Hacker News: gandreani

New comment by gandreani in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

gandreani — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:19:44 +0000

"Death of Silicon Valley" in this case is such a funny perspective. Like, how twisted is the US's view of the market that they think "Competition? Oh no. Sound the alarms."

New comment by gandreani in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

gandreani — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:16:47 +0000

I also have this problem!

It's the only model where an explicit instruction at the end of my message is sometimes ignored. This doesn't happen with any of the gpts, kimis, glms, qwen, etc. Just a deepseek problem.

Hope it improves!

New comment by gandreani in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

gandreani — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:14:49 +0000

I use it through my opencode go subscription and it's exactly how you described. Very pragmatic and not too ambitious. It's similar to Kimi 2.5/6 in that regard.

I like it!

New comment by gandreani in "Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife"

gandreani — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:12:40 +0000

Have you tried DeepSeek V4 Flash? It's very competent and extremely cheap.

I think Gemma 4 is also a good example of a capable small model.

I mention these not only because they're cheap but because they can run on consumer devices. The "every year bigger and more capable SOTA model" trend is mirrored by "the every year smaller and more capable open source model" trend.

New comment by gandreani in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

gandreani — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:45:02 +0000

Are you using Mimo 2.5 pro?

New comment by gandreani in "Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess"

gandreani — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:57:39 +0000

Writing tests is also something AI agents excel at. At least they excel at converting plain english instructions into exact tests.

I haven't hand written tests in a while and it was something that I always bemoaned. Not anymore!

New comment by gandreani in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

gandreani — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:40:30 +0000

Azure suspended your account as well?

New comment by gandreani in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

gandreani — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:29:49 +0000

But...AWS is a platform too, no? Seems like you're in the same category of risk you just moved to a more well-known name. Granted, Amazon is the most reliable even if they have their own quirks.

New comment by gandreani in "Heat pump sales rise across Europe"

gandreani — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:54:08 +0000

Drilling in the basement seems like a pain to remove the dirt you dig up. Saving yourself a couple of feet cannot be worth the access troubles

New comment by gandreani in "PyInfra 3.8.0 Is Out"

gandreani — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:51:12 +0000

Oops I mixed up my tabs. My bad

New comment by gandreani in "PyInfra 3.8.0"

gandreani — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:03:09 +0000

There's a video!

I can't get over the fact of how suspicious he looks while doing it. And doesn't even cover his face. Crazyness

https://x.com/porqueTTarg/status/2047652413306277970 https://xcancel.com/porqueTTarg/status/2047652413306277970

New comment by gandreani in "Before GitHub"

gandreani — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:56:43 +0000

And backups. Sqlite makes it easier but no backup process is easy. You always have to backup and restore at least once to have the confidence to rely on it.

It's another (big) point towards paying someone else to host it.

New comment by gandreani in "Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage"

gandreani — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:58:03 +0000

Do you like Netdata? I'm looking into it. I'm curious if you use all the features or just a few.

New comment by gandreani in "I made a terminal pager"

gandreani — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:33:47 +0000

I really like this post! I think it's the clearest explanation I've seen of the different characteristics of utf-8 strings

New comment by gandreani in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

gandreani — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:53:22 +0000

I don't know about McD's exactly, but food in general is very cheap in Japan compared to the U.S.

Source: I watch a lot of behind the scenes restaurant videos on YouTube and I'm always shocked at the prices. Most dishes are cheaper than if I were to go to the grocery store and cook it myself...

Your intuition of LLM token usage might be wrong

gandreani — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:53:44 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.andreani.in/blog/37/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758341

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by gandreani in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

gandreani — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:43:21 +0000

I had the opposite happen to me. I made the same assumption when my GPU broke (it was 2-3 months old). I thought I'll save time and spend some more money to have it repaired in a local shop instead of sending it back to the manufacturer.

Turns out it was a fatal irreparable failure. A capacitor overheated and left a small crater on the surface. Because I took it to the shop, the warranty sticker was void. Had to buy a whole new GPU :(

New comment by gandreani in "MacBook Neo"

gandreani — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:32:02 +0000

Wow props to that sales rep. Not many would pass on the opportunity to sell something more expensive. I'm assuming they make some sort of (paltry) commission

New comment by gandreani in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

gandreani — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:53:55 +0000

This is funny. This change actually pushes me into using a competitor more (https://www.kimi.com). I was trying out this provider with oh-my-pi (https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi) and was lamenting that it didn't have web search implemented using kimi.

Well a kind contributor just added that feature specifically because of this ban(https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi/pull/110).

I'm happy as a clam now. Yay for competition!

New comment by gandreani in "CSS-Doodle"

gandreani — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:48:13 +0000

The aliases we're tripping me up! I almost understand it now. Not sure what the @lp is doing