Hacker News: PeterStuer

New comment by PeterStuer in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"

PeterStuer — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:45:52 +0000

I'm a Forgejo user myself, but honestly reluctant and scouting alternatives since the activist Codeberg direction.

New comment by PeterStuer in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

PeterStuer — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:28:43 +0000

Amazed Claude didn't refuse this for "cybersecurity". Then I noticed this was this Opus 4.8? Did the author start with 4.8 or was this a fallback from the 5 series?

New comment by PeterStuer in "Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union"

PeterStuer — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:33:24 +0000

Apparently they followed an "alternative" reading of the DMA concluding that unless you prove the fees or other obstacles would make alternative distribution commercially unviable or discriminatory, everything is just fine. Isn't it "interesting" how do many of these EU regulations always have these side doors that allow the very practices they promoted to adress?

New comment by PeterStuer in "Qwen3.8 27B at 256K: 50 TPS on a 24 GB GPU"

PeterStuer — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:10:25 +0000

It has gotten so much worse over the last month. The default writing style of the Claude 5 model series in Claude Code is some sort of jiberish jargon.

New comment by PeterStuer in "Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI"

PeterStuer — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:27:51 +0000

This 'new' method was quite common in evolutionary computing in the 90's.

New comment by PeterStuer in "Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI"

PeterStuer — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:14:45 +0000

Abstention is commercially a no go zone, eating 'different' is a goldmine. It is why 'going on a diet' in the 1970's still meant eating less, while starting in the 1980's the phrase was turned into just eating the latest industry fad miracle food.

New comment by PeterStuer in "Asus Bike Booster"

PeterStuer — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:54:20 +0000

I remember those from 50 years ago. Back then it was a small petrol engine typically mounted on the front tyre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9loSoleX

New comment by PeterStuer in "AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry?"

PeterStuer — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:17:31 +0000

It is complicated, because the real question is about who gets to design the virusses, and who gets to design the antidotes.

New comment by PeterStuer in "Working with AI Feels More Like Leadership Than Coding"

PeterStuer — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:57:30 +0000

Unfortunatly average 'leadership' never had the required skills to lead technically critical 'stuff', and, maybe counterintuitively, because, code is cheap now, right, AI amplified the incompetence.

New comment by PeterStuer in "Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions"

PeterStuer — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:11:53 +0000

I do all that, but an 'AS-BUILT' full review of my project still eats 3x my 5 hour budget on max 100€. Meanwhile, my 20€ GPT never hit a limit. Different, but just saying.

New comment by PeterStuer in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

PeterStuer — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:07:50 +0000

You sound like I could afford that.

New comment by PeterStuer in "Seven books I keep close because I love them"

PeterStuer — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:08:39 +0000

Mind blown. How can that work? I assume book rentals follow the usual Poisson distribution?

New comment by PeterStuer in "DeepSeek API Pricing Update"

PeterStuer — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:35:46 +0000

Not yet, but in the end high quality tokens are a commodity market. Every optimization to increase inference efficiency will be universally rolled out. The 'hyperspenders' will run into demishing returns unless regulatory capture succeeds.

New comment by PeterStuer in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

PeterStuer — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:26:02 +0000

The default vernacular has become absurd. I have a lifetime in software, decades in AI, but the jargon language the 5 series claude models are spitting out by default makes me go 'what?'.

New comment by PeterStuer in "Seven books I keep close because I love them"

PeterStuer — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:19:51 +0000

Slightly off topic: The title hits home. When I was young, books were a luxury item. Less rich people just used the library. But the library had a strict 7 books rental policy. Not enough for the avid reader that also needed a small programming reference library. So I had 3 steady, occasionally 4th, library card pool from family members to keep my bookshelf operational.

New comment by PeterStuer in "8 Out of 10 Banks in Belgium Hate This One Weird EID RCE"

PeterStuer — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:09:03 +0000

Not sure. Do you have numbers? AFAIK having the eID reader was mostly an IT crowd thing. 'Normies' never had them, and even if they did they would have borked on the install.

New comment by PeterStuer in "Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data"

PeterStuer — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:17:24 +0000

Maybe the catchy name, but the practice was very much there in the 1980's.

New comment by PeterStuer in "Grok 4.6"

PeterStuer — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:00:26 +0000

Why would you release a model if you are the current frontrunner? Only when a competitor pulls ahead, or comes close enough to actually get traffic, you prepare a new release.

New comment by PeterStuer in "Exploring Claude/GPT Knowledge Cutoffs and Pre-Training Timelines"

PeterStuer — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:46:55 +0000

How is distilling prohibited? AFAIK, the input is mine, and the output is not copyrightable.

New comment by PeterStuer in "Exploring Claude/GPT Knowledge Cutoffs and Pre-Training Timelines"

PeterStuer — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:44:18 +0000

They are releasing as little as they can get away with. The Open Weights models are one of the big reasons we have seen the progress we have had.