Hacker News: Guillaume86

New comment by Guillaume86 in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

Guillaume86 — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:01:29 +0000

Yes I'm also using it for coding: I often make the agent use WebSearch in the research phase when deciding on a stack or a library or research best/modern practices to do achieve something. As for images I find it super useful to be able to paste snipped screenshots to show the agent when something is wrong in a UI/frontend or just something I can't copy paste easily.

New comment by Guillaume86 in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

Guillaume86 — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:40:24 +0000

You seem to have tried a few things, if you don't mind I have a few questions as someone currently on Claude Code but would prefer to not lock myself in a commercial ecosystem (and their pricing change regarding headless usage is annoying me):

- how do/would you add the WebSearch tool to your harness? pay for a separate service or does deepseek offer something with their subscriptions?

- do pi/opencode support pasting images in prompts?

- how do you handle reading images? deepseek is not multi modal IIRC? do you pay for another model and route to it?

Any of these missing would really annoy me in day to day use...

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card"

Guillaume86 — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:47:07 +0000

Tangential question for Claude Code subscribers, mid June `claude -p` will move to api pricing (with some "SDK credits" before it kicks in), so headless usage will become 20-30 times more expensive, and all these high level orchestrator tools/workflows depend on it. What the next move for you? How does the OpenAI subscriptions compare? Similar limitations?

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

Guillaume86 — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:27:48 +0000

I suppose folks here already know this but it deserves a mention: subscription pricing is 10-20x cheaper than API pricing at Anthropic for example and it will be a far better experience (better models, faster responses, as much parallelism as you want, etc) so if it works for you there's no economic argument to buy a machine for inference at the moment.

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

Guillaume86 — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:46:15 +0000

I think we should separate the private AI discussion from the local AI discussion. The pragmatic choice to run big LLMs is one/several big servers online, but that doesn't mean private companies should be the only ones to run them.

A self hosted inference solution that offer good tenant isolation guarantees (ideally zero trust) and is easy enough to deploy and maintain (think Plex for AI) would be my choice for privacy. Now to be honest I have done zero research about this and have zero idea how feasible that is, maybe it already exists and there's some discord servers I should join?

Edit: I don't need to mention it here but what's incredible is that open models are in the ballpark of the best commercial models so supposedly, the hardest part by far is already solved.

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic"

Guillaume86 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:31:17 +0000

Sorry yeah it was a big vague, I was thinking about creating a Libretto MCP since it's a/the standard way to share AI tooling nowadays and that would make it usable in more contexts.

In that case, the protocol has a feature called "sampling" that allow the MCP server (Libretto) to send completion requests to the MCP client (the main agent/harness the user interacts with), that means that Libretto would not need its own LLM API keys to work, it would piggyback on the LLMs configured in the main harness (sampling support "picking" the style of model you prefer too - smart vs fast etc).

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic"

Guillaume86 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:03:49 +0000

Did you consider MCP sampling to avoid requiring your own LLM access? (for the clients that support it of course, but I think it's important and will become standard anyway)

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Cal.com is going closed source"

Guillaume86 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:41:49 +0000

I think sometimes about this, does it really make sense? Financially I mean. The is just my impressions and I'm glad to be corrected if someone has hard numbers and some experience going this route:

At the moment LLMs vendors are in market grab mode and take a loss on big subscription users, they are starting to try to move to profit but they must move carefully to not let a competitor steal their users so we will still have "cheap" tokens for a while.

Even if prices go up by a bit, they have the scale in their favor to optimize costs.

If commercial model providers go into "not competitive" territory with their prices compared to open models, wouldn't it always be cheaper to use an open models inference provider? They can take advantage of scale as well, and with no model moat, competition should keep prices honest.

And last ressort, renting GPU time in the cloud seem like a safer bet than buying a GPU to me?

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

Guillaume86 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:34:46 +0000

Yeah this should be a citation in the sanewashing wikipedia article.

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

Guillaume86 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:47:21 +0000

Yes it's even more effective this way IMO, we will probably see some 11/10 mental gymnastics from people condemning this and failing to apply the same standards to billions dollars corps.

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

Guillaume86 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:38:16 +0000

Yeah it's just a slightly more honest and simplified presentation of what LLMs providers do IMO.

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

Guillaume86 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:07:35 +0000

Eh I think part of the joke is that LLMs have gobbled up the original source code, and if you help them enough (identical type signatures and specs), they will output the same code, it's the copyright laundering problem.

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]"

Guillaume86 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:26:18 +0000

Yeah it’s funny this little mishap gets traction here in the age of commercial LLMs and generative AI... Bashing microsoft never gets old I guess

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]"

Guillaume86 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:18:50 +0000

Yeah it’s hilarious seeing people lose their shit over this and not like, every commercial LLM vendor...

New comment by Guillaume86 in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

Guillaume86 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:54:55 +0000

He said he know about it and your conclusion is that he doesnt know about the other ones...

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Show HN: Sol LeWitt-style instruction-based drawings in the browser"

Guillaume86 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:27:22 +0000

I remember writing a parser for some SL instructions following an HN thread, seems like it was 13 years ago -_- : https://github.com/guillaume86/SolLewitt

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Fined $48k for using a jammer to keep commuters from using phones while driving"

Guillaume86 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:24:00 +0000

Don't need to be a nerd, 5 secs google search: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-road-incident...

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS"

Guillaume86 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:19:42 +0000

Well that explains it then, don't offer stupid salaries before you make stupid money...

New comment by Guillaume86 in "We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months"

Guillaume86 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:11:37 +0000

They also outperformed themselves before being in a leader position...

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Helping Valve to power up Steam devices"

Guillaume86 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 23:52:39 +0000

The switch is underpowered to the point that most A(AA) games cannot run on it without a ton of effort and compromise, an M chip powered device would be a different story. But anyway it's never going to happen, just daydreaming about a perfect gaming setup...