Hacker News: Salgat

New comment by Salgat in "KOReader"

Salgat — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:40:56 +0000

I don't like the UX but the extra controls on ebook rendering was worth the pain for me, since almost all of my time is just reading the ebook anyways.

New comment by Salgat in "Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means"

Salgat — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:50:09 +0000

My assumption is that it exacerbates it, by keeping the primary predator of rats well fed. Are you saying that cats have no impact on rat populations?

New comment by Salgat in "Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means"

Salgat — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:41:59 +0000

When I lived in Chicago I'd see rats and cats eating cat food left out alongside each other. I'm not against helping wild animals as long as it doesn't come with a rat infestation issue.

New comment by Salgat in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

Salgat — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:16:58 +0000

Thankfully as of now it appears they're very explicit about what content they share that is sponsored. They might be worried about the legislative backlash if they don't.

New comment by Salgat in "Anthropic runs large-scale code migrations with Claude Code"

Salgat — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:15:08 +0000

Regressions is a meaningless metric to me. Every app has bugs, and most are either rarely encountered or aren't breaking the app. All I care about is interruption of service.

New comment by Salgat in "Why write code in 2026"

Salgat — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:53:50 +0000

Yeah it's a real catch-22. I think you're right though, LLM tech will keep up just enough to replace that lost workforce, till some day development as we know it will no longer exist, perhaps when the code becomes too abstract and complex for normal humans to ever hope to maintain without automation, similar to what happened to most assembly developers when the compiler came along.

New comment by Salgat in "Why write code in 2026"

Salgat — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:42:34 +0000

The difference is that you already learned how to write code. New devs that go straight to genai are missing that.

New comment by Salgat in "Why write code in 2026"

Salgat — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:40:31 +0000

LLMs are perfectly capable of translating between programming languages at this point. The main bottleneck for them is logic, not language.

New comment by Salgat in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

Salgat — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:33:01 +0000

You do get a public IPv6 IP, which is fine for most people (and with a simple script on a cron can keep a AAAA up to date, not that it changes often). And like someone else said, if you insist, you can use something like tailscale to punch a hole in Starlink's global NAT.

New comment by Salgat in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

Salgat — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:27:36 +0000

Starlink is a problem that solves itself. If enough fiber rolls out that there's no more customers, they'll scale back satellites (since they only last 3-5 years).

New comment by Salgat in "GPT-5.6"

Salgat — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:54:05 +0000

Kind of refreshing though that the "throw more processing at it" scaling we saw in the 90s has returned in a different way. For a while we were really bottlenecked in our advances by relatively low levels of parallelism (most software used by your average user doesn't scale cleanly with more than a few threads).

New comment by Salgat in "We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12"

Salgat — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:05:48 +0000

Anthropic wants companies that use API billing. Their growth period through hooking individual users who bring it to the business is over.

New comment by Salgat in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

Salgat — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:56:31 +0000

Lots of small moving parts that build up into a large architected platform, which requires careful design, otherwise you get a big ole ball of "it mostly works when we first created it but don't touch it". And yes, bad developers are susceptible to creating the same thing. That's the whole issue with vibe coding, it creates something that works, but is brittle, because there are no strict architecture requirements around the entire design besides vague suggestions like "follow best practices", and as it makes mistakes, it just patches whatever it can to make it work, instead of fixing the root problem with the design.

New comment by Salgat in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"

Salgat — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:47:35 +0000

This is a genius way to farm ebooks while providing a useful service. I personally just use Google drive though.

New comment by Salgat in "60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it"

Salgat — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:15:18 +0000

That's not what is happening. Claude isn't charging for the tokens it generates from the OCR on its side, but it's still processing the same number of tokens as if you had sent the text, just with the extra step of OCR on Claude's side. This is 100% a loophole that's burning extra resources.

New comment by Salgat in "Fable 5 will default to Opus 4.8 for coding tasks"

Salgat — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:23:51 +0000

Using only Fable, if I do /usage it will show both Fable and Opus usage, so I don't think it's charging Fable prices for Opus code gen.

New comment by Salgat in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

Salgat — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:23:41 +0000

This is a misleading statement. The "private data" is still largely publicly produced data that has been curated through private agreements instead of scraping, such as reddit posts/comments (this is the "third-party data agreements" that companies like OpenAI mention). And yes, there is still a lot of processing done on this data, which is the norm for preparing training data.

New comment by Salgat in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

Salgat — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:41:06 +0000

Supposedly memristors would be ideal for this (and it would be reprogrammable), but then again, memristors seem to be the carbon nanotubes of the computing world.

New comment by Salgat in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

Salgat — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:56:33 +0000

This is signaling to non-US companies that Anthropic cannot provide reliable access to their models.

New comment by Salgat in "US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

Salgat — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:31:46 +0000

It also signals that Anthropic is a bad choice if you need stable access to their product outside the US.