Hacker News: afzalive

New comment by afzalive in "K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models"

afzalive — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:45:00 +0000

Not to be confused with Kimi K2. Out of all the names they could've used, they picked one that would be confusing.

New comment by afzalive in "Ask HN: Can we classify AI as: subhuman, quasihuman, human, superhumam?"

afzalive — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:06:13 +0000

None of the above. It's classified as a large language model.

New comment by afzalive in "Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice"

afzalive — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:22:06 +0000

Oh you're talking about a pretend device that this person with replace due to the pretend problem with their current device.

So what's your solution to this problem?

New comment by afzalive in "White House plans to keep AI framework under wraps"

afzalive — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:14:42 +0000

Because it's so unbelievably stupid that everyone will make fun of them?

New comment by afzalive in "Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac"

afzalive — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:33:49 +0000

The M5 MBP has 24GB of RAM, more context in RAM perhaps?

New comment by afzalive in "Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models"

afzalive — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:26:36 +0000

Remove the dark pattern

New comment by afzalive in "The lost joy of music piracy"

afzalive — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:03:13 +0000

Instead of solving difficult, unsolvable problems, the goal of the tech industry has become to replace these sub-cultures with a subscription or social media. In doing so, first they offer convenience for cheap, once they've replaced the sub-culture, they ramp up their prices to profit.

New comment by afzalive in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

afzalive — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:59:14 +0000

On Android, each app is its own user.

New comment by afzalive in "Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts"

afzalive — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:51:45 +0000

I wonder if you can just ask the model what it means.

New comment by afzalive in "An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop"

afzalive — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:29:11 +0000

Have you tried Affinity Photo?

New comment by afzalive in "Leaded Gas Was a Known Poison the Day It Was Invented (2016)"

afzalive — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:43:47 +0000

And he also invented CFCs

New comment by afzalive in "The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable"

afzalive — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:07:42 +0000

As with anything. Either you can go full-speed without much understanding and hit a wall when you need to understand stuff or you can go a manageable speed and actually understand the codebase.

I don't think we can do both. The difference is that it's optional now depending on the project and the audience.

New comment by afzalive in "The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable"

afzalive — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:00:29 +0000

> You can never ask why a model did a certain thing

Of course you can! It might be following outdated docs or read something in legacy code and tried to follow that pattern and it'll tell you as much if you ask it in a way that actually gets you the reason instead of it thinking it needs to immediately fix the mistake.

New comment by afzalive in "Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file"

afzalive — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:42:30 +0000

Wasn't 2000 the first NT architecture on desktop?

2000 is, by far, my favourite Windows OS.

New comment by afzalive in "Software is made between commits"

afzalive — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:19:43 +0000

Could you just give me reference peeking without opening a full tab?

New comment by afzalive in "Agents Need a Public Square"

afzalive — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:51:54 +0000

I dunno about this. Agent discovery is needed, yes. But I don't trust the tech companies right now to do this in a privacy preserving manner. I feel like it'll be used to collect all sorts of data not intended for the parties. Even in the flight ticket example, a third-party insurance or ad-tech company could listen to the request for ticket prices and determine intent to travel (including destination and dates).

New comment by afzalive in "GitHub Copilot App"

afzalive — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:52:53 +0000

I use Conductor's spotlight (and a Pi extension I derived from it) but it's not perfect. Once a migration executes, I'm pretty much bound to it but at least once, I have just backed up the database before switching and then restored that.

New comment by afzalive in "Launch HN: Rudus (YC P26) – AI for concrete contractors"

afzalive — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:16:10 +0000

Looks like a useful tool but I don't know anything about construction.

Love the transparent AI helper implementation though. I feel like you don't even need to say it's AI because it's so helpful but not in your face but maybe that's what people are searching for.

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

afzalive — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:29:22 +0000

None of these billionaires are going to lead you to the dreams of the future that you have.

And don't forget the negative effects on other people, otherwise that's just selfish.

New comment by afzalive in "Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP"

afzalive — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:20:00 +0000

It needs to be end-to-end encrypted.