Hacker News: doomroot13

Pushing the quality-cost frontier with MAI-Image-2.6

doomroot13 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:14:05 +0000

Article URL: https://microsoft.ai/news/pushing-the-quality-cost-frontier-with-mai-image-2-6/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49577977

Points: 4

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GPT-6 Astra is generally available in GitHub Copilot

doomroot13 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:30:34 +0000

Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-04-gpt-6-astra-is-generally-available-in-github-copilot/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570460

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by doomroot13 in "Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration"

doomroot13 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:58:21 +0000

They did also compare to Sol and the comparisons are still favorable. However, they were most favorable comparing to Opus 5 because of the cost judging by the charts.

MAI-Transcribe-2; fastest, most accurate, and cheapest speech recognition model

doomroot13 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:25:54 +0000

Article URL: https://microsoft.ai/news/mai-transcribe-2-is-the-fastest-most-accurate-and-cheapest-speech-recognition-model-in-the-world/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552650

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by doomroot13 in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

doomroot13 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:51:47 +0000

Newer Intel Panther Lake chips perform the same or very similarly on battery as they do when plugged in - as do Qualcomm chips. However, I don't know where they're seeing "consistently beat on performance and battery life by Intel Windows laptops". Multi-core performance can definitely beat M5 in some configurations but single core performance is still fairly far behind and battery life is comparable again depending on the exact specifications and design of the laptop. I've seen analysis showing M5 is still the perf/watt king though regardless of configurations.

How Fast Is .NET 11 Runtime Async?

doomroot13 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:51:56 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@skyake/how-fast-is-net-11-runtime-async-b9c821529cd5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292310

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Microsoft’s new multi-model agentic security system tops industry benchmark

doomroot13 — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:33:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/05/12/defense-at-ai-speed-microsofts-new-multi-model-agentic-security-system-tops-leading-industry-benchmark/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123273

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by doomroot13 in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

doomroot13 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:11:52 +0000

I just went into the settings for the widgets, turned off the "Start" or "News" experience or whatever it is and it's never come back. Just using the toggle it offers in settings. While I was at it I went into the taskbar settings and just turned off the widgets altogether, never came back. I wonder if sometimes we just assume the worst and resort first to "hack" ways to disable some of these things and when a new update comes along from your company or whoever, it gets re-enabled. Instead of just using the built-in functionality for turning things off.

New comment by doomroot13 in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

doomroot13 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:41:02 +0000

I turned it off exactly once through the settings and it's never appeared again over years of updates. How did you "turn it off"?

What's New in Aspire 13.2

doomroot13 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:17:43 +0000

Article URL: https://aspire.dev/whats-new/aspire-13-2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491558

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Manage Git Worktrees with Ease

doomroot13 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 04:06:14 +0000

Article URL: https://grove.safia.sh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117980

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by doomroot13 in "RemoveWindowsAI"

doomroot13 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:44:43 +0000

Yes. They actually deploy a number of small models that run on NPUs on copilot PCs that only run locally.

Pipe dreams to pipeline realities: an Aspire Pipelines story

doomroot13 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:20:16 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/aspire-pipelines/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137975

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Post-Quantum Cryptography in .NET

doomroot13 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:40:16 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/post-quantum-cryptography-in-dotnet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45970999

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by doomroot13 in "Boring is what we wanted"

doomroot13 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 22:01:48 +0000

Panther Lake isn't appearing in any products until 2026.

New comment by doomroot13 in "Boring is what we wanted"

doomroot13 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 21:55:34 +0000

I am excited about Panther Lake myself but where are you reading that it has higher performance/watt than M5? The chips aren't even out yet. All we have are Intel marketing materials with vague lines on charts. No one could have possibly done a performance/watt test on Panther Lake yet. I'm hoping they beat M5 but if I had to, I'd put my money on M5.

New comment by doomroot13 in "Cursor 1.7"

doomroot13 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:53:36 +0000

Copilot in VSCode supports local models through Ollama as well. Not sure about Copilot in Visual Studio. That's one of the most annoying things is VS is always behind VSCode in terms of Copilot features.

New comment by doomroot13 in ".NET 10 Preview 6 brings JIT improvements, one-shot tool execution"

doomroot13 — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:52:01 +0000

As of today (and going forward), there are two different flavors of Blazor server-side rendering. There is the original version where the component is rendered on the server and interactivity is provided via websockets. Now there is also static server-side rendering, which works very similarly to razor pages, pages/components are rendered on the server and there is no interactivity. You can then, of course, add interactivity wherever you'd need it with server-interactive or webassembly interactive sub-components.

I wouldn't necessarily say there's any benefit of Blazor over HTMX, it just depends on what you're most comfortable with and what works for you in your project. But you could architect your front-end in a similar way where you have small blazor components in your pages with interactivity.

I think Blazor is in a nice state now, where I can iterate very quickly on projects with just static server side rendering and add interactivity whenever it's needed. It gives me a very fast website, rendered on the server, and the option to add some interactivity whenever I need.

Aspire 9.4 is here with a CLI and interactive dashboard features

doomroot13 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 18:25:20 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-aspire-9-4/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44726738

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology

doomroot13 — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:36:13 +0000

https://github.com/google/longfellow-zk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44457390

Points: 341

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