Hacker News: ajdegol

New comment by ajdegol in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

ajdegol — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:27:38 +0000

Double precision cell chips were reserved for military, I think (or maybe also blade processors). So doing any serious physics on them was dead in the water - same with macs tbh

New comment by ajdegol in "Why current LLM costs are not sustainable"

ajdegol — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:13:46 +0000

> doing Typescript type fixes with this model across 50 files cost me $54 this afternoon.

Not trying to be harsh, but that sounds like a skill issue. You have the language server to lean on; easy feedback loop; sub agent per type.

New comment by ajdegol in "The 2-Year Apartment Rule"

ajdegol — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:09:09 +0000

A fascinating insight into the architecture of modern cpus from an entrepreneurial angle. Bravo!

New comment by ajdegol in "Open source AI must win"

ajdegol — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:29:05 +0000

I wonder if we could gamify and democratise it somehow, like fold-at-home and wikipedia...

I've been training a teeny specialised model to run in a browser on a phone to detect harmonium notes played in a song (harmonium turns out is a pita, another story for another day), getting good labelled data is _all_ of the hard work.

That being said, maybe for cheap inference, using a big model to train something ultra-suited for the task at hand might be how we could handle local inference; thinking language specific models.

New comment by ajdegol in "Ferrari Luce"

ajdegol — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:13:35 +0000

Before customisations

New comment by ajdegol in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

ajdegol — Sat, 23 May 2026 08:55:26 +0000

The price of convenience.

New comment by ajdegol in "Meta's Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable"

ajdegol — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:23:05 +0000

But you forgot about Vickers

New comment by ajdegol in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

ajdegol — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:36:26 +0000

Because of AI or because hackers are hyper targeting infra clusters?

New comment by ajdegol in "Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge"

ajdegol — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:31:37 +0000

I’ve been wondering about potential regression in coding models.

The initial models were corrected by programmers which gave a very high quality feedback signal. Whereas with vibe coding on the rise, you’ll lose that signal.

New comment by ajdegol in "GPT-5.5"

ajdegol — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:38:57 +0000

@grok is this true?

New comment by ajdegol in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

ajdegol — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:02:42 +0000

Vercel auto creates deployments on pushes to branches. That was a super useful feature in beta testing web stuff.

New comment by ajdegol in "Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links"

ajdegol — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:08:50 +0000

didn't know datomic was free of licensing fees - I didn't use it back in the day because the cost was prohibitive... interesting

New comment by ajdegol in "YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes"

ajdegol — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:57:21 +0000

I vibed up a chrome extension that sets a timer, hides shorts, redirects home to subscriptions, and hides comments and recommendations.

It’s all toggleable so I don’t disable the extension when I do want some neuronal junk food. But just the micro friction being added back in is such a huge help to becoming more aware when using it.

New comment by ajdegol in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

ajdegol — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:12:24 +0000

I think it was $1000 too expensive to take off. It’s also too heavy, they should drop the front screen and ruthlessly save weight.

Chicken and egg problem, if no-one buys it, no-one will develop any killer apps.

Whether it’s pleasant to have any screens that close to your eyes - or ever will be - is maybe the bigger question for VR.

New comment by ajdegol in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

ajdegol — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:55:26 +0000

Guess you’ve sorted it but it might be in the session memory in your root folder. I’ve recovered some things this way.

New comment by ajdegol in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

ajdegol — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:33:59 +0000

I think that metal isn’t double precision; so that limits some serious physics simming; but if you’re doing that I guess you just rent a gpu somewhere.

I would definitely be into this if adding an egpu was first class supported.

New comment by ajdegol in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

ajdegol — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:22:26 +0000

likely in a skill file

New comment by ajdegol in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

ajdegol — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:02:48 +0000

compounding recursion is leading to emergent behaviour

New comment by ajdegol in "Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes"

ajdegol — Thu, 30 May 2024 20:51:45 +0000

Branching conversations are great for a whole bunch of reasons. I posted a demo of a prototype: https://x.com/ajdegol/status/1788689011302682657

And Jake Collins just announced he’s open sourcing an obsidian plugin which has a ton of features: https://x.com/JacobColling/status/1795462258258002255

New comment by ajdegol in "Training for one trillion parameter model backed by Intel and US govt has begun"

ajdegol — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 12:10:47 +0000

Wasn't the answer 42?

Also, first question to the new model: "So... any way we could do this with fewer parameters?"