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New comment by dkhenry in "Claude Opus 4.7 Model Card"

dkhenry — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:56:42 +0000

The second one is Sonnet 4.6 not 4.5. If you change it to 4.5 Gemma 4 actually beats 4.5

New comment by dkhenry in "Claude Opus 4.7 Model Card"

dkhenry — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:52:03 +0000

You make a compelling argument, but thankfully I have data to back up my anecdotal experience

This comparison shows them neck and neck https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-sonnet-4-5-vs-gemma-4-31b

As Does this one https://llm-stats.com/models/compare/claude-sonnet-4-6-vs-ge...

And the pelican benchmark even shows them pretty close https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/2/gemma-4/ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/29/claude-sonnet-4-5/

Also this isn't a fringe statement, you can see most people who have done an evaluation agree with me

New comment by dkhenry in "Claude Opus 4.7 Model Card"

dkhenry — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:57:31 +0000

The Gemma models are at this point. A 31B model that can fit on a consumer card is as good as Sonnet 4.5. I haven't put it through as much on the coding front or tool calling as I have the Claude or GPT models, but for text processing it is on par with the frontier models.

New comment by dkhenry in "Oregon school cell phone ban: 'Engaged students, joyful teachers'"

dkhenry — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:59:58 +0000

Just wait until you find out the benefits of taking them away from kids altogether! Phones are a mental health hazard for children, there is no benefit for them having a phone. The only downside is they feel left out when their friends only want to sit around and scroll TikTok, and can't manage to have any in person interactions without their face in a screen.

None of my children have phones, and when they do get one, it will be when they are driving and will be a dumb phone for sending text messages and making calls.

New comment by dkhenry in "GitHub having issues [resolved]"

dkhenry — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:30:31 +0000

I really wish Graphite had just gone down the path of better Git hosting and reviewing, instead of trying to charge me $40 a month for an AI reviewer. It would be nice to have a real first class alternative to Github

New comment by dkhenry in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

dkhenry — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:09:39 +0000

Just Text to speech seems like its largely solved on pretty much every compute platform. However I have found a huge gap going from independent words being transcribed, to formatted text ready for an editor, or further processing.

If you look at how authors dictate they works ( which they have done for millennia), just getting the words written down is only the first step, and its by far the easiest. I have been helping build a tool https://bookscribe.ai that not only does the transcription, but then can post process it to make it actually usable for longer form content.

New comment by dkhenry in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

dkhenry — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:34:13 +0000

D1 is fine when it fits the use case, but most of the time I just want Postgres that I will use for absolutely everything. It has happened often enough that I have tried to make systems work with other storage systems, and eventually just give up and revert to Postgres. Every time I just start with Postgres I don't have issues until it turns out my laziness has caused a performance problem, and those I can fix.

New comment by dkhenry in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

dkhenry — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:49:41 +0000

Astro on Cloudflare workers has been my goto stack for multiple years now. I am very happy with it, and hope this makes the integration stronger.

Now we just need Cloudflare to buy one of the DBaaS companies so they have a solid relational offering.

New comment by dkhenry in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

dkhenry — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:52:49 +0000

No, my wife and I discussed putting them into traditional school as they got older, but now that they are older, they have all strongly requested to remain in their homeschool co-op. I think the biggest reason is they have a good group of friends that they connect with, and have been their class mates for multiple years. So there is a strong desire to continue in the program with people they know.

New comment by dkhenry in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

dkhenry — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:26:22 +0000

My kids are part of a co-op where they meet once a week and in this co-op they share some elements of their curriculum with everyone else, they spend one day going over the weeks assignments along with 8-10 classmates, and then during the week they are at home doing their work. As they have aged their school work now has a lot of collaborative elements, so my oldest is actually meeting with kids from his co-op almost daily to go over group projects and assignments.

Additionally they have a lot of extra curricular activities they participate in ( sports, music, church youth group), that also gives them a lot of socialization time with others.

New comment by dkhenry in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

dkhenry — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:09:05 +0000

When I recently switched jobs, one of my requirements was I had to remain remote, for at least the next few years, so I could remain at home and help with my children's education. I don't think there is enough money in the world to convince me to change back to public education. Aside from the benefits everyone mentions like a much better education, having so much extra time with my children is a priceless gift that I wish we as a society could give everyone.

