Hacker News: kaelwd

New comment by kaelwd in "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next"

kaelwd — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:29:41 +0000

https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731?endpoi...

8t/s though apparently and their cache hit rate is terrible so I don't think it's worth it over Relace.

New comment by kaelwd in "Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone"

kaelwd — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:17:40 +0000

Only 8B currently but it's been done: https://taalas.com/products/

New comment by kaelwd in "Should you wash your solar panels?"

kaelwd — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:39:20 +0000

Panels are so cheap now you're better off just installing twice as many without tracking.

New comment by kaelwd in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

kaelwd — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:36:38 +0000

Are there even any OLED commercial panels with HDR and VRR?

New comment by kaelwd in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

kaelwd — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:28:09 +0000

And buy what? Smasnug? Sony? They're all uniquely shit.

New comment by kaelwd in "Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?"

kaelwd — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:18:39 +0000

I haven't done a proper benchmark or anything but it isn't noticeably worse at least, and the instant compaction with background processing is nice for slow models.

New comment by kaelwd in "Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?"

kaelwd — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:42:31 +0000

https://github.com/k0valik/pi-blackhole works pretty well for this, instead of a summary of a summary of a summary it gets a rolling log of important instructions and discoveries, and can /recall exact contents of a previous message or tool call if needed.

New comment by kaelwd in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"

kaelwd — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:54:20 +0000

0.25 day flight vs 120+ day walk doesn't really seem like a fair comparison, nobody is hundreds of times more productive from this.

New comment by kaelwd in "Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity"

kaelwd — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:41:54 +0000

No it's optional, the retailers just have to offer it.

New comment by kaelwd in "Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity"

kaelwd — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:04:30 +0000

Yeah just a simplified example, I pay 33/16/10 peak/off-peak/midday.

New comment by kaelwd in "Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity"

kaelwd — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 06:31:56 +0000

How often do you discharge a car fully?

New comment by kaelwd in "Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity"

kaelwd — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 06:24:55 +0000

45% of us either rent or live in apartments.

New comment by kaelwd in "Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity"

kaelwd — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 06:14:31 +0000

Before: 25c/kwh all day

After: 30c/kwh most of the day, 0c from 11-2

It's still worth it if you have a lot of load you can shift to the middle of the day (like a pool heater or battery), but for most 9-5 workers you just end up paying more at the times you're actually home.

Smart meters are free, most people already have one.

New comment by kaelwd in "Combustion engine web-based simulator"

kaelwd — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:00:51 +0000

Some of it is part of claude code's built-in instructions: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/...

    "For calibration: AI-generated design right now clusters around three looks: (1) a warm cream background (near #F4F1EA) with a high-contrast serif display and a terracotta accent; (2) a near-black background with a single bright acid-green or vermilion accent; (3) a broadsheet-style layout with hairline rules, zero border-radius, and dense newspaper-like columns."

New comment by kaelwd in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"

kaelwd — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:54:46 +0000

> “Ambulance Victoria,” with unlimited exercise at the cost of about $70 a year

And even if you don't pay this it still isn't that expensive - US$12873 is more than a helicopter transport would cost here. US healthcare companies somehow get away with charging insured patients 10x more than civilised countries charge uninsured ones.

New comment by kaelwd in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

kaelwd — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 05:21:24 +0000

I just use .home, yeah I know it's not reserved but idgaf I'm not writing .arpa.

New comment by kaelwd in "Historical memory prices 1960-2026"

kaelwd — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:00:49 +0000

Only if you're buying DDR3 now, DDR4 and DDR5 are both more expensive than the 2017 peak.

New comment by kaelwd in "Car headlights don't have to be this blinding"

kaelwd — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:17:20 +0000

I have small stick-on convex mirrors that I keep angled to see my back tyres, with the main mirrors adjusted to minimise blind spot.

New comment by kaelwd in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

kaelwd — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:58:22 +0000

Traditional keyboards are dead to me, get something programmable with zmk or qmk and a bunch of extra thumb buttons so they can do something more than just the spacebar. I have ctrl and alt in the outer column inline with letters so they're super easy to press without reaching, and shift, return, backspace on thumbs as well as layer switch for function keys, symbols, numpad, and arrows all accessible from the home position. Bonus points for split too so your wrists aren't at a weird angle.

New comment by kaelwd in "GitHub Is Down"

kaelwd — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:48:13 +0000

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/x69zbgdyfzg0 took three days to resolve and isn't being counted as an outage on the official page.