Hacker News: Robdel12

New comment by Robdel12 in "Gemini 4 Carbon"

Robdel12 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:09:49 +0000

> Coming soon

Come on googs!

New comment by Robdel12 in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

Robdel12 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:18:56 +0000

Will this be another touchbar? Only time will tell but I never want to touch my screen. I don't even really do it with my iPad, lol

New comment by Robdel12 in "Tesla Roadster"

Robdel12 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:13:58 +0000

Movie special effects has been doing this forever, lol

New comment by Robdel12 in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

Robdel12 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:21:59 +0000

> As our monorepo grows, it increasingly doesn’t fit that design space. The history of our main branch alone is almost 100 GB, and a compressed working copy is over 25 GB. We perform on the order of 25 million code checkouts per day for CI, before counting developer environments, agent sandboxes, and research jobs. Fetched naively, that would be over 600 PB of git traffic per day.

I read this and wonder what their agents have committed into the repo that people aren't looking at for _that much size_? Do they have a ton of binary assets in there or something??

New comment by Robdel12 in "Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos"

Robdel12 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:06:40 +0000

> These dyes are encapsulated in nanoparticles of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) — a medical-grade, glass-like plastic that is already used in medical implants and dermal fillers

Nano plastics? :p

Still pretty neat. I like the example picture in the article too

New comment by Robdel12 in "Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack"

Robdel12 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:02:05 +0000

I’m sure I’m wrong, but I remember reading about lasers being used as a cost effective defense mechanism

Something like https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-military-laser-shoots-down-c...

New comment by Robdel12 in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

Robdel12 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:36:30 +0000

> I’d rather hear from people who correctly predicted 10 years ago that AGI would arrive by 2027

Where is this AGI you speak of? What?

New comment by Robdel12 in "ChatGPT Pro 500"

Robdel12 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:35:03 +0000

Yeah no. $200 was the top for me. Which doesn't super matter to me, I pretty much only use luna. I can't tell the difference between luna vs sol/astra other than those larger models do more ambitious things that I don't ask for.

New comment by Robdel12 in "Replacing Pull Requests with Delta"

Robdel12 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 05:27:51 +0000

Man, I just do not care to see people’s LLM conversations. Those are not the artifacts. The changes are. It’s like attaching your slack convo with your teammate as a “pr”

New comment by Robdel12 in "The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]"

Robdel12 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:24:02 +0000

This is awesome! More of this in YC and less Flock's.

New comment by Robdel12 in "GPT-6 Astra"

Robdel12 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:35:01 +0000

I don’t care about benchmarks, no way we can distill the breadth of software engineering into a number.

So, folks that have actually used this already, what’s it actually like?

New comment by Robdel12 in "Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default"

Robdel12 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:16:22 +0000

How did you before LLMs 3 years ago?

New comment by Robdel12 in "Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default"

Robdel12 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:27:37 +0000

100% agree with this. Want my browser search history too so you can see my thought process?

This is terrible. I have no desire to read your Claude conversation. I don’t even want to read mine if I do use Claude.

The code is the artifact. There’s no value in trying to make the noisy, verbose conversation one. It’ll likely be dead in future years anyway.

New comment by Robdel12 in "Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI"

Robdel12 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:25:46 +0000

Yes, I'd love to! How? haha I'm robdel12 on pretty much everything (twitter, github, threads). Personal site w/email link https://robertdelu.ca/ I'd rather not put my email out here :p

Any/all work!

New comment by Robdel12 in "Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI"

Robdel12 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:28:38 +0000

I will shamelessly plug https://pitstop.app. I've been working on this for years and I work on/race cars regularly.

I wouldn't fully trust LLMs with this :p BUT this project is still really freaking sweet.

New comment by Robdel12 in "Oceans hit highest temperature on record"

Robdel12 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:25:11 +0000

I always will think of how everyone laughed at Bernie Sanders' reply in ~2016 to "What is the greatest threat to national security" and he replied "Climate change".

It's going to get ugly when large swaths of the human population struggles to get food & clean water.

New comment by Robdel12 in "U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative"

Robdel12 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:07:36 +0000

Poolside.ai as well

New comment by Robdel12 in "Almost no skill required to cook a steak"

Robdel12 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:03:20 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDBNVO7K0kA this is a really good little episode from PBS

New comment by Robdel12 in "JetZero"

Robdel12 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 04:10:51 +0000

This reeks of Vern Raburn and Eclipse Aviation all over again, haha. That failed terribly. SV’s ego is pretty funny sometimes. Eclipse even tried to develop their own avionics.

New comment by Robdel12 in "Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models"

Robdel12 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:58:09 +0000

https://www.anthropic.com/news/donation-public-first-action

Probably because anthropic is pouring $40 million dollars into a political pact to regulate models. And they have not been quiet about wanting to ban/regulate OSS models either.

I have no idea why HN still treats them like ~their~ they are the ethical good guy.

Edit: I can’t English. At least we know this came from my dumb swishy brain