Hacker News: geooff_

New comment by geooff_ in "Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale"

geooff_ — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:51:06 +0000

Great step in the right direction. IMO still to expensive for most “product” use cases.

Fast and affordable imaging editing unlocks tons of cool use cases. It’s refreshing to see latency be held just as important as price as-well!

I’ve been bootstrapping a personal styling app. Funnily enough I’m still seeing best results/$ from grok imagine V1. A now deprecated model.

New comment by geooff_ in "GitHub Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions"

geooff_ — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:18:42 +0000

Actions being down is one thing - I can't even land a PR.

New comment by geooff_ in "AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up"

geooff_ — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:38:02 +0000

I've been bootstrapping for two years now, just me and AI tooling.

Code moves much faster, product taste doesn't. Once you have your marching orders you can make features 10x faster. Shots off target still miss though. It doesn't matter if your code gets generated 10x faster when it doesn't resonate with users.

New comment by geooff_ in "Towards Self-Driving Codebases"

geooff_ — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:57:43 +0000

If you have a logo in the top left corner of your company blog the logo should route to the home page so I can see what product you're actually building.

New comment by geooff_ in "PCB is brought to you by Fable 5"

geooff_ — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:49:50 +0000

> ...I was not feeling much of an accomplishment, rightfully so. I used to enjoy the learning and the struggle that came with it.

I feel this as well.

New comment by geooff_ in "ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market"

geooff_ — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:09:53 +0000

Good call out. I hadn't considered this. Would be interesting to see net.

New comment by geooff_ in "ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market"

geooff_ — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:09:15 +0000

> In 2024, Ontarians wagered $82.7 billion CAD on these sites through 2.6 million player accounts.

Truly astounding numbers. Without a doubt, online gambling is the most preventable public health crisis of our generation. None of this had any business getting legalized.

New comment by geooff_ in "ChatGPT Images 2.5"

geooff_ — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:32:57 +0000

Still far too expensive.

At this point, I'm much more interested in seeing releases for models chasing down prices on "good enough" to unlock new use-cases than I am SOTA.

I've been using Grok Imagine V1 in prod for months now as its quality for my use-case is already more than enough.

New comment by geooff_ in "OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra"

geooff_ — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:11:01 +0000

Jesus so much marketing slop - release it don't

New comment by geooff_ in "Muse Spark 1.3"

geooff_ — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:54:14 +0000

Could this be best intelligence / $ if you're willing to let zuck digest your data?

New comment by geooff_ in "How Dactyl Works"

geooff_ — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:53:37 +0000

Their homepage really makes me think that this is actually just an attempt to speedrun cease and desists.

New comment by geooff_ in "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next"

geooff_ — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:41:00 +0000

Where are you seeing that? At the bottom of this post from Qwen I see:

Qwen 3.8 flash: $0.16 / $0.47

Compared to

Deepseek 0723: $0.03 / $0.075

(units in USD/m tok)

New comment by geooff_ in "Show HN: Inertia – Not your Grandfathers animation editor"

geooff_ — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:27:27 +0000

Amazing, a landing page for an animation tool that doesn't contain a single animation.

New comment by geooff_ in "My Agent Setup"

geooff_ — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:14:30 +0000

It's always fun seeing how other people are using these tools.

> Has it been worth it? For the journey, yes, for the ROI, nope.

It's also nice seeing someone experiment without succumbing to AI psychosis.

Show HN: Ahoy.navy – A daily sea battle puzzle

geooff_ — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:42:53 +0000

Hello HN.

As a kid / teen I used to love playing the MMO Puzzle Pirates. I'd play for hours on end, doing the same puzzles to keep my ship moving. As an Adult I can't find the multi-hour spans I need to play the MMOs I love anymore. So I made ahoy.navy to convert one of my favourite mini-games from one of my favourite MMOs into a "Wordle-style" daily puzzle game.

Just sharing for fun!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102056

Points: 1

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New comment by geooff_ in "Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library"

geooff_ — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:24:00 +0000

I love seeing this. Background removal is such a core task used in so many systems, I group it in with speech to text in terms of importance.

I love seeing maturity getting pushed in this space. Congratulations to you and the team!

New comment by geooff_ in "Claude Opus 5"

geooff_ — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:18:20 +0000

FYI: `/model claude-opus-5` works to use it even through `/model` still tries to serve 4.8

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

geooff_ — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:33:25 +0000

At this point just put the Pareto in the bag bruh

New comment by geooff_ in "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"

geooff_ — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:10:52 +0000

No pricing table? No benchmarks? This is just marketingslop.

Image token pricing has been fairly steady while text token prices fall, yet image model release discussion seems to be more focused on how beautiful the women the model generates are versus any sort of substantive discussion.

New comment by geooff_ in "Claude Opus 4.7"

geooff_ — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:51:00 +0000

I've noticed the same over the last two weeks. Some days Claude will just entirely lose its marbles. I pay for Claude and Codex so I just end up needing to use codex those days and the difference is night and day.