Hacker News: VeejayRampay

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

VeejayRampay — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:26:44 +0000

not what the first chart shows

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"

VeejayRampay — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:27:20 +0000

but have they integrated homebrew, have they made it a first class citizen, have they provided money or something?

the answer is "maybe to some small extent, but not really"

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

VeejayRampay — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:22:40 +0000

the older talented people are there because of money

there's nothing special about the US, it's money

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

VeejayRampay — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:17:18 +0000

you think it's shitty, but it's a personal opinion that you're phrasing as some kind of widely accepted view

be sure that it's not, lots of people actually PREFER Android

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"

VeejayRampay — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:59:39 +0000

see homebrew, they could have made this an official thing but no, they prefer to let people work do their work for them and sleep on their mattress of cash

despicable business practices really

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

VeejayRampay — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:58:16 +0000

capital and talent is the same in this context

there's no shortage of talent in Europe or France, it's just an issue of available capital

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Why narcissistic leaders resist remote work"

VeejayRampay — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:47:18 +0000

incredibly cliché and essentialist view of the world, reads like a bad pseudoscientific self help book from the 90's

New comment by VeejayRampay in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

VeejayRampay — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:29:39 +0000

he's obviously a xenophobe, that's the opposite of being empathetic

he supports a party that flat out talks about immigrants as parasites, let's not try to paint him and a good guy, it's infuriating

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"

VeejayRampay — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:19:02 +0000

I really wish people stopped saying things "I've been saying that"

why not just say "I think that"

do you see yourself as some kind of visionary about this particular topic? literally EVERYONE is saying that, it's the most obvious fact about AI

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Zed Editor Theme-Builder"

VeejayRampay — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:56:39 +0000

tried using zed, didn't understand how to set up claude code integration, went back to vscode where setting up claude code is trivial

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge"

VeejayRampay — Sun, 03 May 2026 11:34:31 +0000

crazy how people on hacker news, who just gobble up anything if it's from openai or anthropic suddenly become monocled sceptics when chinese open models are "winning"

New comment by VeejayRampay in "How uv got so fast"

VeejayRampay — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 21:12:11 +0000

it is absolutely a huge deal, I suspect you work daily in python but with a small number of repositories that dont change too often

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Mistral 3 family of models released"

VeejayRampay — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:49:42 +0000

no, I find Gemini to be the best

New comment by VeejayRampay in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

VeejayRampay — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:29:08 +0000

what do you mean "catches up"

Gemini has been as good as GPT for more than a year

OpenAI still somehow gets the edge on the initial veneer of hype, and that's running thin

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Xkcd: Python Environment (2018)"

VeejayRampay — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 21:10:16 +0000

ruff is a blessing as well and soon ty will make type checking so much better (or pyrefly which also seems great)

New comment by VeejayRampay in "French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence"

VeejayRampay — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:18:15 +0000

thanks for this post

it should be repeated ad-nauseam that he is a crook, a shame for the country and its values and that the whole discourse about the injustice of the sentencing has heavy anti-liberal vibes

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing"

VeejayRampay — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 07:13:27 +0000

you're not in the minority, there's just intense fanboyism on Hacker News to promote OpenAI, because it serves the whole "LLM revolution" schtick better

Gemini has been dominating the field for about a year now, but I suppose Google is bit boring cause they just do things well

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files"

VeejayRampay — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:54:30 +0000

due to the nature of PDF, none of the tools mentioned here can do things as simple as detecting tables on pages with high accuracy

PDF is absolutely mint for display but it really suffers when parsing is involved

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Type Theory and Functional Programming (1999) [pdf]"

VeejayRampay — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 20:59:37 +0000

python will be the last man standing with basically no functional goodies

people will keep on trucking with their "pythonic" for loops containg appends to a list that was initialized right before, their disgust for recursion, their absence of lambdas, the lack of monadic return types or containers

New comment by VeejayRampay in "Unified Line and Paragraph Detection by Graph Convolutional Networks (2022)"

VeejayRampay — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 11:41:45 +0000

remotely related, but I have yet to find a solution for page classification in a document for tables, i.e. a classifier that returns the index of pages containing tables in a document that is reliable

solutions using things like img2table or pymupdf are really bad (pymupdf is not even reliable for text pdfs)