Hacker News: BiraIgnacio

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "My Software North Star"

BiraIgnacio — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:14:44 +0000

> I have worked in companies where "X is not complete" would be logged as a bug

I've come to realize it's all about perspective. Something from the engineering stand point may not be a bug because there's nothing to fix. But the user might be having a bad experience because of that so it must be a bug.

In the end, the user's perspective might be the less-wrong one.

Overview of Canada's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy: AI for All

BiraIgnacio — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:45:38 +0000

Article URL: https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/artificial-intelligence-ecosystem/overview-canadas-national-artificial-intelligence-strategy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48401218

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

BiraIgnacio — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:09:47 +0000

using an embedder instead of a decoder is quite clever. Not sure who came up with that first but it's a cool idea.

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "It takes two neurons to ride a bicycle (2004)"

BiraIgnacio — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:23:03 +0000

> U-2200, a non-corporeal entity claiming to be the prehistoric Johorean god of forgetting how to ride a bicycle, engages Quinn in a conversation, suggesting she take a month off in Barbados, drink alcohol, or resign from the Organization.

- There Is No Antimemetics Division

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request"

BiraIgnacio — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:43:23 +0000

I know all is relative but when I think of > 8× AMD MI300X GPUs and 2,100 on 8× NVIDIA H200

I still find it mind boggling. That's a lot of compute power and still considered "low end" for the purpose it serves.

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

BiraIgnacio — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:39:30 +0000

Well, if the marketing teams are being told to reach people using AI or something like that, then Google is just playing to their real customers.

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

BiraIgnacio — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:04:59 +0000

Just cause that level seems to be working fine for me and it's usually faster.

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

BiraIgnacio — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:04:08 +0000

Max 2 parallel agents, usually.

As for out tokens, it's about 200k/day

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

BiraIgnacio — Sat, 23 May 2026 01:27:55 +0000

I've been using V4 flash consistently with Claude. Pretty great fast and darn cheap. I use it about 3h/day and so far haven't crossed $1 USD/week.

FWIW, I this is what I have in my settings.json

  "env": {
    "ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN":"sk-nope_not_real",   
    "ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL": "https://api.deepseek.com/anthropic",
    "ANTHROPIC_MODEL": "deepseek-v4-flash",
    "ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL": "deepseek-v4-flash",
    "ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL": "deepseek-v4-flash",
    "ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODEL": "deepseek-v4-flash",
    "CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC": "1",
    "CLAUDE_CODE_EFFORT_LEVEL": "low",
    "CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_ADAPTIVE_THINKING": "1",
    "CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_THINKING": "0",
    "CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_AWAY_SUMMARY": "0",
    "CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL": "deepseek-v4-flash",
    "CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS": "8000",
    "CLAUDE_CODE_FILE_READ_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS": "4000",
    "BASH_MAX_OUTPUT_LENGTH": "20000",
    "CLAUDE_AUTOCOMPACT_PCT_OVERRIDE": "60",
    "CLAUDE_CODE_AUTO_COMPACT_WINDOW": "200000",
    "CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_GIT_INSTRUCTIONS": "1"
  }

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

BiraIgnacio — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:20:47 +0000

The referendum is actually about having a referendum first.

"Alberta to hold fall referendum on whether to have binding referendum on separating from Canada" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-separation-r...

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

BiraIgnacio — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:23:50 +0000

Thanks so much for the work you and your team do!

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"

BiraIgnacio — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:58:50 +0000

One could say in order to be a senior developer in any area, more-than-good- communication skills are required.

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

BiraIgnacio — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:40:32 +0000

I dislike Go but I have to admit, it's a great language for AI generated code. Simple enough, it compiles quickly and it performs meh-well enough for most applications.

One of the reasons I dislike Go is because it's easy for most engineers to write really low grade code with it. But AI agents would probably not write the best code in any language anyway, so not much is lost.

What British people mean when they say 'sorry'

BiraIgnacio — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:21:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260506-what-british-people-really-mean-when-they-say-sorry

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043184

Points: 121

# Comments: 110

2026 Cocodona Livestream Day 1 [video]

BiraIgnacio — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:40:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWhF6tTn8zI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016372

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

BiraIgnacio — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:05:57 +0000

I'm sure someone at Anthropic is reading this post. I hope so and I also hope they take the high road.

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "Apple Has Given Up on the Vision Pro After M5 Refresh Flop"

BiraIgnacio — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:14:37 +0000

I like to think the Vision Pro was ahead of its time. Just because it's such a cool product. Just not practical yet for every day use cases

How to Glue Teflon

BiraIgnacio — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:12:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quirkyscience.com/how-to-glue-teflon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942602

Points: 17

# Comments: 0

The Brink of Global Recession [audio]

BiraIgnacio — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:43:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/04/david-frum-show-adam-posen-global-recession/686900/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928741

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "My audio interface has SSH enabled by default"

BiraIgnacio — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:39:46 +0000

The hacking aspect has been hit and miss for me. Just today I was trying to verify a fix for a CVE and even giving the agent the CVE description + details on how to exploit it and the code that fixed it, it couldn't write the exploit code correctly.

Not to say it's not super useful, as we can see in the article