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New comment by draginol in "Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models"

draginol — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:10:58 +0000

That's the thing I think some people keep missing.

I mean, anyone here could have a decision maker just return a random number. Fast and easy.

The question really is how GOOD is it?

The Nine-Person Game Team Will Soon Outperform a AAA Game Studio

draginol — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:06:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.clairvoyanceai.com/blog/the-nine-person-game-team-will-soon-outperform-a-aaa-game-studio

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857287

Points: 2

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Microsoft says 'people matter more than AI' following safety concerns

draginol — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:13:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/994566/microsoft-humanist-ai-code-of-conduct

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49698332

Points: 3

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New comment by draginol in "New $100k H-1B visa fee pushes tech jobs offshore"

draginol — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:08:08 +0000

The $100k fee is such a bad idea. I would be fine for there being a minimum salary to get rid of the undercutting of available American labor. But there are certain niche jobs that there just isn't any local talent for that will just result in contracting with them overseas which is a lose-lose.

Getting set up on local AI. Here's what matters

draginol — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:07:17 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/draginol/status/2089338779324543047

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49361834

Points: 2

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New comment by draginol in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

draginol — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:53:03 +0000

I kind of wonder how much this is also going to fuel humanoid robots.

New comment by draginol in "GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5 for Physical AI, which performs best?"

draginol — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:51:19 +0000

So Fable "won" but it cost $124.76 for marginal performance benefits over the $22.56 5.6 Sol run.

New comment by draginol in "The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?"

draginol — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:06:20 +0000

I think you could argue that this is following the same trend as forums (and usenet before that). You get a consolidation of where people go to read up on things that interest them.

Look at Slashdot for example, it was once so popular that any site it linked to could be "slashdotted" from all the traffic. Now people go elsewhere. YouTube, TikTok, Reddit.

New comment by draginol in "OpenAI leans toward waiting until next year for IPO"

draginol — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:21:02 +0000

With all the uncertainty about AI regulation, I don't think now is the time.

How do you even value a company when we don't even know if GPT-6 will be made available to the general public?

New comment by draginol in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

draginol — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:22:10 +0000

So this is probably not good news for the MacBook Ultra with 512GB of RAM rumors being..affordable.

What's worse is that this is probably going to get worse. My angel investment group is getting inundated with pitches that amount to building an RX-6000 with 96GB of RAM and installing a local model to do "thing X".

So even if the OpenAI's of the world stop trying to use up all the RAM, you're going to have thousands of start-ups pushing local models.

New comment by draginol in "Ford rehires 350 engineers after AI fails to preserve expertise or train juniors"

draginol — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:19:02 +0000

This is what we are finding a lot with the "AI normies". Because the AI responses are so confident new users of it think it must be correct.

AI is confidently wrong a lot. And so you can imagine a lot of execs thinking the AI can do a lot more than it really can.

New comment by draginol in "Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine"

draginol — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:19:32 +0000

I think he means where the DOS/config is all set up too. Sort of like a really small VM.

New comment by draginol in "8086 Segmented Memory was a good idea"

draginol — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:53:11 +0000

Eh. I don't think "developers broke it". The 8086 gave us something like a flat 20-bit address space and then encoded it as a segment. Once that exists, normalizing far pointers is inevitable.

Not to do a "The Amiga was ahead of its time" thing but as a reminder, 68000 has a flat 24-bit address.

New comment by draginol in "GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally"

draginol — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:21:33 +0000

The most interesting part of this to me is not the benchmark table, but the packaging.

A model like GLM-5.2 being available as GGUF, usable through llama.cpp/Ollama/vLLM/SGLang/LM Studio, and wrapped for local agent workflows changes the category. It stops being an impressive open model exists and starts becoming this is something a small team can actually put into its development stack.

For instance, company buys an RX6000 setup for say $15k total. They could use this for handling data heavy sifting that would otherwise be a lot of Claude tokens.

It doesn't need to be as good as frontier-best. Just good enough.

I could see a business of people packaging this and handing it to companies who want Help Desk bots without any extra setup.

New comment by draginol in "The Coming Loop"

draginol — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:16:42 +0000

This is really terrible advice right now for most people.

I've had to rip out a lot of pretty terrible code made by engineers who have tried this.

I don't disagree that eventually, "loops" when combined with unlimited tokens and amazing models in the hands of people who know how to set them up right will be amazing. But for the typical Claude Code user, it's disaster.

The problem is not that loops write bad code once. Humans do that too. The problem is that loops apply local pressure repeatedly: add a fallback, add a guard, special-case the failing input, quiet the exception, satisfy the test. Over time that selects for code that is more survivable in the short term but less intelligible in the long term.

New comment by draginol in "Improvements to Std:Format in C++26"

draginol — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:14:28 +0000

I'm more happy to see C++ moving to consolidate around a single formatting model.

This past year we were porting Elemental (PC game) to 64-bit so it's pretty old code. There are a gazillion different string types in it (sprintf and beyond).

New comment by draginol in "Will It Mythos?"

draginol — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:12:24 +0000

I was pretty impressed with Fable when I used it. Fable on Low was better than Opus 4.8 on High (and cheaper).

Now, for me, it was really about how well it worked on big existing human made code bases. I was working on some new screens in GalCiv IV and if you've ever had to make screens for games, it is incredibly tedious, low brain work. But GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.8 would just struggle with these over and over again and this is C++ work with limited hotloading so it's a slow process. Fable nailed these screens fast.

New comment by draginol in "Steam Machine launches today"

draginol — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:06:52 +0000

With the scalping issue, the issue isn't whether can we detect scalpers to which anti scalping mechanism has the lowest false positive cost to it?

The random reservation order takes the scalping issue out of the fulfillment part and into allocation making it a lot harder on the scalper.