Hacker News: georgel

New comment by georgel in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

georgel — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:14:55 +0000

Glowing logo is back!

New comment by georgel in "Xbox Turns Down Netflix $500M Offer"

georgel — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:17:36 +0000

I would totally go to a Halo theme park, that sounds cool.

New comment by georgel in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

georgel — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:07:52 +0000

Interesting, if the cache hit is that good, I think HN convinced me to toss $20 at DS official, and see how long that lasts.

New comment by georgel in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

georgel — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:51:17 +0000

I'm all in for saving money and _can_ move to using DS directly from them, but maybe I am missing something here:

OpenRouter Pricing:

$0.02/M input tokens $0.60/M output tokens

DeepSeek Pricing (cache miss, off-peak):

$0.15/M Input $0.60/m output

New comment by georgel in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

georgel — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:47:41 +0000

I am curious how you managed to spend that much on Deepseek via OpenRouter. I loaded $100 back in July while using v4-flash or whatever the cheap good model was at the time, and have upgraded as the new ones came out from Deepseek. I still have $16 and some of that spend also goes towards the AI usage from my customers (the context they need to load in is quite large too).

And I am using the Claude Code harness with DS as the endpoint. And I use it ~5-8hrs a day to do my coding.

New comment by georgel in "Codex Pricing: Pro has unlimited 5.6 usage"

georgel — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:31:12 +0000

And just like those "unlimited" plans, the disclaimer always reads speeds slow down after N GB transferred/mo. If this unlimited tokens world happens, I expect vendors to start throttling or downgrading models.

Network neutrality meet token neutrality.

New comment by georgel in "28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days"

georgel — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:11:24 +0000

When I lived in the area about 6 years ago, I had 3rd party recruiters reach out to me about roles that they don't list. The whole region it felt like was 70% contractors (W-2 with the contracting firm), until the company really liked you and bought out your contract and converted you to an actual employee.

Surprisingly I had better benefits at the two contracting firms than what employees were getting.

New comment by georgel in "Yen weakens past ¥160 per dollar, eroding intervention gains"

georgel — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:40:37 +0000

From one George to another, this is the way. My close friends don’t bother with Venmo or the like.

New comment by georgel in "Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude"

georgel — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:01:08 +0000

Work only allows the tools they buy. So at least for me, I am stuck with Claude. At home for personal projects I am a fan of DeepSeek v4 Flash.

New comment by georgel in "Stripe acquires Clerky"

georgel — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:19:13 +0000

> controls all of the early incorporation infrastructure

You don't need to rely on Stripe to do anything. There are other payment gateways, and you can file things yourself (or hire someone).

Do they make things very easy and accessible for a smaller fee than doing it yourself, yes.

New comment by georgel in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

georgel — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 03:23:01 +0000

The creator of the Overcast podcast app grabbed 48.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaVznUB6wss

New comment by georgel in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

georgel — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 03:00:37 +0000

MacOS 27 drops Intel support, but 10 years of updates is a long run. The 2015 MBPs were so good.

New comment by georgel in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

georgel — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:52:49 +0000

I really like what they did with the MBP redesign, reminds me of the PowerBook G4 Titanium aesthetic. The hardware to me is great, but the OS has gone very downhill. If I had a Snow Leopard era-ish build of OSX + modern security I would be perfectly happy. Settings.app is a disaster, same goes for recent iOS versions.

Apple Music must have been written by an intern or outsourced, how can you have a music playing app crash and do a System Report just by hitting the previous song button.

New comment by georgel in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute"

georgel — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:50:59 +0000

I have an M2 Pro MBP 16GB, compared to the latest MBP issued by my employer a couple months ago, I see zero difference in real world performance. Can’t speak for Office on Mac, I have not used it in over a decade, but for typical full stack web dev I literally don’t need anything more.

New comment by georgel in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

georgel — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:39:31 +0000

I had the OG white Zune. It was the same price as an iPod ~$250. The reason I chose Zune was the Zune Pass. A precursor to Spotify. Plus growing up in the Seattle area, I knew other people who had them and we would trade songs.

New comment by georgel in "The August 17 outage"

georgel — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 02:48:51 +0000

On the topic of translation/ language learning, I still find Google Translate better for when I need to type emails in Russian (my older family who only speak it) as far as grammar is concerned than what LLMs spit out.

New comment by georgel in "Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+"

georgel — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:58:21 +0000

Feature bloat definitely made their API and product docs harder than the early days. Stripe Checkout would have saved my teams days, but I agree, they need to go back to their roots and make the 99% use case very easy.

New comment by georgel in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

georgel — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:15:30 +0000

My middle school circa 2004 in CT started at 7:30am. Similarly I was on swim team and we started practice around 5:30am in a Seattle suburb.

New comment by georgel in "Ethical Cold Outreach"

georgel — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:25:36 +0000

Right there with you. All the products I have built are not interesting to the HN or ProductHunt crowd. I don't even bother in those channels. Anyone reading this, find the places that are actually relevant to your customers.

I get a lot of office cleaning / janitorial spam (I don't have an office) alongside the dev shop spam. Just checked my junk SMS folder, I had 5 SMS messages for "fundraising" for a company gone 10 years ago. It is non-stop.

New comment by georgel in "Ethical Cold Outreach"

georgel — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:39:31 +0000

I wish BDR's and AE's could just answer the important questions I have for them in the first call. I have wasted countless hours of my life sitting in sales meetings, when my wallet is already open.

It really shouldn't be that hard, I even would do the work of "hey this is our expected usage, I have already adjusted for an overage buffer, how much?".