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New comment by btheunissen in "GLM-5.3 is now open-weight"

btheunissen — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:47:17 +0000

Yes I really don’t a reason to not switch all my team to use GLM 5.3 for planning, and Flash for implementation. This really does seem apocalyptic for Anthropic and OAI if more of the industry switches.

New comment by btheunissen in "A week of using Codex more than Claude"

btheunissen — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 02:31:58 +0000

I’m more than happy to let SpaceX burn out over the next few years now that they’re public and their last quarter financials showed the emperor is without clothes (muh space datacenters).

New comment by btheunissen in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

btheunissen — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 09:23:35 +0000

I’m in Australia and I love going to my local Costco with my wife monthly to load up on meat we re-portion and freeze. Calling it an exotic experience is a little much, they operate in 14 countries, I’m just there for the bulk savings with a hot dog or two.

New comment by btheunissen in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

btheunissen — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:20:00 +0000

holy shit it was possessed by Richard Stallman

New comment by btheunissen in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

btheunissen — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:51:54 +0000

I hate AI video, I hate AI art, but if you are pretending that AI isn’t going be writing code for 99% of projects going forward you are absolutely kidding yourself.

New comment by btheunissen in "Sodium-ion EV battery breakthrough delivers 11-min charging and 450 km range"

btheunissen — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:51:33 +0000

Starting to think that the American century of humiliation meme was prophetic.

New comment by btheunissen in "Ask HN: Have you ever cloned a cat?"

btheunissen — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:24:49 +0000

I’ve been cloning and battling cats for the past week, it’s highly addictive: https://store.steampowered.com/app/686060/Mewgenics/

New comment by btheunissen in "Mistral OCR 3"

btheunissen — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:32:22 +0000

All of their comments are either a) "this OCR is bad", or b) "here is my team's OCR, it is good". Quite blatant.

New comment by btheunissen in "Vibe coding is mad depressing"

btheunissen — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 04:13:07 +0000

> The first clues started when a client, who I thought was a software developer, starts merging his own code through the main branch, without warning. No pull request, just straight git push --force origin main ... Last time, I checked this Xcode project did not compiled. Or anything close to it.

This doesn't read like a vibe-coding problem, and more of a client boundaries problem. Surely you could point out they are paying you for your expertise, and to supersede your best practices with whatever AI churns out is making the job they are paying you to do even harder, and frankly a little disrespectful ("I know better").

New comment by btheunissen in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

btheunissen — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 02:39:41 +0000

The obvious knob to turn here is that the floor price of ad auctions will be incredibly high, with the justification that AI is expensive.

As someone outside of the ad-tech space it blows my mind how much Instagram and Google ads cost these days, and OpenAI would certainly want to price their ad offering as more “premium” (see: $$$).

New comment by btheunissen in "Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race"

btheunissen — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 04:09:49 +0000

More like Cuomo screwed Sliwa, if Cuomo wanted to run against the Democratic candidate, he should have ran as a Republican. He already lost the primary and took his sour grapes to the general.

New comment by btheunissen in "Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'"

btheunissen — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 08:24:46 +0000

At the start of the “LLM boom” I was optimistic that OAI/Anthropic were in a position finally unseat the Big 4 in at least this area. Now I’m convinced the only winners are going to be Google, Meta, Amazon, and we are right back to where we started.

New comment by btheunissen in "Germany eyes 10% digital tax on global tech groups"

btheunissen — Fri, 30 May 2025 11:09:40 +0000

I very much agree from contractors I’ve worked with from Poland and the like, but the same areas don’t produce a lot of international software companies. Lack of capital for venture businesses in those regions? Hard to pin down.

New comment by btheunissen in "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'"

btheunissen — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 01:51:08 +0000

I don't like David or Chamath, but it is quite mind-blowing how little Jason C seems to have accomplished vs. the other two, his entire claim to fame appears to be trolling online and being close enough to the rest of the PayPal mafia to be be able to feed on their scraps.

New comment by btheunissen in "43K fewer drivers on Manhattan roads after congestion pricing turned on"

btheunissen — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 02:49:34 +0000

I wouldn’t be surprised if this was across the board for buses into lower Manhattan/around bridges into Manhattan. When living in cities I usually use both buses and trains but when living in NYC I tried to avoid buses when possible as you are at the behest of an insane amount of traffic usually; meaning you can’t reliably be places on time if you are using the bus.

New comment by btheunissen in "What it's like working for American companies as an Australian"

btheunissen — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 02:26:51 +0000

I currently work for a YC company based in New York, with myself in Australia after moving back to be closer to family and have switched my work schedule to be from Tuesday to Saturday to align with EST as you mentioned. Not exactly the most pleasant working hours but my coworkers have been pretty accommodating to make the essential meetings as early as possible.

One slight benefit that makes the Friday to Saturday shift more tolerable is that I won’t start the following work week until Monday night/Tuesday morning, so my weekend nights are Saturday and Sunday, so losing out on Friday night isn’t too bad. Definitely not a schedule for the faint of heart though.

New comment by btheunissen in "Bench.co acquired after informing staff company was insolvent"

btheunissen — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 09:50:57 +0000

This is very cool! Nice to see there is something in the space to unstick some very stressed out Bench customers. Making sure everything reconciles definitely makes sense, I’ve worked on ledger systems in the past so I always look at these problems with a skeptical eye :)

New comment by btheunissen in "Bench.co acquired after informing staff company was insolvent"

btheunissen — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 03:06:29 +0000

I’d argue detailed accounting data is reasonably hard to package up into a nice format to easily import into a new system, especially having confidence that you migrated everything successfully without getting a nasty shock a few months down the line.

New comment by btheunissen in "Ghostty 1.0"

btheunissen — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 09:18:03 +0000

Telling to creator of Redis that they might want to reevaluate their respective program logic (Redis) is pretty funny, only on HN :)

New comment by btheunissen in "Ghostty 1.0"

btheunissen — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 04:36:10 +0000

The original commenter posted a shallow dismissal by putting the effort into posting a comment without clicking a single button on the page :)