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New comment by hirako2000 in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

hirako2000 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:44:03 +0000

There is no more, no less, guarantee that U.S providers don't do exactly that. In fact openAi is going to court.

If some models are cheaper it's simply because they cost far less to develop. And/or run.

New comment by hirako2000 in "Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?"

hirako2000 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:41:03 +0000

Rmkit is a great foundation.

Not browser based. Not sure why it would matter.

New comment by hirako2000 in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

hirako2000 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:34:11 +0000

There are ways to ground an LLM to be concise, and Socratic (method of inquiry, back and forth dialogue)

New comment by hirako2000 in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

hirako2000 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:00:54 +0000

I didn't expect this to be hit by hundreds of request per minute.

So it may be very slow or become unavailable, back end can't handle that, no caching whatsoever.

New comment by hirako2000 in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

hirako2000 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:15:00 +0000

I was so annoyed I made a Socratic wrapper based on predefined curriculum:

https://adaptive.bounded.cc

Trying to diagrams/animations didn't yield good results even with frontier models. But pure text, any model does a decent job.

New comment by hirako2000 in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

hirako2000 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:21:19 +0000

Home charging is an opportunity.

Mandate a monthly routing check by a certified specialist. You can sign up for a yearly commitment, 12 visits for just $899. A no brainer when a visit costs minimum $149.

Failure to comply can result in a fine up to $3,000 and up to 6 months in prison.

New comment by hirako2000 in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

hirako2000 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:08:29 +0000

Which wasn't a problem before MS acquisition. Git is the write intensive process. It scaled to millions of contributors. Then couldn't keep scaling. But sure if you believe the narrative and blame ai bots.

New comment by hirako2000 in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

hirako2000 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:06:08 +0000

The exception doesn't make the rule.

New comment by hirako2000 in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

hirako2000 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:51:59 +0000

It pleases shareholders more to hear about exponential Cloud offering adoption than SLA availability for a developer platform.

New comment by hirako2000 in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

hirako2000 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:49:53 +0000

But that's just a perfectly fitting excuse for GitHub degradation.

Web search, steaming, high frequency trading, and many other systems are resource demanding, and keep scaling. Whether to handle the surge due to bots or wider adoption. But GitHub can't scale git? It isn't even git failing.

Incompetence in leadership is what makes a tech business technically unable to meet growing demand.

New comment by hirako2000 in "GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement"

hirako2000 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:31:15 +0000

It's mentioned in the article.

I tried it, years apart. It's forever experimental, and requires hosting for forever online repo anyway.

Forgejo is also mentioned, to me it's a valid alternative, without the community aspect.

New comment by hirako2000 in "GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement"

hirako2000 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:29:35 +0000

I share the feeling though, by corporate I believe what is meant: does not cater to public communities.

GitHub was community first, then enterprise. MS hasn't managed to ruin that.

New comment by hirako2000 in "U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%"

hirako2000 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:18:35 +0000

Effectively the debt does not mature, as bonds get refinanced.

The problem is if nobody wants to buy new bonds, of course.

New comment by hirako2000 in "U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%"

hirako2000 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:24:00 +0000

But the doesn't come due. So long as you can cough up the interests.

New comment by hirako2000 in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

hirako2000 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:06:35 +0000

It doesn't prevent you from going to the source and struggle with the text, nor seek expert commentary.

What's difficult and doesn't have to be with philosophy/ spirituality is to find relevant bits off situation, theme etc.

This app does that very well, LLMs are good at entity recognition.

New comment by hirako2000 in "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6"

hirako2000 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:43:48 +0000

Of course. All comparison is with what makes them look good.

New comment by hirako2000 in "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6"

hirako2000 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:43:04 +0000

Contributed to. Can't be some IC who made a few nice PRs

New comment by hirako2000 in "DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]"

hirako2000 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:43:40 +0000

Other companies are investing and hardware design and manufacturing, so they won't duplicate the effort given the national drive it would be a waste.

New comment by hirako2000 in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

hirako2000 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 06:47:48 +0000

I'm sure there are businesses in the UAE, but wondering, why would one keep instances/data on a zone at risk since well over a year now.

Genuinely curious. Aside for high frequency trading where latency is so vital.

New comment by hirako2000 in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

hirako2000 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 06:03:04 +0000

I side with the argument for machines learning being treated differently than human learning.

And in doubt, to pause and forbid commercialisation given the clear impact it's already having on people's financials, humans have invested in a given set of rules that ML are disrupting.

My argument is simply that the ruling for fair use isn't irrational. It's a rationality that you, me and many others would disagree with. Lazy? Yes. Also call it lazy, and biased towards VC's interest who can't squeezed much profit in status quo.