Hacker News: _345

New comment by _345 in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"

_345 — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:56:21 +0000

Agree wholeheartedly. I think that Anthropic has just invested more effort in creating a better DevEx than OpenAI, and so people just "feel" that claude code is better but they're about the same really, claude code might be 5% better at best.

New comment by _345 in "Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed at Arizona U commencement speech"

_345 — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:21:18 +0000

It doesn't sound like he was booed, more like the topic of AI was booed when mentioned

New comment by _345 in "Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting"

_345 — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:23:14 +0000

yes just ask claude to add quick-silence-dissension to your project

New comment by _345 in "Usage-based pricing killing your vibe, here's how to roll your own local AI"

_345 — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:48:54 +0000

It's a seriously degraded experience from a developer's perspective. Okay you've got one local LLM installed finally after configuring everything perfectly, what happens when you want to run a second instance? Now you've blown past your vram and system ram limits, and you're stuck to just one.

Furthermore, the model they recommend doesn't quite reach ~gpt-5.4-mini level performance- that quality dip means you may as well just pay for something like Kimi K2.6 via openrouter if you want a something ~>= sonnet 4.6 in performance as a backup for when you run out of anthropic/openai usage.

New comment by _345 in "DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro"

_345 — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:00:40 +0000

I've been experimenting with Hermes, I'm convinced hermes is also just bad. Like as a harness it has got to be doing something to lobotomize these models- Even GPT-5.4 performs badly in Hermes vs just using it in Codex.

New comment by _345 in "DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro"

_345 — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:02:28 +0000

If you're okay with sonnet level performance, this sounds like a straight upgrade. But I find that sonnet messes up too much, that it ends up not being worth cost optimizing down to using it or another sonnet-level model. Glad to have this as an option though

New comment by _345 in "The Death of Scrum – Built for a slower world, performed by those who left"

_345 — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:22:16 +0000

> Also why light text on black background?

im really curious how you think this is worse than the other way around

New comment by _345 in "The Death of Scrum – Built for a slower world, performed by those who left"

_345 — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:17:04 +0000

I think I like this article and I haven't finished it yet, but I don't think the bottleneck has shifted to non-human with the advent of agentic AI. It's still the human (deciding what product direction to take, reviewing code, etc)

New comment by _345 in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

_345 — Sat, 02 May 2026 04:24:23 +0000

This is eye opening

New comment by _345 in "Show HN: Site Mogging"

_345 — Sat, 02 May 2026 04:00:14 +0000

this would work better if gemma 4 actually could tell what it was looking at

New comment by _345 in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

_345 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:09:33 +0000

The page is hard to read on landscape browsers like Chrome on Win11.

New comment by _345 in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

_345 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:00:18 +0000

We need more voices like this to cut through the bullshit. It's fine that people want to tinker with local models, but there has been this narrative for too long that you can just buy more ram and run some small to medium sized model and be productive that way. You just can't, a 35b will never perform at the level of the same gen 500b+ model. It just won't and you are basically working with GPT-4 (the very first one to launch) tier performance while everyone else is on GPT-5.4. If that's fine for you because you can stay local, cool, but that's the part that no one ever wants to say out loud and it made me think I was just "doing it wrong" for so long on lm studio and ollama.

New comment by _345 in "Make Tmux Pretty and Usable (2024)"

_345 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:18:00 +0000

I actually asked chatgpt to recommend me a great starter tmux conf, and it gave me 80% of this blog post. Not an insult btw.

New comment by _345 in "The best VR game I've ever played wasn't a VR game"

_345 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:38:12 +0000

Weirdly, after submit, the post went up as "VR game I've ever played wasn't a VR game". I had to edit it to add "The best" back in. Misfiring title filter maybe?

The best VR game I've ever played wasn't a VR game

_345 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:36:54 +0000

Article URL: https://alanmunirji.dev/#blog=vr-immersion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681032

Points: 2

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New comment by _345 in "Regular army and reserve components enlistment program: Summary of change"

_345 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:50:25 +0000

That's about a 8:30 mile scaling for the fact that its harder when you have to cover more distance... seems pretty reasonable to me as a fitness baseline for the army. I would struggle to make that now but if I had one month to prep I could clear that

New comment by _345 in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

_345 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:45:51 +0000

They contract out all the time, they've admitted to it in lots of interviews. So I think through the amount of contracting they're able to keep their core hires down.

New comment by _345 in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

_345 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:38:22 +0000

One thing that steam does better than any other place is create an incredible store experience to sell games on. I don't think any other game distributor has an algorithm as good as theirs, and all the integrations and hookups that come with it. For example, Nintendo's shop page for each game is sparse in detail and lacks so much information buyers have access to in that game's Steam page counterpart. The store search and other store views display games far more efficiently than nintendo's search and store views, making it much easier to find what you're looking for in fewer clicks and fewer minutes.

if you have the time, try to find a game on nintendo vs on steam. Don't google for the pages, go to their base shop page and start from there. Try to avoid directly searching the title, instead search for keywords as if you're a gamer trying to recall a game suggestion you heard from a friend like 2 weeks ago. You'll notice the plethora of differences that combined puts steam on a whole other level of sales and content distribution if you go about it like that

New comment by _345 in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"

_345 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:47:49 +0000

I never understood that. The presence of simple comments loke "Nice!" or "I agree" are really rare anyways, and I don't find it difficult to scroll past them like I would with any other comment whose first few sentences I don't find salient

New comment by _345 in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

_345 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:25:55 +0000

I would not have started my article with "I could get into Bitcoin anytime, why the rush". That is not the killer first example you think it is. It's been ~17 years of proof so far that you would've made a ton of money by simply mindlessly buying $200 of bitcoin every month after lower risk contributions are made, and just holding onto it.

I mean if you did that you'd have contributed ~$38K USD by 2026 and had ~1.5B USD now if you started in 2010. BTC being so cheap back then dominates the whole process so to demonstrate my point more if you had heard about it all those years and were nervous about trying it and decided to wait until 2016, you'd still need to just put in $24K overall to come out with ~$450K by 2026.

That's not biting your finger nails over the price changes, the hype cycles, the price drop scares. You just set and forget a $200 recurring buy a month and put your energy elsewhere and pocket half a million for basically no effort

And if anything is possible in hindsight, then why in hindsight would you write an article acting like bitcoin was a bad decision to be an early adopter for