<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: adamsmark</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=adamsmark</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:41:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=adamsmark" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamsmark in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Groq was the preview of the broadband era of LLMs for me. I remember asking a question on the demo site and the answer text showed up near instantly. Far faster than I could read. This was ~1 year ago and pre-acquisition.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 03:41:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031889</link><dc:creator>adamsmark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031889</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamsmark in "I'm scared about biological computing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It wouldn't continue in any real form. Maybe cholesterol conscious and devout buddhists will still try to adhere, but beyond that I don't see what the point would be.<p>It would be like how Ozempic lead to a mysterious quieting of Body Positivity/Health at Every Size advocates. They were a vocal minority, there was much "debate" and cri de couer from many sides and now its all evaporated without a farewell or explicit winding down.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 01:29:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031057</link><dc:creator>adamsmark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031057</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamsmark in "Santa Cruz restaurant changes logo after flurry of negative reviews for AI art"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Echoing that. 99 Bottles really was an institution. It had the feel of a proper local pub: warm, a little scruffy, and full of character. The walls were covered with bottle caps from all kinds of beer brands — probably more than 99, honestly.<p>And if you made it through all 99 beers on their list, you got a small plaque on the wall, about the size of one of those e-ink grocery price tags. It was a great tavern-like atmosphere, and the kind of place that felt increasingly rare even before it was gone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 18:37:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989121</link><dc:creator>adamsmark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989121</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamsmark in "Where the goblins came from"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Burn some "incense" to help you get in the zone.
Bless the machine spirit!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:43:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969230</link><dc:creator>adamsmark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969230</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamsmark in "Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I <i>want</i> to use local LLMs, and in fact I have enough VRAM (12GB) and RAM (96GB) to do it but I gave up because it was pretty buggy with the Gemma 4 26B (A4B?) Q4 models. It also meant I had to give up local voice transcription because I needed all my VRAM dedicated to the LLM.<p>The other thing is I will ask an agent via Telegram to code stuff, so I want an agent that is smart enough to do it all. I prefer brute forcing with money right now. I hate when LLM make bizarre mistakes, I end up spending way too much time figuring out the issue.<p>I use Openrouter, so <i>hopefully</i> no one has built a perfect replica of me in their storage. I flip between models too.<p>But to be clear, I am living dangerously with agentic workflows in general. Haven't been burnt yet (other than accidentally running up a huge Gemini bill which made me switch to Codex Oauth and Openrouter for cheap Minimax 2.7)<p>I am moving to a commander/orchestrator model to use both frontier and cheap models and eventually a better local LLM once I buy a 5070 Ti, 3090, 64GB Mac M1 Max, 128GB Strix Halo (probably missed that train) or the AMD R9700.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:05:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956804</link><dc:creator>adamsmark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956804</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamsmark in "I benchmarked Claude Code's caveman plugin against "be brief.""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Heck no. I had fun though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:55:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956726</link><dc:creator>adamsmark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamsmark in "I benchmarked Claude Code's caveman plugin against "be brief.""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Write caveman summary too. Fast read.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:53:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956710</link><dc:creator>adamsmark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956710</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamsmark in "I benchmarked Claude Code's caveman plugin against "be brief.""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But you can turn off brain. Try make self idiot. Save brain energy for important.
Smarty speaks in idiot. When smarty speak like that is consistent. Idiot understand fast.<p>It would have been hilarious if the author spoke like a caveman in his video or had a section in that article where he explained his conclusions like a caveman.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:49:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956676</link><dc:creator>adamsmark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956676</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamsmark in "Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use my Openclaw setup to record notes I don't ever want to remember the details of. Here are some examples:<p>Storing my Health Insurance's Member ID, RxBin and other data.
Recording the serial number of a product I will be calling technical support for.
