moozilla (u/moozilla)

moozilla commented on A beginner's guide to split keyboards justinmklam.com/posts/202... · Posted by u/thehaikuza

Built a Corne with low profile switches last year and the small key count felt impossible until home row mods clicked. Once you train the muscle memory for mod-taps on ASDF/JKL;, you stop reaching for corners entirely and the 42-key layout starts feeling like enough. Honestly the split itself was less of a revelation than remapping my fingers to treat the home row as a modifier layer.

moozilla · 24 days ago

Last time I tried home row mods I could not get over how bad it felt having the letter not appear until I lifted the key rather than immediately on the keypress. Am I just overly sensative or is this just something you get used to over time?

moozilla commented on Greeting Vocalizations in Domestic Cats Are More Frequent with Male Caregivers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

abetusk · 3 months ago

N=31

> We acknowledge that our sample size limits the generalizability of our findings on cat greeting behaviors.

moozilla · 3 months ago

I also found this bit funny:

> We also suspect that the geographical and cultural factors may have influenced interaction patterns, given that all our participants were residing in Türkiye.

moozilla commented on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-kar... · Posted by u/ctoth

dang · 5 months ago

Hmm good point. I skimmed the transcript looking for an accurate, representative quote that we could use in the title above. I couldn't exactly find one (within HN's 80 char limit), so I cobbled together "It will take a decade to get agents to work", which is at least closer to what Karpathy actually said.

If anyone can suggest a more accurate and representative title, we can change it again.

Edit: I thought of using "For now, autocomplete is my sweet spot", which has the advantage of being an exact quote; but it's probably not clear enough.

Edit 2: I changed it to "It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents" because that's closer to the transcript.

Anybody have a better idea? Help the cause of accuracy out here!

moozilla · 5 months ago

You could go with the title from the associated YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXUZvyajciY)?

Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”

moozilla commented on Claude Code 2.0 npmjs.com/package/@anthro... · Posted by u/polyrand

epiccoleman · 6 months ago

I can't decide if I like this change or not, tbh. I almost always delete the comments Claude adds, to be sure - but at the same time they seem to provide a sort of utility for me as I read through the generated code. They also act, in a funny way, as a kind of checklist as I review changes - I want them all cleaned up (or maybe edited and left in place) before I PR.

moozilla · 6 months ago

I like to think of models leaving "useless comments" as a way to externalize their reasoning process - maybe they are useless at the end, but leaving them in on a feature branch seems to marginally improve future work (even across conversations). I currently leave them in and either manually clean them up myself before putting up a PR for my team to review or run a final step with some instructions like "review the diff, remove any useless comments". Funnily enough Claude seems pretty competent at identifying and cleaning up useless comments after the fact, which I feel like sort of proves my hypothesis.

I've considered just leaving the comments in, considering maybe they provide some value to future LLMs working in the codebase, but the extra human overhead in dealing with them doesn't seem worth it.

moozilla commented on Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal github.com/charmbracelet/... · Posted by u/nateb2022

imjonse · 8 months ago

This used to be opencode but was renamed after some fallout between the devs I think.

moozilla · 8 months ago

If anyone is curious on the context:

https://x.com/thdxr/status/1933561254481666466 https://x.com/meowgorithm/status/1933593074820891062 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCJBbVJ_wP0

Gemini summary of the above:

- Kujtim Hoxha creates a project named TermAI using open-source libraries from the company Charm.

- Two other developers, Dax (a well-known internet personality and developer) and Adam (a developer and co-founder of Chef, known for his work on open-source and developer tools), join the project.

- They rebrand it to OpenCode, with Dax buying the domain and both heavily promoting it and improving the UI/UX.

- The project rapidly gains popularity and GitHub stars, largely due to Dax and Adam's influence and contributions.

- Charm, the company behind the original libraries, offers Kujtim a full-time role to continue working on the project, effectively acqui-hiring him.

- Kujtim accepts the offer. As the original owner of the GitHub repository, he moves the project and its stars to Charm's organization. Dax and Adam object, not wanting the community project to be owned by a VC-backed company.

- Allegations surface that Charm rewrote git history to remove Dax's commits, banned Adam from the repo, and deleted comments that were critical of the move.

