Hacker News: hackathonguy

New comment by hackathonguy in "Adaptive LLM routing under budget constraints"

hackathonguy — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 02:48:47 +0000

I'm very curious whether a) anecdotally, anyone has encountered a real enterprise cost-cutting effort focused on LLM APIs and b) empirically, whether anyone has done any research on price elasticity in LLMs of different performance scales.

So far, my experience has been that it's just too early for most people / applications to worry about cost - at most, I've seen AI to be accountable for 10% of cloud costs. But very curious if others have other experiences.

New comment by hackathonguy in "MacBook Air M4"

hackathonguy — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:55:17 +0000

I love that the base model starts with 16GB of RAM here. The value of these computers is incredible - I purchased a Macbook Pro in 2021 and it's still powering through every task I throw at it. Before Apple started making their own chips, I felt like I had to upgrade every 2-3 years to prevent my laptop from becoming a hurdle in completing every day tasks (remember when tab management was a thing?). Really happy with these machines.

LLMs Are Fast

hackathonguy — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 04:22:50 +0000

Article URL: https://yoav.us/The+Future/AI+is+Fast

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42252923

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by hackathonguy in "Project Sid: Many-agent simulations toward AI civilization"

hackathonguy — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 01:22:23 +0000

I'm curious if it might be possible that an AI "civilization", similar to the one proposed by Altera, could end up being a better paradigm for AGI than a single LLM, if a workable reward system for the entire civilization was put in place. Meaning, suppose this AI civilization was striving to maximize [scientific_output] or [code_quality] or any other eval, similar to how modern countries try to maximize GDP - would that provide better results than a single AI agent working towards that goal?

Show HN: Compare LLM API Pricing

hackathonguy — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 23:42:25 +0000

Article URL: http://infiniteparameters.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39698942

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

AI search might kill the internet

hackathonguy — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 04:20:37 +0000

Article URL: https://yoava.notion.site/AI-search-might-kill-the-internet-a6a1a37c1a104d55842bfdae706ce964?pvs=4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39379069

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Perplexity's Perplexity

hackathonguy — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 04:08:54 +0000

Article URL: https://yoava.notion.site/Perplexity-s-perplexity-a6a1a37c1a104d55842bfdae706ce964

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39297991

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by hackathonguy in "Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?"

hackathonguy — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 12:03:04 +0000

We currently make about $3K per month with https://www.hiyodel.com - ChatGPT-powered copywriting for Shopify stores. The Shopify ecosystem is a toughie and it's been a difficult road so far, but it's great having the "passive" income!

ChatGPT will not eat all software

hackathonguy — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 20:15:59 +0000

Article URL: https://hn.substack.com/p/we-will-always-need-interfaces

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35306816

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

Comprehensive List of ChatGPT Plugins and Resources

hackathonguy — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 18:22:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/yoavanaki/chatgpt-plugins

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35305467

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

For ChatGPT, “knowledge” can come at the expense of “intelligence”

hackathonguy — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 11:21:59 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/yoavanaki/status/1635964387637731328

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35166532

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Layoffs.org.il – Israel-specific layoff data

hackathonguy — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:11:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.layoffs.org.il

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31933445

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by hackathonguy in "Is it stealing to read by the light of your neighbour’s lamp?"

hackathonguy — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 21:50:29 +0000

In Jewish law there is a paradigm called "this one is benefitting and this one is not losing". Essentially, the idea is that if you're enjoying something belonging to someone else, that doesn't constitute stealing as long as they don't stand to lose anything owing to your usage.

This applies to lamplight, and interestingly, can be applied to piracy as well: if you can honestly say you wouldn't have purchased the movie/software/music anyway, downloading it is not stealing.

As others have mentioned in the comments, this idea doesn't work for wifi: performance is inversely correlated with connected devices, making using your neighbor's wifi a case of "this one is benefitting and this one is losing".

There's currently a British guy called Lord Miles in Kabul having a great time

hackathonguy — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 15:09:27 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Rimmy_Downunder/status/1426893151516512257

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28189375

Points: 65

# Comments: 6

New comment by hackathonguy in "An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up"

hackathonguy — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 19:18:16 +0000

Wondering if it's just me: I bought an M1 MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM, based on reports saying that RAM management is much more effective than with Intel CPUs. Ever since, I'm really struggling with load management. I typically have Chrome open with 20-30 tabs, plus a couple of Electron apps (Notion, Slack, Google Calendar), and my MacBook frequently slows down to a crawl or gets stuck entirely. Simple commands - "close all tabs" in Chrome - can take 50 seconds to execute. Is anyone else experiencing the same?

New comment by hackathonguy in "Ask HN: Best Place to Live in 2050?"

hackathonguy — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 07:08:53 +0000

What makes Zurich one of the best places to live now?

Ask HN: Best Place to Live in 2050?

hackathonguy — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 06:57:00 +0000

Hey HN,

I'm wondering: what are expected to be the best places to live in 2050, considering climate change and the potential for impending societal collapse? What are the characteristics of such places? What should we keep in mind?

Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27853657

Points: 33

# Comments: 50

New comment by hackathonguy in "Valve Steam Deck"

hackathonguy — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 21:25:42 +0000

I'm so excited about this - I've been looking for a cheap device that won't take up much space and allow me to play AAA PC games despite having a Macbook as a primary machine. Can't wait to get my hands on this.

The Mess at Medium

hackathonguy — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:39:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.platformer.news/p/-the-mess-at-medium

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26584476

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Study finds acupuncture modulates inflammation in mice (2020)

hackathonguy — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 20:37:02 +0000

Article URL: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/08/study-reveals-acupuncture-affects-disease-course/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25972752

Points: 2

# Comments: 1