Hacker News: azmenak

New comment by azmenak in "StepFun 3.5 Flash is #1 cost-effective model for OpenClaw tasks (300 battles)"

azmenak — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:48:19 +0000

This model is free to use, and has been for quite some time on OpenRouter. $0 is pretty hard to beat in terms of cost effectiveness.

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

azmenak — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:21:39 +0000

From my personal testing, running various agentic tasks with a bunch of tool calls on an M4 Max 128GB, I've found that running quantized versions of larger models to produce the best results which this site completely ignores.

Currently, Nemotron 3 Super using Unsloth's UD Q4_K_XL quant is running nearly everything I do locally (replacing Qwen3.5 122b)

New comment by azmenak in "Confer – End to end encrypted AI chat"

azmenak — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:56:50 +0000

As someone who has spent a good time of time working on trusted compute (in the crypto domain) I'll say this is generally pretty well thought out, doesn't get us to an entirely 0-trust e2e solution, but is still very good.

Inevitably, the TEE hardware vendor must be trusted. I don't think this is a bad assumption in today's world, but this is still a fairly new domain and longer term it becomes increasingly likely TEE compromises like design flaws, microcode bugs, key compromises, etc. are discovered (if they haven't already been!) Then we'd need to consider how Confer would handle these and what sort of "break glass" protocols are in place.

This also requires a non-trivial amount of client side coordination and guards against any supply chain attacks. Setting aside the details of how this is done, even with a transparency log, the client must trust something about “who is allowed to publish acceptable releases”. If the client trusts “anything in the log,” an attacker could publish their own signed artifacts, So the client must effectively trust a specific publisher identity/key, plus the log’s append-only/auditable property to prevent silent targeted swaps.

The net result is a need to trust Confer's identity and published releases, at least in the short term as 3rd party auditors could flag any issues in reproducible builds. As I see it, the game theory would suggest Confer remains honest, Moxie's reputation plays are fairly large role in this.

New comment by azmenak in "iPhone Pocket"

azmenak — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:16:46 +0000

Seeing all the nerd brains of HN implode trying to understand this. This is what happens when the tech and fashion worlds overlap for a moment.

New comment by azmenak in "Transfer Stocks Out of Your Robinhood Account"

azmenak — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 04:19:26 +0000

As other have pointed out, this wasn’t applied as a blanket ban.

I was able to trade GME options in IBKR today without any restrictions.

New comment by azmenak in "Robinhood was indeed too good to be true"

azmenak — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 19:09:04 +0000

To contrast, in my early days of options trading with Interactive Brokers, they had closed a spread ~10 minutes before expiry at a loss, which turned profitable 8 minutes later.

Contacted support, and they responded within 2 minutes explaining exactly why this had been done (risk profile at the time, and insufficient margin to cover). They answered all my questions and even explained what I should do to mitigate this issue going forward.

New comment by azmenak in "Robinhood was indeed too good to be true"

azmenak — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 19:00:12 +0000

Yes and no.

They have details here: https://gdcdyn.interactivebrokers.com/Universal/servlet/Regi...

But essentially if you are using their “pro” service, which charges commissions then no. If you are using their “lite” service with zero-commission then maybe.

New comment by azmenak in "Safely Reviving Shared Memory"

azmenak — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 18:56:40 +0000

While still a ways away, its great to see progress on this front. After SABs were disabled, the use cases and power of WebWorkers shrank considerably.

Very excited to dive back into some WASM/WebWorker projects that got abandoned due to performance limitations.

New comment by azmenak in "Electron 9.0"

azmenak — Tue, 19 May 2020 01:11:31 +0000

Are there any other release notes? Surprised to see just 2 (seemingly?) minor fixes merit a major version bump

New comment by azmenak in "Show HN: Tara – A smart and free alternative to Jira"

azmenak — Fri, 01 May 2020 12:12:08 +0000

We use JIRA to track our product development with a fairly large team (including 17 engineers) and while JIRA has its pain points, it does have integrations with development workflow.

