Hacker News: Shakahs

New comment by Shakahs in "Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API"

Shakahs — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:17:32 +0000

Enterprise adds IAM, logging, and analytics, all of which AWS provides for free or for metered usage without needing an enterprise plan.

New comment by Shakahs in "Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API"

Shakahs — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:54:23 +0000

If you are paying API rates (not using Max subscriptions) there's no reason to use Anthropic's API directly, the same models are hosted by both AWS and Google with better uptime than Anthropic.

New comment by Shakahs in "Show HN: Live Sun and Moon Dashboard with NASA Footage"

Shakahs — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:07:59 +0000

Looks very neat.

You may want to optimize the content serving a bit, since it's currently hotlinking multiple large (30MB) videos at 2K resolution from https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov.

New comment by Shakahs in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

Shakahs — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:45:29 +0000

AWS and GCP both have their own custom inference chips, so a better example for hosting Opus on commodity hardware would be Digital Ocean.

New comment by Shakahs in "The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button"

Shakahs — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:01:22 +0000

https://react-aria.adobe.com is the new Radix, it provides unstyled components with a heavy focus on accessibility and quality. https://github.com/heroui-inc/heroui is the new Shadcn.

New comment by Shakahs in "Cerebras systems raises $1.1B Series G"

Shakahs — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 22:34:48 +0000

I use it via the Kilo Code extension for VSCode, which is invoking Qwen3-Coder via a Cerebras Code subscription.

https://github.com/Kilo-Org/kilocode https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/introducing-cerebras-code

New comment by Shakahs in "Cerebras systems raises $1.1B Series G"

Shakahs — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:24:47 +0000

Sonnet/Claude Code may technically be "smarter", but Qwen3-Coder on Cerebras is often more productive for me because it's just so incredibly fast. Even if it takes more LLM calls to complete a task, those calls are all happening in a fraction of the time.

New comment by Shakahs in "Show HN: ZeroFS, the Filesystem That Makes S3 Your Primary Storage"

Shakahs — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 03:45:11 +0000

SlateDB offers different durability levels for writes. By default writes are buffered locally and flushed to S3 when the buffer is full or the client invokes flush().

https://slatedb.io/docs/design/writes/

New comment by Shakahs in "Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?"

Shakahs — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:37:24 +0000

While your technical analysis is excellent, making judgements about workload suitability based on a Preview release is premature. Preview services have historically had significantly lower performance quotas than GA releases. Lambda for example was limited to 50 concurrent executions during Preview, raised to 100 at GA, and now the default limit is 1,000.

New comment by Shakahs in "Grok Code Fast 1"

Shakahs — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:59:30 +0000

Grok are the first models I am boycotting on purely environmental grounds. They built their datacenter without sufficient local power supply and have been illegally powering it with unpermitted gas turbine generators until that capacity gets built, to the significant detriment of the local population.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/elon-musk-xai-gas...

New comment by Shakahs in "A Tour Inside the IBM Z17"

Shakahs — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:20:16 +0000

Reading about mainframes feels very much like reading science fiction. Truly awesome technology that exists on a completely different plane of computing than anything else.

New comment by Shakahs in "[dead]"

Shakahs — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:53:45 +0000

This thinly veiled advertisement claims it's a waste of time to understand the tradeoffs in the models you're using, and you should instead pay them to make those decisions for you. No thank you.

New comment by Shakahs in "Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor"

Shakahs — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 03:21:33 +0000

Forcing Twitter to make public posts easily accessible is not at all the same as compelling Apple to hand over your private messages.

New comment by Shakahs in "Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new webhost"

Shakahs — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 12:23:41 +0000

Per the ongoing Freedesktop discussion, AWS offered to host but Freedesktop is leaning towards self-hosting on Hetzner so they can control their own destiny and sponsors can contribute cash towards the bill instead of donating hardware.

> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/freedesktop/-/iss...

New comment by Shakahs in "Ask HN: Does anyone still use code snippets?"

Shakahs — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 06:39:13 +0000

Same for me, I use "ar " in Intellij all the time.

New comment by Shakahs in "Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?"

Shakahs — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:48:05 +0000

Because they own the CDN and most of the bandwidth is from peering, so it essentially costs them nothing. Netlify on the other hand has to pay per GB to AWS.

New comment by Shakahs in "Node.js enables TypeScript handling by default"

Shakahs — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 04:06:06 +0000

Note: This is type stripping only, no transpilation / code generation is done.

Node.js enables TypeScript handling by default

Shakahs — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 04:05:00 +0000

Article URL: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v23.6.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42630790

Points: 17

# Comments: 7

New comment by Shakahs in "Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?"

Shakahs — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 14:15:16 +0000

Both these issues can be resolved by adding some sample code to context to influence the LLM to do the desired thing.

As the op says, LLMs are going to be biased towards doing the "average" thing based on their training data. There's more old backend code on the internet than new backend code, and Tailwind is pretty dominant for frontend styling these days, so that's where the average lands.

New comment by Shakahs in "Xerox to acquire Lexmark"

Shakahs — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:07:55 +0000

Counterpoint: I also used to fix Lexmark printers as a field tech servicing pharmacies. It was routine to see Lexmark MS711dn printers with page counts in the millions. They did not need more than basic maintenance.