Hacker News: CraigRood

New comment by CraigRood in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

CraigRood — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:24:50 +0000

That is actually nuts.... I'm trying to understand the true costs of AI, wonder how I plug this in!

New comment by CraigRood in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

CraigRood — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:05:36 +0000

I'm far from an expert here but isn't that spot price rather than future deliveries? Few people pay for actual spot pricing because it can go the other way, and you want known pricing. You would have a forward contract to delivery gas at say 20p. This is a known price for operation and likely has profit baked in anyway. The excess is what we see now. They can't just switch off as they have a contract to fulfill, but the grid doesn't need the excess, therefore priced at a negative.

New comment by CraigRood in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

CraigRood — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:50:30 +0000

Is this because at one point @facebook.com was a valid communication method? Great concept to be fair, but once you pull back the first layer you can immediately see its problems.

New comment by CraigRood in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

CraigRood — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:51:30 +0000

In principle yes, but all metrics so far suggest they are losing money every user interaction. There is very little network effect with these tools so It's not like they can start cutting back on staff and feature deployment.

New comment by CraigRood in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

CraigRood — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:08:09 +0000

I don't 'like' Jira, but it gets the job done. It's so easy to onboard users and assign tasks/issues across orgs. Structure is fairly simply and the filters with subscriptions is powerful. Android app that I use on my work phone just works.

New comment by CraigRood in "Attention Media ≠ Social Networks"

CraigRood — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:01:27 +0000

The growth is across the family of products (inc Instagram and WhatsApp) not Facebook itself. Facebook itself is a zombie, and I don't believe they have a way to innovate out of it. I'm not going to predict the end of Meta, they have more than enough products, but agreed that it's actually quite difficult to understand who's really left.

New comment by CraigRood in "Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)"

CraigRood — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:59:24 +0000

Windy.app looks good visually, but once you start using it, the UX is all over the place. Always find it frustrating.

New comment by CraigRood in "Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix Demand OpenAI to Stop Using Their IP"

CraigRood — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:41:13 +0000

It's less about paint a picture yourself, arguably there is little to no value there. OpenAI et al, sell the product of creating pictures in the style of their material. I see this as a direct competition to Studio Ghibli's right to produce their own material with their own IP.

New comment by CraigRood in "DeepSeek OCR"

CraigRood — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:28:38 +0000

I have a thought that whilst LLM providers can say "Sorry" - there is little incentive and it will expose the reality that they are not very accurate, nor can be properly measured. That said, there clearly are use cases where if the LLM can't a certain level of confidence it should refer to the user, rather than guessing.

New comment by CraigRood in "EU age verification app not planning desktop support"

CraigRood — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 06:18:32 +0000

I'm confused by your statement as the article suggests you can get a boarding pass via email.

New comment by CraigRood in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

CraigRood — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:42:34 +0000

I don't think users understand the risks. I'm broadly accepting of the protection of end users through mechanisms. Peoples entire lives are managed through these small devices. We need much better sandboxing to almost create a separate 'VM' for critical apps such as banking and messaging.

New comment by CraigRood in "[dead]"

CraigRood — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 15:33:41 +0000

The whole notion of "Vibe Coding" was to accept the output regardless and prompt forward. Anything else is moving the goalposts. If you can't accept the outputs and you need an in-depth knowledge of code then these LLMs are not ready for this task.

New comment by CraigRood in "I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer"

CraigRood — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:01:02 +0000

Awesome post and fun read given I'm a PureGym member myself.

I 'got around' the PIN/QR Madness after 1 week by getting key fob. Now I don't have to ever open the app...

Attendance API looks to be worth playing with! Nice Bonus.

New comment by CraigRood in "Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub"

CraigRood — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:40:53 +0000

I run Gitea too - Seeing what is happening over at GitHub solidifies my decision.

Not too concerned over my public facing repos, Amazon and OpenAI seem to love 'em! I have the ultimate control over my private repos (nothing juicy). I can't say I trust Microsoft not to do something I don't like at any point in the future.

Edit: I should say I wish phabricator got more love, that was a great tool!

New comment by CraigRood in "Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs"

CraigRood — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 18:09:33 +0000

These tools are literally being marketed as AI, yet it presents false information as fact. 'using it wrong' can't be an argument here. I would rather then tool is honest about confidence levels and mechanisms to research further - then feed that fact back into 'AI' for the next step.

New comment by CraigRood in "Running GPT-OSS-120B at 500 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs"

CraigRood — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 09:21:13 +0000

I was playing with it yesterday and every single session gave me factually incorrect information.

Speed and ease of use is one thing, but it shouldn't be at the cost of accuracy.

New comment by CraigRood in "Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds”"

CraigRood — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:34:30 +0000

Thing is, even with users that don't use the quota, these AI companies are still losing money. This isn't a case of the small users paying for large. The true costs of AI are yet to unravel.

New comment by CraigRood in "Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans"

CraigRood — Fri, 09 May 2025 12:06:03 +0000

Part of my day job is Warehouse Automation - not Amazon!. I would agree with you on being slow, but it probably suffices to what Amazon want to achieve here. If your entire process, so stow, store and retrieve is automated, you wouldn't use these "pods". A lot of these problems seem so simple and easy to automate out, but it's really not!

New comment by CraigRood in "Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?"

CraigRood — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 19:13:29 +0000

ChatGPT et al are quite neat, but the interfaces are not great at all. For example, I'm going on a trip to Paris in a couple of months. I can ask a LLM what to do but it will just give me a list. There are no visuals, click throughs, maps, tips, experiences. blending 'AI' with search and a 'reader' can create a much better experience.

New comment by CraigRood in "iCloud Mail has DNS misconfigured?"

CraigRood — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 11:24:11 +0000

For what it's worth, I was able to add my custom domain to iCloud under this exact scenario without any issues. This was 3 years ago, so I don't know if anything has changed, and I didn't have the 'catch all' limitation either.