Hacker News: aunty_helen

New comment by aunty_helen in "New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it"

aunty_helen — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:57:42 +0000

Neil, Tim and Lorde need to get together, put on a gig at the basin, live aid style and save nz muso journalism!

New comment by aunty_helen in "New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it"

aunty_helen — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:50:34 +0000

Didn't you read? All the journalists got laid off. This is what we're left with

New comment by aunty_helen in "Framework Data Breach"

aunty_helen — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:05:05 +0000

I bought one of their first garbage laptops. The ones that flatten the battery overnight.

Now 5 years later I'm being told I've had my data breached for a dashboard.

I don't even have the laptop anymore, I gave it away. I still have my Pentium M laptop from high school...

New comment by aunty_helen in "After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted"

aunty_helen — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:40:38 +0000

I wish we had a word for this, where everyone’s getting rich, there’s a run on stocks, but prices of assets are all going up. Some people are missing out completely whereas a select few hoard wealth in other forms. And of course the government starting to notice and trying to intervene.

New comment by aunty_helen in "Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency"

aunty_helen — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:13:04 +0000

Love a gearbox those guys over at P&W. Can't get enough gearboxes.

New comment by aunty_helen in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

aunty_helen — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:08:38 +0000

No, they settled that yesterday, so all is forgotten. Press releases were queued for today so just in the nick of time.

New comment by aunty_helen in "SWE-1.7 Reach Near GPT 5.5 and Opus Intelligence"

aunty_helen — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:36:34 +0000

High tps is good for deeper agent thinking loops and openclaw etc. I was running cerebus recently doing some data heavy tasks, it managed to crash the server I was submitting posts to. 6 hour task down to ~1hr

New comment by aunty_helen in "AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit"

aunty_helen — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:48:21 +0000

256gbs memory bandwidth is about 1/4 that of a 3090. It would be a better buy with half the memory at 4x the speed.

New comment by aunty_helen in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

aunty_helen — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:39:39 +0000

Good to know. Might be worth updating the motherboard then, it’s limited in pcie speed.

New comment by aunty_helen in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

aunty_helen — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:07:46 +0000

I was doing some benchmarking last night on 2 3090s. The systems but old but I’m seeing 11tks 27b, 15tks 35b MoE.

The limited context is problematic. I’m not exactly sure what it’s got available but hermes was hit and miss on a prospecting job.

It does seem to be doing useful work but it’s not API call level quality

New comment by aunty_helen in "The Boeing 747 begins its final descent"

aunty_helen — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:34:43 +0000

Or more likely, that’s exactly how you make incredibly safe systems.

Not by introducing clean sheet unproven designs but by taking what works and improving any deficiencies over and over again.

New comment by aunty_helen in "Underarm bowling incident of 1981"

aunty_helen — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:34:01 +0000

It’s an expectation as a New Zealander that you hold this against the aussies.

Honestly it should be on the citizenship test. If you answer favourably towards throwing underarm, your test is rescheduled the following week in Canberra.

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

aunty_helen — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:09:14 +0000

Age verification for social media.

Approval lists for AI models.

Two sides of the same coin. The administration is taking the opportunity now on the back of fear mongering done by the labs. The labs get regulatory lock-in, the govt gets surveillance. Everybody (that matters) wins.

New comment by aunty_helen in "GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents"

aunty_helen — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:53:51 +0000

I signed up to a z.ai max account, $144. Hardly been able to use it as it 429s on most requests. They’re also refusing to refund me.

New comment by aunty_helen in "AI has already killed academia as we know it?"

aunty_helen — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:25:20 +0000

Not sure about state side. But it my country they started enforcing the 32mg/100ml caffeine limit. Which was an effective ban.

New comment by aunty_helen in "Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app"

aunty_helen — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:43:05 +0000

The glasses are a great way to make content, for better or worse. I’ve only really seen the worse side of it on my feed.

However, this is temporary. When people have seen enough fpv content it will stop getting engagement and the glasses will be forgotten.

New comment by aunty_helen in "AI has already killed academia as we know it?"

aunty_helen — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:12:35 +0000

15 years later I can still remember parts of my lectures that were interesting. The only thing I remember about studying is those now banned little energy drink shots.

New comment by aunty_helen in "The truth about being a manager"

aunty_helen — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:45:42 +0000

I think you’re being very uncharitable and lacking in empathy. Senior management have much bigger issues to deal with that can sink a whole business. It’s so demanding it’s made into a full time role.

I would rather work for someone who has on their mind where the business is going to be 12 months from now rather than what story points are acceptable to bring into a sprint.

New comment by aunty_helen in "Alan Greenspan has died"

aunty_helen — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:32:43 +0000

There’s no roosting. It’s frog boiling. Every day your money loses value.

That’s why stocks go up, spending goes up and the asset class gets richer. When you peg these to an arbitrary “value” you can see, companies aren’t getting trillions of dollars more efficient, the government isn’t delivering more services and the utility of a business or property hasn’t increased.

New comment by aunty_helen in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

aunty_helen — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:24:21 +0000

Before you go and sign up to the max plan like I did, they are obviously struggling for capacity. I'm getting API rate limited and 429'd on a simple "hello"