Hacker News: akulbe

New comment by akulbe in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

akulbe — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:00:01 +0000

Like some other folks, I wonder whether this will be a good thing, or a bad thing.

I feel like if Nvidia ends up turning into a bad actor, in terms of restricting/censoring models... another HF will spring up.

New comment by akulbe in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

akulbe — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:55:05 +0000

Truer words were never spoken. This is painfully true.

New comment by akulbe in "Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion"

akulbe — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:10:35 +0000

I posted on LinkedIn that I thought the future of AI will be local. I'm surprised I didn't get tarred and feathered, but it's been crickets.

I do believe it though. While the subsidies of the frontier providers are nice, they can't continue forever.

New comment by akulbe in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

akulbe — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:52:57 +0000

With the DeepMind guy leaving the building... isn't Gemini going to get old and crusty, and fall into disrepair?

I'm mostly serious here. Aside from Gmail and search, it feels Google doesn't have a good track record for maintaining things.

It really makes me wonder... if key people are leaving, what's going to happen? The Google graveyard is pretty big.

New comment by akulbe in "How to Install Python3.14 from source on Ubuntu 26.04"

akulbe — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:37:48 +0000

Hey, I've done this before. It wasn't until after I went through that process that I learned about the Deadsnakes PPA.

You can add this PPA (personal package archive) to your Ubuntu install. Then you can use apt to do the install of the newer version.

https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Just another alternative method, and potentially easier/faster.

New comment by akulbe in "Desktop Linux just cracked 10% market share – and Windows 11 is mostly to blame"

akulbe — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:00:59 +0000

I read another comment somewhere this morning that said this was false... that the numbers are inflated. I wonder if it's true, or not.

New comment by akulbe in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)"

akulbe — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:10:52 +0000

Location: Nashville metro

Remote: Preferred, but will also consider hybrid in either Nashville or Clarksville

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: AWS, Azure, GCP - Terraform, Ansible, Python, Bash, MLOps

Resume: https://linkedin.com/in/akulbe

Email: hackernews@kulbe.name

New comment by akulbe in "Why We're Dropping Basecamp"

akulbe — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:46:43 +0000

This is from 2023.

New comment by akulbe in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

akulbe — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:31:19 +0000

I bought a full spec M5 Max MBP. Yesterday.

I'm relieved.

New comment by akulbe in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

akulbe — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:41:17 +0000

$7349, and as of today, it'd be $10149

New comment by akulbe in "Apple increases MacBook and iPad prices by 20%"

akulbe — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:21:25 +0000

That's why I updated, as well.

New comment by akulbe in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

akulbe — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:18:58 +0000

No, M5 Max MBP with all the options.

I wanted a Studio, but if I was going to get a Studio, I'd get something older because they crippled the current models.

I have an M2 Max, as well, and I wonder what I could get for it on resale... or maybe I should just keep it.

New comment by akulbe in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

akulbe — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:52:00 +0000

WOW. I'm glad I bought the beast yesterday.

The same spec machine I got yesterday is now $2800 more.

New comment by akulbe in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

akulbe — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:04:00 +0000

I have an M2 Max MBP with 96GB of RAM. What models and setup would you use for this kind of configuration?

New comment by akulbe in "SoftBank's Masayoshi Son: AI revolution is '50x bigger' than the dot-com boom"

akulbe — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:55:38 +0000

Which means that the bubble pop will be that much worse too.

New comment by akulbe in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

akulbe — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:32:10 +0000

Do subscriptions make the ads go away? If not, it's hard to see much value proposition in them.

New comment by akulbe in "Ask HN: Laptops with good Linux support and good build quality?"

akulbe — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:44:11 +0000

Framework.

New comment by akulbe in "Ask HN: Mac users – has Mac-to-Android texting broke for you, since macOS 26.5?"

akulbe — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:33:32 +0000

Checked that. It's not off.

New comment by akulbe in "Ask HN: Mac users – has Mac-to-Android texting broke for you, since macOS 26.5?"

akulbe — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:26:30 +0000

Mac-to-Android texting with the Messages app is broken for me, as of macOS and iOS 26.5

I'm just curious to know if other users have experienced this, before I go to extreme troubleshooting steps.

I can send direct from the iPhone, but the forwarding from the Mac feature is broken for messages destined for Android devices.

I spent a couple hours on the phone with Apple Support and did extensive troubleshooting, and they finally told me I should reinstall macOS. Seems pretty extreme, to me.

Ask HN: Mac users – has Mac-to-Android texting broke for you, since macOS 26.5?

akulbe — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:26:30 +0000

Article URL: https://discussions.apple.com/verify-human/verify.html?next=/thread/256300699

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215746

Points: 3

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