Hacker News: barrenko

New comment by barrenko in "GitHub's new dashboard experience now the default"

barrenko — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:20:44 +0000

Everything, including my Dutch textbook website for some reason, is vibecoded now.

New comment by barrenko in "Gemini 4 Argon"

barrenko — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:21:48 +0000

Google's approach reminds me of what could have been the EU's approach, they are really reluctant and drag they feet, but in the end they end up shipping and are competitive.

New comment by barrenko in "Gemini 4 Argon"

barrenko — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:11:11 +0000

~ unfortunately both Anthropic and OAI already do high end "bespoke" consulting work for business clients, the so-called "Mistral approach" is just a crappier version of that unfortunately.

Mistral / Europe just doesn't want to be in the fight.

New comment by barrenko in "Gemini 4 Argon"

barrenko — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:08:09 +0000

Google is the next Stack Overflow, but I doubt search will go obsolete obsolete.

New comment by barrenko in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

barrenko — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:13:51 +0000

A night of no sleep this one will be.

New comment by barrenko in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

barrenko — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:57:36 +0000

Sure are holding their own against the supposedly much richer Europe at this moment.

New comment by barrenko in "MiMo v2.6"

barrenko — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:15:27 +0000

On the other hand (OTOH), China is desperate to keep up and keeps pushing open models (rightfully so), as they understand how far ahead from everyone the US is, and that whoever gets this right first basically is going to become an alien compared to others.

But even with all the open models the US is just insanely ahead in AI buildout and capital allocation (as usual).

Is it a bubble? Is it like the race for the-first-to-the-nuclear bomb? Both?

New comment by barrenko in "I am often wrong"

barrenko — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:21:22 +0000

That is the culture of any self-respecting startup.

You can be informed by the community, but the decisions are your own.

New comment by barrenko in "Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash"

barrenko — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:08:54 +0000

I use Gemini(s) because I can send pdfs as files to their API and not worry too much. I've started to diverge and consacrate a part of my pipeline to sending image based pdf pages to glm flash 5.3, not sure how to address / test it properly.

Long term I have fears I can't depend of the Google's AI api.

New comment by barrenko in "Astra for Law"

barrenko — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:55:54 +0000

I'm doing some public court records processing for bankruptcy cases (interested mostly to seek out corruption in big national cases), and yes, the "variousness" of random PDFs is exactly the issue. Trying to get the cost for a whole case down to a minimum.

Sample is around 300 court dates, shy under 1k files.

At best I'm building a claude skills file.

New comment by barrenko in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

barrenko — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:52:34 +0000

Yeah, every time I try to look into an EU parliament detail, it ends up being bonker-ish for a lack of a better word.

New comment by barrenko in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

barrenko — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:28:31 +0000

We are at war with Russia, but just as with climate or mass immigration, we refuse to address it.

New comment by barrenko in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

barrenko — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:06:27 +0000

As a european, for the love of god, can we address any single of our concerns by either the national or the supranational government?

It seems as if one ambiguates the other.

New comment by barrenko in "Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests"

barrenko — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:29:32 +0000

Yeah, not sure if Revolut is the fintech that's portrayed in the last season of The Industry.

New comment by barrenko in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

barrenko — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:03:12 +0000

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kpPnReyBC54KESiSn/optimality...

New comment by barrenko in "Pandas Should Go Extinct"

barrenko — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:21:12 +0000

Whatever this is, it's not prosperity.

New comment by barrenko in "Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?"

barrenko — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:37:38 +0000

HHhH is a decent book; it's probably DHH?

New comment by barrenko in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash"

barrenko — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:13:18 +0000

Does it beat Geminis on document processing is what I want to know.

New comment by barrenko in "Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?"

barrenko — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:21:35 +0000

Cogito ergo sum is still the only "barrier" for self-awareness, aka real knowledge.

New comment by barrenko in "Ask HN: Would you hire a new engineer, or get 300k worth of tokens for the team?"

barrenko — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:07:46 +0000

Soon this equation will not be posed just for engineers.