- Dax and Adam, who own the opencode.ai domain and claim ownership of the brand they created, fork the original repo and launch their own version under the OpenCode name.

- For a time, two competing projects named OpenCode exist, causing significant community confusion.

- Following the public backlash, Charm eventually renames its version to Crush, ceding the OpenCode name to the project now maintained by Dax and Adam.

moozilla commented on Net-Negative Cursor lukasatkinson.de/2025/net... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

nyrulez · 10 months ago

Amazed at all the negative rhetoric around coding with LLMs on HN lately. The coding world is deeply split about their utility.

I think part of that comes from the difficulty of working with probabilistic tools that needs plenty of prompting to get things right, especially for more complex things. To me, it's a training issue for programmers, not a fundamental flaw in the approach. They have different strengths and it can take a few weeks of working closely to get to a level where it starts feeling natural. I personally can't imagine going back to the pre LLM era of coding for me and my team.

moozilla · 10 months ago

I'm surprised this doesn't get brought up more often, but I think the main explanation for the divide is simple: current LLMs are only good at programming in the most popular programming languages. Every time I see this brought up in the HN comments section and people are asked what they are actually working on that the LLM is not able to help with, inevitably it's using a (relatively) less popular language like Rust or Clojure. The article is good example of this, before clicking I guessed correctly it would be complaining about how LLMs can't program in Rust. (Granted, the point that Cursor uses this as an example on their webpage despite all of this is funny.)

I struggled to find benchmark data to support this hunch, best I could find was [1] which shows a performance of 81% with Python/Typescript vs 62% with Rust, but this fits with my intuition. I primarily code in Python for work and despite trying I didn't get that much use out of LLMs until the Claude 3.6 release, where it suddenly crossed over that invisible threshold and became dramatically more useful. I suspect for devs that are not using Python or JS, LLMs have just not yet crossed this threshold.

[1] https://terhech.de/posts/2025-01-31-llms-vs-programming-lang...

moozilla commented on Design Pressure: The Invisible Hand That Shapes Your Code hynek.me/talks/design-pre... · Posted by u/NeutralForest

HappMacDonald · 10 months ago

There are certainly times I would love to see a presentation like this reformatted as an article.

I tried pulling out the Youtube transcript, but it was very uncomfortable to read with asides and jokes and "ums" that are all native artifacts of speaking in front of a crowd but that only represent noise in when converted to long written form.

moozilla · 10 months ago

Here's an attempt at cleaning it up with Gemini 2.5 Pro: https://rentry.org/nyznvoy5

I just pasted the YouTube link into AI Studio and gave it this prompt if you want to replicate:

reformat this talk as an article. remove ums/ahs, but do not summarize, the context should be substantively the same. include content from the slides as well if possible.

moozilla commented on fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' github.com/sharkdp/fd... · Posted by u/tosh

helsinki · a year ago

Hm, I feel like I have roughly the exact same functionality with zsh and some various plugins, including the meta editing experience shown in your demo video ($EDITOR) via Kitty and/or WezTerm.

moozilla · a year ago

Which plugins are you using? I've been looking to upgrade my zsh experience so some suggestions would be helpful.

moozilla commented on Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world thebullshitmachines.com... · Posted by u/ctbergstrom

dimgl · a year ago

What are “parrot people”? And what do you mean by “doomers are probably wrong?”

moozilla · a year ago

OP is likely referring to people who call LLMs "stochastic parrots" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_parrot), and by "doomers" (not boomers) they likely mean AI safetyists like Eliezer Yudkowsky or Pause AI (https://pauseai.info/).

moozilla commented on Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline cnbc.com/2025/01/17/supre... · Posted by u/kjhughes

antifa · a year ago

> most of the movies/shows China creates sucks. They're Marvel-esque CGI fests with awful storylines.

since we're here, what are some of the least bad modern Sci-fi/Horror movies/TV shows from China?

moozilla · a year ago

Highly recommend Three-Body, the Chinese version of the Three-Body Problem. I enjoyed it much more than the Netflix adaptation, much closer to the source material, and more of a slow burn. Episodes are available on YouTube with subs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-UO8jbrIoM).