Hacker News: indemnity

New comment by indemnity in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

indemnity — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:20:26 +0000

We had the X-Trail AWD version of this. The plus side was getting around 850km to a tank of petrol. However, the EV-only range was very poor and the engine was quite harsh sounding when it spun up. Super happy to get rid of it and switch to BEV.

New comment by indemnity in "How much oil-market buffer is left?"

indemnity — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:48:54 +0000

Happy we made the switch to all EVs + solar this year. Knock on effects on the economy are going to be brutal though.

New comment by indemnity in "Any Nix package, live in the browser"

indemnity — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:35:36 +0000

Every damn vibe project: “Catchy hook, descriptive explanation”. Like they’ve all got their own marketing team now.

New comment by indemnity in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

indemnity — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:07:52 +0000

I am on the Claude Max 20x plan, and this still happens when using Fable 5/Opus 5. I would run out of weekly quota in 2 days, whereas Opus 4.8 would last the entire week, and sit at about 80-90% at the end.

New comment by indemnity in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

indemnity — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:18:48 +0000

I have a 9950X3D and an RTX 4090 in a 10L case (FormD T1).

Water cooled but it does get a bit loud when I play games, silent for regular usage.

New comment by indemnity in "Who bears the risk in Nvidia's $500B financing platform?"

indemnity — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:13:09 +0000

The return of CDOs?

New comment by indemnity in "Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed"

indemnity — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:27:25 +0000

I put in 2 CAT6 wires to every room in the house (4 in my office, 4 in garage), with one big PoE switch in the garage.

Everything with an Ethernet port is wired, wifi is for phones and tablets only (a few UniFi WiFi 6 APS).

Works great!

Internet has never dropped for me while working, family loves the always working NAS streaming via wired Apple TV.

New comment by indemnity in "Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere"

indemnity — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:18:27 +0000

Using ASD-STE100 is in my system prompt, not just CLAUDE.md which basically never gets followed.

I actually converted it from the PDF into an explicit skill with the word list inline as well as the main rules.

Works a little bit, but give it a bit of context and the model’s training takes over and it starts talking like a dictionary-huffing crack addict again.

It’s a model problem and no amount of harness hacking seems to fix it.

New comment by indemnity in "Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere"

indemnity — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:11:40 +0000

I mean I do the same at work where we currently use Anthropic, but we are also on a token optimisation drive so it’s getting hard to justify spending even more tokens cleaning up after Anthropic’s garbage by paying Anthropic more. We have started having users use GPT 5.6 Sol to compare quality and effficiency over Opus. Fable not happening at work because of the data sharing clauses and the completely nuts pricing.

New comment by indemnity in "People are worried about America's solvency"

indemnity — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:15:08 +0000

How long will the petrodollar remain a thing with the current diversification of energy sources proceeding apace internationally?

Listening to Americans talk about energy and vehicles feels like going back in time, they’re stuck in the past and things that worked then and the world is rapidly routing around them. Quite sad to see.

New comment by indemnity in "Anthropic's War on open source AI"

indemnity — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:04:08 +0000

I’m a heavy LLM user but if someone gives me an AI-voice argument and presents it as their own, I reflexively dismiss everything they say going forward.

I can prompt the LLM myself thanks.

New comment by indemnity in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

indemnity — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:20:59 +0000

And where would we put this? I don’t want to write that out every prompt. CLAUDE.md is a joke, it has little to no effect.

Basically, I’ve gone from supporting them to hoping someone else wipes the floor with them.

New comment by indemnity in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

indemnity — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:14:58 +0000

I canceled my personal Max 20x subscription because since the 5 series models I simply cannot understand what the LLM is saying without a lot of reading and re-reading, and no amount of CLAUDE.md exhortations to speak plainly seemed to fix it. I don’t have the energy to spend twice as long to understand its plans, and pay Anthropic prices for the privilege. GPT seems not to have been infected by this yet, whatever it is, and Grok is quite refreshing for how normally it speaks.

I wonder if everyone at Anthropic talks like this.

If it’s watermarking, lol, good luck with that, it’s enough negative value to make me switch providers and I’m in a position to make this decision at a company level as well (we spend millions a month on Anthropic).

They need to fix it.

New comment by indemnity in "Gsxui – Shadcn-style components for Go"

indemnity — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:48:20 +0000

As someone who has had to clean up systems that only did a _npm install_ to get compromised, despite being good Renovate citizens, it doesn't matter if it is not "on the production path".

I don't care to hear arguments about how npm was _configured wrong_.

A tool with insecure defaults, with a long and storied history of being the vector by which data has been exfiltrated and companies hacked, needs to do an awful lot to justify still being used for any infrastructure our team is responsible for.

New comment by indemnity in "DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status"

indemnity — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:59:42 +0000

Maybe you should stop invading other countries if these comparisons hurt your feelings buddy.

New comment by indemnity in "Chip stocks slide in US and Asia as AI jitters rattle investors"

indemnity — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:55:54 +0000

I had to buy an SSD and some RAM to help my son build a PC.

The SSD cost 30% more than I paid two years ago and was half the capacity (1TB). The RAM cost double what I paid two years ago, was slower, and was half the capacity (32GB).

New comment by indemnity in "Gsxui – Shadcn-style components for Go"

indemnity — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:51:11 +0000

Same, hard pass on remote shell as a service that is Node and its ecosystem.

New comment by indemnity in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

indemnity — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:42:59 +0000

Interesting that they are “dumping” them in Australia and other countries at prices that are competitive but far above what they cost in China.

Below cost of production my ass.

The only Western car company even competing with them is Tesla, who people love to hate for ideological reasons.

Calling what Chinese companies are doing “dumping” is pure cope for the utter failures of Western companies.

Look at my post history, I’m not pro-China at all, but I am a realist and can see the evidence with my own eyes since we can actually get the vehicles here.

I give it 5 years for Western and Japanese companies to be decimated in this market. Can’t say they don’t deserve it.

New comment by indemnity in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

indemnity — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:34:45 +0000

I wonder if similar costs were paid when the West was industrializing?

Spoiler: Yes.

New comment by indemnity in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

indemnity — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 01:17:58 +0000

Potentially going to sound privileged here, but why not both?

Personally when going on the road I like portability (14" MBP or MBA), but at home I want raw non-thermally throttled power.