Hacker News: AlphaSite

New comment by AlphaSite in "Git Submodules as a Package Manager"

AlphaSite — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 03:34:45 +0000

I know it sa toy, but if someone gets the bright idea to do this for real: please learn from npm and dont duplicate packages for every clone of a project. Share them between projects like every sane package manager.

New comment by AlphaSite in "Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering"

AlphaSite — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:08:42 +0000

My beef with etcd is that its neither performant nor reliable.

Its very much {reliable, performant, flexible} pick none.

New comment by AlphaSite in "Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)"

AlphaSite — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:10:08 +0000

I mean its capex vs opex, assuming a 5 year deprecation period thats 1.2 million isnt too bad, its 10% of their aws spend.

New comment by AlphaSite in "Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion"

AlphaSite — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:57:52 +0000

If you architect properly it doesn’t necessarily follow that more features means more attacks, or certainly not more system wide attacks.

If you layer and segment correctly you can build atop a secure core and have some decent security.

New comment by AlphaSite in "High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights"

AlphaSite — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:11:06 +0000

AMD had an interesting take on this around a decade ago. Never went anywhere but very cool tech.

New comment by AlphaSite in "Bring back crappy forums"

AlphaSite — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:11:34 +0000

Reddit doesnt work because subreddits crosspolinate and float to the top so theyre rather prone to brigading and intermingling. We don't really get distinct subreddits anymore.

New comment by AlphaSite in "Open source AI must win"

AlphaSite — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:32:57 +0000

I think models will be a commodity sooner rather than later. This whole race doesnt matter. First mover advantage is real, but over enough time it wont matter.

New comment by AlphaSite in "/architect: Reduce Fable tokens by 80%, Fable orchestrates/reviews, Codex builds"

AlphaSite — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:55:15 +0000

It probably means they’re close enough that there’s no observable difference. Or better at every different things.

New comment by AlphaSite in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

AlphaSite — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:22:37 +0000

Yes. Make sure you’re not using the Gemma sparse models since they don’t have a small model to use. Also I removed all the image models from the workspace.

New comment by AlphaSite in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

AlphaSite — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:59:12 +0000

I knew a guy who worked on it tell me actions is just literally a fork from Azure Devops. Which is why it never really fit into GitHub.

New comment by AlphaSite in "Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute"

AlphaSite — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:40:39 +0000

I think for the same model wall time is probably a more intuitive metric; at the end of the day what you’re doing is renting GPU time slices.

Large outputs dominate compute time so are more expensive.

IMO input and output token counts are actually still a bad metric since they linearise non linear cost increases and I suspect we’ll see another change in the future where they bucket by context length. XL output contexts may be 20x more expensive instead of 10x.

New comment by AlphaSite in "Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)"

AlphaSite — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:54:55 +0000

its mostly because MCPs handle auth in a standardised way and give you a framework you can layer things like auth, etc on top of.

Without it youre stuck with the basic http firewall, etc which is extremely dangerous and this is maybe the 1 opportunity we have to do this.

New comment by AlphaSite in "Blacksky AppView"

AlphaSite — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:32:55 +0000

The cool thing is you can host your own node with its own rules; you should host an anonymous server and you can set the rules.

New comment by AlphaSite in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

AlphaSite — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:35:25 +0000

I think if people had a use case for it they’d buy more of the damn things. Right now I’d never need a device separate from my spouse since I just don’t need one.

Make is useful and buyers will come. The never had issues selling multiple macs frankly.

New comment by AlphaSite in "GLM-OCR – A multimodal OCR model for complex document understanding"

AlphaSite — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:04:24 +0000

Probably some custom model built for their hardware.

New comment by AlphaSite in "Can Bundler be as fast as uv?"

AlphaSite — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:18:04 +0000

Speed would be nice, but more than that I want it to also manage Ruby installs. I’m infuriated at the mess of Rubys and version managers.

New comment by AlphaSite in "Metacode: The new standard for machine-readable comments for Python"

AlphaSite — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:23:00 +0000

i assume therye trying to build some community before trying to standardise it.

New comment by AlphaSite in "Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight"

AlphaSite — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 07:31:27 +0000

Voting can be coordinated between the N cpus rather than an external arbiter (even making that redundant eventually required the CPUs to decide what to do if they disagree so may as well handle it internally).

New comment by AlphaSite in "Kratos - Cloud native Auth0 open-source alternative (self-hosted)"

AlphaSite — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:22:50 +0000

Honestly. We used dex. It worked pretty well.

New comment by AlphaSite in "Friendly attributes pattern in Ruby"

AlphaSite — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 21:13:45 +0000

Ruby is a language that optimizes for the local maxima at the cost of the global maxima.

Now every library, company or code base has its own pattern and you have to learn its pit falls. Better to learn once, cry once and just deal with it imo.

As they say, good enough is the enemy of perfection.