Hacker News: HumanOstrich

New comment by HumanOstrich in "I’ve banned query strings"

HumanOstrich — Sun, 10 May 2026 01:46:10 +0000

Libraries that automatically throw errors for status codes in the 400 and 500 ranges are pretty obnoxious (looking at you, axios). It adds unnecessary overhead, complexity, and bad ergonomics by hijacking control flow from the app.

Responses with status codes in the 400 range are client errors, so the client shouldn't retry the same request. So a 404 is appropriate despite how annoying a library might be at handling it. Depending on which language/ecosystem you are using, there are likely more sane alternatives.

New comment by HumanOstrich in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

HumanOstrich — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:57:59 +0000

Yep, the Anthropic acquisition, this petulant Rust rewrite, and bun's increasingly buggy releases (slop) have caused me to migrate my projects (personal and work) to nodejs+pnpm.

The risks of using bun are no longer just those concerns around a newer tech and "drop-in" replacement for nodejs. Now you have to marry Anthropic, Rust, and a founder with conflicting priorities.

New comment by HumanOstrich in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

HumanOstrich — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:03:57 +0000

Hey Grok is pretty good for meme videos and pics. For anything serious, not so much.

New comment by HumanOstrich in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

HumanOstrich — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:35:17 +0000

That is.. inaccurate.

New comment by HumanOstrich in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

HumanOstrich — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:32:02 +0000

> This also makes it the only open American frontier-level model right now.

I'm not going to keep arguing with you. If you want to keep arguing, go to https://gemini.google.com/. Gemini knows what a frontier model is and it knows that Gemini Nano is fundamentally different from the other Gemini models. For one, it uses the Gemma architecture. And the next version of Gemini Nano is built directly on Gemma 4.

As for your original claim that I quoted, there are other "open American frontier-level models" by your definition. Like Gemma 4.

New comment by HumanOstrich in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

HumanOstrich — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:36:05 +0000

Thanks. Looks like the current Gemini Nano is actually a separate model with the Gemma 3n architecture that has been distilled from Gemini 2.5 Flash[1].

Also, the next version of Gemini Nano will be based directly on Gemma 4 (so not distilled, not Gemini at all except for the name)[2].

So no, it's not a frontier model. Those don't run on your phone or in your browser.

[1]: https://developer.android.com/blog/posts/ml-kit-s-prompt-api...

[2]: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/AI-Core-De...

New comment by HumanOstrich in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

HumanOstrich — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:10:16 +0000

Sources for your claim that the model being downloaded to Android/Chrome is Gemini instead of Gemma. Other than downloading the bin file myself and analyzing it lol.

New comment by HumanOstrich in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

HumanOstrich — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:14:24 +0000

Can you provide any sources for that? I'd like to learn more about this open frontier model.

New comment by HumanOstrich in "I am worried about Bun"

HumanOstrich — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:03:24 +0000

Great!

New comment by HumanOstrich in "I am worried about Bun"

HumanOstrich — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:39:30 +0000

Using that logic, Node.js is just a wrapper over V8.

New comment by HumanOstrich in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

HumanOstrich — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:25:34 +0000

It's not my plan.

New comment by HumanOstrich in "Some secret management belongs in your HTTP proxy"

HumanOstrich — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:09:51 +0000

Things aren't just "good" or "bad". There are tradeoffs to consider.

New comment by HumanOstrich in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

HumanOstrich — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:06:52 +0000

This is the kind of argument you should take to your 3rd grade teacher.

New comment by HumanOstrich in "Claude Code Removed from $20-a-Month "Pro" Subscription for New Users"

HumanOstrich — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:04:19 +0000

Thanks for all the logical fallacies in one comment.

New comment by HumanOstrich in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

HumanOstrich — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:54:49 +0000

They don't show your usage in tokens for Claude Code and Codex subscriptions, but that is how they are doing the accounting.

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

HumanOstrich — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:55:38 +0000

As of yesterday subagents were often getting the entire session copied to them. Happened to me when 2 turns with Claude spawned a subagent, caused 2 compactions, and burned 15% of my 5-hour limit (Max 5x).

New comment by HumanOstrich in "The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet"

HumanOstrich — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:56:25 +0000

They still might pull an Anthropic move and send a C&D or DMCA to archive.org.

New comment by HumanOstrich in "Open source security at Astral"

HumanOstrich — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:55:45 +0000

Nix is a nightmare and so it usually gets paired with Rust for people who have a complexity fetish.

New comment by HumanOstrich in "Veracrypt project update"

HumanOstrich — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:56:54 +0000

The article you linked says the change is rolling out in April in evaluation mode.

And if it were related to some kind of scan and malware flagging, the cert would have been revoked. It is not.

New comment by HumanOstrich in "Veracrypt project update"

HumanOstrich — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:43:53 +0000

From TFA: "I have encountered some challenges but the most serious one is that Microsoft terminated the account I have used for years to sign Windows drivers and the bootloader."