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rspoerri··on What a Massive New 728-Foot-Wide Crater Means for Future Moon Bases
Nah, i didnt pay for it.
rspoerri··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
lexera, a kanban board with full multimedia and document include support that saves to markdown, exports to marp to manage teaching materials. it also started out to be my editor of choice for agentic programming as each task is a card. hopefully i will manage to create a page and visible materials soon!
rspoerri··on Show HN: Galaxium, an experimental WebGPU space explorer
it would be nice to be able to switch the perspective, show me the point in space from my position on earth. because people just dont believe that this huge thing in space is so small from our perspective.

also more reference on how large something is in space or how large it is from out point of view would be interesting.

rspoerri··on True Rate of Unemployment
for me the most interesting aspect is that a bachelor degree makes you have a double chance of being employed vs having a high school/college degree and again double the chance vs having no high school degree.

also it's interesting that these institutes still dont know how to do well understandable and intuitively readable graphs by not starting at a real reference point all thew time (not starting at 0, but sometimes at 20)!

rspoerri··on Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible
sad that its true, because people have so little control over their devices that it's more reasonable to use a system off your device.

but if your really want control over your data you might want to use self-hosted systems...

rspoerri··on I Fired My AI Assitant
I experienced that as well more then once, but i havent compared to the state of the context. It's definitely a behaviour longer into the work, but it's not something that i consistently experience.
rspoerri··on Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
if you're used to the money, it's much harder to go back to studying. Also if you get to have a family you are unlikely to start studying again.

studying typically requires you to think broader, while companies usually want you to take a very specific role.

rspoerri··on Just Pay the Subscription
Never use any subscription based software in which you create data you want to keep! They have no incentive to allow good export options, you often loose all or most data that you kept in it. You have no alternative to go back to if the service is stopped!
rspoerri··on Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron)
i have been searching and using all kinds of finder replacements and i actually tried and bought about 4 of them (qspace pro, forklift, marta, spacedrive, path finder, commander one, double commander and more)

the one i am sticking with since quite a while and fits my requirements is bloom . It had some issues early on, but i had no problems with it since a long time.

rspoerri··on Trump made more than $1B on crypto deals, part of 2025 windfall
Headline: People in power dont want to put people in power into prison!

How can an executive that steals millions of $ not go to prison, while somebody stealing food in a store can?

Why can police kill people and maybe not even be investigated for it, while somebody else is tried for being a terrorist when doing the same?

The american system is corrupt to the core, but only for the rich and powerful.

rspoerri··on Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine
Yes, think about that and how the shares would drop in an instant.

Good thing european governments and industries start to work on real technological and financial independence. It is high time for cutting ties with a country that is acting as irrational and self centered as the usa.

rspoerri··on Meta is adding rate limits and soft paywall to smart glasses
You have exhausted your monthly viewing time. You will be blind for the rest of the month unless you buy our special care package! /s

To see cars on the road please subscribe to our health insurance care package. Your health will thank you for that! Stay hydrated! /s

rspoerri··on Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do
I dont know why people use openrouter ,instead of a monthly subscription, if they can. While i am barely able to use up my 100$ monthly subscription, i can easily spend 10$ a day on openrouter (200-300$/month). Using top-tier models on openrouter is so much more expensive from my experience then any subscription.
rspoerri··on Review of the MoErgo Glove80 Keyboard (2024)
Who holds his hands as shown in the image in the article?
rspoerri··on The real cost of owning a home
Houses are almost allways bigger then something you rent… well that might be because you would not afford the rent of the large property, and the whole comparison falls apart.
rspoerri··on $100 CPU Shootout: Comparing the Ryzen 5 5500, Core i3-14100F, & Core i3-12100F
Why would you run a benchmark with a for a 100$ cpu with a 5090 GPU!?!
rspoerri··on AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills
I am working on a project since 10 months that is solely written by ai. The second iteration of the code is even coded in a language that i can really write in (rust), it uses advanced and very complex structures (crdt, plugins, parallel threaded webviews). None of the advanced features were an idea of the llm's, but a vision i had in my mind or requirements that came up when encountered with problems.

The software is a tool specifically designed around my requirements of managing lectures that need to be prepared, managed, have presentations, grading etc. I wanted one big space where i can quickly access all related data in a workspace, fold and unfold important aspects while also editing and moving contents across multiple days/lectures.

The first version is a vscode plugin, which i now use since about 4 months without or with minor modifications to manage my lectures and private data. The second version is a standalone application which improves on the ideas of the first version and goes a few steps further.

AI can make you something that looks like its running quickly. But when you try to finish it takes way longer then you'd think. You need to specify every little detail. You need to make its KISS and DRY etc. You let it analyze the application structure and simplify and cleanup nearly the same amount of times as you add features. While fixing bugs you might need to run the same thing multiple times and revert any unrequired changes. You need to think about good level of debug logs and ways that the program can help you find errors and report them quickly.

