Hacker News: amanzi

New comment by amanzi in "Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space"

amanzi — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:00:40 +0000

Strange - I had the opposite experience. The more I learned about Jev the more interesting I thought it was. This Syntax video got me excited about developing with Jev: https://youtu.be/QbYBRjOaGOo?si=Up0QbW8tWCZQzZR4

New comment by amanzi in "My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini"

amanzi — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 08:02:01 +0000

Not surprised at all - just making the point that getting a model to run isn't that impressive if it runs at a few tokens per second.

New comment by amanzi in "My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini"

amanzi — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:57:21 +0000

That's useful thanks. Also, looks painfully slow!

New comment by amanzi in "My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini"

amanzi — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:45:36 +0000

No mention of the performance of the models? I'm able to load a bunch of different models on my little mini-PC with 16GB RAM, but the performance is terrible. I always wonder what performance people are getting with local models that they find is acceptable?

New comment by amanzi in "When I worked at Apple, I remember seeing code that was 15 years old"

amanzi — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:09:05 +0000

I agree with Mitchell's original post: "stay frosty with AI", and I disagree with response that says "the houses are better". I'm assuming that Mitchell was saying you should treat all AI code with caution, and the more I work with AI-generated code, the more I agree with this sentiment. Even the frontier models (Fable, Opus, Sol, etc) all make fundamental errors from time to time, and if you're not keeping your eyes open these are easy to miss.

Just the other day, I got Fable to help generate a sign-up flow for a Django app. It looked perfect to me, and like the Twitter post linked to, I looked at it with marvel and delight. But I got Sol to review the code and it spotted some fundamental issues with the flow that would have let bad actors enumerate accounts and log in before their account was verified - both of which were supposed to be checked.

To continue with the analogy, yes we can "will houses into existence", but unless we've checked the bricks and the foundations, these houses can easily crumble into rubble.

New comment by amanzi in "PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history"

amanzi — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:18:30 +0000

Here in NZ, what Trump has been doing in the Middle East is having a huge impact on policy, especially with the upcoming elections this year. Trump has reminded us (and I imagine many other countries too) that relying on other countries for fuel is fraught with danger. EV sales have spiked here, and all of the political parties are scrambling to come with electrification policies. So for NZ at least, I definitely agree with the OP comment about Trump's influence.

New comment by amanzi in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

amanzi — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:53:46 +0000

I was initially surprised that Gruber was so invested in the "quality" of AI-generated text, which in my mind is an oxymoron. But really, Gruber's interest here is with the EU. This forms part of his ongoing attacks on the EU, all because they have been forcing Apple to align with regulations.

New comment by amanzi in "Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI"

amanzi — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:59:13 +0000

Even the website looks AI generated. Lots of cards with hover effects, icons in square boxes, the button shapes and behaviours, and just the general look and feel has Claude written all over it.

New comment by amanzi in "OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux"

amanzi — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:24:08 +0000

Nice - I've been considering re-subscribing to OpenAI to try out their new models. This is just the push I needed. Looking forward to trying it on Fedora 44.

New comment by amanzi in "Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper"

amanzi — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:47:53 +0000

That looks like an interesting game, I'll bookmark it. But no - it appears to be a different concept.

New comment by amanzi in "Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper"

amanzi — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:21:18 +0000

This is very similar concept to "0h h1" https://0hh1.com/ which I've been playing every day on Android for a couple of years now. I had never considered it to be a reverse minesweeper.

New comment by amanzi in "Zoom is now Chrome only"

amanzi — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:25:57 +0000

Worked for me - I was able to join the test meeting from Firefox 152 on Fedora 44 and on Windows 11.

New comment by amanzi in "Show HN: I made email signatures less boring"

amanzi — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:15:25 +0000

Nothing says authentic more than AI slop in your emails... These signatures are a good signal for people I wouldn't want to do business with.

New comment by amanzi in "FrankenMarkdown"

amanzi — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:00:26 +0000

Who is the target market for all these AI-slop projects that keep getting shared on HN? Who is really going to incorporate this into their project?

New comment by amanzi in "Yap – free offline voice dictation for Mac/Windows/Linux (Wispr Flow alt)"

amanzi — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:21:01 +0000

Nice website, but would be great if you could include filters for which operating systems these apps support.

New comment by amanzi in "There's still no point in gigabit broadband"

amanzi — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:06:37 +0000

"is there a real difference in waiting 7 minutes rather than 3.5?" Yes - that is a real difference! Halving your waiting time when downloading large files is a meaningful difference.

New comment by amanzi in "Show HN: Hitoku Draft – Context aware local assistant"

amanzi — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:04:23 +0000

You might want to mention this is Mac-only

New comment by amanzi in "Ferrari Luce"

amanzi — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:56:24 +0000

Looks like a car from "smart". Not too far removed from the smart #3.

New comment by amanzi in "Intercom changes name to Fin"

amanzi — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:18:32 +0000

Fin/Intercom: "Fin is defining the AI era of customer experience"

Zendesk: "AI-powered service platform"

Freshdesk: "AI-powered platform for modern customer service"

Where are the companies that are proudly promoting "human powered" customer support?

New comment by amanzi in "New Landing Page for Awesome PaaS"

amanzi — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:41:41 +0000

Why do you need a toggle for "Active" services? Surely a curated list would remove services that are no longer active? My issue with this list, and many others like it, is that they appear to have very little curation and just turn into a dumping ground of links to any service. e.g. there is almost 50 services listed as "PaaS or CaaS" - are all of these really "awesome"? Same with the "Self-Hosted PaaS" section - how much curation has been done here? Some of them don't even appear to fit in this category.