Hacker News: criemen

New comment by criemen in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

criemen — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:29:44 +0000

Pretty cool if true!

New comment by criemen in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

criemen — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:08:17 +0000

> What people don't realize is that cache is free

I'm incredibly salty about this - they're essentially monetizing intensely something that allows them to sell their inference at premium prices to more users - without any caching, they'd have much less capacity available.

New comment by criemen in "Giving LLMs a personality is just good engineering"

criemen — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:09:55 +0000

I tried ChatGPT over the holidays (paid) vs. claude.ai (paid). After trying some prompts that worked well on Claude in ChatGPT, I understand why people are so annoyed about AI slop. The speech patterns in text output for ChatGPT are both obvious and annoying, and impossible to unsee when people use them in written communication.

Claude isn't without problems ("You're absolutely right"), but I feel that some of the perception there is around the limited set of phrases the coding agent uses regularly, and comes less from the multi-paragraph responses from the chatbot.

New comment by criemen in "MacBook Air with M5"

criemen — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:06:06 +0000

> Out of curiosity, what are some good use cases for a MBP now with the MBAs being so powerful?

Local software development (node/TS). When opus-4.6-fast launched, it felt like some of the limiting factor in turnaround time moved from inference to the validation steps, i.e. execute tests, run linter, etc. Granted, that's with endpoint management slowing down I/O, and hopefully tsgo and some eslint replacement will speed things up significantly over there.

New comment by criemen in "Building SQLite with a small swarm"

criemen — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:29:17 +0000

Even if was copying sqlite code over, wouldn't the ability to automatically rewrite sqlite in Rust be a valuable asset?

New comment by criemen in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

criemen — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:21:29 +0000

> I had assumed that reasoning models should easily be able to answer this correctly.

I thought so too, yet Opus 4.6 with extended thinking (on claude.ai) gives me > Walk. At 50 meters you'd spend more time parking and maneuvering at the car wash than the walk itself takes. Drive the car over only if the wash requires the car to be there (like a drive-through wash), then walk home and back to pick it up.

which is still pretty bad.

New comment by criemen in "I fixed Windows native development"

criemen — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:50:37 +0000

This is amazing.

At $workplace, we have a script that extracts a toolchain from a GitHub actions windows runner, packages it up, stuffs it into git LFS, which is then pulled by bazel as C++ toolchain.

This is the more scalable way, and I assume it could still somewhat easily be integrated into a bazel build.

New comment by criemen in "Two different tricks for fast LLM inference"

criemen — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 10:04:11 +0000

One other thing I'd assume Anthropic is doing is routing all fast requests to the latest-gen hardware. They most certainly have a diverse fleet of inference hardware (TPUs, GPUs of different generations), and fast will be only served by whatever is fastest, whereas the general inference workload will be more spread out.

Hamming, "You and Your Research" (1995) [video]

criemen — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:01:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016112

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by criemen in "Two Weeks Until Tapeout"

criemen — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:03:20 +0000

> aka: For those not living in 2026, we have uncovered a new clue to the mystery of where all the low-power DRAM chips have suddenly vanished to!

I love the writing style!

New comment by criemen in "Nvidia Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI with Rubin"

criemen — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:41:36 +0000

What's the power hookup to just boot one rack? I'd imagine that's more than you get anywhere in residential areas for a single house.

New comment by criemen in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

criemen — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 23:05:22 +0000

> I’m currently using a mix of Zed, Sublime, and VS Code.

Can you elaborate on when you use which editor? I'd have imagined that there's value in learning and using one editor in-depth, instead of switching around based on use-case, so I'd love to learn more about your approach.

Is AI actually a Bubble?

criemen — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:32:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/is-ai-actually-a-bubble

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46256759

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by criemen in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

criemen — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:25:56 +0000

> This takes a fairly large mindset shift, but the hard work is the conceptual thinking, not the typing.

But the hard work always was the conceptual thinking? At least at and beyond the Senior level, for me it was always the thinking that's the hard work, not converting the thoughts into code.

New comment by criemen in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

criemen — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:14:39 +0000

The large open-weights models aren't really usable for local running (even with current hardware), but multiple providers compete on running inference for you, so it's reasonable to assume that there is and will be a functioning marketplace.

New comment by criemen in "The writing is on the wall for handwriting recognition"

criemen — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:27:04 +0000

It used to be that the answer was logprobs, but it seems that is no longer available.

New comment by criemen in "Hardening the C++ Standard Library at scale"

criemen — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 21:16:18 +0000

> Of course there is undefined behavior that isn't security critical.

But undefined behavior is literally introduced as "the compiler is allowed to do anything, including deleting all your files". Of course that's security critical by definition?

New comment by criemen in "It's Always the Process, Stupid"

criemen — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 18:31:56 +0000

I've been thinking a lot about that lately, and I agree. I used to be hard in the "You can't solve social problems with technical solutions", but that's not the whole truth. If people aren't using your thing, sure, you can brand that as social problem (lack of buy-in on the process, people not being heard during rollout, ...). However one way of getting people to use your thing/process is to make it easier to use. Integrate it well into the workflow they're already familiar with, bring the tooling close, reduce friction, provide some extra value to your users with features etc. That's technical solutions, but if you choose them based on knowledge of the "social problem" they can be quite effective.

New comment by criemen in ""Good engineering management" is a fad"

criemen — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:13:50 +0000

I've been thinking lately a lot about this. What is it I do when I want to convince someone of something (i.e. "creating alignment" in corporate speak)? I listen to them, am empathic, ask meaningful questions etc. Afterwards, that opens a space for me to make a proposal that is well-received.

New comment by criemen in "Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max"

criemen — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:50:25 +0000

Anthropic released the Opus 4.1 (basically, a new Opus 4 checkpoint) right around the big GPT-5 release date too, if I remember correctly. At this point, anything goes to stay relevant.