Hacker News: Ritewut

New comment by Ritewut in "Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool"

Ritewut — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:34:41 +0000

Tokens per second. The difference between 8B and something like 16B is not as big as you might think in practical usage and 8B is a lot faster and interactive than 16B but there are certain things where it is useful to farm it out to the large model.

New comment by Ritewut in "Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn"

Ritewut — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:58:09 +0000

Distinction without a difference as it pertains to the conversation. Most of the money SpaceX received from the government was under the COTS program where NASA gave SpaceX money to develop a product and then NASA would become a customer of that product. It is as close as you can get to a technical subsidy without it being technically a subsidy.

New comment by Ritewut in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

Ritewut — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:49:38 +0000

What SKG is asking for is not only technical reality but easy to do if you plan for it from the start.

New comment by Ritewut in "Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn"

Ritewut — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:52:35 +0000

You say "... was said to be" as if it's a fairy tale. SpaceX was subsidized by gov contracts. That's just a fact.

New comment by Ritewut in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

Ritewut — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:51:25 +0000

I have worked at several tech companies that deal with data compliance. Most audits are jokes and most of your data is not secure.

New comment by Ritewut in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

Ritewut — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:50:20 +0000

They are talking about the millions of lines of code they stole to make the product in the first place and I'm sure you know that.

New comment by Ritewut in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

Ritewut — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:49:15 +0000

Most people are not good at their jobs and IDEs like Cursor let bad SWEs feel more productive because they are committing more code.

New comment by Ritewut in "Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn"

Ritewut — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:43:50 +0000

It is subsidized by gov contracts. Everyone who has common sense immediately said the real money is Altman getting into the governments pants which is why he and Brockman lobby so hard. You take away those contracts and OpenAI is dead in the water.

New comment by Ritewut in "Why I email complete strangers"

Ritewut — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:43:03 +0000

Most apartments I've lived in have a communal rec room of sorts. No one ever uses it.

New comment by Ritewut in "Why I email complete strangers"

Ritewut — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:13:52 +0000

This is funny but true. I don't think I've spoken to my neighbors in any place I've lived in 10 years other than maybe awkwardly running into each other in the hallway.

New comment by Ritewut in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

Ritewut — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:18:24 +0000

Yes when you are away from society you don't require a device to connect with society.

New comment by Ritewut in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

Ritewut — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:34:16 +0000

I would say most open-source projects are passion projects run for pleasure.

New comment by Ritewut in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

Ritewut — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:39:24 +0000

This comment is so divorced from reality. It is very difficult to live life in the modern world without a phone unless you want to go Amish.

New comment by Ritewut in "Leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

Ritewut — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:20:19 +0000

Tangled is working on something like that. I believe they are federating on the @protocol.

https://tangled.org/

New comment by Ritewut in "Leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

Ritewut — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:18:49 +0000

The reason will be that not everyone wants to deal wit maintaining a self-hosted box.

New comment by Ritewut in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

Ritewut — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:05:38 +0000

I do wonder how people who work on this don't see themselves as the bad guy.

New comment by Ritewut in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

Ritewut — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:16:48 +0000

I relate to the amount of `I didn't know what to say so I left` in this post and don't know what to do about it.

New comment by Ritewut in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

Ritewut — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:54:56 +0000

Their bitcoin investment is what kept them profitable at times. Same as Tesla.

New comment by Ritewut in "Waymo in Portland"

Ritewut — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:50:26 +0000

That is entirely because there is no land value tax so owners are incentivized to keep the space empty.

New comment by Ritewut in "Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores"

Ritewut — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:43:33 +0000

I'm not a big "check your privilege" person but you are the definition of privileged if you actually think food deserts are because people don't want to shop at Kroger.