Hacker News: hparadiz

New comment by hparadiz in "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"

hparadiz — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 03:32:27 +0000

Was born in Europe actually. Europeans love telling people what to do, how do it, and most importantly whether or not they are ALLOWED to do it. So yes classic Europeans.

New comment by hparadiz in "In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults"

hparadiz — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:39:44 +0000

We're only a few years away from your electric car self driving itself to a helipad and flying you straight across a city in a pre-planned route on a quad-copter that just docks on your car.

New comment by hparadiz in "The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux"

hparadiz — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:56:08 +0000

I have a 6900 XT as well. Unfortunately it is only 512 GB/s.

With AMD the best you can do in the consumer market right now is an RX 7900 XTX which is about 960 GB/s.

New comment by hparadiz in "Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi"

hparadiz — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:53:53 +0000

We need OIDC tokens generated at the SSO placed on the dev environment upon user authentication and then have those OIDCs reusable among multiple mcps. People don't wanna login to 10 different mcps every morning.

New comment by hparadiz in "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"

hparadiz — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:33:03 +0000

That wrong assumption is part of the problem.

New comment by hparadiz in "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"

hparadiz — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:20:37 +0000

I've never had a Nix user actually able to explain why they use it in a way that coherently makes sense because it's a cult. You buy into it before know anything about it.

New comment by hparadiz in "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"

hparadiz — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:16:58 +0000

Classic HN. They flagged your comment for no reason. Classic Europeans.

New comment by hparadiz in "AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons"

hparadiz — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:41:36 +0000

A lot of these people didn't really care about those virtues they claim they represent. They just wanted power and control over something.

New comment by hparadiz in "Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI"

hparadiz — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:47:44 +0000

I currently have a small TTS model running in the background on my machine through which my agent(s) speak to me as they work. If that can be baked into an ASIC along with a few thousand voices in every major language then it should just be a utility chip on your mobo for anything that needs it. And yes, I too, am looking forward to it.

New comment by hparadiz in "Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI"

hparadiz — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:45:37 +0000

We're gonna start baking in models like TTS with thousands of voices available in any language as a chip on device. They just need to hit 99% accuracy and then it's a done deal.

New comment by hparadiz in "Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages"

hparadiz — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:39:43 +0000

9 AM PST / 12 Noon EST on weekday. All my co workers immediately went "oh codex is down lemme try Claude". Multiply that by millions. Easy to see how they all went down. The OpenAI downtime also coincided exactly with their tweets announcing GPT-6 and about an hour before they started to role it out.

It was 1000% a cascade. I would bet on it.

New comment by hparadiz in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

hparadiz — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:05:58 +0000

The OpenAI outage lasted only 15 minutes and when it happened everyone started to use the other models which created super heavy load for them. This then cascaded into them all being down.

Does this really need an explanation?

New comment by hparadiz in "Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI"

hparadiz — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:06:36 +0000

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B

No one I know uses the built in VSCode extensions anymore. It's all TUIs now. You can use Opencode as a TUI now for local.

New comment by hparadiz in "Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search"

hparadiz — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:44:34 +0000

I started to use TUIs to do this. Have them track "tracked" products in a local storage mechanism and otherwise browse the web as normal through a controlled browser. It's not optimal but it's the only way to have some control over what it's doing.

New comment by hparadiz in "Check if a file was made with Claude"

hparadiz — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:46:47 +0000

It's not gonna survive my linter in a tightly coupled code base where it's not allowed to write comments but I do resent it for trying.

New comment by hparadiz in "The safest job from AI may be writing"

hparadiz — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:59:35 +0000

You can brute force it by making it try random stuff then judge itself on it. You don't have to always use an LLM's output. Sometimes you can use that plus other things to add flavor. An LLM is actually really good at judging if something is good or bad. It just has a really hard time coming up with new things. But if you had unlimited compute you can throw in some rng and whimsy and get something resembling what humans do.

New comment by hparadiz in "The safest job from AI may be writing"

hparadiz — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:55:15 +0000

I find myself writing more than ever. In fact I must. I have to explain in no uncertain terms what I mean. Though I often find myself in very complex technical straits where words are not enough. There's something liberating about writing a wall of text and knowing that at least something will give you feedback. It won't be annoyed. It won't be tired. It won't say "tldr?" back at you. I don't know if that will convert into a novel for me. But it must for someone.

New comment by hparadiz in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

hparadiz — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:24:05 +0000

Yes

New comment by hparadiz in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

hparadiz — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:46:03 +0000

Because for enterprise with Google login you literally can't login with anything else except official Chrome.

New comment by hparadiz in "Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux"

hparadiz — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:57:12 +0000

My absolute favorite feature in KDE Connection is full audio device output / input control remotely so I can silence notifications without getting up or start playing music through the speakers.