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New comment by awllau in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

awllau — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:18:25 +0000

Casado says he was misquoted and walked this back: https://x.com/martin_casado/status/1990462245541982546

"Well, not quite. I'd say 20-30% use open source. Of those I'd say 80% use Chinese based models. So closer to 16-24%."

Reads pretty differently.

New comment by awllau in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

awllau — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:48:34 +0000

I was thinking the same. A lot of people use AI to refine their writing and make it more concise.

I do think the dead giveaways (em dashes, it's not X it's Y, etc.) are annoying to come across repeatedly. A person not bothering to remove these tells feels 'low effort' to me.

New comment by awllau in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

awllau — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:46:20 +0000

The fact that you made a new account to write says it all.

New comment by awllau in "Show HN: Shot-scraper video tool for recording YAML-defined webapp feature demos"

awllau — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:19:32 +0000

Great outside-the-box thinking, will be giving this a try, especially with LLMs having computer control functionality. Combine this with some open source video editors and you've basically got your own bootstrapped version of Screen Studio.

New comment by awllau in "I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code"

awllau — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:57:10 +0000

Very cool use of AI. Shows the power of Autoresearch when you're actually able to build a strict set of tests that clearly delineate successful outcomes.

New comment by awllau in "Openrouter Fusion API"

awllau — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:25:58 +0000

Very cool, thanks for sharing. Speed was my biggest concern and they didn't mention anything about it.

New comment by awllau in "Openrouter Fusion API"

awllau — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:23:56 +0000

One of the things they neglected to discuss was how much longer it takes given the synthesis step. I guess for a deep research benchmark, it doesn't matter much, but will be interesting to see how it applies to coding tasks.

New comment by awllau in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

awllau — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:33:41 +0000

So happy I came across this. Need to rethink a few projects.

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

awllau — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:27:39 +0000

Based on your explanation, it doesn't sound feasible for me, a complete non-engineer, to switch to fully offline? I do a lot of back and forth discussion with LLMs as someone who reads and writes 0 code.

New comment by awllau in "Show HN: Skill for your agent to visualize your gbrain and Obsidian"

awllau — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:24:33 +0000

Do people even use the visual/graph views at all or is it just optics? I'm thinking about it from the perspective of using LLMs to search your own database, and I imagine it reaches a scale where it's not feasible or effective for a human to be manually searching.

New comment by awllau in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

awllau — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:50:23 +0000

Makes sense for actual devs. For non-devs who'd just edit docs via LLMs anyway (myself), I can't imagine it'd introduce much friction.