Hacker News: csomar

New comment by csomar in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

csomar — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:06:56 +0000

It's a very low effort article. There are several places where the cost of electricity is roughly zero and state actors have interest in Bitcoin (Iran/Russia) or strong actors more powerful than the state (Libya/Venezuela). It's not surprising that this is good news for them as mining rigs for Bitcoin are much lighter to transport than the ones for oil.

New comment by csomar in "Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?"

csomar — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:08:50 +0000

> That parity masks the significant gains women have recently made in the labor market. Of the 369,000 jobs the Labor Department says were created since the start of Trump's second term, nearly all — 348,000 of them — went to women, with only 21,000 going to men. That's nearly 17 times as many jobs filled by women as by men.

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> Over the past 12 months, health care alone added 390,000 jobs, more than in the economy overall, making up for job losses elsewhere.

The article and journalism research should have been about the absurdity of this number. If there has been a 10% increase in the total number of nurses in a single year in the USA, either there is an on-going health crisis to be covered; or you know, the numbers are just garbage.

New comment by csomar in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"

csomar — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:52:54 +0000

I am building a 3-way diff editor: https://codeinput.com/products/merge-conflicts/online-diff

New comment by csomar in "Code Is Cheap Now, and That Changes Everything"

csomar — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:11:47 +0000

This is interesting because the cost of cloning code is zero. The human written code could be cheaper than the AI one because of the cost of distribution. The same does not apply for pottery because to create/distribute an extra bowl, you need >0 resources.

My point is (and the issue I have with the article) is that the quality of code (whatever that means) is not measured by the number of lines. Whether the code is generated by AI or humans, the market is not going to care. Same where it didn't care whether it was written by someone in Silicon Valley or in the middle of East Asia.

New comment by csomar in "Show HN: Chrome extension to filter HN comments by user karma/account age"

csomar — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:46:13 +0000

Hacker News has an API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

Show HN: Chrome extension to filter HN comments by user karma/account age

csomar — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:25:28 +0000

Article URL: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-users-filter/ineikanbokfebefjmhinpbmgablaebom

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700376

Points: 2

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New comment by csomar in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

csomar — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:29:48 +0000

Their distribution operation is very bad right now. The model is pretty decent when it works but they have lots of issues serving the people. That being said, I have had the same problems with Gemini (even worse in the last two weeks) and Claude. So it seems to be the norm in the industry.

New comment by csomar in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

csomar — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:27:35 +0000

I have their most expensive plan and it's on-par and sometimes better than Claude although you have to keep context short. That being said, the quota is no longer generous. It's still priced below Claude but not by that much. (compared to a few months ago where your money gets you x10 in tokens)

New comment by csomar in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

csomar — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:10:54 +0000

I've set max context to 180k and usually compact around 120k. It's much better to re-read stuff than to have it under-perform when it's over 120k.

New comment by csomar in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

csomar — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:17:23 +0000

Yes, an upgraded Claude Code instance telepathically improve Claude back-end servers.

New comment by csomar in "Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents"

csomar — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:45:42 +0000

> I'm not sure what you saw as slow, I'd love to improve it. Do you mean the dashboard?

Switching tabs in the Dashboard (Domains/Routes/etc.) was basically unusable about 4 hours ago. It's noticeably better now, though there's still some latency (just retested).

New comment by csomar in "Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents"

csomar — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:07:14 +0000

I was intrigued to try but your web app is so extremely slow, it takes up to 30+ seconds to move from one tab to the next. Not exactly selling your point of being a super fast provisioning service. Another thing I am wondering. You seem to be selling this as VMs configurable from node/bun. Wouldn't a CLI make more sense here?

Another question: How hard do you think it'll be to integrate this with something like Claude Code. ie: /resume in claude code both return your session and wake up your vm. Or even better /resume from freestyle and have your claude code session open where you left it.

New comment by csomar in "Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents"

csomar — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:53:20 +0000

> No one needs this

VMWare was acquired for $69Bn.

New comment by csomar in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

csomar — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:32:35 +0000

There is a lot of software that is just code, though; especially at the foundational level.

New comment by csomar in "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"

csomar — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:52:24 +0000

Yes. For me personally, I am only interested in creating short demo videos in as little time as possible. OBS is an advanced software that requires me to learn to use it.

I just downloaded this and had a zoom effect video from the first attempt. The learning curve is roughly zero.

New comment by csomar in "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"

csomar — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:49:32 +0000

This one is free even for commercial usage.

New comment by csomar in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

csomar — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:56:32 +0000

Dropping the bomb will be a massive loss for the US as it’ll legitimatize nuclear warfare. Right out of the attack, the US ceases being the first firepower and becomes equal to the rest of the nuclear ones.

Next Russia takes Ukraine in a week and rich countries will buy nukes from North Korea and Pakistan.

New comment by csomar in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

csomar — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:19:16 +0000

I might be wrong (am not a geopolitical expert) but my guess is that if the US doesn't get this resolved by itself; most countries in the world are going to rage at it harder (like an order of magnitude harder) than during the tariffs war of last year.

Many countries ranging from advanced allies like Japan to random poor countries like the Philippines will see economic damages that are way worse than tariffs.

Iran was a hornet nest. A hornet nest is annoying and dangerous to have around. But it makes no sense to break it open with no plan on how to properly handle the fallout.

New comment by csomar in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

csomar — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:15:51 +0000

> Pretty sure anyone who fights the US military finds out pretty fast it’s a good military.

I am not sure about that. Iraq, Afghanistan, to name the new ones and Vietnam to name an old one.

Sure you can take an easy/undisciplined target like Maduro. But many armies in the world can also do that. Another thing that has to be recognized: alternative warfare (ie: terrorism) is a legitimate form of warfare regardless of its morality. You can't, in my opinion, claim military supremacy while not being able to contain these other risks.

Another upcoming one: cyber-warfare.

New comment by csomar in "Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp"

csomar — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:50:59 +0000

I found out a similar thing with my website being blocked by corporate firewalls. You need to create profiles at these cyber companies and then wait for whitelisting so that they can drop the ban.