In our setup, after a PR is merged in Github, the ticket automatically moves to the next “step”, in our case “Ready for QA”.

Beyond that there are automation workflows that accomplish much of what you are asking for here, the issue is that these are complex tools/flows that require a lot of up-front work and continuous maintenance which might not be worthwhile for all teams.

New comment by azmenak in "Ticketmaster changes policy, no longer offering refunds on postponed shows"

azmenak — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:57:01 +0000

Also IANAL, but its my understanding (at least under common law here in Canada) that the doctrine of privity of contract should apply here. Since the ticket purchaser only has a contract with Ticketmaster/Live Nation they should not be able to sue the 3rd party event provider, and rather are only left with the option to sue Live Nation.

New comment by azmenak in "Essential shutting down after failing to launch ‘GEM’ smartphone"

azmenak — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:33:49 +0000

Had no idea they also owned Newton. Going to use this as yet another reminder not to invest in new email clients, they all seem to get shut down within a few years of launch.

New comment by azmenak in "Neural correlates of the DMT experience assessed with multivariate EEG"

azmenak — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 21:08:51 +0000

Title is inaccurate, this study used intravenous DMT, as opposed to Ayahuasca which is a oral concoction of DMT and an MAOI.

Interesting nonetheless.

New comment by azmenak in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)"

azmenak — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 23:48:24 +0000

d1g1t | Senior Software Engineer, Front-End | Toronto, ON, Canada | ONSITE Full-time

d1g1t is a digital wealth management platform powered by advanced analytics and risk management tools that offers transparent portfolio management services to professional advisers and their individual investors. Our goal is to empower wealth management firms to transition into a new business model that is driven by technology and analytics, and provides a richer experience for their clients.

We are looking for an experienced JavaScript (Typescript) developer who is proficient with React.

On the front-end our tech stack on the front-end includes React, Typescript, Redux+Sagas, Swift (iOS) and Kotlin (Android)

We are a team that is passionate about our work, and we strive to maintain the highest standards for code quality. If you are looking to work on genuinely difficult engineering problems in the front-end space in an engineering focused organization, this is the job for you.

If you’re interested, please reach out at adam.zmenak@d1g1t.com

New comment by azmenak in "New version of Stripe Checkout"

azmenak — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 18:46:57 +0000

I've been neglecting the maintenance of the package "react-stripe-checkout" for a while and though this would be a good time to finally bring it up to date, but it appears the new version of checkout was created with a very different use case in mind. Single page, JS rendered apps don't really fit the model, and should probably use legacy Checkout or Stripe Elements.

Show HN: Use-async-call – manage the state and lifecycle of async data loading

azmenak — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 18:21:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/azmenak/use-async-call

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19598774

Points: 1

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New comment by azmenak in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2019)"

azmenak — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:09:58 +0000

d1g1t | Senior Front-end Engineer | Toronto, ON, Canada | ONSITE Full-time

d1g1t is a new digital wealth management platform powered by advanced analytics and risk management tools that offers transparent portfolio management services to professional advisers and their individual investors. Our goal is to empower wealth management firms to transition into a new business model that is driven by technology and analytics, and provides a richer experience for their clients.

We are looking for an experienced JavaScript (Typescript) developer who is proficient with React.

On the front-end our tech stack includes React, Typescript, Redux+Sagas

We are a team that is passionate about our work, and we strive to maintain the highest standards for code quality.

If you’re interested please email me: adam.zmenak@d1g1t.com

New comment by azmenak in "Show HN: Tabulator – Easy-to-use JavaScript library for interactive tables"

azmenak — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 22:45:25 +0000

We've had to implement an internal table library with all of these features using React (and react-virtualized for scrolling). It's interesting and impressive to see such a large piece of UI code written without any library.

New comment by azmenak in "MongoDB switches up its open source license"

azmenak — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 02:21:15 +0000

A “source available” example

https://github.com/highcharts/highcharts

New comment by azmenak in "Should I Learn Java in 2018"

azmenak — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 12:33:45 +0000

Was hopping to see more mentions of Android development... I’m currently weighing building an app in Kotlin or Java