jim180
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Awesome! I gave your git repo to Opus and asked to recreate my hometown.
Looking good so far, even without lidar data yet.
I am having a blast with AI + C + WinAPI. The responsiveness of WinAPI is awesome
and btw they recently went independent!
as it was the case in Baltic states since forever. Payments with CC came much later.
there is another differences between Apple monitors vs the rest. - standard and peak brightness[1]. All of them are less bright, than Apple's monitors. I'd really wanna know why.
MSI - 1400 nits, LG - 1250 nits, Apple - 2000 nits. That's peak brightness, standard brightness isn't even mentioned, except for Apple one. Is it just cooling or something more?
[1] https://www.ipsmonitor.com/news/msis-mpg-271kraw16-is-a-firs...
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jim180 on Monday March 02, 2026 @11:12AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://testflight.apple.com/join/DmBXsPhU
I still read/post in small communities over NNTP and always wanted usenet client that is modern and easy to use on macOS/iOS, so here it is.95% agentic (not vibed) coded, just because I can and wanted to see if I'm able to drive AIs to build something that is usable :)Coming soonish to AppStore, ofc.
would you mind sharing your library of HIGs?
my exact experience, and AI is especially fragile when you are starting new project from scratch.
Right know I'm building NNTP client for macOS (with AppKit), because why not, and initially I had to very carefully plan and prompt what AI has to do, otherwise it would go insane (integration tests are must).
Right know I have read-only mode ready and its very easy to build stuff on top of it.
Also, I had to provide a lot of SKILLS to GPT5.3
Also I'd add this question, why do so many developers and sysadmins think, that cloud companies always hire competent/non-lazy/non-pissed employees?
After every time I read "save effort with Electron", I go back to Win2K VM and poke around things and realize how faster everything is than M4 Max, just because value is value, and Electron saves some effort.
I do have an Apple ID, which was banned due to fraud and customer support couldn’t do anything about.
The thing is, that account was just used for dev. things for the US company, which builds/sells software for the US federal government (among the other US entities).
It would not be very wise to do fraud.
wouldn't it be faster/safer to upgrade to latest django/python rather than rewrite it in React/Go?
just a couple of days ago, I've moved my self hosted stuff from Cloudflare :)
given the current state of things, I'd take that slow boot over anything else ;)
Just got back from another flight, where my seat was in the middle of airplane (3 set of rows). No issues whatsoever. One thing I’ve noticed, if I press AirPods harder, I do start hearing hissing in my ears.
The CPM difference in US vs. rest of the world is huge. If Albania has cpm near zero, it's not worth to show ads there.
I did sit on both sides (one flight was next to wing) - did had same issue both times.
One thing that was common- I was sitting in a window seat.
Personally, the left ear.
If I ask something in Lithuanian, EuroLLM will reply in Latvian lol.
I have to specifically tell something like this: “do you known Lithuanian language”, then it starts replying in Lithuanian
Lithuanian and Latvian are Baltic languages. Nothing to do with Slavic...
I keep hearing this since I've got my first Pentium 1 PC, that storage is cheap.
I've yet to understand the point of OLED, if it sits at 400nits. All Apple's devices from iPhone to Studio Display are brighter, some of them are much much brighter even with OLED :/
it always depended on the hardware (being stable, security is another matter).
I've got friends who ran Windows ME and it was rock solid. My experience was very very different, same with Windows 98 SE.
With that being said my PC with Win95 OSR2 was super stable.
Same! I did notice, a couples of months ago, that same prompt in the morning failed and then, later that day, when starting from scratch with identical prompts, the results were much better.
Claude Code is down :( too lazy to do manual conversion from Cocoapods dependency to SwiftPM
I've vibe coded small project as well using Claude Code. It's about visitors registration at the company. Simple project, one form, a couple of checkboxes, everything is stored in sqlite + has endpoint for getting .xlsx.
Initial cost was around $20 USD, which later grew to (mostly polishing) $40 with some manual work.
I've intentionally picked up simple stack: html+js+php.
A couple of things:
* I'd say I'm happy about the result from product's perspective
* Codebase could be better, but I could not care less about in this case
* By default, AI does not care about security unless I specifically tell it
* Claude insisted on using old libs. When I've specifically told it to use the latest and greatest, it upgraded them but left code that works just with an old version. Also it mixed latest DaisyUI with some old version of tailwindcss :)
On one hand it was super easy and fun to do, on the other hand if I was a junior engineer, I bet it would have cost more.
I do have Windows 2000 installed with IIS (and some office stuff) in a ESXi for fun and nostalgia. It serves some static html pages within my local network. The host machine is some kind of i7 machine that is about 7-10 years old.
That machine is SOOOOOO FAST. I love it. To be honest, that tasks that I was doing back in the day are identical to today
Same thing happened to my wife, while driving at about 110km/h…luckily no one was behind her.
Laziness mostly - no need to think about design, icons and layout (responsiveness and all that stuff).
These are not hard problems obviously, but getting to 80%-90% is faster than doing it by hand and in my cases that was more than enough.
With that being said, AI failed for the rest 10%-20% with various small visual issues.