Hacker News: harel

New comment by harel in "Veracrypt project update"

harel — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:16:19 +0000

Honestly, it's not our problem. Once a service becomes so vital it cannot be terminated without any meaningful process. My meta developer account is suspended and none of my appeals are responded to . Who can I talk to? Nobody. It's wrong.

New comment by harel in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

harel — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:16:26 +0000

Actually yes. For example, I run local models for ingested documents, summaries, etc. The local models are fine, and there is no need for me to pay for tokens. Performance is adequate for that purpose as well. There are many other cases where I run at scale, time is flexible so things can move slower, and I rather keep it all in house. I'm not even getting into areas where data cannot leave the premises for legal reasons. Right now I'm limited with GPUs mostly. But if that world of local models on Apple silicon is so "good", there is room to expand it to other fruits...

New comment by harel in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

harel — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:24:15 +0000

It's odd no manufacturer jumped on this wagon to offer a competitive alternative.

New comment by harel in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

harel — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:15:23 +0000

What would be the non Mac computer to run these models locally at the same performance profile? Any similar linux ARM based computers that can reach the same level?

New comment by harel in "Typing and Keyboards"

harel — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:45:56 +0000

Mavis Beacon thought me to touch type on my Amiga as a kid, and I'm grateful to her. In recent years I've been using a Logitech membrane keyboard. It's great for a membrane but mostly it's quiet. I work at night and that's a hard requirement. I'm looking for a mechanical as quiet as the Logitech and it's a struggle. Feels like there is a gap in the market for (really) quiet mechanicals.

Careless Whisper – personal local speech to text

harel — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:01:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/YarivGilad/careless-whisper

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47476272

Points: 5

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Major security incident in the UK companies house

harel — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:16:08 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/2032506756786511908

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404986

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by harel in "Revealed: UK's multibillion AI drive is built on 'phantom investments'"

harel — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:01:25 +0000

It's OK, we're doing badly across the board, not just computing. :-(

New comment by harel in "Revealed: UK's multibillion AI drive is built on 'phantom investments'"

harel — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:21:31 +0000

I don't disagree, but I can't join you wishing for it to happen. It's going to be bad for all of us.

New comment by harel in "MacBook Neo"

harel — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:02:46 +0000

I am going to need a mac to perform some app build for ios sometimes. I was thinking to get a used mac mini for that. Would the neo be a cheaper, but still viable option?

Beginner's guide to the Amiga E language

harel — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:30:48 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.mikaellundin.name/2016/02/18/beginners-guide-to-amiga-e.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246551

Points: 4

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Amiga C Tutorial

harel — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:27:20 +0000

Article URL: http://www.pjhutchison.org/tutorial/amiga_c.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246505

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by harel in "Coccinelle: Source-to-source transformation tool"

harel — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 08:02:03 +0000

What an interesting and very apt choice of name!

Edit: I feel like it needs the addition that Coccinelle was the stage name of Jacqueline Charlotte Dufresnoy (1931), a French performer and probably the first celebrity who underwent a transition from male to female.

New comment by harel in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

harel — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 07:58:01 +0000

But Greek and Latin don't underpin our entire planet's infrastructure... Software does.

New comment by harel in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

harel — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 02:04:57 +0000

That won't solve the problem that humans will lose the skill to write code. It will become a hobbyist pass time. Like people listening to 8-tracks now...

New comment by harel in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

harel — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:14:16 +0000

Here is what worries me the most at the moment: we're in a period of hype, fire all the developers, we have agents, everybody can code now, barrier is not low - it's gone. Great. Roll up a year from now, and we have trillions of lines of code no human wrote. At some point, like a big PR, the agent's driver will just say yes to every change. Nobody now can understand the code easily because nobody wrote it. It works, kinda, but how? Who knows? Roll up another few years and people who were just coding because it's a "job" forget whatever skill they had. I've heard a few times already the phrase "I didn't code in like 10 months, bruh"...

Then what?

Not saying I'm not using AI - because I am. I'm using it in the IDE so I can stay close to every update and understand why it's there, and disagree with it if it shouldn't be there. I'm scared to be distanced from the code I'm supposed to be familiar with. So I use the AI to give me superpowers but not to completely do my job for me.

New comment by harel in "Facebook is cooked"

harel — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:59:09 +0000

That's almost me. I've always used Facebook as a tool to keep in touch with friends around the world. My friend list is 95% people I know in real life. A small fraction of them still posts. I also get a lot of slop in between. The filler posts. I am waiting for a Facebook resurgence or a Friendster comeback.

New comment by harel in "My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza"

harel — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:40:15 +0000

When your surname is McCracken, you're kinda obligated to write an adventure game...

New comment by harel in "Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser"

harel — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:20:07 +0000

I love it. The aesthetics are fantastic. Can this record a video as well?

New comment by harel in "Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database"

harel — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:17:24 +0000

They made the data accessible though. From what I can gather, before them, the data was only accessible via old windows apps. If the source of truth is locked and gated, what good is it?