Hacker News: digdugdirk

New comment by digdugdirk in "Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20)"

digdugdirk — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:57:32 +0000

It took me way too long to realize that "Nim for tde" wasn't referring to some obscure system...

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

digdugdirk — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:54:17 +0000

I've always wanted to figure out how to implement a cooperative source license. Something like, you're allowed to do what you want with it, but any derivative work requires the same license, and X% of any income goes to the cooperative?

Not sure how it'd work, but there's absolutely a niche for a privacy focused data cooperative out there.

New comment by digdugdirk in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

digdugdirk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:10:29 +0000

Can you explain more about how it struggles? I haven't noticed any issues in my usage, so I'm just curious what is meant by this.

New comment by digdugdirk in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

digdugdirk — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:04:11 +0000

I do enjoy the immediate out of touch signaling with the "runs on your 16gb vram laptop" line. Because everyone has a laptop with 16gb vram, or can just pop out and buy a new one, right?

New comment by digdugdirk in "Claude Opus 4.8"

digdugdirk — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:00:41 +0000

Do you have a collection of these benchmark apps saved anywhere? I'd be particularly interested in seeing the relative cost differences between different models in a use case like this.

New comment by digdugdirk in "AI sticker shock hits corporate America"

digdugdirk — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:05:34 +0000

It's always been this way. America has just been able to coast on being the only remaining major economy after WW2, and exploited the rest of the world instead. That exploitation of the rest of the globe has been mostly optimized now, so those shareholder returns are now coming at the expense of the 90% of Americans who aren't sitting at the table.

New comment by digdugdirk in "The Lottery – Shirley Jackson (1948)"

digdugdirk — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:51:06 +0000

Being born to the wrong parents, or in the wrong neighbourhood, or with any number of medical issues.

New comment by digdugdirk in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

digdugdirk — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:47:19 +0000

Parts of these cities worse off than the third world? Have you been to a third world country? Or Seattle, for that matter?

The commonly scapegoated cities in the United States are not experiencing third world conditions. Appalachia is experiencing third world conditions. Hollowed out rust belt cities in the Midwest are experiencing third world conditions. These areas are not run by lefty politicians. The United States has a systemic problem, not a local one.

And yes, the systemic problem is that there are a tiny number of ultra wealthy people with wildly outsized influence on the government of the United States, doing everything they can to reduce the amount they need to pay in taxes while simultaneously ensuring they extract the maximum amount of profit from the US government's wildly excessive expenditures.

New comment by digdugdirk in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

digdugdirk — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:28:43 +0000

Indeed. Thankfully - as has been proven time and time again in America - if leniency is given to those who abuse their power, they will absolutely never ever decide to abuse their power again.

New comment by digdugdirk in "Technical Dimensions of Live Feedback in Programming Systems"

digdugdirk — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:23:09 +0000

Seconding for a great podcast! The second time in as many days that one of their research papers have popped up on here.

New comment by digdugdirk in "Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot"

digdugdirk — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:28:55 +0000

That looks like a really nice hackathon! That said, the fact that they probably had a majority of the best NixOS developers in the world under one roof and they weren't solely focused on NixOS error messages is borderline criminal...

New comment by digdugdirk in "Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model"

digdugdirk — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:13:31 +0000

It doesn't have to do any thing interesting - it's completely fascinating all on it's own. If you understand anything about the math and science behind LLMs, you'll understand that this is an achievement worthy of sharing to a community like HN.

That being said, small models like these have plenty of use cases. They allow for extra "slack" to be introduced into a programmatic workflow in a compute constrained environment. Something like this could help enable the "ever present" phone assistant, without scraping all your personal data and sending it off to Google/OpenAI/etc. Imagine if keywords in a chat would then trigger searches on your local data to bring up relevant notes/emails/documents into a cache, and then this cache directly powers your autocomplete (or just a sidebar that pops up with the most relevant information). Having flexible function calling in that loop is key for fault tolerance and adaptability to new content and contexts.

Its cool. Enjoy it.

New comment by digdugdirk in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"

digdugdirk — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:26:53 +0000

Obligatory link to a great podcast that has a great episode covering this paper: https://pca.st/episode/dfc024c8-31f8-4387-b301-7a4f77132b74

Everyone should subscribe to the Future of Coding (recently renamed to the Feeling of Computing) podcast if you haven't already: https://feelingof.com/

New comment by digdugdirk in "Mojo 1.0 Beta"

digdugdirk — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:08:42 +0000

It does almost seem like they're trying to recreate the Nim programming language in this regard.

New comment by digdugdirk in "GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs"

digdugdirk — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:59:29 +0000

How does that get integrated into the scoring system? I'm imagining a scenario where a cheaper model may get close, but only needs a small follow up to get the desired result. How would this score in comparison to a larger model that got it right the first time - even if it may have been much more expensive overall?

New comment by digdugdirk in "Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect"

digdugdirk — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:54:51 +0000

Wait... How does Ikea operate using a tax advantaged method?

New comment by digdugdirk in "GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs"

digdugdirk — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:36:11 +0000

Interesting! I've been thinking about how to create a similar type of evaluation system for myself. How do you handle tweaks to agentic tasks? Say that a model gets pretty close to what you want, so you just need a quick follow up prompt to the original response?

New comment by digdugdirk in "Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary"

digdugdirk — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:46:34 +0000

From someone who definitely doesn't fully understand what you made, this looks really cool!

I'm seeing some functionality that seems like it could replace some personal services I currently host via my tailscale network. Am I understanding this correctly? If so, do you have a feel for what the performance implications would be?

New comment by digdugdirk in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

digdugdirk — Sat, 02 May 2026 03:28:35 +0000

I don't understand why you're getting downvoted? Of course an LLM will return the answer to a widely known and commonly cited riddle that exists because of the far more rigid societal gender norms 50 years ago?

LLMs are just statistics based on vibes. Switching the gender of the character in the beginning of the story, but keeping all else identical is going to be a huge signal into the noise, and that response is going to be wildly likely to occur.

New comment by digdugdirk in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

digdugdirk — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:33:53 +0000

I've been thinking of ways to legally structure an Intellectual Property Cooperative, which is the only way I can think of to solve the current exploitive digital economic system.