Hacker News: andy_ppp

New comment by andy_ppp in "Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"

andy_ppp — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:50:55 +0000

I wonder if you could just setup a small model and suggest a load of things and try every file and it might still end up being cheaper and just as good as Mythos at a specific task. Maybe this will be something that holds true for more things, formulating a small model to do specific things may well end up being as effective/efficient as a larger model looking at a huge solution space.

New comment by andy_ppp in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

andy_ppp — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:26:33 +0000

Fair. Clearly they need the land back GOD gave them 3000 years ago.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

andy_ppp — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:55:55 +0000

One of the conditions Iran has placed on ships travelling through the strait of Hormuz is that the oil is traded/purchased in RMB.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

andy_ppp — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:54:23 +0000

If only Hollywood had have let Trump be in more films than Home Alone 2, none of this would have happened!

New comment by andy_ppp in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

andy_ppp — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:49:26 +0000

If you could design a perfect plan to destroy the United States, Donald Trump, probably through sheer buffoonish incompetence seems to be implementing it.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

andy_ppp — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:46:47 +0000

There’s every chance that the US loses the trust of the GCC countries and they choose to spend their oil money away from the US should all of this madness ever calm down.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

andy_ppp — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:41:08 +0000

Almost certainly but most people don’t find it as enjoyable. Also the problem of keeping the bath hot enough for 20-30 mins.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

andy_ppp — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:48:14 +0000

I have read the book, I didn’t mind her conscience surfacing at all. I’m not sure I’d want to go up against an organisation like Meta, and having first hand accounts of how these people love money and power more than they do values and people.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

andy_ppp — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:53:37 +0000

So you should never be allowed to comment on the behaviour of companies you worked for?

New comment by andy_ppp in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

andy_ppp — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:41:44 +0000

Everyone thinks they are right, but it’s having the grace to be able learn, be wrong and develop is the point here! Also your average HN commenter does not get listened to or promoted anywhere to the same degree!

New comment by andy_ppp in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

andy_ppp — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:53:46 +0000

Damn I was hoping they would build proper GPUs at some point.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Schedule tasks on the web"

andy_ppp — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:51:51 +0000

Users are often incorrect about what the software should actually be doing and don’t see the bigger picture.

New comment by andy_ppp in "The future of version control"

andy_ppp — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:37:10 +0000

Don't do squash commits, just rebase -i your branch before merging so you only have one commit. It's pretty trivial to do.

New comment by andy_ppp in "The future of version control"

andy_ppp — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:35:34 +0000

I completely agree, since doing rebase our history looks fantastic and it makes finding things, cherrypicking and generating changelogs really simple. Why not be neat, it's cost us nothing and you can make yourself a tutorial on Claude if you don't understand rebasing pretty easily.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons"

andy_ppp — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:32:22 +0000

Usually I like Apple’s OS updates but Tahoe is absolutely awful from the glass to the noddy sizing of everything. MacOS does not have to harmonise with VisionOS at all and it’s been a disaster for macOS to try.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service"

andy_ppp — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:07:31 +0000

I’ve seen this in other “follow the leader” businesses too, they are not looking to even have working features, just parity on a spreadsheet with the market leader… I’m looking at you Gitlab.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Zenclora OS"

andy_ppp — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:59:24 +0000

I wish everyone thought exactly like me too, it’d be great getting exactly what I wanted and basically the world would become utopia over night.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Can I run AI locally?"

andy_ppp — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:27:13 +0000

It’s not even the largest part, just prefill so I think maybe M5 Max is 30% faster overall. Still pretty good I think but the 4x nonsense is just marketing!

New comment by andy_ppp in "Can I run AI locally?"

andy_ppp — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:20:26 +0000

Is it correct that there's zero improvement in performance between M4 (+Pro/Max) and M5 (+Pro/Max) the data looks identical. Also the memory does not seem to improve performance on larger models when I thought it would have?

Love the idea though!

EDIT: Okay the whole thing is nonsense and just some rough guesswork or asking an LLM to estimate the values. You should have real data (I'm sure people here can help) and put ESTIMATE next to any of the combinations you are guessing.

New comment by andy_ppp in "Should hack-back be legal?"

andy_ppp — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:58:34 +0000

All vigilantism has issues. For example, if I was ever to do something horrific online I’d probably hack someone unrelated to me first and tunnel through their computer and online presence to make sure if I got caught it would not blowback onto me so easily. Not that I’ve thought about it or anything :-/