Hacker News: ZeroCool2u

New comment by ZeroCool2u in "Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated"

ZeroCool2u — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:46:06 +0000

One can only hope The Culture is the trajectory the future bends to.

New comment by ZeroCool2u in "1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug"

ZeroCool2u — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:18:51 +0000

Zed is excellent. I know it's weird, but the last thing holding me back is being able to have a browser based Zed session the same as VSCode.

New comment by ZeroCool2u in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

ZeroCool2u — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:38:11 +0000

A crucial factor tech industry folks tend to ignore is how much executives value predictable costs. Cloud migrations got away with this, but still had to argue fiercely, because 'the cloud' and its serverless tech had the potential to significantly decrease overall spend for unpredictable, bursty workloads.

The usual counter-argument is the operational burden, but human capital is also a relatively fixed cost. A dedicated team of 3-5 FTEs could probably handle inference ops for a F500 company.

Meanwhile, the capability delta is shrinking fast. We have more evidence that local open-source is viable with the release of DeepSeek v4, and the industry is only trending further in this direction. Especially as we rely more on test-time compute and task-specific harnesses rather than model size.

So, if you're an executive looking at a marginal but fixed operations cost, added flexibility, and a rapidly closing gap in capability, why wouldn't you just run open-source models on your own infrastructure to get those highly predictable costs? Plus, you decrease the risk of one of the frontier

Diátaxis: A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring

ZeroCool2u — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:49:21 +0000

Article URL: https://diataxis.fr/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250179

Points: 5

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The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon

ZeroCool2u — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:47:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-banal-horror-of-jimmy-fallon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250157

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

Steam Deck Software in 2026:Checking in with the Developers Behind the Ecosystem

ZeroCool2u — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:27:32 +0000

Article URL: https://gardinerbryant.com/steam-deck-software-in-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248024

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by ZeroCool2u in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

ZeroCool2u — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:43:12 +0000

Interestingly, Anthropic uses Mintlify for their docs. Not Stainless. Obviously, the focus is on SDK generation, but still strange.

New comment by ZeroCool2u in "A Meta employee gets real about the horror of working there"

ZeroCool2u — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:00:52 +0000

It is frustrating, because I really enjoyed my Valve Index and want a replacement and Meta has some of the best VR tech in the world, but I've waited 6 years for Valve to release their new headset to buy a replacement, simply because Meta can't be trusted.

New comment by ZeroCool2u in "Googlebook"

ZeroCool2u — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:03:59 +0000

The quality of apps in the Google Play Store has dropped massively. There are still some gems, but for better or worse, the ecosystem is simply not as strong as Apples and it's certainly not comparable to just having a device where you can install anything you'd like in a full desktop grade OS.

New comment by ZeroCool2u in "Googlebook"

ZeroCool2u — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:07:45 +0000

There was a time where Google could've been competitive in this space, specifically against Apples MacBook product line, but that has long since passed. The 3rd party manufacturer path means Google isn't committed to this and won't have competitive hardware. It'll just be another Chromebook and limited to the Google Play Store too, which just isn't good at this point.

New comment by ZeroCool2u in "Claude Platform on AWS"

ZeroCool2u — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:53:19 +0000

Bedrock is both more expensive, less feature complete, and less reliable in terms of raw volume of 500 errors.

New comment by ZeroCool2u in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

ZeroCool2u — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:47:54 +0000

Interesting side effect of this is that Google Cloud may now be the only hype scaler that can resell all 3 of the labs models? Maybe I'm misinterpreting this, but that would be a notable development, and I don't see why Google would allow Gemini to be resold through any of the other cloud providers.

Might really increase the utility of those GCP credits.

New comment by ZeroCool2u in "GPT-5.5"

ZeroCool2u — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:07:38 +0000

Benchmarks are favorable enough they're comparing to non-OpenAI models again. Interesting that tokens/second is similar to 5.4. Maybe there's some genuine innovation beyond bigger model better this time?

New comment by ZeroCool2u in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

ZeroCool2u — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:05:52 +0000

Whenever we get the locally runnable 4k models things are going to get really awkward for the big 3 labs. Well at least Google will still have their ad revenue I guess.

New comment by ZeroCool2u in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

ZeroCool2u — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:00:32 +0000

In my experience Azure is full of consistency issues and race conditions. It's enough of an issue that I was talking about new OpenAI models becoming available via Bedrock on AWS and how convenient that was since I wouldn't have to deal with Azure and my colleague in enterprise architecture went on an unprompted rant about these exact issues. It's not the first time something like this has happened and I've experienced these issues first hand, so yes. I'd say reliability is a critical issue for Azure and it hasn't gotten better each time I've gone back to check.

New comment by ZeroCool2u in "Quad9 Enables DNS over HTTP/3 and DNS over QUIC"

ZeroCool2u — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:05:04 +0000

Does quad9 have a resolver that includes ad blocking?

New comment by ZeroCool2u in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

ZeroCool2u — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:59:08 +0000

Yes, exactly my point.

New comment by ZeroCool2u in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

ZeroCool2u — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:48:19 +0000

I'm finishing my annual paid Pro Gemini plan, so I'm on the free plan for Claude and I asked one (1) single question, which admittedly was about a research plan, using the Sonnet 4.6 Extended thinking model and instantly hit my limit until 2 PM (it was around 8 or 9 AM).

Just a shockingly constrained service tier right now.

New comment by ZeroCool2u in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

ZeroCool2u — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:37:27 +0000

See I really want this in a simpler format. Like a single file embedded database on my filesystem that I can point a single/or few tools at for my model to use when it needs.

New comment by ZeroCool2u in "Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'"

ZeroCool2u — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:02:07 +0000

Gift link then: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-16/atlassian...