Hacker News: Hamuko

New comment by Hamuko in "Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs"

Hamuko — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:42:28 +0000

I doubt there's any kind of a set of features that can be turned off to reduce the memory footprint by any significant amount when most of the memory bloat comes from the application running its own instance of Google Chrome.

New comment by Hamuko in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

Hamuko — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:56:17 +0000

I'm Finnish, so my guess is "no". Gallup polling gave a >85% in favour of abolishing DST. 52% also voted in favour of winter time.

New comment by Hamuko in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

Hamuko — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:20:54 +0000

My Mac Studio uses about 60–80 watts whenever I’m running a model (as measured by the system metrics), so it’s less than 2 kWh/day at full blast. Electricity is like 0.125 €/kWh, so that 24-hour period would be <0.25 €.

Not accounting hardware in my costs, since I didn’t buy my hardware for running models. Running models is just something it can do in addition to what I got it for.

New comment by Hamuko in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

Hamuko — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:55:05 +0000

Did I claim I was? I just said why I and people like me are not talking about it.

New comment by Hamuko in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

Hamuko — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:39:22 +0000

I’m not that interested in models that I can’t run on my desktop for ~0€, which is my AI budget.

New comment by Hamuko in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

Hamuko — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:53:55 +0000

This movement stems from Ubisoft’s The Crew, and judging by how Ubisoft is doing financially, maybe they have already.

>Ubisoft has released its financial results for the full 25-26 fiscal year, reporting a sharp decline in revenue and net bookings, down 21.8% and 17.4% year-over-year (YoY), respectively, due to the "softer new release schedule" and new operating model.

New comment by Hamuko in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

Hamuko — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:48:33 +0000

The daylight saving time shit is such a fucking fumble from the EU. We have an instance of direct democracy, we have EU politicians parading around saying “we’re gonna end it” and then absolutely nothing happens. Council points fingers at Commission, Commission points fingers at Council. “It’s their job.” How am I as an EU citizen supposed to be proud of being part of this dysfunctional mess?

New comment by Hamuko in "Peter Thiel's private society attendance list leaked via hard-coded HTML"

Hamuko — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:39:46 +0000

Vibed?

New comment by Hamuko in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

Hamuko — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:19:17 +0000

>“Thirty-two percent of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse,” the researchers said in a March 2020 slide presentation posted to Facebook’s internal message board, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Comparisons on Instagram can change how young women view and describe themselves.”

>“We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls,” said one slide from 2019, summarizing research about teen girls who experience the issues.

>Among teens who reported suicidal thoughts, 13% of British users and 6% of American users traced the desire to kill themselves to Instagram, one presentation showed.

I don’t know, seems like they do go around creating slides that mention them.

New comment by Hamuko in "Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

Hamuko — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:34:25 +0000

I imagine the stupid enterprise business software I make is way less bad than "our algo is making teenage girls kill themselves".

New comment by Hamuko in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

Hamuko — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:53:24 +0000

I wonder about that. At the moment, it feels like OpenAI and Anthropic are in the “racing to IPO” business. I’m also not sure who is going to be buying all of this AI output when nobody’s employed.

New comment by Hamuko in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

Hamuko — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:20:56 +0000

It's not sustainable because it'll basically ruin all of the industries connected to memory. OpenAI, Anthropic etc. all need a massive amount of compute to train and serve models, and increases in memory price will all drive up their already massive costs. And then on the other end, the people they need to use their AI services cannot either afford the devices they need to access the devices, or the device costs go up so much that they cannot afford to buy the services. If for example budget phones disappear completely because of memory prices, those consumers disappear from the customer pool and then the budget phone manufacturers disappear and stop buying memory, AI companies spend even more to build models for fewer people, etc.

Will there be a budget phone market with these prices? What about budget laptops? Can there exist a gaming console market when memory costs are so high? And what happens to the companies that sell goods and services to the users of those devices?

And obviously, if people see that you're extracting an exorbitant amount of profit, you're gonna have a lot more people eyeing your industry as ripe for competition, since some company would probably not mind eating some of your pie. I'd say that the current memory cartel has a very real risk from China right now. And if you get competition during the boom period, you're also gonna be competing with them during the bust period too.

New comment by Hamuko in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

Hamuko — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:57:38 +0000

The current pricing isn't sustainable, and if you try to wring out the maximum amount of profit, you're gonna have competition spring up. The Chinese are probably salivating at this opportunity. Previously they would've had to sell memory at discount rates to get anyone to switch over to them, but now they'd have customers lined up for years if they were selling at the prices Samsung/Micron/SK Hynix were selling a year ago.

New comment by Hamuko in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

Hamuko — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:55:31 +0000

Isn't this just a "I'm paying for a sub vs. others are paying for tokens" situation?

New comment by Hamuko in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

Hamuko — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:46:44 +0000

I don't understand how the tap trust improves security at all. If I'm installing something from a third-party tap, instead of running tap + install, I now run tap + trust + install? How does this protect me against compromised taps?

New comment by Hamuko in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

Hamuko — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:20:58 +0000

Is that even the plan, or is the plan to make a huge IPO while there's still hype and run off with the money?

New comment by Hamuko in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

Hamuko — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:39:04 +0000

It's wild!

New comment by Hamuko in "Siri AI"

Hamuko — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:17:27 +0000

Wrong. It's some for the EU.

>EU users will be able to access Siri AI on macOS 27, visionOS 27, and watchOS 27.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/due-to-dma-siri-ai-de...

New comment by Hamuko in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

Hamuko — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:19:18 +0000

Are banks that concerned about velocity? Because moving fast and breaking things in the banking sector can get extremely expensive. It's also not a who-gives-a-shit industry like operating a taxi service or hosting images, but a very tightly regulated sector.

New comment by Hamuko in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

Hamuko — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:21:42 +0000

Call me when the greatest tech revolution stops burning through billions and billions of dollars.