Hacker News: chrisss395

New comment by chrisss395 in "Tesla Roadster"

chrisss395 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:14:05 +0000

Can you imagine being behind this thing and the air blowing rocks and shit all over your car?

New comment by chrisss395 in "Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?"

chrisss395 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:00:08 +0000

This is great. The business these companies are in is actually quite simple, and managing the expense of running the hardware is an enormous lever for them when it comes to profitability. They have many developers whose sole focus is on this optimization problem.

New comment by chrisss395 in "13 Months Sober (2025)"

chrisss395 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:32:27 +0000

7 months here so the post was an interesting read. I feel like I'm still learning how to function being sober, like what the upcoming holiday season will feel like being sober. I also find myself thinking maybe I can responsibly enjoy alcohol at some point, although deep down I know that isn't true.

What resonated most about the blog post was loss of things I used to do with alcohol. I'm still just avoiding those activities, but I'd love to get to a point where I'm comfortable sitting in a bar without the need for alcohol. In a way, it feels like I'm having to learn how to exist in this alcohol free world.

New comment by chrisss395 in "Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep"

chrisss395 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:13:38 +0000

Can Hister handle indexing of large local file shares? I've got 30-50TB of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files with no easy way to search them currently, beyond Agent Ransack.

Does Hister handle this well? If not, can anyone suggest other options?

New comment by chrisss395 in "Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com"

chrisss395 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:20:23 +0000

I don't think folks read the source link. Most responses are a plug for Fastmail.

New comment by chrisss395 in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

chrisss395 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:11:20 +0000

I echo folks sentiment here. Sadly OAI Sol couldn't make a powerpoint to save its life. Opus 5 and Fable do a really good job of. I just have to review the language, but that's relatively easy.

New comment by chrisss395 in "Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs"

chrisss395 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:04:34 +0000

Possibly something to do with other providers using the it to train their own models?

New comment by chrisss395 in "Patreon laying off 20% of staff"

chrisss395 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:56:55 +0000

I see others mentioning the severance package being decent for a US company. I'm glad they received something, but I'm sorry, can we stop calling this decent? It's markedly lopsided when a company can one day decide to lay off a large portion of their workforce and think 4 months is anywhere near acceptable. The average time to find a new job is significantly longer, especially depending on role and seniority.

I'm tired of seeing American workers bear the brunt of the stupidity of the executive teams that have done their job so poorly as to suddenly need to lay off workers. If you are a leader and you are put in this situation, it is because you are a terrible at your job. It's not the market, it's not AI or some unforeseen disaster...it's because you had your head up your ass instead of actively running the business.

New comment by chrisss395 in "Kimi Work"

chrisss395 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:29:39 +0000

Has anyone tried this for things like Excel models and PowerPoints? And any reactions to how it compares to Claude?

I’ve seen lots of flashy examples, but a lot of knowledge work is not this, and more synthesis of sources and information in to structured content.

New comment by chrisss395 in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

chrisss395 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:25:42 +0000

Re: common people, yes, and given all the talk of job instability AI is creating, why hasn’t Anthropic or OpenAI offered discounted plans for laid off or displaced workers? Wouldn’t this be a tangible way to display goodwill and build adoption?

New comment by chrisss395 in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

chrisss395 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:56:16 +0000

Where does the harness come in to play? I'd love to use GLM 5.2 for general chat, but I don't know of any harness that offers an experience close to ChatGPT or Claude (e.g., history, skills, projects) without requiring a PhD to set it up.

New comment by chrisss395 in "SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine"

chrisss395 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:06 +0000

I love your idea and wondered why saving and indexing browser visited pages was not being done. Does this handle large amounts of local files, for example 10-20TB across file types like Powerpoint, Excel, Word, and PDF?

New comment by chrisss395 in "Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor"

chrisss395 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:02:55 +0000

How did the voting work? The first thing I thought was, what happens in a tie (2-2) vote?

New comment by chrisss395 in "The Boeing 747 begins its final descent"

chrisss395 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:54:31 +0000

I know less about the airframe differences across the -400 and -8, but I can say the 747-8 represented a major upgrade in Flight Management Software.

I re-wrote the Central Maintenance System (portion inside the FMS) in C from scratch because no one had the original detailed design documents. The original -400 code was written in Pascal if I'm remembering correctly. I gleamed what I could from the source and relied on unit tests to get the rest of the way there based on what I knew of the protocol itself.

The entire FMS software was completely re-written in C++ and using modern object oriented patterns (at the time). Probably the most fun I've had over my now 20'ish year career. Of course Boeing was pissed with the delays this caused because the airframe wasn't a major change. I'll quote a Boeing (from MD originally) executive as saying "Meeting this project deadline is more important than your child dying."

Sadly this was also the time I remember Boeing's engineering ranks began to thin out. Personal opinion, this was a large part of what led to the MAX situation.

New comment by chrisss395 in "TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1 Supercomputer"

chrisss395 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:36:42 +0000

I haven't kept up with the latest on supercomputing power, but I recall some years ago there being strong evidence that China had a couple of un-announced supercomputers that would have topped the charts. It makes me wonder what is publicly disclosed vs. actual.

New comment by chrisss395 in "Mark Zuckerberg directed meta to create a prediction markets app"

chrisss395 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:22:10 +0000

Thought the same thing even before I saw your comment!

New comment by chrisss395 in "San Francisco Weighs PG&E Takeover Amid Soaring Utility Costs"

chrisss395 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:59:46 +0000

Wouldn't distribution naturally be the more expensive part vs. electricity generation given the latter is centralized and scaled? Perhaps this is a fallacy, but that is the thought that crossed my mind.

New comment by chrisss395 in "San Francisco Weighs PG&E Takeover Amid Soaring Utility Costs"

chrisss395 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:57:46 +0000

Is this at all similar to what happened with telecoms? For some reason that is what popped in to my head.

New comment by chrisss395 in "Openrouter Fusion API"

chrisss395 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:56:01 +0000

Is there any formal research in this space? I too have tried flavors of this approach, but I can't confidently say my results were better.

I worry its kind of like asking 2-3 different consultants what the optimal strategy is for your business...and I'm not sure merging the answers produces anything material better.

New comment by chrisss395 in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

chrisss395 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:33:47 +0000

This strikes me as crowd-funded prompt caching, but with humans in the loop.