Hacker News: giancarlostoro

New comment by giancarlostoro in "No, everyone is not using AI for everything"

giancarlostoro — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:56:33 +0000

Just answer honestly, and include a note that you intend to fully comply with the companies AI policies. Thats the best answer anyone can give.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

giancarlostoro — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:30:11 +0000

Reminds me of people freaking out about the Grok Bikini thing, but GPT and Googles image model they all do the same behavior. Clearly biased against Elon Musk despite it being a problem for every single image model out there.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

giancarlostoro — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:00:38 +0000

Reminds me of the Perplexity news thing.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

giancarlostoro — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:26:59 +0000

Do you really need the census to find people of specific demographics in 2026? Pretty sure I can go up to anyone in any state and ask where all the Puerto Ricans live and get an answer (in many cases I'm sure I'll get stared at like I'm crazy, but that's still an answer). I know because my parents moved to predominantly Hispanic parts of Florida before fully settling down where we landed, I REALLY doubt they stopped to pull up census data to decide where to find Hispanics / Puerto Ricans in Florida. You can talk to any local of any area and figure out which areas are a specific nationality without census data.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "Open source AI must win"

giancarlostoro — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:20:40 +0000

I mean, even if the frontier labs opened their frontier models, only nation-state level actors are capable of running them. A lot of the tech is very open and known, its putting it all together that's the struggle.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "I Won't Buy You a Coffee"

giancarlostoro — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:00:01 +0000

I don't think there's anything wrong with monetizing a blog, long as its not an ad infested dumpster fire.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "I Won't Buy You a Coffee"

giancarlostoro — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:59:06 +0000

Meh.

So op is fine financially, but people who are asking for money usually tend to be doing "free" labour and sometimes not employed, or maybe they are employed and would like any additional financial aid to offset their personal costs (time is also a cost, you could be consulting for $$$ instead). I help admin a Discord that receives a few hundred dollars monthly in donations, and we're still way in the negative in terms of what we've spent on the community.

I would not make foolish assumptions when someone's asking for a "coffee" that it "costs" them nothing, the same argument applies against me and my friends, sure Discord itself costs us nothing, but the bot hosting does, the game server hosting does, there's a cost to a lot more things that might not be immediately obvious to everyone.

If freenode asked to buy them a coffee, I think any of us who used IRC long enough might "buy them a coffee" because we know the infrastructure is not free, the time invested by the maintainers, etc.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"

giancarlostoro — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:43:14 +0000

I all it advertising clause, because I remember still in the 2000s seeing an Apple ad which at the end of it showed "Unix" or something like that on it, and I remembered that was one of the BSD license requirements, or maybe Apple just did it also just to proudly boast using Unix.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

giancarlostoro — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:40:50 +0000

I usually use "yay" for all my stuff, so I might have to consider telling yay to only update system files, apparently one way to decrease this type of attack is to get a hardware key for your SSH files, might finally have a reason to get a yubikey or similar.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

giancarlostoro — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:26:42 +0000

Apparently I was almost affected, but I dont update arch frequently enough, that my alvr package was not updated during the window.

It's also a good thing that Arch Linux has people hawking it, so if these things happen they get caught on insanely quickly. I wonder if there's sane ways to protect your dotfiles from rogue processes just touching them.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

giancarlostoro — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:25:00 +0000

"Oh a new exploit, I wonder if npm is involved at all"

Yup. Every time, I guess it's one of the most common attack vectors, can we do anything to secure NPM more against these supply chain attacks? I swear NPM is always involved in all sizable attack vectors these days.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "Making a vintage LLM from scratch"

giancarlostoro — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:30:09 +0000

In my case, I have a local branch where I'm experimenting with BitNet since it can run on a CPU too.

Wasi: WebGPU – A Proposed WebAssembly System Interface API

giancarlostoro — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:26:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-webgpu

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505373

Points: 23

# Comments: 3

New comment by giancarlostoro in "Making a vintage LLM from scratch"

giancarlostoro — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:24:30 +0000

I feel like this is the true frontier, making smaller models that can do more than their predecessors. If we can crack this space to where you can get reasonable outputs from "mediocre hardware" it would be worthwhile, even if its somewhat inferior to frontier models, we can't forget that not long ago, frontier models are nowhere near as good as they are today, and tomorrow's models will likely be even better.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"

giancarlostoro — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:19:19 +0000

Ah is that what it is? I don't use Cursor, never saw it as being relevant to me, but would not surprise me.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux"

giancarlostoro — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:15:49 +0000

Reminds me of when the Xbox 360 came out, Microsoft had to buy a bunch of Macs because Macs had PowerPC processors, so it was kind of a no-brainer to get the darn thing going quickly enough. Ultimately Windows was the standard way to build Xbox games but it is kind of funny to think, one day someone at Apple saw an order for easily several dozens of Macs from Microsoft, and wondered if hell froze over.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"

giancarlostoro — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:00:29 +0000

Reading their modified license terms, it cracks me up, because they've basically remade the MIT to be the MIT + the one clause that the BSD used to have, which didn't care about MAU or revenue, if you used it in a product, they asked you to 'advertise' them basically. Honestly, its a reasonable request.

New comment by giancarlostoro in "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"

giancarlostoro — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:11:23 +0000

Is Deepseek just eating cost or are people able to host their open models for comparable costs?

Lite XL – Fast, Lightweight and Powerful Text-Editing Experience

giancarlostoro — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:12:09 +0000

Article URL: https://lite-xl.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498608

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by giancarlostoro in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

giancarlostoro — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:06:50 +0000

Honestly for python just using uv is enough, not only does it handle virtualenv for you, it will also install the necessary python version you need locally.