Organizing files to be more logical and deduplicating or consolidating as needed.<p>Whenever I want this info, I'll just ask my LLM to pull it up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:10:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904191</link><dc:creator>adamsmark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904191</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamsmark in "Codex for almost everything"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Local isn't viable yet on an economic basis, API costs are so low that you're better off taking advantage of the bonanza. As local models become more performant, so too will the ability of providers via Openrouter be able to offer them cheaper than your likely payoff period for a $4K Mac Studio 128GB. e.g Gemma 4 31B is impressive, but it costs practically nothing via Openrouter. Given that there are a ton of providers for open models, I doubt there's any subsidy going on because the providers are faceless and interchangeable.<p>At least, that's my theory.<p>The big advantages of local on a business level are:<p>- Freezing your model's exact settings once you've locked in some kind of workflow that works just fine.
- Guarding against insane token usage from LLMs who have been told to never stop until they figure out the solution OR setting up an LLM run incorrectly. (The last one happened to me with Gemini 3.1 Pro)
- PII or some need for on-premise only LLMs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:54:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808654</link><dc:creator>adamsmark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808654</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamsmark in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The accuracy is much lower though.<p>I've switched away from Gboard to Futo on Android and exclusively use MacWhisper on MacOS instead of the default Apple transcription model.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:43:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668892</link><dc:creator>adamsmark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668892</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamsmark in "Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Whoop! Whoop!<p>Need to disappear? Just go to the Gathering and find your new family. Pay for protection with Faygo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:01:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446024</link><dc:creator>adamsmark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446024</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamsmark in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I frequently use AI to make my comments more concise and easy to follow. I find myself meandering a lot when I type, and now that I've transitioned to full voice dictation through FUTO keyboard I am speaking more off the cuff and having an LLM clean it up.<p>You may also notice that I don't have much common history here. I mostly comment on Reddit.<p>Here's where I draw the line. If you are not reading the text that is produced by the LLM, then I don't want to read whatever it is that you wrote. I will usually only do one or two iterations of my comment, but afterwards I will usually edit it by hand.<p>Technically, there is light AI editing of this comment because FUTO keyboard has the ability to enable a transformer model that will capitalize, punctuate, and just generally remove filler words and make it so that it's not a hyper-literal transcription.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:15:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340842</link><dc:creator>adamsmark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340842</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamsmark in "Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why not change your wifi password? Or just set up a temporary guest one and delete it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:00:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328731</link><dc:creator>adamsmark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328731</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamsmark in "Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why not just change your wifi password so that the TV can't connect again (after you've got your OTAs but I guess you could have loaded them on a USB stick to flash instead of wifi)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:59:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328711</link><dc:creator>adamsmark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328711</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamsmark in "Setting up phones is a nightmare"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>iOS now has a ton of dialogs and set up steps and the occasional dark pattern in selling you various cloud based subscriptions to Apples various services.<p>Having said all that, yes Android is pretty bad. I think it's the in the nature of platform owners to get their hooks into yoh as much as possible.<p>When I set up Linux Mint, there was none of this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 20:44:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47210479</link><dc:creator>adamsmark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47210479</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47210479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamsmark in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great art style, fun music.<p>I couldn't figure out the Boss fight with cards though. I run out of energy and so I assume my turn is over. But how do I end my turn?<p>A button guide in the main menu would be helpful.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:39:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46267241</link><dc:creator>adamsmark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46267241</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46267241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamsmark in "Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can still make art for yourself.<p>Admittedly Pre-AI, someone might have spammed their font business and received a similar frustrated response.<p>Maybe it's more about the shilling?</p>
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<p>You can try it out in the playground but not the consumer ChatGPT website. You will be limited to 10K tokens per minute if you are not in any spending tier e.g $150 per month will give you bigger context window.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:41:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38185274</link><dc:creator>adamsmark</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38185274</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38185274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by adamsmark in "Amazon Cuts Dozens of House Brands as It Battles Costs, Regulators"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Second this on Goodthreads quality.
There was a pricing error back in July of 2020. I got dress shirts and pants for $7 - $12. Incredible.</p>
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