Hacker News: Kostic

New comment by Kostic in "Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6"

Kostic — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:19:29 +0000

Taalas showed that you could make LLMs faster by turning them into ASICs and get 10k+ token generation. It's a matter of time now.

New comment by Kostic in "The MacBook Neo"

Kostic — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:59:37 +0000

For now. These will be pretty cool Linux machines if Asahi starts supporting them at some point.

New comment by Kostic in "Qwen3-Coder-Next"

Kostic — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:53:19 +0000

I would not go below q8 if comparing to sonnet.

New comment by Kostic in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

Kostic — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:06:43 +0000

I assume you're living in a city. You're already renting out a lot of things to others (security, electricity, water, food, shelter, transportation), what is different with white collar work?

New comment by Kostic in "GitHub: Git operation failures"

Kostic — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:09:22 +0000

At least with GitHub it's hard to hide when you get "no healthy upstream" on a git push.

New comment by Kostic in "ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is moving forward anyway"

Kostic — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 20:34:31 +0000

I don't understand how you can ship a car without proper papers out of the country so easily. Maybe focus on that first?

New comment by Kostic in "Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat"

Kostic — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:49:59 +0000

Agentic editing is really nice. If on VSCode, Cline works well with Ollama.

New comment by Kostic in "Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers"

Kostic — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:06:57 +0000

This would be true if not for open-weights (and even some open source) LLMs that exist today. Not everything should be done for profit.

New comment by Kostic in "Ask HN: What do you spend your money on?"

Kostic — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:47:57 +0000

I'm spending fair amount of money on helping teachers and professors in Serbia who had their pay reduced to to absurdity because they are supporting their students in demands for justice in the case of Novi Sad canopy collapse[0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novi_Sad_railway_station_can...

New comment by Kostic in "Claude 4"

Kostic — Fri, 23 May 2025 08:00:46 +0000

It's relevant from an engineering perspective. They have a way to develop a new model in months now.

New comment by Kostic in "Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?"

Kostic — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 07:03:21 +0000

I've stopped using search engines actively 18 months ago. My first stop is an LLM. Once I understand what I actually need, I do a web search to go to the product/tool website. I do this not because LLMs are that good but because web search result quality went way down in the same period.

One interesting trend that I like is that I started using local LLMs way more in the last couple of months. They are good enough that I was able to cancel my personal ChatGPT subscription. Still using ChatGPT on the work machines since the company is paying it.

New comment by Kostic in "Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia"

Kostic — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 10:09:36 +0000

This happened during 15 minutes of silence for 15 persons that died in the collapse. Everyone was silent and mourning.

New comment by Kostic in "Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia"

Kostic — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:48:55 +0000

That's a blatant lie. We are protesting because 15 people died in Novi Sad because of corruption, 4 months ago. We want justice.

New comment by Kostic in "Protoclone, the first bipedal, musculoskeletal Android"

Kostic — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 07:26:29 +0000

If there's potential military use and you don't build it, you risk your adversary doing that.

New comment by Kostic in "Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data in AI, including DNA"

Kostic — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:20:45 +0000

If life is only hedonism to you, then sure. It would be a waste.

New comment by Kostic in "Starship Flight 7"

Kostic — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 10:11:29 +0000

On a long-enough scale, this planet will die anyways. Let's first try to expand life and unlock the secrets of the Universe, as much as possible.

New comment by Kostic in "MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical"

Kostic — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:13:51 +0000

Chernozem.

New comment by Kostic in "Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park"

Kostic — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 04:55:46 +0000

Would starvation be a problem? Don't most countries have food reserves for these cases? At least enough food for one season?

New comment by Kostic in "Scoop: Meta won't offer future multimodal AI models in EU"

Kostic — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:42:52 +0000

Hopefully just EU and not the European countries outside of EU.

New comment by Kostic in "My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore"

Kostic — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 03:41:15 +0000

Default Ubuntu is still pretty good. I have been using the default Fedora Workstation for almost a decade and it works great for me. I also don't spend time on tweaking it anymore (used to be the complete opposite). The defaults work, I concentrate on my work, side projects and games.