I hope my project will be ready in about 2 to 3 months. The current version is according to a quick analysis over 850 files with 250'000 lines of code.

I spent about 2000$ on ai subscriptions in that time. 200$ claude for a while down to 100$ a month now. 20$ to openai which is very important for architecture and reviews. 20$ on tests with other ai's, but i rarely use them in the works. I also spent 1500$ on 2 * 3090's to hopefully have a local ai agent in the future.

I spend about 2 to 4 hours each day (including weekends) to check that app and write prompts.

I would never have been able to create such a large and complex project next to my other tasks and i am very confident that the final product will be good enough for productive work.

rspoerri··on Qwen 3.7 Preview
how do you do 1mio context with qwen3.6 27b, that only supports 256k? and what hardware would you run that on? 2 * 3090 is afaik currently at max 256k context.
rspoerri··on Qwen 3.7 Preview
I am very interested in seeing new qwen models. Qwen3.6 27b is the first one that can do things and doesnt constantly loose "it's mind" and that can be run on a 3090 with a good context size. But it's sometimes getting into a loop.
rspoerri··on I am leaving the AI party after one drink
Human thinks eating food from fire is bad because it looks charred and you might burn your fingers doing so. /s

I remember the time when people insisted that they would never use a mobile phone. I remember the time when people didnt understand my presentation about the magical "internet" (8th grade school in 94).

rspoerri··on White-collar AI apocalypse narrative is just another bullshit
Why is it an apocalypse if people don't have jobs anymore? Why is it an apocalypse if the most intelligent being in the world isn't a human anymore.

It will be a major change, but only to people that see it as a thread to their existence - to not work anymore - are in real danger. There are tons of people in our society that are fine without working. We could tend to our children, we could tend to our elders. We could do arts and improve our world instead of competing and being better then others.

rspoerri··on White-collar AI apocalypse narrative is just another bullshit
https://www.tnhh.net/posts/phone-power.html

edit: you are right, this source is wrong, but we are getting closer fast.

A19 seems to be getting 2.3 tflops (still only 10%, but still a whole floor of computers vs a smartphone is crazy!).

rspoerri··on White-collar AI apocalypse narrative is just another bullshit
sorry i got the date wrong, my first text where i researched it properly got deleted accidentially.
rspoerri··on White-collar AI apocalypse narrative is just another bullshit
People tend to forget how fast technological development advances. Even if you lived trough it you tend to forget how recently the world looked very different.

- before 2012 there was no smartphone

- before 2001 there was no wikipedia

- before 1995 less then 10 percent of the rich country home users had internet

- before 2023 there was no ai available to home users.

Hardware has been getting faster by a factor of 100 in 10 years and ~10‘000 in 20 years. Ai currently develops faster because of a combination of software and hardware improvements. Even if the best current system is only right 1/100 times right now, its likely nearly allways accurate in 10 years.

I also like to remind people that the phone i am writing this on (iphone 12), has the same computing power as the earth simulator in 2003. that was the fastest computer on the earth back then.

Imagine this development and think what changes might come.

rspoerri··on Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music
i'd like to see the list of media they used to create the chills :-)
rspoerri··on Altman on AI energy: it also takes 20 years of eating food to train a human
How many people is he willing to let starve for the sake of his ego power and wealth?
rspoerri··on I hate AI side projects
i can show you my prompt. it's a mess and only listing the major prompts. but it's interesting to look at (for me at least).

archive:

https://github.com/ludos1978/ludos-vscode-markdown-kanban/bl...

in progress or undone:

https://github.com/ludos1978/ludos-vscode-markdown-kanban/bl...

and there is much improvement, because if often watch videos next to vibe coding the project and do it in minutes i have time. so history is a huge mess. but i started 6 months ago, with most work done in the last 4 months. i spent about 1000$ of ai budget on it.

rspoerri··on I hate AI side projects
I dont think the side projects or the ai is the problem. It's the perception of the quality and our filtering that needs adaption. Ai has changed the amount of content that is generated by a huge margin, and it is generally difficult to tell how much work went into something. And lesser experienced people do an even worse job in that.

We are likely going to get better in judging this new communication and media. But we need much more experience in it, until we can do that properly.

It will be annoying for quite a while, as it was with social media, until we found the places that are still worth our time and attention. But i am hopeful that we will be able to do that.

Until then i am going to work on my AI side project every evening until i deem it ready and bug free. It already works well enough for my own purposes (which i made it for) and my requirements were heavily influenced by my work process. I would never have been able to finish such a project, even with full time working on it over a year without AI.

rspoerri··on In Search of a Discord Replacement
- not everything must be a unicorn.

- if you need aggregation use rss.

rspoerri··on In Search of a Discord Replacement
How about using forums again, which keep the history of discussions instead of loosing all that knowhow in the infinite scroll of doom?

otherwise irc, bluesky, matrix

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