Hacker News: InsideOutSanta

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode"

InsideOutSanta — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:11:46 +0000

Yeah. I installed OpenCode in a container about a month ago, and I had a hell of a time figuring out how to get it into complete yolo mode.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling"

InsideOutSanta — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:17:31 +0000

OpenCode because of the large ecosystem. I'd like to use pi, but it's more limited if I want to run it in a VM and connect to it from the outside.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling"

InsideOutSanta — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:02:25 +0000

As somebody who bought an iPhone the day it became available and has been using iPhones for years, my favorite phone I've ever owned is my Huawei Mate XT Ultimate.

People keep pretending that Chinese companies only make second-class copies of American products until it's too late.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling"

InsideOutSanta — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:58:40 +0000

> on the margin people are willing to pay a lot for slightly better models

That margin is getting smaller and smaller. I would have been with you a week ago; paying for Fable was worth it compared to all other models. But with K3, the difference has shrunk to the point where, for me, it's not worth the cost anymore.

In other words, it may be worth paying five times as much to get 10% better real-world outcomes for a lot of people, but a lot fewer people will pay five times as much to get 2% better outcomes.

> a huge value is the Claude Code / Codex harness

For me, it's the opposite. Having to use Claude Code instead of the harness I prefer is a point against Anthropic, not for it.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode"

InsideOutSanta — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:51:38 +0000

There are confirmation dialogs by default, though.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode"

InsideOutSanta — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:29:53 +0000

> Having come from Claude code, I was a bit shocked that both seem to allow edits by default with no confirmation dialog.

There are confirmation dialogs in OpenCode. You can configure them using the permission config, same as Claude Code. Having said that, as a general rule, none of these harnesses are safe to run on your local file system.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database"

InsideOutSanta — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:09:49 +0000

What's even funnier is getting upset about people not wearing helmets the second you hear about an accident, with no idea whether people did or did not wear helmets. All the article says is that "the hacker entered using valid credentials." There's no information about how they got the credentials.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

InsideOutSanta — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:10:04 +0000

If I came up with this counterexample, I sure as hell wouldn't give credit to Claude.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "ECHR confirms ethical veganism is a protected philosophical belief"

InsideOutSanta — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:16:25 +0000

Thanks for spelling out your point, and yes, I don't agree with it. Being in prison is the punishment. People don't lose their humanity because they are in prison, and they don't need to or deserve to be additionally punished by forcing them to eat meals that go against their religious or ethical convictions.

What's more, people in prison usually don't stay there forever. The idea that it doesn't matter how we treat people in prison because "it's not a hotel" is not conducive to reintegration and is harmful to everyone, including you.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "ECHR confirms ethical veganism is a protected philosophical belief"

InsideOutSanta — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:59:54 +0000

It's peculiar that I've never heard a vegan say anything even remotely like that, but I often see people complaining about how vegans constantly say things like that. How does that work? Is there a place I need to go to to find all these militant vegans who can't stop talking about how much I suck eggs for sucking eggs?

So I feel justified in classifying your comment as supporting my claim: "the US is so focused on culture wars that people can't visibly follow a vegan diet without being attacked for it."

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "HMD Touch 4G"

InsideOutSanta — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:01:42 +0000

I'm not entirely sure why you're arguing with me about this. 4G currently has much better coverage than 5G; that's just a fact. I'm sure "4G barely works anymore" is true for you, but you don't represent the world, much less India, where this phone is sold.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "HMD Touch 4G"

InsideOutSanta — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:08:57 +0000

4G is currently the dominant mobile data network with the best coverage.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "ECHR confirms ethical veganism is a protected philosophical belief"

InsideOutSanta — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:37:24 +0000

"They could have just not eaten it" and "they eat what they’re given" are literally opposites of each other. So you don't have an actual point; you're just being an asshat. Why don't you do that by yourself instead of involving other people in your personal misery?

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "ECHR confirms ethical veganism is a protected philosophical belief"

InsideOutSanta — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:57:56 +0000

You're proposing that they could have starved?

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Qwen 3.8"

InsideOutSanta — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:57:04 +0000

They've announced that they're releasing the weights for a 2.4T model soon:

https://xcancel.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2078759124914098291

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Qwen 3.8"

InsideOutSanta — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:33:44 +0000

I wouldn't call it a moat, but I would call it a noticeably better model. Subjectively, for my own work, I would rate the top models Fable > K3 > Sol.

But it's not like Fable is so substantially better than the other two that I would be seriously impacted if I didn't have access to it anymore. All three are amazing models, and of the three, Fable is the only one that regularly triggers refusals.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "The Kimi K3 Moment"

InsideOutSanta — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:44:57 +0000

> Sun microsystems rack populated with three e4500

That's super cool; I bet that's a lot of fun to play around with. I wonder how much of this stuff just ended up in a landfill because it was too much effort to find buyers.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately?"

InsideOutSanta — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:27:31 +0000

Yeah, I subjectively definitely feel like using LLMs has aspects of gambling. It's 100% a Skinner box where I push a button with a high chance of a substantial reward. It's fun and addictive.

But setting an automatic prompt in the morning so limits are more sensible during the day and allow continuous work is just common sense.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately?"

InsideOutSanta — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:22:59 +0000

My impression is that, particularly on Anthropic's side, their confusing approach to quota limits is an intentional attempt to make the actual limits or offerings more opaque. This will make it easier to limit quota without officially limiting quota, because the current real-world quota is a result of bonus offerings, limited-time access, and random resets.

So it's not that "limits went down"; it's that "the bonus offer ended as planned."

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "ECHR confirms ethical veganism is a protected philosophical belief"

InsideOutSanta — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:19:56 +0000

They didn't order a specific meal, they asked for specific items to be excluded from their meals. I'm often cooking for vegans, and it's really not that fricken difficult.