Hacker News: kamranjon

New comment by kamranjon in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

kamranjon — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:01:41 +0000

“even though you're delivering code at a good pace, you're taking too long to deliver those Design Docs. Are you using AI? You should use more AI.”

This here is the crux of it I think… it’s often promoted that AI will give us the time to do the “real” engineering work of designing systems and really serving the user, but in practice all I’ve seen is further attempts at optimizing every last process with AI - just homogenizing every product and feature into slop.

It feels like every leader has been to some talking points boot camp where they’re incentivized to apply pressure to every part of their process - sort of a desperate attempt to justify the costs they’re incurring. I think we will look back at this and see how obviously short sighted it was.

New comment by kamranjon in "The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)"

kamranjon — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:35:09 +0000

There have been plenty of motorized lenses in the past that relied on the micro-contoller inside the camera body for control. What does having the controller live on the lens permit that the pattern we've used for years doesn't afford?

New comment by kamranjon in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

kamranjon — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:36:55 +0000

My info might be a few years old, but I think he uses it on his laptop machine.

https://lwn.net/Articles/903023/

"On a personal note, the most interesting part here is that I did the release (and am writing this) on an arm64 laptop. It's something I've been waiting for for a _loong_ time, and it's finally reality, thanks to the Asahi team. We've had arm64 hardware around running Linux for a long time, but none of it has really been usable as a development platform until now."

New comment by kamranjon in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

kamranjon — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:51:18 +0000

I believe it's what Linus Torvalds uses.

New comment by kamranjon in "My "Writerdeck" Is a Typewriter"

kamranjon — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:08:13 +0000

I have heard he would write entire books out on index cards and then rearrange them as part of his creative process. I love that.

Apparently Vera (his wife and editor) would carry a handgun in her purse to protect them on their travels. My wife recites this fact often.

My "Writerdeck" Is a Typewriter

kamranjon — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:06:43 +0000

Article URL: https://kamranjon.com/writings/my-writerdeck-is-a-typewriter.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319278

Points: 10

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New comment by kamranjon in "What Gets Kept"

kamranjon — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:18:36 +0000

I interestingly came to a pretty similar conclusion about Kerouac around the same time as this reviewer, and brought it up in my review of Henry Miller’s book on Big Sur (which I can highly recommend): https://kamranjon.com/writings/henry-miller-and-the-big-sur....

New comment by kamranjon in "Gemini Omni"

kamranjon — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:07:04 +0000

Just curious - are you at all concerned about the legal implications of ai-generating property listing videos?

New comment by kamranjon in "I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation"

kamranjon — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:50:56 +0000

not really the same - that's sort of the nice thing about ipads and some business laptops is you can add a sim card and use them anywhere. The MNT Pocket Reform has this but the waitlist is months out.

New comment by kamranjon in "I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation"

kamranjon — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:54:24 +0000

if only it supported sim cards

New comment by kamranjon in "Every AI Subscription Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Enterprise"

kamranjon — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:22:07 +0000

It feels like they just pointed an AI model at Ed Zitron’s blog and asked it to make a super engaging and viral post.

New comment by kamranjon in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

kamranjon — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Yea my m4 max with 128gb has ended up making a lot of sense for me. I do video editing, I train ml models, I run large open AI models, I do 3d modeling, rendering and cad work. I never do all of this 100% of the time, I’ll setup a ml training to run over night and check results in the morning, during work I’ll set it up as a server and run local models, on my own time I’ll edit video and work on 3d modeling. It’s an incredibly versatile machine - and all of this is done while keeping your data on your device and giving you full control over your workflows.

New comment by kamranjon in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again"

kamranjon — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:21:13 +0000

The really interesting thing that I think is going on inside of the DS4 repo is exploring all of the interesting knobs that frontier labs have hidden from users, and then thinking about how they can fit into real dev/interaction workflows. It's really cool to see different interaction modalities being explored and thinking about for example how steering can be worked into a user interface in a helpful way. I think that once the cat is out of the bag as they say, and users understand the level of control and utility they can get from models that are sort of turned inside out in this way, it will start to be an integral part of their tool belt, and it'll just make sense for this level of control to be expected from your models or model providers.

New comment by kamranjon in "A few words on DS4"

kamranjon — Fri, 15 May 2026 02:50:11 +0000

Yea I'm on the imatrix q2 version now

New comment by kamranjon in "A few words on DS4"

kamranjon — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:42:28 +0000

Very cool! I had no idea that HF was doing this - I really love their small model experiments.

New comment by kamranjon in "A few words on DS4"

kamranjon — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:38:12 +0000

Just updated! Sorry I meant Dwarf Star - it's the only way I've actually managed to run DeepSeek flash on my local hardware

New comment by kamranjon in "A few words on DS4"

kamranjon — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:28:38 +0000

Just want to mention that I've been pulling down and using DwarfStar locally and it's incredible. I actually have it running on my personal macbook m4 max with 128gb of ram and I am running the server to share it through tailscale with my work laptop and just have pi running there.

The long context reasoning is something I haven't even seen in frontier models - I was running at 124k tokens earlier and it was still just buzzing along with no issues or fatigue.

I am amazed at how well it works, I'm using it right now for some pretty complex frontend work, and it is much much faster than, for example running a dense 27b or 31b model (like qwen or gemma) for me (The benefits of MoE) - but the long context capabilities have been what have been absolutely flooring me.

Super excited about this project and hope Antirez can keep himself from burning out - i've been following the repo pretty closely and there are a ton of PR's flooding in and it seems like he's had to do a lot of filtering out of slop code.

New comment by kamranjon in "What's Wrong with AI?"

kamranjon — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:46:17 +0000

If you can’t be bothered to provide sources for any of your claims, when responding to an article that actually provided sources for its claims, we can just assume you’re making it up. When you become emotional when someone asks you to provide even a sliver of evidence, I have to assume you’re just spreading misinformation that aligns with your views. If you want to discuss in good faith, I’m here.

New comment by kamranjon in "Show HN: TikTok but for scientific papers"

kamranjon — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:57:09 +0000

Just wanted to maybe make a light suggestions that, for marketing purposes, this really doesn't need any suggestion of TikTok and also might benefit from less heavy handed mentions of AI. I think it provides a real value proposition on its own without needing to rely on those two things to sell itself. They are pretty polarized terms at this point and I can sort of understand the initial revulsion from hearing TikTok next to scientific papers.

New comment by kamranjon in "What's Wrong with AI?"

kamranjon — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:01:29 +0000

"the more renewables you deploy, the more natural gas you use." -- source?

"most renewables are sited so poorly that it likely doesn't reduce CO2 emissions at all" -- source?