Hacker News: gigatexal

New comment by gigatexal in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

gigatexal — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:23:38 +0000

I tried to. I just couldn't get over how it made my otherwise whisper quiet M3 Max MacBook Pro 14 for the performance. The sweet spot has been adopting Claude Code to use the Chinese models. Deepseek V4 Pro is very, very good. But I am such a casual local user of AI that my 20/month Claude subscription is enough and I find myself using that more and more.

New comment by gigatexal in "Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress"

gigatexal — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:33:47 +0000

While both sides of the political spectrum have crazies in them that are skeptical of vaccines let it be known that this latest insanity is being promulgated by red states and red politicians who are showing themselves to be just the biggest science denying idiots the world has ever seen

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

gigatexal — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:19:47 +0000

Yet another thing this admin is screwing up. News at 11. Let’s fix this in the midterms by voting out the republicans. That’s it. That should be the sum total of the platform: not republican and not crazy.

New comment by gigatexal in "Texas is America Inc's new centre of gravity"

gigatexal — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:28:40 +0000

"Howdy Arabia" is gold. I legit laughed out loud.

I'd much rather companies that incorporated in Delaware than the Wild West that is Texas: I want to have peace of mind knowing the company is not trying to get away with shady stuff like Elon is with his companies.

New comment by gigatexal in "Trump phone has HTC guts. Tremendous guts. The best guts"

gigatexal — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:23:39 +0000

This is the best headline

New comment by gigatexal in "FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL"

gigatexal — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:21:37 +0000

Criminal not to put a screenshot in the readme.

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

gigatexal — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:18:19 +0000

Homebrew is the first thing I install on a new Mac. I love it. Thank you everyone for all the work. Looking forward to 6.0 and all the security stuff yay. I hope the apps I use that their maintainers adopt the changes.

Tell HN: TIL Apple is rewriting core things in Swift

gigatexal — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:55:24 +0000

In the State of the Union talks on Swift and things I learned that they’re doing more and more dogfooding of things internally doing serverside stuff. I recall things like passwords and other core features are end to end Swift.

The main thing they said in one of the talks is that Swift is being used to write even kernel level things!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48474421

Points: 3

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New comment by gigatexal in "Claude Fable 5"

gigatexal — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:17:04 +0000

Actually no it’s going to be api access only part for the tokens as you go, cool

New comment by gigatexal in "macOS Container Machines"

gigatexal — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:42:17 +0000

I saw the video on this this is distrobox basically for Mac. It’s very cool. Seamless with your local files and the container. I’m very keen to try it.

New comment by gigatexal in "Alpine Linux 3.24.0 Released"

gigatexal — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:49:48 +0000

Been looking at Linux but I can’t pry myself away from openbsd and pf cuz the syntax is so nice.

You got any blog or something about your alpine router?

New comment by gigatexal in "Claude Fable 5"

gigatexal — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:48:06 +0000

Seems this will only be available to the 100/month+ folks

New comment by gigatexal in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

gigatexal — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:04:20 +0000

YES! More of this. Such places and people are not for sale. What kind of sickos think they can just see a place and say "I've got money, these know-nothing-barefoot-fools will take our money and let us rape their lands!"?

And on top of that it's Trump kids, yeet them into the sea.

New comment by gigatexal in "Apple WWDC 2026"

gigatexal — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:21:33 +0000

I’m so stoked for macOS 27 for feature improvements and polish. The ai stuff fine but a snow leopard like release I’m here for.

New comment by gigatexal in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

gigatexal — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:50:20 +0000

s/think/hope ?

New comment by gigatexal in "How the Boomers Screwed Europe"

gigatexal — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:21:07 +0000

to be fair they screwed the us, too

New comment by gigatexal in "Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF"

gigatexal — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:04:39 +0000

Given the benchmarks:

Small static file (174 B) - the bread and butter of static sites:

server req/s p99

zeroserve 36,681 5.4 ms

nginx 31,226 7.8 ms

Caddy 12,830 22 ms

zeroserve serves small files about 17% faster than nginx on a single core, with a tighter tail. HTML pages, small JSON, CSS - this is the case zeroserve is tuned for.

Large static file (100 KB):

server req/s throughput p99

zeroserve 8,000 782 MB/s 22 ms

nginx 7,600 773 MB/s 28 ms

Caddy 6,084 590 MB/s 44 ms

I'd go with a more storied project that's been audited, battle tested, hardened etc than this upstart. There's not enough improvement to justify the risk.

New comment by gigatexal in "Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute"

gigatexal — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:48:39 +0000

I think the op was being a bit satirical

New comment by gigatexal in "databow: a Rust CLI to query any database with an ADBC driver"

gigatexal — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:29:42 +0000

This is my question too

New comment by gigatexal in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

gigatexal — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:35:22 +0000

This is so true. I’ve been making a good living for the last 15 years because I learned SQL as a junior DBA.