Hacker News: choilive

New comment by choilive in "A decade after Stardew Valley, Eric Barone is still going it alone"

choilive — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:06:52 +0000

With AI assistance - another Eric Barone could conceivably create a similar game in a fraction of the time

New comment by choilive in "TSMC revealing details about next gen A14 node"

choilive — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:15:38 +0000

Yes, the density vs power tradeoff could make a lot of sense in a few applications.

New comment by choilive in "The Philippines' big offshoring industry is growing despite AI"

choilive — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:30:34 +0000

I know a freelance translator and they have more business than ever, AI being "mostly" right is not good enough in many businesses. You need oversight and most importantly - accountability in the form of a human that can put their stamp of approval.

New comment by choilive in "A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review"

choilive — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:14:28 +0000

You can, and there are many techniques to do so - it's not super precise but you can essentially "delete" concepts out of a model.

New comment by choilive in "A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants"

choilive — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:08:53 +0000

What's your distinction between real time vs multiple steps? All computation is done in steps.

Is it all one big computation? Its turtles all the way down.

New comment by choilive in "Modern email can be built from borrowed parts"

choilive — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:05:32 +0000

Sending email is already cheap, not free. Just so happens the cost is subsidized/hidden for most regular people and its so cheap that they give it away for free. For those of us that run transactional email, the cost is ~ $0.0001 per email for AWS SES, already at the fraction of a fraction of a cent you suggest.

New comment by choilive in "Bitcoin trail, Google cookies and Uber Eats orders help tie man to Steam malware"

choilive — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:58:39 +0000

Claude get me a job that pays $200k/yr. Make no mistakes.

New comment by choilive in "Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark"

choilive — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:53:50 +0000

Anyone have any idea what the architecture/vendors they are using for inference/compute?

Getting the compute to run inference for multi-trillion parameter models at any sort of scale and performance is daunting. There are a handful of vendors that have systems that can do this (~ Nvidia NVl-72 class) that pretty much only the frontier labs and hyperscalers effectively have access to.

New comment by choilive in "Tiny data centre used to heat public swimming pool"

choilive — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:44:25 +0000

Non-profits have treasury functions.. it is prudent that many of them have some sort of cash reserves.

New comment by choilive in "Hanami 3.0: In Full Bloom"

choilive — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:34:52 +0000

That statement means nothing. You could say the exact same thing about Rails and have an equally defensible position. What about its architecture makes it better?

New comment by choilive in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

choilive — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:14:36 +0000

Been following the vesuvius challenge and to me this is nothing short of alien magic tech. Incredible work.

New comment by choilive in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

choilive — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:52:56 +0000

Apple was on the USB Implementers Forum that designed USB-C so.. I would say they could definitely be credited as a co-inventor of USB-C, they also introduced one of the first devices that used USB-C.

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

choilive — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:19:15 +0000

There are some studies that suggest human brain sizes have been shrinking over the last 20,000 years. The theory is that as civilization developed the demand for individual humans to be independently intelligent has weakened because we developed a "collective brain" and also self-domesticated to be more cooperative.

New comment by choilive in "Steam Machine launches today"

choilive — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:22:02 +0000

Yes. Absolutely. They will move more units and make more profit overall, and if they don't do it a competitor will.

New comment by choilive in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

choilive — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:24:53 +0000

We use headless browser providers because the companies we interact with don't and won't create a proper API for us to use. Lots of legacy web apps/portals. Saves thousands of man hours.

New comment by choilive in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

choilive — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:46:41 +0000

There are no true scotsman

New comment by choilive in "The Ballad of TIGIT"

choilive — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:31:43 +0000

Everything is obvious in hindsight, but the data (and theory) at the time was that this had a really good shot at being the next big thing in a world where >90% of drugs never make it past clinical trials. 10% probability of success * $200B in lifetime sales (assuming a Keytruda level smash hit) means an EV of ~$20B or more. Not a surprise more than a few companies wanted a shot at it.

New comment by choilive in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

choilive — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:40:26 +0000

If you don't value your time sure. Pen and paper is also basically free and even simpler with no setup time..

New comment by choilive in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

choilive — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:08:49 +0000

Soooo.. not to sound like a luddite but to me the best dedicated writing device for me has been just pen and a notebook or a typewriter.

There are surprisingly many "portable" typewriter options out there (including electronic ones).

New comment by choilive in "Is AI Profitable Yet?"

choilive — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:20:11 +0000

How so? Most of these companies will take a hit but will be fine Alphabet, Amazon, Google, etc can write off their entire investments in AI and will be a-OK. The pure AI companies will obviously be dead.