maupin

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I'm a product manager and former lead developer at a mid-tier construction company in the U.S.

I read Hacker News frequently but rarely post.

In my spare time I do 6502 assembly programming on the VIC-20 and play soulslikes.

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Comment · 7 days ago
I have 2 DGX Sparks, 256 GB unified RAM, so not a cheap set of hardware. Luckily I bought them before the recent price increase.

However even with a high tier gaming machine you can run one of the Qwen models and it will be good at coding... like having an intern with boundless energy that will sometimes make mistakes but in general save you a lot of time. And for automating tasks involving scanning documents or creating summaries it will be brilliant.

Comment · 7 days ago
By all reports they are not good and have quite a few bugs. But the thing about open source is that, if maintained, it almost always improves. And with the bar for maintenance so low due to AI, we are entering a very interesting time for software.

And by interesting I mean scary, if you sell software.

Comment · 7 days ago
I am running GLM 5.3 Flash locally at home for coding and from my point of view it is indistinguishable from the frontier models of 6 months ago. It can handle almost every task I throw at it.
Comment · 1 month ago
I won't say Pi looks particularly impressive, but for example OpenCode looks beautiful to me and I prefer it to any graphical interface. The screenshots of your tool are nice but they feel like too much. With a good TUI like OpenCode and even Pi (which is decent) I fell like the code is front and foremost.
Comment · 5 months ago
Didn't expect a stealth ad at the end there.
Comment · 5 months ago
Same. I haven't seen this. And I hope I never do unless I specifically click a button to enable it.
Comment · 1 year ago
Well, today I learned something. I've gotten my phone stuck in this mode (half of the screen hidden below the bottom edge) and just assumed it was an iOS bug.
Comment · 1 year ago
> “We didn’t think China was ever going to compete in AI,” said Dion Hinchcliffe, vice president of the CIO practice at Futurum Research last week.

What? Oh, come on now.

Comment · 1 year ago
I think your UI could use some work, funny enough. But I like the concept, it's just that the way the page and "game" works is not exactly clear.
Comment · 1 year ago
Loadstar (a C64 magazine) for me is still the gold standard for magazines on disk. Every issue was a pleasure and so well put together.
Comment · 2 years ago
That was my experience. For the recent rerelease I took my kids to see it for the first time in the theater. And we were treated to 20 minutes of spoilers before the movie started. Thanks, jerks.
Comment · 2 years ago
These are what I miss most about my years living in Japan. I made them for my kids a few weeks ago and they adored them. You can buy plastic-lined seaweed sheets to fold the rice into, so opening them is almost the same experience as onigiri from a Japanese conbini. For a filling, I just mixed together some tuna, salt, and mayo.
Comment · 2 years ago
> 1. Define “Done” from the Start

Impossible for almost any non-trivial project.

Comment · 2 years ago
I like how the website is as easy to read as a glossy magazine brochure in a gloomy cave entrance on an overcast day.
Comment · 2 years ago
Accidentally read the last post first. My mind immediately jumped to copy protection as the purpose for that large nonsensical routine.

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