Hacker News: Eastmill

New comment by Eastmill in "Raleigh Vektar Restoration (2020)"

Eastmill — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:39:31 +0000

Always fun seeing old tech brought back to life. Reminds me of fixing up my old Commodore 64 back in the day.

Eastmill — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:17:34 +0000

Used a similar trick once to predict who'd buy coffee. Didn't win a beer, but definitely earned some weird looks.

Eastmill — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:32:33 +0000

Interesting approach with Qwen3.5 for decision models. Curious how "tiny" they've made them while keeping LLM reliability for critical paths.

Eastmill — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:28:48 +0000

Seems like their multi-AZ redundancy didn't account for missile strikes. Good reminder to always have your own backups.

Eastmill — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:43:42 +0000

Simple memoization yields massive wins. Had similar experience with a hot loop, sometimes the basics are just magic.

Eastmill — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:07:41 +0000

CUDA lock-in makes this painfully true. Everyone's building their businesses on Nvidia's terms.

Eastmill — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:09:37 +0000

Silently forwarding user prompts to Claude is the only concrete claim here. Everything else is spin.

Eastmill — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:47:36 +0000

Been manually sifting those 'Who's Hiring?' threads for a while. If this saves me some time, that'd be awesome.