Hacker News: Catloafdev

New comment by Catloafdev in "XCancel also down, at least for time being"

Catloafdev — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:29:19 +0000

I don't get it, are you implying everyone who's not a fan of this change is a Google employee?

New comment by Catloafdev in "XCancel also down, at least for time being"

Catloafdev — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:21:12 +0000

That's a higher percentage of the population than those who voted for the winning candidate in the last presidential election.

I wouldn't say that's comparable to ~15%.

New comment by Catloafdev in "Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)"

Catloafdev — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:11:12 +0000

Good point, I didn't see that. I guess I categorized them in the same bucket of 'runs on 128gb machines'

Guess Qwen 4 is the one to wait for.

New comment by Catloafdev in "Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)"

Catloafdev — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:09:58 +0000

Very curious to see how this compares to Deepseek v4 Flash. I have to assume they wouldn't be releasing this if it was worse.

New comment by Catloafdev in "Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online"

Catloafdev — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:50:18 +0000

If only you were able to take your perspective one step farther. Why did he commit suicide?

New comment by Catloafdev in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

Catloafdev — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:25:56 +0000

No, but you failed to comprehend the section of my comment where I mentioned "workarounds [...] are what the existing ad blockers now use"

New comment by Catloafdev in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

Catloafdev — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:40:24 +0000

This is a narrative that MS, Google etc want you to believe. They gutted it for ads. That's what's happening. There are workarounds now, that's what the existing ad block options are. They are heavily kneecapped.

New comment by Catloafdev in "USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data"

Catloafdev — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:40:06 +0000

How is this relevant?

New comment by Catloafdev in "Taste Is All That's Left"

Catloafdev — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:35:56 +0000

Trusting snake oil is a wild choice.

New comment by Catloafdev in "Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack"

Catloafdev — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:42:39 +0000

I mean what are these devs doing that they are day-1 updating npm packages still?

How many instances of this are required before npm package maintainers learn?

New comment by Catloafdev in "AI companies destroy rare and non recoverable physical books"

Catloafdev — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:55:39 +0000

Your comment was fine, I didn't think you were implying that at all. I was just trying to clarify that they aren't choosing to do that for arbitrary reasons.

New comment by Catloafdev in "Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s"

Catloafdev — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:52:19 +0000

Neat! But, what do you do with a 0.5tk/s LLM?

Have you tried running it via llamacpp or other software that supports naive SSD offloading to compare speeds?

New comment by Catloafdev in "AI companies destroy rare and non recoverable physical books"

Catloafdev — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:44:03 +0000

The problem is the 'options to be intentionally non-destructive' come with legal liabilities that don't exist if they destroy the original copy.

New comment by Catloafdev in "AI companies destroy rare and non recoverable physical books"

Catloafdev — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:36:57 +0000

The scanning process they use is _intentionally_ destructive, not accidentally destructive.

It's not because they hate books or something. It's literally to stay in the law due to the legal rulings surrounding AI companies and copyright.

If they had the option of not destroying the books without any risk of further lawsuit, they would. They aren't like some crazy people that just want to destroy books.

New comment by Catloafdev in "Admin: Terminally Ill Patients Aren't Exempt from Medicaid Work Requirements"

Catloafdev — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:30:42 +0000

If you bothered to read the article, you'd understand why this is, in fact, a problem.

New comment by Catloafdev in "Admin: Terminally Ill Patients Aren't Exempt from Medicaid Work Requirements"

Catloafdev — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:26:29 +0000

Weird that you comment on rage bait and end your comment with the idea that this group of people are all a bunch of worthless drug users.

New comment by Catloafdev in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

Catloafdev — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:49:46 +0000

If any editors are reading this thread, the weights are on HF now, but the 'open source' question still implies it's proprietary/API-only.

New comment by Catloafdev in "The Economic Benefit of Refactoring"

Catloafdev — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:22:06 +0000

> Agent code can only be read and understood by agents.

This just fundamentally isn't true and if this is your perspective then you're using LLMs wrong.

New comment by Catloafdev in "The Economic Benefit of Refactoring"

Catloafdev — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:06:59 +0000

That's LOC in a single file, that's a bit different from total LOC as a metric.

Total LOC is a garbage metric. Things like reducing line count in specific files or components is a big benefit, but those lines are often moved, not dropped.

New comment by Catloafdev in "Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents"

Catloafdev — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:35:21 +0000

There quite literally are internals that are called attention heads in modern LLMs. Saying 'there are no attention heads' is objectively false, which definition you follow is irrelevant.