Hacker News: drittich

New comment by drittich in "Simple self-distillation improves code generation"

drittich — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:29:04 +0000

I used to invent TLAs on the spot for fun, and when someone asked what it was, would respond, "It's a PUA", eventually revealing that meant "previously unknown acronym". It was even more annoying that it sounds.

New comment by drittich in "Scientific audio equipment analysis with analyzer shows no difference in quality"

drittich — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:29:00 +0000

I think the point is to reproduce the sound of those hundreds of feet of standard run-of-the-mill cabling as faithfully as possible ;)

New comment by drittich in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

drittich — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 03:29:42 +0000

Voice is everything. Don't relinquish the best part of yourself.

New comment by drittich in "GPT-5.4"

drittich — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:18:29 +0000

I think it's time for an https://hotornot.com for AI models.

New comment by drittich in "Setting up phones is a nightmare"

drittich — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 02:06:26 +0000

Tell me why they only support Google Pixel phones, v6 through 10.

New comment by drittich in "A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch"

drittich — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:26:18 +0000

Yes, shower thinking with warm water on my neck is absolute peak. In those conditions I'm unafraid of tackling the most challenging of thinking.

New comment by drittich in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

drittich — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:26:53 +0000

And of course you can now run local LLMs on your phone as well.

New comment by drittich in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

drittich — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:55:19 +0000

Also a musician and I don't think it's that amusing. IMO this isn't an "AI can't be art" discussion. It's about the fact that AI can be used to extract value from other artists' work without consent, and then out-compete them on volume by flooding the marketplace.

New comment by drittich in "NCSA Mosaic 2.7, one of the first graphical web browsers"

drittich — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:03:04 +0000

Your description matches my recollection exactly.

New comment by drittich in "So you wanna build a local RAG?"

drittich — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 13:48:22 +0000

Do you have a standard prompt you use for this? I have definitely seen agentic tools doing this for me, e.g., when searching the local file system, but I'm not sure if it native behaviour for tool-using LLMs or if it is coerced via prompts.

New comment by drittich in "Agent design is still hard"

drittich — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 15:27:54 +0000

This sounds interesting. What about the agent behavior itself? How it decides how to come at a problem, what to show the user along the way, and how it decides when to stop? Are these things you have attempted to grapple with in your framework?

New comment by drittich in "EXIF orientation info in PNGs isn't used for image-orientation: from-image"

drittich — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:49:55 +0000

Yes, came to the same conclusion - it's a pain, but solves the problem permanently.

New comment by drittich in "Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction?"

drittich — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:43:08 +0000

We all just feed the LLMs now.

New comment by drittich in "Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction?"

drittich — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:31:27 +0000

Looks like it comes from Scientific American: https://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/~spaf/Yucks/V5/msg00004.html

New comment by drittich in "Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1"

drittich — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 01:24:45 +0000

And recording software applications to cassette off the radio!

New comment by drittich in "Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor – Version 1.1"

drittich — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:14:01 +0000

I cut my teeth on that language, and still keep a Commodore PET around for old times sake.

New comment by drittich in "Adaptive LLM routing under budget constraints"

drittich — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 03:14:07 +0000

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To help with quality and improve our products, human reviewers may read, annotate, and process your API input and output. Google takes steps to protect your privacy as part of this process. This includes disconnecting this data from your Google Account, API key, and Cloud project before reviewers see or annotate it. Do not submit sensitive, confidential, or personal information to the Unpaid Services."

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New comment by drittich in "AOL to discontinue dial-up internet"

drittich — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:42:37 +0000

For younger users of the internet, it's hard to overstate how omnipresent the AOL brand was. The marketing team was on overdrive, all the time. And their marketing CDs probably caused a noticeable increase in CD-ROM adoption.

New comment by drittich in "The Titanic’s Best Lifeboat"

drittich — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 12:54:27 +0000

tl;dr

HN values efficiency

New comment by drittich in "The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use"

drittich — Fri, 16 May 2025 11:37:32 +0000

Perhaps that's a false dichotomy?