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stets··on Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone
I had a vision for a fun project, made decisions, tried to understand why to make certain decisions or what was working or not.

I didn't write the front page index.html and I don't want to. Sure, I prompted it how I wanted to look, though.

tl;dr I had fun and learned stuff.

stets··on Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone
I opened Obsidian, wrote down the steps that I performed + pieces claude did. Most of what I did was little troubleshooting bits or hooking things together.

That + every little quirk or weird thing I ran into (eg: phantom process killer, which I actually did setup via adb) that I felt was worth mentioning and might help.

Then I told Claude to organize the document better, read it over myself, asked for edits or things to add, etc.

stets··on Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone
You do not need to buy a phone plan with it (although they hope you will).
stets··on Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone
Claude Code made the simple little home page and did much of the configuration of the system inside andronix. The phone is available at Walmart for $25.
stets··on Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone
Of course not, just the client. But it did make real tool calls on the client device and write + modify existing config, troubleshoot and get it running, which is still pretty damn cool in my eyes
stets··on Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone
That's awesome! Totally agree.
stets··on Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone
Cloudflare is not acting as a CDN and every request is actually hitting the phone. Check out the CF-Cache-Status: dynamic header
stets··on Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone
I think your comment is meant to imply I don't know what I'm doing.
stets··on Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone
Eh, nitpicking I think. It really was $25 and anyone in driving distance of a Walmart can pay 25 real USD and grab one. For sure they are losing money on the hardware in hopes that you subscribe to the plan.
stets··on Show HN: Vibe Coding a static site on a $25 Walmart Phone
Termux alone seems really quirky to me. Andronix fakes "having root" as I understand and I was able to get more of the services I wanted running on it.

https://github.com/termux/proot-distro looks really interesting too and I intend to test it in the future!

stets··on Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world
I'm using claude code and making stuff. I'm keeping an eye and being aware of these new tools but I wait for the dust to settle and see if people switch or are still hyped after the hype dies down. X / HackerNews are good for keeping plugged in.
stets··on The Prompt Engineering Playbook for Programmers
I think the intent of prompt engineering is to get better solutions quicker, in formats you want. But yeah, ideally the model just "knows" and you don't have to engineer your question
stets··on Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam
Great work! I picked Ballionaire up during the winter sale I think? Hope it keeps crushing
stets··on Dyson Swarm Game
Love a good clicker game, but I think some of the mechanics need adjusted. I got it up to a certain point and then came back to the browser tab after an hour or so and had broken the game and bought all the things.

edit: maybe I saw the scientific notation and assumed it was broken hah. I'm launching rockets now. But I feel like there should have been more struggle to get to this part.

stets··on Show HN: Using Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 DNS over HTTPS API to bulk search domain TLDs
Cool but...it doesn't work, like pizza returns pizza.org and pizza.net as free.
stets··on ESP32 Drum Synth Machine
that is very fucking cool. Well done! Any resources to learn about this stuff? Always been into synths so I'm interested in this
stets··on Diet May Be More Important Than Exercise for Long-Term Weight Control (2021)
Well yeah, you can eat 1k+ calories in 30 minutes easy. But to "lose" the same amount of weight you'd need rigorous exercise over multiple hours.
stets··on Waffle House's Magic Marker System
C'mon. Super pretentious viewpoint to think that employees at Waffle House are illiterate enough that they can't assemble orders without symbols.
stets··on Ask HN: Why isn't there a Rotten Tomatoes for consumer electronics?
be the change you want to see
stets··on Dracula Theme for Hacker News
wow, throwback. Used to play those games a ton!
stets··on Show HN: I building a website for poster generator
That's cool -- can I ask what backend you're using to generate the images? I'd like to build a similar web app but looking for something that won't break the bank!
stets··on Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff
They are preventing boobs? Have you ever taken a look at Twitch's Pools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches category? They are complicit in encouraging showing boobs
stets··on Spotify CFO cashes in £7.2M in shares after value surges on news of job cuts
Your comment makes more sense read in a sarcastic tone
stets··on Spotify CFO cashes in £7.2M in shares after value surges on news of job cuts
If he had the power to raise the price on-demand, he'd do so all of the time since he owns stock and might even have performance bonuses tied to stock price. I highly doubt layoffs are execs sitting in a room scheming to make money but more likely they are trying to keep the company alive.
stets··on Spotify CFO cashes in £7.2M in shares after value surges on news of job cuts
I mean -- do you want him to sell when the price is low?
stets··on Easy Stable Diffusion XL in your device, offline
definitely exciting to see more local clients come out. As mentioned in other comments, there are some great ones out already. I've used automatic1111 which is quick and doesn't require a ton of tuning. But it still has lots of knobs and options which makes it difficult initially. Fooocus is super quick but of course less customization.

Then there's ComfyUI, the holy grail of complicated, but with that complication comes the ability to do so much. It is a node-based app that allows you to create custom workflows. Once your image is generated, you can pipe that "node" somewhere else and modify it, eg: upscale the image or do other things.

I'd like to see if Noiselith or some others offer support for SDXLTurbo -- it came out only a few days ago but in my opinion is a complete game-changer. It can generate 512x512 images in ~half a second on consumer GPUs. The images aren't crazy quality but that ability to make a prompt like "fox in the woods", see it instantly and then add "wearing a hat" and see it instantly generate again is so valuable. Prior to that, I'd wait 12 seconds for an image. Sounds like not a big deal, but the value of being able to iterate so quickly makes local image gen so much more fun.

stets··on SDXL Turbo: A Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation Model
Considering the use-case of just interacting with a computer and typing prompts, I'd call it real-time.
stets··on SDXL Turbo: A Real-Time Text-to-Image Generation Model
This isn't cached. I'm running it locally on a 4060 TI 16 GB and it's just as fast. Image gens in .6-.8 seconds. Each word or character I type is a new image gen and it's INSTANT.
stets··on My $500M Mars rover mistake
The average age of engineers running Apollo 11 was supposedly 28

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a4288/4318625/?utm_so...

stets··on EP–133
What have you made?
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