Also its given me the chance to learn things that I missed during my primary and secondary educations. Going through each proof in Euclid's Elements again has been a lot of fun, and its been long enough that I have forgotten most of them, so the thrill of discovery is real for me too.

If you can make it work, you should make it work, even if that means moving to a lower CoL area, there are a lot of small towns in the US that have excellent amenities, and are great places to raise a family.

New comment by dkhenry in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

dkhenry — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:55:42 +0000

Depending on where you live there are many options. In my school district home school kids can join any club or team offered by the public school system where you reside. Additionally there are numerous non-school related clubs and activities all over the place. My kids could play music with the local school district, with a musical education non-profit that is prolific in our area, or ( where they do play music ) with private lessons that have group classes, bands, and performance opportunities.

New comment by dkhenry in "Rivian CEO Doubles Down on Decision to Not Offer Apple CarPlay"

dkhenry — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 22:01:45 +0000

This is long term the right choice. Tesla has the best software competency of any manufacture and if you want to compete with them you can't offload major bits of functionality to a third party. At this point in our software journey in cars, user experience is everything. If I can't have a car that I walk up to with my phone in my pocket and get in and drive, with automatic doors unlocking, and all my settings automatically set to me, then its a net loss.

I can barely get my phone to reliably pair with my Ford, but my Tesla always picks up me as the driver and just does everything correctly. Rivian needs to offer me that same level of polish to be competitive.

New comment by dkhenry in "Litestream v0.5.0"

dkhenry — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 01:23:08 +0000

I tried to go the litestream route on Fly.io, but there is too much that needs to be done to get it working. Specifically I was hoping scaling would be a lot easier, but master election kept breaking for me causing the whole app to not be able to come online. I just moved to Fly's managed postgres and called it a day.

Their managed postgres has gotten better, but its still a little sparse, so after about 6 months using it I am going to just take my DB to either Supabase or Planetscale.

New comment by dkhenry in "PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA"

dkhenry — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:24:55 +0000

I would just point out that its Hosted Postgres. If your looking for a how I think you have the wrong mental model. Its hosted Postgres, there are some nuance there as to why it would perform differently from RDS on Amazon, or CloudSQL on GCP, but its not some novel new technology that needs a long description.

If you are interested in their new technology that extends on hosted postgres check out Neki https://www.neki.dev/

New comment by dkhenry in "OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community"

dkhenry — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:27:55 +0000

You're being entirely unfair to Supabase here. Research is important, but there is a reason why the USPTO has developed substantial case law around Reduction to Practice, everything is built on prior work, so to say there is nothing novel about actually building displayed working system from parts is factually inaccurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduction_to_practice

New comment by dkhenry in "OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community"

dkhenry — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:12:21 +0000

I haven't explicitly tested how it handles TOASTed column's, but since there is an upcoming RC I will try it out next time. I don't generally like using JSONB/text columns for very large rows as they have other performance problems on the DB like causing lots of WAL write overhead.

In term of other workloads it might not be great for, all my testing has shown a great improvement in every workload I have thrown at it.

New comment by dkhenry in "OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community"

dkhenry — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:36:23 +0000

I am super bullish on OrioleDB. It really seems like the next logical progression for scaling Postgres for 99% of all databases out there. I have been following their development for a while and running benchmarks to see if their performance claims are legitimate, and so far it has been amazing

https://airtable.com/app7jp5t0dEHyDpa8/shr00etqywoDW2N6N

New comment by dkhenry in "Ask HN: Claude Code–style agent, but Aider-like and model-agnostic?"

dkhenry — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 12:32:48 +0000

Using this project you can hook Claude Code up to different models

https://github.com/musistudio/claude-code-router

New comment by dkhenry in "Bridged Indexes in OrioleDB: architecture, internals and everyday use?"

dkhenry — Fri, 30 May 2025 12:58:06 +0000

OrioleDB isn't a separation of storage and compute, its a more efficient storage engine for Postgres to replace the existing HEAP engine. This is like how in MySQL we could swap MyISAM for InnoDB and eventually RocksDB.

I did some benchmarks on it previously to show how much of an improvement it gives over the stock HEAP engine

EDIT: correct link to the public dashboard below, thanks for the heads up @kiwicopple

https://airtable.com/app7jp5t0dEHyDpa8/shr00etqywoDW2N6N