Hacker News: daemonologist

New comment by daemonologist in "CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem"

daemonologist — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:11:58 +0000

Thanks, but I was interested more in the cross-app communication aspect rather than the data formats ( https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/wiki/Content-Provider ).

I once looked into building an app which piggybacked on CoMaps/OSMAnd's data (saving the user from having two copies of their maps, and me from having to duplicate the UI to manage them), but found that in modern Android it was basically impossible for even the user to access data/files that "belong" to an app, without rooting the device.

New comment by daemonologist in "CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem"

daemonologist — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:06:52 +0000

Neat, I was not aware of this mechanism. Is there any way to get map (tile) data from CoMaps into another app?

New comment by daemonologist in "Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark"

daemonologist — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:24:19 +0000

You could probably score 100% on ARC 3 if you were motivated enough. I find some of the current problems to be kind of like Chess - mechanically simple, and ~solvable, but it's difficult to force myself to think at length about a monotonous and meaningless problem. The machines do have an advantage on the "energy" front; they've become almost psychotically persistent (and don't get tired after too many prompts).

Anyway yes I think we've had AGI for a while now, even if the GI doesn't quite match up with what we expect from a human.

New comment by daemonologist in "Glaciers on the Climate Dashboard"

daemonologist — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:06:43 +0000

The Glacial National Park referenced by GP is in Montana; you were perhaps at Glacier Bay National Park.

Regardless, some beautiful photos, thanks for sharing

New comment by daemonologist in "Qwen3.8-2.4T"

daemonologist — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:48:58 +0000

Bedrock seems to have stopped adding new open-weights models, and mostly only has Anthropic and OpenAI stuff now. You can get Qwen 3.8 directly from Alibaba: https://www.qwencloud.com (proprietary variant) or from DigitalOcean (this variant, probably also from others soon).

On your 5090 you could easily run a smaller model like Qwen 3.6 27B: https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen36 or Gemma 4 etc., or as mentioned there's a Qwen 3.8 27B coming out in a few days.

New comment by daemonologist in "50k Boat Names"

daemonologist — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:09:31 +0000

On the first point, I think it's a search of boat names, not boats - they're deduplicated.

New comment by daemonologist in "Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone"

daemonologist — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:56:22 +0000

Also (mentioned by Tom), this elastic-powered supersonic trebuchet is an excellent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdXOS-B0Bus

New comment by daemonologist in "My server is a phone now"

daemonologist — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:53:37 +0000

Most phones won't boot without the battery. Obvious workaround is to connect a power supply (and large cap) directly to the BMS, but in my experience most phones will shut themselves down when they think they've drawn more than the capacity of their battery, even if the voltage is still high. You can sometimes get around that by rebooting the device every couple of hours (and there might be a software/firmware fix in some cases?), but it's a lot less annoying to just accept a small risk of a house fire.

New comment by daemonologist in "Ask HN: Is Ask HN Shrinking?"

daemonologist — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:13:10 +0000

I don't think it's been shrunk, I think there just aren't enough high karma posts to fill the default (filtered) page. Old posts fall off due to karma decay and low quality posts get flagged or hidden by mods. I've seen it several times before (and thought to myself that it would be a good time to post).

As mentioned there's also asknew: https://news.ycombinator.com/asknew

New comment by daemonologist in "DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices"

daemonologist — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:20:16 +0000

It's here as well: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/

New comment by daemonologist in "Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index"

daemonologist — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:54:49 +0000

With an unlimited budget, Kimi K3 (which is quite comparable to this Qwen Max imo). With a normal budget/a PC you might already have, probably Qwen 3.6 27B.

New comment by daemonologist in "Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users"

daemonologist — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:28:08 +0000

Going from 5.5 Instant (which was noticeably bad) to 5.6 Luna is a big jump as well. OpenAI is probably the most prominent among the general public - an advantage in some respects but they're giving away a lot of free inference and thus have to use a pretty small model to do it.

New comment by daemonologist in "Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2"

daemonologist — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:04:02 +0000

Pricing: https://dev.meta.ai/docs/pricing-rate-limits

Interesting that they have separate API pricing for "we can train on your data" (whereas iirc most of the big players either make that distinction only between subscriptions and API usage, or train on everything). Wonder how it compares to Deepseek V4 Flash given that they're similar on pricing and data policy.

New comment by daemonologist in "Waymo in Dallas"

daemonologist — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:28:55 +0000

Service area: https://support.google.com/waymo/answer/9059119?hl=en#DAL

New comment by daemonologist in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

daemonologist — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 03:16:49 +0000

The linked qwencloud page has pricing; it's $2/6.

https://www.qwencloud.com/models/qwen3.8-max

New comment by daemonologist in "Kimi K3-256k"

daemonologist — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:23:37 +0000

It seems to only be available in Kimi Code, via subscription, no there's no API pricing. The linked page says it consumes about half as much quota as the 1M version though.

New comment by daemonologist in "Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library"

daemonologist — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:21:04 +0000

Btw if you do need a permissively licensed model for this task, there are lots out there, e.g.:

https://github.com/KupynOrest/s3od

https://github.com/Tennine2077/PDFNet

https://github.com/PramaLLC/BEN

New comment by daemonologist in "An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk"

daemonologist — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:58:12 +0000

Agreed, and even SSR always felt like cheating imo. I wanna see someone build a primary radar on an esp 32.

New comment by daemonologist in "Full Scale Foldable Wing Extensions"

daemonologist — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:20:52 +0000

My read is that they're announcing a plan to build non-folding wings to test the geometry they would eventually want with folding wings. Which makes sense but isn't very exciting.

New comment by daemonologist in "New US homeownership measure puts people first"

daemonologist — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:21:35 +0000

It might be that a lot of the cost doesn't show up in the data because it comes out of your paycheck before it's "yours," in the form of your employer's contribution to health insurance premiums. (Anecdotally this is true for me - "my" portion of premiums would not be in the top three, but the total premiums are #2 after housing (for a while when I had roommates they were #1, which is ridiculous).)

(BLS gets this data from surveys: https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cex/home.htm )