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New comment by jasonjmcghee in "Claude: Elevated Error Rates for Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, and Sonnet 4.6"

jasonjmcghee — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:55:01 +0000

Sonnet 5 here we come

New comment by jasonjmcghee in "Show HN: I wrote a C++ ray tracer from scratch without AI"

jasonjmcghee — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:23:16 +0000

This is (or at least used to be) a right of passage in the graphics world.

I think many people go through the very popular https://raytracing.github.io/

There was a big influx of this when Sebastian Lague did his video series on building a ray tracer.

New comment by jasonjmcghee in "Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things"

jasonjmcghee — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:05:08 +0000

Dependabot was a thing before LLMs

New comment by jasonjmcghee in "Codex for open source"

jasonjmcghee — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:55:24 +0000

They’ve been doing this since at least March

New comment by jasonjmcghee in "Show HN: Free animated icon library for Vue"

jasonjmcghee — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:23:07 +0000

Some of the animations are really good and make sense based on the icon.

Others just draw the SVG path or wiggle/bounce a bit.

If I were the creator here I might differentiate this into two buckets: custom animation or not. And then allow the generic animations to be applied to any of them.

New comment by jasonjmcghee in "Stop Using Conventional Commits"

jasonjmcghee — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:53:59 +0000

I don't personally see people write this message (though I'm sure they do) but dependabot and similar use it.

So now I associate it an automated pr vs authored

New comment by jasonjmcghee in "Gaussian Point Splatting"

jasonjmcghee — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:44:56 +0000

Westover’s thesis https://www.cs.unc.edu/techreports/91-029.pdf

New comment by jasonjmcghee in "Show HN: 100cc - Roll your own Claude in 100 lines"

jasonjmcghee — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:07:03 +0000

Anecdotally, if you add a basic todo management tool, you'll get a massive improvement to non-trivial tasks.

New comment by jasonjmcghee in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

jasonjmcghee — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:18:55 +0000

There's a CUDA backend for MLX now. Not sure about the maturity.

New comment by jasonjmcghee in "Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs"

jasonjmcghee — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:42:55 +0000

> 12 hours

have things changed around this recently? I know openai optionally allows 24 hours but thought it was ~1h without that, and anthropic used to quote 5-15 minutes or something.

New comment by jasonjmcghee in "Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike"

jasonjmcghee — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:58:01 +0000

> Note: Steam Deck OLED may be out-of-stock intermittently in some regions due to memory and storage shortages.

Misleading article

New comment by jasonjmcghee in "Zig: Build System Reworked"

jasonjmcghee — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:23:04 +0000

For future reference you can format code on hn with a newline first then indenting each line by 2+ spaces. (Rather than triple tick)

New comment by jasonjmcghee in "Cloudflare Flagship"

jasonjmcghee — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:12:26 +0000

Hmm not sure I necessarily agree. Cloudflare's strategy has been looking like "the only platform you need" for a while now.

Their recent features / announcements have been equivalent to:

(LaunchDarkly)

Resend, Firecrawl, CrewAI, Helicone, Replicate, Pinecone

Which like… many companies have a painful procurement process. If all you need is Cloudflare, and prices are within reason- why not use them

New comment by jasonjmcghee in "“Too dangerous to release” or just too expensive?"

jasonjmcghee — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:24:59 +0000

It's on bedrock and in use by companies

New comment by jasonjmcghee in "Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model"

jasonjmcghee — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:05:58 +0000

Throwing a few things out - HN has changed over the years, but people make stuff to make stuff. There don't need to be product use cases. The tone of the comment goes against the spirit of HN - likely the reason for downvotes.

That aside- a very small model that takes text and outputs structured json according to a spec is nice. It let's you turn natural language into a user action. For example, command palettes could benefit from this.

If you can do a tiny bit of planning (todo) and chain actions, it seems reasonable that you could traverse a rich state space to achieve some goal on behalf of a user.

Games could use something like it for free form dialog while stool enforcing predefined narrative graphs etc.

I'm sure you could come up with more. It's a fuzzy function.

New comment by jasonjmcghee in "Mojo 1.0 Beta"

jasonjmcghee — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:29:55 +0000

There is unfortunately likely a lot of truth to this. I like Kotlin, but, anecdotally, I've only ever chosen it due to needing JVM

New comment by jasonjmcghee in "Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers"

jasonjmcghee — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:16:13 +0000

Pretty much what the author said- just gave some context for the uninitiated

New comment by jasonjmcghee in "Grok 4.3"

jasonjmcghee — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:05:59 +0000

That's Grok 4.2 not 4.3 right?

And why are you comparing to gpt-4.1? (As opposed to one of the 6? model releases since then - would have expected gpt 5.5)

New comment by jasonjmcghee in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

jasonjmcghee — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:51:09 +0000

Slack, GitHub, Figma, AWS, etc

Lots of people use firebase, supabase etc.

Many people's jobs are centered around using Salesforce

It all makes me uncomfortable- I want to be able to work without internet. But it's getting more difficult to do it

New comment by jasonjmcghee in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

jasonjmcghee — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:18:59 +0000

There are plenty of engineers that couldn't work without a modern IDE or in languages without memory management.

Or without the ability to use a library from GitHub / their package manager.

It doesn't feel THAT much different to me.

"Engineer" as a term might drift. There are "web developers" that can only use webflow / wordpress.