Hacker News: KerrAvon

New comment by KerrAvon in "Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents"

KerrAvon — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:37:22 +0000

We're on the cusp of Kimi K3 becoming usable on sub-10k hardware.

https://github.com/gavamedia/deltafin

New comment by KerrAvon in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"

KerrAvon — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:59:10 +0000

128 isn't enough, but if this report is accurate, the next Mac Studio could run it

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/25/m5-ultra-mac-studio-202...

New comment by KerrAvon in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"

KerrAvon — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:56:33 +0000

IME: Gemma is not great for programming, but it is fantastic at following directions compared to anything else in its size class.

New comment by KerrAvon in "Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB"

KerrAvon — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:19:44 +0000

"Better things aren't possible" is a terrible outlook. There have been real improvements in this space, such as passkeys, and recognition that some of this stuff, like frequent password changes, is counterproductive.

New comment by KerrAvon in "Teardown: The BMW / Harman IDC23H Infotainment Unit (B423)"

KerrAvon — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:24:01 +0000

It's actually a little harder than people outside the UI framework space might think (there's really not a lot of time per frame; it's easy to put too much work where it doesn't belong; it's easy to regress if you're not monitoring for it after code changes).

It's core to usability at this point, though. They should make the effort.

New comment by KerrAvon in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

KerrAvon — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:56:40 +0000

It's relevant politically, and the discussion in question is political.

New comment by KerrAvon in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

KerrAvon — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:53:23 +0000

Governments don't have a business model. They don't need to make a profit. (Also, debt doesn't work the same way for the federal government that it does for a business or even a US state.)

see, for just one take on this, https://www.ucdavis.edu/magazine/why-federally-funded-resear...

New comment by KerrAvon in "Qwen 3.8"

KerrAvon — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 20:37:55 +0000

>The real reason we are using Claude is for the SaaS aspect of it. It has a toolchain, a friendly interface, and a bunch of integrations with business applications.

That is a very thin moat, though. There's nothing you can do with, for example, Claude Code + Opus 4.8 that you can't do with your own custom harness running API-level Opus 4.8, which means that if you can afford the hardware (the moat for running any SOTA model) you don't need to pay Anthropic anymore.

I'm not saying they shouldn't, but I understand why they don't.

New comment by KerrAvon in "S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-"

KerrAvon — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:52:48 +0000

Meta had Llama, which set a lot of things on fire in a good way, and then disappeared from the scene as tech advanced.

What does Microsoft have?

Not sure SpaceX counts. Nobody sane uses Grok. It's untrustable due to reality-distorting political bias training, and it's strongly associated with CSAM production. Not what you want in a reliable corporate utility.

New comment by KerrAvon in "S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-"

KerrAvon — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:47:21 +0000

Wow. That has aged hilariously poorly indeed. OMG.

> But China is falling behind on AI algorithms due to their weaker models

They wrote this shit in April 2025. And they put their names on it. Beyond hubris.

New comment by KerrAvon in "Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh"

KerrAvon — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:40:19 +0000

bash is really painful to use for anything beyond the most rudimentary logic. Bourne and Mashey were terrible language designers. (By contrast, Thompson's V6 shell is very elegant, if limited.)

That said, this should just be a shell itself and not something that generates into other shell dialects. Otherwise, why not use Ruby or something like it that has actual expressive power?

New comment by KerrAvon in "Fable 5 Is Back"

KerrAvon — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:28:35 +0000

This sort of thing drives people to more open competitors. I use both every day and Opus isn't that much better than the Chinese SOTA. If corporate policy allowed me to use GLM or DeepSeek I absolutely would. Claude is already pricey for what it offers.

New comment by KerrAvon in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

KerrAvon — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:40:27 +0000

Given the tenor of the comments on this article, I think reading TFA is super important, especially the author's disclaimer at the end, where they state that they're definitely not blindly trusting the AI at this stage, just that they find the differential unsettling.

New comment by KerrAvon in "Ask HN: What is everyone in SF talking about?"

KerrAvon — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:11:36 +0000

Aside from sportsball, AI and deranged [tb]illionaire behavior is basically it.

edit: autocorrect

New comment by KerrAvon in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

KerrAvon — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:39:13 +0000

No. It's literally RAM.

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/25/apple-explains-why-it-r...

New comment by KerrAvon in "The Disappearance of Japan's Animators"

KerrAvon — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:43:48 +0000

You're into Chainsaw Man and Dorohedero but not JJK?

New comment by KerrAvon in "The disappearance of Japan's animators"

KerrAvon — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:39:46 +0000

What? This is a golden age of anime.

You could count the number of anime available in the west and worth watching 25 years ago on one hand, maybe two.

Now? If you can't find something, you're not looking hard enough. Off the top of my head, current anime that do not remotely fit your categories:

- Spy x Family

- Dandadan

- Dungeon Meshi

- Apocalypse Hotel

- Yumi no Tsugai (Daemons of the Shadow Realm)

- Kaiju No. 8

- Marriage Toxin

- Steel Ball Run

- The Summer Hikaru Died

- Akane-Banashi

- Dorohedoro

edit: formatting. edit 2: added Dorohedoro, good call down below

New comment by KerrAvon in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

KerrAvon — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:28:00 +0000

None of that makes you happier.

Define happiness, but there's a baseline for not being miserable (I have enough to eat etc) and then there's actual satisfaction with your life.

If you doubt the thesis, consider the extreme examples of Musk and Trump. they have infinite wealth and power and are demonstrably, publicly miserable.

The consistently happiest people I've personally met are Buddhist monks of various sects, who have nearly nothing in terms of money or physical possessions.

New comment by KerrAvon in "LLMs Are Complicated Now"

KerrAvon — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:15:57 +0000

indeed, there's even a (pretty solid) custom server just for DS4 https://github.com/antirez/ds4

-- works very well on high-RAM Macs

New comment by KerrAvon in "Fox to buy Roku"

KerrAvon — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:25:38 +0000

LG + never log it in to the internet + an Apple TV box. The webOS UI sucks, but so do all the others apparently, and you never have to interact with it in practice if you use the Apple TV for streaming.