Hacker News: Zetaphor

New comment by Zetaphor in "AI is slowing down"

Zetaphor — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:10:20 +0000

I am unfamiliar with his work, can you provide sources for his past incorrect predictions?

New comment by Zetaphor in "Wow, if it's this easy in 1998, I bet it'll be even easier in 2026"

Zetaphor — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:53:07 +0000

Something powered by an LLM is going to end up being the tool that makes this accessible in the way it always should have been, and that gives me complex feelings.

New comment by Zetaphor in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

Zetaphor — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:35:22 +0000

This was covered in the issue itself, in fact the issue is pretty well documented with regards to the packaging:

> Publish an official Claude Desktop build for Linux, targeting the two current Ubuntu LTS releases (and Debian) as a signed .deb via an Anthropic-operated apt repository, using the same distribution pipeline Claude Code already uses for Linux.

Also Flatpak or AppImage would make this accessible to every other distro. Alternatively you could run the deb with a Podman Toolbox.

Your point about backwards compatibility with Windows goes both ways, I have old games that I can _only_ run on Linux as they don't work on modern versions of Windows.

New comment by Zetaphor in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

Zetaphor — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:00:02 +0000

Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B and 27B both at Q8 on a Strix Halo machine

New comment by Zetaphor in "I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab"

Zetaphor — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:31:14 +0000

You're supporting the developers original work at that price. There's plenty of cheaper devices that take that original work and just throw it on some chips

New comment by Zetaphor in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

Zetaphor — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:23:57 +0000

I want to reduce my dependency on companies like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Aside from the concerns of data sharing I'm also not a fan of how they run their operations, for example Anthropic now using xAI's Colossus data center which is poisoning a marginalized community, or OpenAI getting in bed with the military.

Not everything I want to use an LLM for requires "PhD level intelligence", and increasingly I'm finding more uses that involve sharing my personal data.

Yesterday my local model helped me when looking for a doctor who is in-network for my insurance. I threw it a screenshot from the providers search results and it looked up reviews for all of them.

New comment by Zetaphor in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

Zetaphor — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:13:21 +0000

> Daniel Lemire’s blog is one of the top 50 most popular blogs on Hacker News, the standard tech news aggregation site.

Citation needed

New comment by Zetaphor in "My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development"

Zetaphor — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:18:50 +0000

I think they're maybe confusing Skills and MCP servers

New comment by Zetaphor in "Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery"

Zetaphor — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:43:01 +0000

That is their actual account. We have this discussion every time they post something sadly

New comment by Zetaphor in "Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5"

Zetaphor — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:32:53 +0000

They clearly missed that part where I said I'm on mobile. That half a page is a lot longer on a smaller screen. Also I still want to see a picture or video of this running on actual hardware!

New comment by Zetaphor in "Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5"

Zetaphor — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:10:02 +0000

There isn't a single image of the device on mobile, I was confused because I thought this was a VST

New comment by Zetaphor in "Karpathy LLM Wiki pattern integrated into Obsidian agenic workflow"

Zetaphor — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:43:04 +0000

Obsidian is just a client that uses markdown files stored locally, so yes, since the files are typically on the same machine as the agent harness

New comment by Zetaphor in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

Zetaphor — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:40:33 +0000

You should definitely check out his YouTube series if you haven't seen it and want more context

New comment by Zetaphor in "MCP is dead?"

Zetaphor — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:08:51 +0000

People forget these things learned to speak English by reading conversations like this.

New comment by Zetaphor in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

Zetaphor — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:26:07 +0000

A local model doesn't have downtime. No you can't be as hands off with it as something like Claude, but isn't that a good thing?

New comment by Zetaphor in "Is AI Profitable Yet?"

Zetaphor — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:37:11 +0000

You're still ignoring their mention of the wider economy. The banks were bailed out, but everyone downstream of them still felt the brunt of the impact, atop paying for that bailout with tax dollars.

New comment by Zetaphor in "Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks"

Zetaphor — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:42:42 +0000

Correct, I have local hardware, not infinite money.

New comment by Zetaphor in "Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks"

Zetaphor — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:52:00 +0000

There's a lot of valuable things that can be done in that range, especially when token costs aren't a concern. Not every problem requires SOTA

New comment by Zetaphor in "Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer"

Zetaphor — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:13:04 +0000

The UHK also supports mouse keys. I own both the 60v2 and the newer UHK 80 (I was a beta tester), these keyboards are my final destination. The only reason I would consider a change is if they released an ortholinear layout.

New comment by Zetaphor in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"

Zetaphor — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:34:37 +0000

I wear ear plugs every night. The disposable foam ones are good enough to prevent me from being woken up by my partner getting ready before me, but I would most certainly hear a fire alarm. I'm laying in bed right now with them in and I can still hear the fan pointed at me. They significantly reduce low-mid range frequencies, but they're not 100% soundproof