Hacker News: handzhiev

New comment by handzhiev in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

handzhiev — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:39:40 +0000

That's Google at its best :)

New comment by handzhiev in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

handzhiev — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:12:31 +0000

I love Luna too. An excellent model and still usually better value per dollar than Gemini if you pay for API tokens. Things may change with 3.8 - we'll know soon.

New comment by handzhiev in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

handzhiev — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:48:15 +0000

Google One plans are quite a good value actually - for a few bucks you get more Gemini plus space in Drive and other extras. Even through API, $3.75 for nearly Sol-level quality isn't that bad. And let's not forget you can use it for free in AI Studio, and in the user app (even free accounts get tons of usage, though it's still 3.6 there), and in Antygravity.

New comment by handzhiev in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

handzhiev — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:24:42 +0000

Gemini 3.7 is my workhorse - fast and good enough for most tasks. Occasionally I go to GPT Sol or Claude to improve Gemini's output or for more complex tasks, but more than of my work usage is Gemini 3.7. Quite happy to test 3.8 now.

New comment by handzhiev in "GEN-1.5, a one-shot learner"

handzhiev — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:54:07 +0000

Honestly I don't understand how this is not on the front page

New comment by handzhiev in "I used to be excited about new tech, but I rarely am anymore"

handzhiev — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:10:45 +0000

I used to not be excited about the next consumer tech gadget or the next JS framework, but I am now pretty excited about transforming new tech now (AI, energy, space, etc).

New comment by handzhiev in "Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2"

handzhiev — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:11:55 +0000

If you are happy to share data for training, the contributor mode offers amazing price $0.10 / $0.20

New comment by handzhiev in "Gemini 3.6 Flash"

handzhiev — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:09:34 +0000

They have no choice - if they don't offer AI assisted search, someone else will eat their lunch.

New comment by handzhiev in "Gemini 3.6 Flash"

handzhiev — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:39:48 +0000

They also provide the most usage for free and in the cheap paid plans.

New comment by handzhiev in "Gemini 3.6 Flash"

handzhiev — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:37:27 +0000

Flash 3.5 does OK for various tasks. It's not super smart but is a workhorse and if 3.6 one is better than it, that's a positive for me.

New comment by handzhiev in "Hy3"

handzhiev — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:07:33 +0000

It's a very good model for this size and price. I tried it with a couple of small tasks - just an year ago this would be the level of the leading models.

New comment by handzhiev in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

handzhiev — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:52:39 +0000

Are the existing customers grandfathered to the old prices (at least for now)? I don't see the increase in my account.

New comment by handzhiev in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

handzhiev — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:48:32 +0000

I agree, I am doing this almost all my life (crying emoji) :)

New comment by handzhiev in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

handzhiev — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:01:10 +0000

I agree with a lot that you say and notice similar trends in our work. I am a little skeptical about this one though:

"You don't really need to work for a company anymore, because a solo dev can absolutely build crazy things, so it's not like you need to rely on anyone else."

One of the reasons for devs to work in company is not that they can't deliver the work themselves. It's that they don't have the connections to land customers. Most devs need a company at least to handle the marketing so they can focus on what they are good at.

New comment by handzhiev in "KDE at 30"

handzhiev — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:14:25 +0000

Still using Kate for all of my coding

New comment by handzhiev in "Breaking up with WordPress after two decades"

handzhiev — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:53:11 +0000

Nope, I just found about it recently. It seems familiar for a WP user but decoupled from the front-end. We decided to try it - time will tell if it's a good decision or not.

New comment by handzhiev in "Breaking up with WordPress after two decades"

handzhiev — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:19:25 +0000

They seem to be interested mostly in adding more and more visual editing features that keep making the whole thing more unstable and messy. There's no hope. We already have clients who were with WP for many years switching to Directus and a custom front-end. The only reason others are still in it is the huge ecosystem and the custom integrations they have built around WP.

New comment by handzhiev in "Open Source Isn't Dead. Cal.com Just Learned the Wrong Lesson"

handzhiev — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:34:04 +0000

I don't think this will happen. If most content goes behind a paywall, releasing content for free will again become a valuable source of attention. It used to be so before the web got filled with so much free content that it lost any value.

New comment by handzhiev in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

handzhiev — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:54:29 +0000

I love when between the AI updates and Rust vs C++ wars, HN suddenly promotes a post about rice farming in Japan <3

New comment by handzhiev in "The Browser Becomes Your WordPress"

handzhiev — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:59:43 +0000

Am I the only one who's not getting the point of this?