Hacker News: goolz

New comment by goolz in "Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online"

goolz — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:41:14 +0000

They provide the world with an invaluable service at the expense of their freedom. Seems incredibly noble and good to me. Especially considering the current climate.

New comment by goolz in "Stop Making TUIs"

goolz — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:33:53 +0000

I honestly get better results out of claude at the command line than inside a GUI. Maybe I am just imagining things. But a lot of times GUIs are just graphical abstractions of TUIs. It is cruft that makes things visually easier and more appealing. That does not stop people from mastering TUIs and unlocking extra potential as they typically offer much deeper customization.

Once you go down this path, it is hard to go back. Very few tasks, apart from things like Photoshop and Revit, really require me to be at a GUI these days. And with MCP a lot of that is going away.

New comment by goolz in "Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera"

goolz — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:11:56 +0000

Is this sarcasm? Hopefully so but if not I assure you Flock is not worried about those bad seeds. They want a panopticon that can help the feds with parallel construction.

New comment by goolz in "Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker"

goolz — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:17:17 +0000

Love Focus! Daily drove for years now. It is great that it nukes your tabs when you fully close it. Helps my brain.

New comment by goolz in "Is the industry ready for tokens-constrained work?"

goolz — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:00:21 +0000

At least for myself personally: Opus 5 Ultra spreading out hundreds of subagents on specific tasks can gobble tokens like mad. Recently I did a custom OCR pipeline in a day and some Revit automation, extremely large datasets, but I definitely spent good money to make it happen so fast.

I almost certainly wasted tokens, but right now things are subsidized, so it works.

New comment by goolz in "Cursor is now a part of SpaceX"

goolz — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:30:05 +0000

Very on-brand for a Halo 2 lobby circa 2005.

New comment by goolz in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

goolz — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:44:44 +0000

Sometimes fear can be quite exciting.

New comment by goolz in "Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview"

goolz — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:41:13 +0000

I guess to each their own, as I find the GUIs to be clunky and a net negative to my workflow. Admittedly, I should give them another chance, and see how they have matured lately.

New comment by goolz in "Hello, me. It's been a while"

goolz — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:20:45 +0000

I wear headphones about 80% of my waking day. Super comfy, wireless, noise-cancelling ones. The funny thing is, I rarely play anything through them, and am almost always just listening to silence.

I try and listen to other things, podcasts or music, sadly nothing compares to that golden silence.

New comment by goolz in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

goolz — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:17:20 +0000

I have already begun winding down my spend on claude and OAI to make room for infra budget. Anecdotal, but I have no doubt a lot of others are doing the same, I very much agree the US players have major issues looming. What an exciting time to be alive!

New comment by goolz in "Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion"

goolz — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:57:42 +0000

Nothing more to add than I echo it all and will continue being a happy customer after seeing this. A rarity in today’s world, kudos to them.

New comment by goolz in "Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM"

goolz — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:23:38 +0000

It is crazy that I do not trust a multi-trillion dollar company who has forced labor in their supply chain to have my best interests in mind? It is crazy to me you would think they do not understand the concept of lip service.

These companies are liars. I do not trust liars. It has served me well.

New comment by goolz in "ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud"

goolz — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:03:54 +0000

I do. Citizens United. It is a pay-to-play system we have going on here and it is working exactly as designed. Bribery? Why no, that is simply a donation. With enough money and moral bankruptcy you can accomplish all sorts of silly things that are in direct violation of the constitution, the law, and even common decency.

New comment by goolz in "Kimi Work"

goolz — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:59:38 +0000

That last line is wonderful! Thank you for this man. I honestly like the original more despite it's wordiness.

New comment by goolz in "The state of open source AI"

goolz — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:21:27 +0000

Completely agree. Once I can reliably get open models doing what I am on Fable ultra I imagine I will switch for good. I am fortunate to have access to a decent bit of local RAM, 192GB of DDR5 at an OK speed. It is not enough and costs are well past absurd. In a few years time I envisage a setup that is sub $10k which can accomplish such tasks. The pace so far has been breakneck. That is all I personally need. That may change, but until true AGI I do think there will be a ceiling to how much I will pay for something frontier if it is only marginally better.

New comment by goolz in "I love LLMs, I hate hype"

goolz — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:43:10 +0000

Yep, at those prices points I am most certainly just going to do whatever is in my power to run local. And to be honest, I think in the near future, we will get to a point where local models will be just good enough that it will not matter.

New comment by goolz in "Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament"

goolz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:03:39 +0000

Pray tell, how would stepping closer to a dystopian hellscape help the internet from eating itself? Somehow, having omnipotent watchers is going to make the internet... more fun and welcoming?

New comment by goolz in "Kernel anti-cheat is an overreach"

goolz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:57:25 +0000

I would much rather the games have cheaters than give someone like Riot access to Ring 0.

New comment by goolz in "Epic Games announces Lore version control system"

goolz — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:35:42 +0000

Fantastic. Every time I mix git and games I end up almost having an aneurysm.

New comment by goolz in "Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity"

goolz — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:35:11 +0000

Dang man, C & H taught me so much as a young lad. Unconditional love, amor fati, the importance of being yourself. I think the way he left it all was perfect. We were robbed of future delights but in the end it could not have been more in character. I hope Mr. Watterson is enjoying his final sebatical.