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New comment by PunchyHamster in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

PunchyHamster — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:52:21 +0000

No, but it's very funny, I'm gonna call people that offshore their thinking to LLM "AI cucks" now

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Anthropic silently downgraded cache TTL from 1h → 5M on March 6th"

PunchyHamster — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:51:13 +0000

Caching LLM is not like caching normal content; the longer it is the more beneficial it is and it only stops being worth when user stops current session.

So you'd need some adaptive algorithm to decide when to keep caching and when to purge it whole, possibly on client side, but if you give client the control, people will make it use most cache possible just to chase diminishing returns. So fine grained control here isn't all that easy; other possible option is just to have cache size per account and then intelligently purge it instead of relying just on TTL

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Anthropic silently downgraded cache TTL from 1h → 5M on March 6th"

PunchyHamster — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:46:27 +0000

New theory: every post to HN will be about LLM or other AI. Or written by one. Usually both

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Anthropic silently downgraded cache TTL from 1h → 5M on March 6th"

PunchyHamster — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:45:40 +0000

Why would any company release open weights once the investment money stops ?

Releasing open weights have been basically a PR move, the moment those companies need to actually make money they will cut it out as that reduces their client base.

They DO NOT want you to run AI. They want you to pay them to do it

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

PunchyHamster — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:42:23 +0000

Stop thinking billion dollar publicly traded companies are "cool" just because they make widget you like.

You will be backstabbed

You will be squeezed for all they can.

And you will be betrayed.

> Phase N: People can't afford computing anymore. Everything is thin clients and rented. It's become like the private railroad industry. End of the PC era. Like kids growing up on smartphones, there's nothing to tinker with anymore. And certainly no gradient for entrepreneurship for once-skilled labor capital.

Thankfully none of them actually makes money and just runs on investment so there is a good chance bubble will drop and the price of PC equipment will... continue to rise as US gives up Taiwan to China

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

PunchyHamster — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:40:36 +0000

Both can be a thing at same time

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

PunchyHamster — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:39:55 +0000

Well, how entirely expected. The money man comes to collect and they are squeezing for money

New comment by PunchyHamster in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

PunchyHamster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:41:41 +0000

...I don't think you actually know how git works if you think that's the thing you can't do with git.

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Has Mythos just broken the deal that kept the internet safe?"

PunchyHamster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:40:48 +0000

> Before, one had to find a talented person, and get pretty lucky too. If this AI is as good as promised, you can have dependabot-style exploit finder running 24/7 for the 1/10th cost of a single FTE

Not you. EVERYONE doing ANY kind of software will have to, because else attacker can just pick and choose targets to point their exploit-bot

New comment by PunchyHamster in "WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution"

PunchyHamster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:58:03 +0000

what about pattern of bumbling fools on crack ?

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Code is run more than read (2023)"

PunchyHamster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:27:12 +0000

That is fine if you are say building a race car that will be essentially rebuilt anyway in between races, or in general where 0.1% extra performace/less weight from non-repair-friendly placement might be worth it.

Not for normal car

New comment by PunchyHamster in "Artemis II and the invisible hazard on the way to the Moon"

PunchyHamster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:22:58 +0000

wouldn't alpha be mostly stopped just in pocket ? I'd hold beta emitter, less area of body affected by the radiation if you hold it at distance

New comment by PunchyHamster in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

PunchyHamster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:48:19 +0000

>what is my point? well, i think a web stack ran under an RTOS (and sized appropriately) might be a much more pleasurable experience. Get rid of all those lags, and intermittent hangs and calls for more GB of memory.

... it's not the OS that's source of majority of lag

Click around in this demo https://tracy.nereid.pl/ Note how basically any lag added is just some fancy animations in places and most of everything changes near instantly on user interaction (with biggest "lag" being acting on mouse key release as is tradition, not click, for some stuff like buttons).

This is still just browser, but running code and displaying it directly instead of going thru all the JS and DOM mess

New comment by PunchyHamster in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

PunchyHamster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:44:41 +0000

I wonder how they made the voted-answer-picker fail-resistant

New comment by PunchyHamster in "How do you find an illegal image without looking at it?"

PunchyHamster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:12:44 +0000

and yet people keep putting 2D jpgs and AI made slop in CSAM category for some fucking reason

New comment by PunchyHamster in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

PunchyHamster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:11:53 +0000

if you don't understand git you shouldn't be coding, full stop. The exact same skill set needed to write good code is required to use git in quick and efficient matter.

Then again, it is used for non-coding tasks, but any and all of it's UI problems are not from the method of storage (pretty much any modern VCS uses same "tree of linked snapshots of filesystem) so making one while still making it git compatible just with better ui (like Jujutsu) is very much possible

New comment by PunchyHamster in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

PunchyHamster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:09:26 +0000

you can literally plug in any diff program you like into git and even make it extension-aware

New comment by PunchyHamster in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

PunchyHamster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:08:44 +0000

remove the existing code, add feature to the prompt and re-generate everything, probably

New comment by PunchyHamster in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

PunchyHamster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:08:08 +0000

>Saving prompts and sessions alongside commits could become the norm for example, or I could imagine having different flags for whether a contribution was created by a human or not.

Yes, it could have syntax like

    git notes add -m "Claude prompt: foo fee faa foo"

and then the tooling could attach any metadata to it that is desired.

OH WAIT YOU CAN DO THAT ALREADY SINCE 2009

Seriously, the 90% complaints about git not being able to do something is just either RTFM or "well, it can, but could use some better porcelain to present to user"

New comment by PunchyHamster in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

PunchyHamster — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:02:40 +0000

to be entirely fair while git is getting better, the tooling UI/UX is still designed with expectation someone read the git book and understood exactly how it works.

Which should be basic skill on anyone dealing with code, but Git is not just programmer's tool any more for a long time so better UI is welcome