai will do it forever?
neals··on Deno 2.8
It's good to have some options, to prevent the ecosystem from stalling
neals··on AI is too expensive
Token cost will come down in the future, it might even out
neals··on Googlebook
Might be a good laptop, but we're trying to use less and less Google. I feel like the name isn't working in it's advantage.
neals··on UnDUNE II
It starts with half health, if I remember correctly
neals··on UnDUNE II
what is a demake?
neals··on I'm going back to writing code by hand
I'm moving very slowly into AI coding. I'm not comfortable enough to let Claude do anything big. What I do is this: I set out general architecture, create function stubs and add comments on how to implement things. Then I let Claude do 10 minutes of work and I check everything and refactor some of it. It saves me on boring implantation stuff (like, is this an array, move an index here or there, check for whatever exists or not, put it in the db)
neals··on HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker
Are we? I feel like we're cruising and flying a boat full of potentially infected people to 23 counties.
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