Hacker News: ece

New comment by ece in "Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload"

ece — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:44:49 +0000

Those scrapers can be blocked. Some scrapers won't ignore the responses, and maybe it'll lead to a meaningful reduction in scraping traffic.

New comment by ece in "Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload"

ece — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:43:53 +0000

Every website that wants to, can just charge for dumps. Anubis or even Cloudflare can handle the rest I think.

New comment by ece in "Proxmox VE now available for ARM64"

ece — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:46:42 +0000

This would be interesting on a Spark or two. I don't know how seamless the GPU and networking cluster setup would be when resource sharing between agent and post-training VMs.

New comment by ece in "Pacing the frontier"

ece — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:19:16 +0000

What these people want is same thing people in every other field want too, which is being able to use AI as a tool and nothing more. Off course, some of the people that signed this might not recognize this, and the people who didn't sign it are actively working against such an equilibrium.

New comment by ece in "Our position on open-weights models"

ece — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:17:24 +0000

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something..."

New comment by ece in "My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page"

ece — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:10:47 +0000

Yeah, this does seem like a needless omission. Cardboard cases work sometimes. Plastic cases aren't too hard to find, but they do require modifications.

New comment by ece in "The arguments against open source AI are bad"

ece — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:46:31 +0000

Controlling how to train, not over fitting, making sure training data is good, and being able to do distributed training are all reasons why open weight isn't like open source. You can't fork during pre-training with open weight-only models.

New comment by ece in "My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page"

ece — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:33:38 +0000

Pinecube from pine64.

https://pine64.org/devices/pinecube/

New comment by ece in "Oracle could face $7B collateral bill for Wisconsin data centre"

ece — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:29:27 +0000

https://archive.md/voqjr

New comment by ece in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

ece — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:08:01 +0000

Start your own openrouter.

New comment by ece in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

ece — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:57:51 +0000

Just switched to AI Plus from Pro, seems like I won't be missing much.

New comment by ece in "The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How the New Pricing Decreased Demand by 80%"

ece — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:45:28 +0000

72% revenue decline from a 54% price increase, but how did profitability change? Some of the features of the Deck are still differentiating like the OLED screen and touch pads, and maybe some of the price increase is meant to keep it profitable at a low volume.

I personally think a controller and a VR headset that isn't standalone would be fine products for Valve to sell. Maybe they can't justify working on Steam OS without the Deck, Steam Machine or Frame. If they can still sell low volume differentiated products, good for them.

New comment by ece in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

ece — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:32:24 +0000

I disagree with the first half quite a bit, COGS ultimately depends on the use case. If someone just wants something that a smaller model can do, running a local model on phone is going to have a negligible cost close to running any other piece of software. The alternatives to running a model also determines COGS, and even Jensen Huang has distinguished between the job and the work for the job that AI is capable of doing. Smaller models are always going to win in efficiency too.

I also heavily disagree with this no-marginal cost in software distribution view whenever I see it, bit rot is real, and someone is paying a marginal cost whenever they do an update. You have to re-distribute with changes whenever anything changes. These costs are just hidden because things are ad-supported or bundled in some way. These costs are also kept low because of standards and open source, but could become high anytime. Additional licensing also has costs.

That said, I couldn't agree more with the last paragraph, charging a high price for models would be better than denying access for any model that wants to stay relevant.

New comment by ece in "Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index"

ece — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:04:07 +0000

This is the new version, the old one is called sultan laxeby. Easily 1.5x the amount of time.

PDF for assembly is still up on the website: https://www.ikea.com/nl/nl/assembly_instructions/sultan-laxe...

New comment by ece in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

ece — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:54:09 +0000

Is there a bsky or mastodon extension for serving git repos and commits? Would be interesting to see this.

New comment by ece in "AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design"

ece — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:30:34 +0000

Machine learning layer cake with some brute force crumbs.

New comment by ece in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

ece — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:50:20 +0000

It's hard to sympathize with Anthropic for this or the export ban, the hype over model capabilities probably fuels both things (in some ways). Training data for me, but not for thee (at any scale) doesn't seem like a tenable position. If anything, Claude's constitutional outputs should be trained on more rather than less.

New comment by ece in "Specs Augmented Reality Glasses"

ece — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:47:33 +0000

Out of all the possible permutations of display/sensors/processing for AR, I would like to see eyewear with just a Bluetooth-like display and camera/mic. Let me use the phone or watch for all processing. Bonus points for eye tracking and body position sensors. Make the camera tethered if you must and somehow integrate it with my clothes.

Off course, this would mean less lock-in for everybody and we can't have that.

New comment by ece in "Open source AI must win"

ece — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:51:51 +0000

If large models were primarily used for distillation to make smaller models better, that could be a more efficient use of resources. Smaller providers could choose to fund a larger model and benefit from it.

New comment by ece in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

ece — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:42:42 +0000

Compared to an ICE, maintenance of brushes is still quite an improvement.