Hacker News: davidwritesbugs

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "BBC to axe Radio 4's The World Tonight after more than 50 years"

davidwritesbugs — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:44:57 +0000

If i don’t know the weather forecast for Forties I’m going to be very sad

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

davidwritesbugs — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:48:48 +0000

I like their models, super cheap - I'm a Lite plan subscriber, and subjective performance seems to be same as lower Anthropic models, useful for lots of grunt work. The problem is that Ziphu really __really__ struggle with capacity - everyone is complaining of timeouts or very slow speeds. I can't get direct access to the model though I see it is in OpenRouter so I may play. But the capacity issues means DeepSeek is my main provider these days

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

davidwritesbugs — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:48:03 +0000

Yes, but a _U2_ album. An ad is 30 seconds of irritation, but a U2 album is like having broken glass sown under your skin.

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Notes on DeepSeek"

davidwritesbugs — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:59:45 +0000

someone kept a copy: https://pastebin.com/rcAqEFG1

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company's AI on Slack"

davidwritesbugs — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:42:08 +0000

You have a /horse/?! Well laadeedaa

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

davidwritesbugs — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:35:33 +0000

Yes, precisely. Assessing your own cognitive skills is dubious. I’m pretty certain I’m less clever than I was when younger but if I find a problem tough now maybe 25 yo me would also have struggled?

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Tony Gilroy Accepts Award for Andor: "Fuck the Empire ""

davidwritesbugs — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:57:21 +0000

I watch it and think of the “Are we the bad guys?” meme: lots of people advancing their careers in the Empire & shrugging at their own evil deeds mentally saying “ ok, but what can I do?”

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

davidwritesbugs — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:34:03 +0000

Not saying you are wrong about many US business owners but having travelled in China I can tell you that Chinese companies have no qualms about poisoning their neighbours for enhanced profits - my guide there said it was what he hated about his country. Money drives ethics pretty much everywhere I reckon.

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"

davidwritesbugs — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:24:19 +0000

“Nazis”: see Godwins law

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks"

davidwritesbugs — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:31:03 +0000

In a previous life I've employed contractors and software engineers to run a criminal website. Motivations for my guys were that it was well paid work that was technically challenging in order to evade enforcement agencies, and was 'fun' in that respect; they were "sticking it to than man (my service was regarded as moral by all my users & others); and there wasn't so much work about that they could pick and choose; lastly, I was a good employer because I had to be!!

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Build a radio wave detector with balls of aluminum foil"

davidwritesbugs — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:23:31 +0000

Truth was bound to get leaked at some point. CIA had a good run.

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Leaving the Physical World"

davidwritesbugs — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:32:39 +0000

His "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" was the most unintentionally comical thing I read at the time. Like his lyrics and prose it was woefully pretentious & leaden. I also met him once. A more unpleasant, up his own ass, person I can barely recall.

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal"

davidwritesbugs — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:48:42 +0000

I tried getting any sota llm (GPT 5, Opus 4.6, Deepseek V4 pro, glm-5) to write a Metal 4 shader for a bottle usdz and none of them got it right. They screwed up the normals and textures , total mess. I tried it to do it in Metal 3 and still crappy.

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]"

davidwritesbugs — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:12:07 +0000

Yes! I remember thinking "damn you band gap physics, if we only had blue leds we could do colour displays with LEDs, but that can never happen."

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]"

davidwritesbugs — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:57:12 +0000

I also remember being amazed, and did a forehead slap, when an old army bomb disposal man explained how, what I thought was an innocent device, was used by the IRA in bombs.

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]"

davidwritesbugs — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:55:56 +0000

Oh god I feel old. I remember being an excited schoolboy thinking how magic this was when it debuted.

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "How Motorola’s 2N2222 and 2N3904 transistors became the default NPNs"

davidwritesbugs — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:41:31 +0000

BC109 for ever!

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI"

davidwritesbugs — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:30:30 +0000

I did the same using the mlx version on an M1 Macbook using LMStudio integrated into XCode. I had to up the context size I ran it a against a very modest iOS codebase and it didn't do well, just petered out at one point. Odd. Pretty good chatbot and maybe against other code it'll work but not useful with XCode for me

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Usenet Archives"

davidwritesbugs — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:15:55 +0000

hmmm, interesting. .... address? Can I get an account?

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Siclair Microvision (1977)"

davidwritesbugs — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:11:48 +0000

I had one, hella cool. Had a funny flat battery I think? Regret not keeping it when it broke