<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: efromvt</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=efromvt</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:27:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=efromvt" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efromvt in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>repetition of "belt-and-suspenders" kills me with opus, especially because it always means the model is suppressing something I would want to be an actual failure</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:11:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505190</link><dc:creator>efromvt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505190</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efromvt in "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the perception is that it is not 'only marginally better'; whether or not you specifically agree that perceived quality gap lets them differentiate on price.<p>I'd further say that there are <i>probably</i> enough rational actors running evals out there that the marginally better is not pure vibes for the cases where people are spending lots of money, but I only have direct line of sight to some of those eval suites. Maybe everyone is irrational and anthropic is exploiting that!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:02:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503601</link><dc:creator>efromvt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503601</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efromvt in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you can sympathize with the safety motives while still thinking this was a dumb implementation to degrade silently? I actually have faith in them getting the guardrail triggers pretty good, but consensus seems like they’re not yet there yet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:17:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48493271</link><dc:creator>efromvt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48493271</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48493271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efromvt in "Claude Fable 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The openrouter provider flakiness with deepseek was infuriating, but I’m happy in hindsight because direct deepseek has been very pleasant. Shocked by how low spend is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:34:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466484</link><dc:creator>efromvt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466484</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efromvt in "Claude Fable 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I do slightly prefer 5.5 for complex work but Claude quota usage has gotten infinitely better since the dark days a few months back - has gone from being infuriating to something I pretty much don’t have to worry about with it as a daily driver. (In fact, hitting GPT weekly quotas is more annoying now). Understand if people are still scarred by the issues + poor comms around them, though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:10:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466078</link><dc:creator>efromvt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466078</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efromvt in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd be very curious about the bottleneck breakdown in most current software dev - I suspect inference is far from the bottleneck in most things I do, though driving it to 0 would still be <i>nice</i>. I do agree that if it was 0 we'd probably change development approaches to reduce the new bottlenecks more, but it'll take full-process innovation to really get something near-instant.<p>(I should go measure this now, I'm curious)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:32:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448365</link><dc:creator>efromvt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448365</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efromvt in "DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Deepseek cost/performance is incredible. That said, I still feel like for agentic coding we haven't plateaued (I slightly prefer GPT 5.5 to Claude for complex stuff, to be honest), and so the extra price is absolutely worth it to push you over the 'impossible' to 'feasible' bar on complex tasks. Once you're in a domain that Deepseek <i>can</i> handle though that requires volume, I would almost always default to it now.<p>For evals in particular (tuning workflows that agents are using), effectively not having to worry about price is an incredible multiplier - getting statistical significant signal is not cheap otherwise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:40:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444607</link><dc:creator>efromvt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444607</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efromvt in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's always a bulk insert, but I wouldn't say every engine has always had a reasonable way to bulk load truly large data... parquet <i>really</i> helped with interop but before that when your best option was a CSV and bcp life was not fun.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:23:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399122</link><dc:creator>efromvt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399122</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efromvt in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A pretty common request is to lift the FROM up before the select, like the below. I'm pretty fine with status quo since my mind is usually "hmm what do I need to get" first, then I figure out how to get it, but some engines (duckdb, I think?) support both so everyone gets their cake.<p>What people often want:
<where to get data from>
<what I want from it>
<how it's filtered>
<how it's grouped>
<how it's filtered post group></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:22:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399087</link><dc:creator>efromvt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399087</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efromvt in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A self para-sql-lang plug if you like the direction of malloy but prefer something closer to native SQL syntax. (a controversial take at times)<p>- <a href="https://trilogydata.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://trilogydata.dev/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:18:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399042</link><dc:creator>efromvt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399042</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efromvt in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think advanced SQL authoring is generally simple to understand, and that's the larger learning curve!<p>I find those big stored procedures usually fall into two categories; logic that should be in the DB, but should be decomposed (staging tables, other SPs, etc) in which case they can be understandable in chunks; or logic that <i>shouldn't</i> be in the DB but has been shoved in there, in which case there's more of an ideological debate but I generally prefer to pull out and run in the application layer. (the latter is pretty much IMO the things that you've done after you've gotten the data at the right grain, when you are massaging it to a particular form/presentation format; performance is often the final arbitre here though).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:15:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399000</link><dc:creator>efromvt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399000</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efromvt in "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting - which models specifically? I'd be interested in using mistral over deepseek if it was competitive (guess I need to go benchmark)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 18:50:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339473</link><dc:creator>efromvt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339473</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48339473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efromvt in "Incident with Actions and Pages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Incredible how reliable the heuristic of "something seems off - probably github being down" has gotten these days</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 12:16:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278695</link><dc:creator>efromvt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278695</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efromvt in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For my streamlined, composable SQL variant - Trilogy[1] - spent the last month or two very focused on CLI/ETL/scheduling to support data pipelines for other hobby projects. Have that story in a better place - so time for new things.<p>Trilogy's model works quite well for agents, but I've avoided making AI features <i>too</i> native in the UI products - not everyone's cup of tea - so this month going to do a spike on a new pure AI native data authoring/exploration experience to see where that can go without messing with the core product, at both CLI/UI layers. Data consumption is (un?)fortunately a pretty perfect fit for the agent strengths with the right harness.<p>[1]<a href="https://trilogydata.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://trilogydata.dev/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 02:23:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090378</link><dc:creator>efromvt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090378</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efromvt in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't the OpenClaw furor has been a problem for the majority; but stuff like the harness bugs with dropped thinking traces (capacity optimization?) and some fairly bizarre billing bugs with weird/opaque comms around both have been more concerning and affect a larger group than that loud minority. You do kind of want a reliable service with reliable billing and reasonable comms for most things at the corporate level.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 14:22:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975140</link><dc:creator>efromvt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975140</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efromvt in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>that is a terrible way to figure out if openclaw is used, hah</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 13:20:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47974507</link><dc:creator>efromvt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47974507</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47974507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efromvt in "Reverse Engineering SimTower"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you still build a garage in the bottom corner to get more starting money??</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:35:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969726</link><dc:creator>efromvt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efromvt in "Full-Text Search with DuckDB"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I didn’t realize they had chDB, honestly, need to give that a shot! The local CLI isn’t quite the same ergonomically</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:19:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47968353</link><dc:creator>efromvt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47968353</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47968353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efromvt in "Full-Text Search with DuckDB"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sqllite and duckdb serve pretty different niches; duckdb is less embeddable but on the OLAP side it’s by far the best today. I wouldn’t ever see them as competing for the same app, though</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:05:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47968223</link><dc:creator>efromvt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47968223</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47968223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by efromvt in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I try to avoid jumping on the bandwagon when it's already covered but billing bugs being treated like other software issue and the major comms channel being X (which I can't get to load half the time) is ridiculous.</p>
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