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New comment by beardsciences in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

beardsciences — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:37:29 +0000

I made something that tries to highlight the humor regarding this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950534

New comment by beardsciences in "Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?"

beardsciences — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:23:14 +0000

Can confirm, just now.

New comment by beardsciences in "Cost Exploder – your AWS bill × 2³⁰"

beardsciences — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:22:29 +0000

I wanted to make something topical that highlights the humor surrounding the AWS billing issue. Please don't hesitate to let me know what you think.

Cost Exploder – your AWS bill × 2³⁰

beardsciences — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:22:29 +0000

Article URL: https://aws.mccullough.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950534

Points: 7

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New comment by beardsciences in "Forgejo v16.0 Is Available"

beardsciences — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:48:15 +0000

I love Forgejo!

New comment by beardsciences in "Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally"

beardsciences — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:42:59 +0000

I am somewhere in the middle, where I want something with more than 48GB/$2k of VRAM, but less than 384GB/$40k.

I'm curious if GMKtec's EVO-X2, with ~96GB of usable VRAM, is still a good solution for something like this for $3,399.

New comment by beardsciences in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

beardsciences — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:39:09 +0000

I literally said "Oh, of course" out loud.

New comment by beardsciences in "Show HN: Watch a neural net learn to play Snake"

beardsciences — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:37:41 +0000

My average eventually made it to about 3900, and then stagnated between 3600-3900. I'm curious if this is universal behavior or not. I'm up to about 5k steps.

New comment by beardsciences in "Show HN: GhostBox – Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier"

beardsciences — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:07:01 +0000

The repository now appears to be disabled.

https://github.com/DO-SAY-GO/ghostbox-releases

https://github.com/crisdosaygo/ghostbox-home-reveal

New comment by beardsciences in "Show HN: GhostBox – Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier"

beardsciences — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:36:46 +0000

This idea is great in concept, and I think it's important to state that, but the GitHub Actions stuff is against TOS iirc + they will need to address that pretty quickly.

New comment by beardsciences in "We reproduced Anthropic's Mythos findings with public models"

beardsciences — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:49:14 +0000

I believe this has the same issue as the last article that had these claims.

We can assume that Mythos was given a much less pointed prompt/was able to come up with these vulnerabilities without specificity, while smaller models like Opus/GPT 5.4 had to be given a specific area or hints about where the vulnerability lives.

Please correct me if I'm wrong/misunderstanding.

New comment by beardsciences in "An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD"

beardsciences — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:51:24 +0000

I'm glad that Atari was willing to compromise at all. I'm happy with the updated response, and hope that it helps others understand the nuance of the situation. Anyone can still go download the main release from the official site.

New comment by beardsciences in "Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal"

beardsciences — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:34:50 +0000

This is looking pretty good. Going to run some sample data runs + might try this out.

New comment by beardsciences in "Track Your Routine – Open-source app for task management"

beardsciences — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:09:33 +0000

I was coming to look for a comment like this.

It may say more about me than the person writing these type of README's, but if I see more than one or two emojis in a README, I immediately assume it was fully generated rather than written.

New comment by beardsciences in "Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking"

beardsciences — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:46:05 +0000

Very interesting. I would be curious to understand how granular these updates are being applied to CC + what might be causing things like this. I feel like I can notice a very small degradation but have compensated with more detailed prompts (which I think, perhaps naively, is offsetting this issue).

New comment by beardsciences in "Booting from a vinyl record (2020)"

beardsciences — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:53:44 +0000

Simply Amazing. I'd love to know more about this.

New comment by beardsciences in "Booting from a vinyl record (2020)"

beardsciences — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:46:20 +0000

appears to be hugged to death for now.

New comment by beardsciences in "Nix Derivation Madness"

beardsciences — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:09:43 +0000

That makes sense, thanks for clarifying. Great writeup.

New comment by beardsciences in "Nix Derivation Madness"

beardsciences — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:16:22 +0000

If I understand this correctly, upcoming Ca-derivations will fix this by making these situations expected, properly-handled cases rather than a weird bug? https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Ca-derivations

New comment by beardsciences in "Servo v0.0.1"

beardsciences — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:10:04 +0000

Whether it's something like this, or ladybird's engine, I'm happy there is work being made in this space.