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New comment by freekh in "$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks"

freekh — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:39:51 +0000

The Google Gemini deal is one of the reasons I think it is likely since Gemini works pretty local hw...

New comment by freekh in "$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks"

freekh — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:03:46 +0000

This has been my theory for a while: during this autumn Apple will release a version of Apple Intelligence that runs locally and works better than ChatGPT. They will do this because 1) they do not have an offering in AI yet 2) they have amazing hardware that even now almost can pull it off on open models and this will not be possible to replicate on android for a long time (presumably)

This will crush OpenAI.

Note: I am not talking about coding here - it will take a while longer but when it is optimized to the bone and llms output has stabilized, you will be running that too on local hardware. Cost will come down for Claude and friends too but why pay 5 when you can have it for free?

New comment by freekh in "Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs"

freekh — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:38:03 +0000

Should add: you can read more docs here: https://val.build/docs/create

New comment by freekh in "Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs"

freekh — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:37:08 +0000

Awesome feedback! Will update the docs! The content is TS files. You can chose which repo GitHub you want to synchronize to - monorepo also works!

New comment by freekh in "Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs"

freekh — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 06:41:22 +0000

Cool! We also build client-server sync for our local-first CMS: https://github.com/valbuild/val Just as your docsync, it has to both guarantee order and sync to multiple types of servers (your own computer for local dev, cloud service in prod). Base format is rfc 6902 json patches. Read the spec sheet and it is very similar :)

New comment by freekh in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

freekh — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:52:11 +0000

Still working on code only CMS: https://val.build

Next up: tasteful AI features then i18n

GitHub: https://github.com/valbuild/val/blob/main/packages/next/READ...

New comment by freekh in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

freekh — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:03:23 +0000

Working on i18n for Val CMS, a lightweight CMS where content is stored as code.

GitHub: https://github.com/valbuild/val/blob/main/packages/next/READ...

New comment by freekh in "European Alternatives"

freekh — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:02:19 +0000

Wanted to submit my CMS, Val, but there's no CMS category yet?

I tried to create a category here if it is useful for others as well: https://european-alternatives.eu/admin/category-votes/3daefd...

Oh, and here's the product page: https://val.build

GitHub is here: https://github.com/valbuild/val

New comment by freekh in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

freekh — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:35:24 +0000

I am working on the «ultimate dev ex» CMS: https://val.build/docs

GitHub: https://github.com/valbuild/val

Intro video: https://youtu.be/83bnYGIsm5g?si=5LN7dxnARrS4jNEx

What sets it apart is that it 1) stores content in TS / JS files 2) is a fully fledged CMs. It is designed to be nice to work with from the start a project (and the structure of your app changes all the time) -> when everyone works on individual PRs -> to the end when the project is decommissioned.

It needs no cloud APIs, no DBs nor caching. No query language to learn. No sign up to get started. It is fully TypeSafe and needs no type generation. You can rename and refactor content from you IDE. It works amazingly with Cursor and friends (local content and schema + strong typesafty + validation)

Currently reqs are: Nextjs and GitHub.

APIs are pretty stable. UI is in the process of a revamp. Will do a proper show hn some time in the near future.

New comment by freekh in "GitHub CEO: manual coding remains key despite AI boom"

freekh — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 06:40:48 +0000

> It's entirely possible that we do become obsolete for a wide variety of programming domains. That's simply a reality…

It is not a reality since it has not happen. In the real world it has not happened.

There is no reason to believe that the current rate of progress will continue. Intelligence is not like the weaving machines. A software engineer is not a human calculator.

New comment by freekh in "Now might be the best time to learn software development"

freekh — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:15:44 +0000

Nice article! Reflects my views as well!

New comment by freekh in "What works (and doesn't) selling formal methods"

freekh — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 06:23:00 +0000

I really liked this article. I think all of these points, in particular the conclusion of cost vs benefit could be the same whether you were talking about formal methods or web apps. This way of seeing things, with an engineering perspective, is the exact same we (at least I) see it but we mostly do web apps.

New comment by freekh in "FreeBSD Suspend/Resume"

freekh — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:59:17 +0000

New comment by freekh in "How to debug your battery design"

freekh — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 08:02:53 +0000

So cool. Have wanted to add an extra battery on my Yuba Spice Curry, but it is so expensive. Love the fact that it is possible to replace the individual cell. Been annoyed that ebikes are not as serviceable as normal bikes. Signed up now :)

New comment by freekh in "Find bilingual baby names"

freekh — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 08:46:29 +0000

Even is also a common Norwegian name. Since you can have multiple first names too, you can be named Odd Even or even Even Odd.

New comment by freekh in "Sonder: E-Ink Keyboard"

freekh — Sun, 31 May 2020 19:17:05 +0000

I do that (via termux) with a onyx max boox 3. Works pretty well. I had some quality issues (got 2 dead lines on 2 devices so far) with the actual device but support has been very, very supportive so far so globally I'm very happy

New comment by freekh in "Show HN: Tail Recursion Optimization for the JVM"

freekh — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 05:23:42 +0000

Not sure if this is accurate. You can enforce @tailrec if you want, but I believe it will try to in any case, even if it is not annotated.

New comment by freekh in "Upgrade your cargo cult for the win (2017)"

freekh — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 12:44:14 +0000

Never thought about it before, but is Rusts package manager named after cargo cult?

New comment by freekh in "PostgreSQL Count(*) Performance Improvements"

freekh — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 07:46:26 +0000

It is not count() that is slow, it is iterating through the rows that is / can be slow :)

For me, the trick to basic understanding of perf in PG was exactly this: it is all about limiting the amount of rows you have to iterate over. It is true for count() but also for every other operation you do.

PG is surprisingly non-magical (at least in my experience) in that you won't get much perf for free, but on the other hand you can reason about perf & optimize pretty reliably once you come to terms with this.

New comment by freekh in "Huawei Facts: An open letter to the US media"

freekh — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 07:38:59 +0000

Why the down votes?