Hacker News: kangalioo

New comment by kangalioo in "Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI"

kangalioo — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 09:02:03 +0000

This feels like those AI models suddenly switching to Chinese mid-conversation

New comment by kangalioo in "Achieving AI-style reasoning without an LLM"

kangalioo — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:53:10 +0000

Never seen that one before:

"Insufficient Storage

The method could not be performed on the resource because the server is unable to store the representation needed to successfully complete the request. There is insufficient free space left in your storage allocation.

Additionally, a 507 Insufficient Storage error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

New comment by kangalioo in "How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet"

kangalioo — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:52:19 +0000

This has already been possible before, with price comparison portals like idealo.de and geizhals.de (in Germany)

It's possible that AI agentic shopping brings this technology to those who haven't used it before. But I think it's also possible that AI agentic shopping becomes an extension of their users' shopping habits

New comment by kangalioo in "Triple-A Minesweeper"

kangalioo — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:28:27 +0000

Artificial Analysis is usually a good resource to find current frontier AI models.

On https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-speech/models, you can plot speech preference ELO and pronunciation correctness against price.

Gemini 3.8 Flash / Flash-Lite TTS seem good, for example, they lie on the frontier of both.

New comment by kangalioo in "Memory-Safe WebP Decoding"

kangalioo — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 08:17:36 +0000

What happened to Wuffs? https://github.com/google/wuffs

A programming language specifically geared for file format libraries, including safety and performance

New comment by kangalioo in "Why don't more developers “use the platform”?"

kangalioo — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 07:38:12 +0000

Especially because the last step is less "make it" and more like "npm add it".

The browser has "ready-made components". React (et al) also has "ready-made components". React's selection is a thousand times larger. React also allows you to make your own. The browser doesn't [1].

Who can blame developers for skipping the inconvenient half-solution and going straight to the all-encompassing ecosystem

[1]: It does, but web components are too unwieldy to compete with React

New comment by kangalioo in "Why don't more developers “use the platform”?"

kangalioo — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 07:27:07 +0000

This article misses the most crucial point.

Developers don't "use the platform" because all the building blocks for any component you can think of are already there. When "the platform" adds yet another set of not particularly pretty and badly configurable components, why would we use them? When there's tons of mature, deeply thought out, battle tested, cleanly abstracted components out there - especially when _those_ components are made of divs and layouting and CSS and are therefore malleable to the pixel instead of being made of magic browser pixie dust?

New comment by kangalioo in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash"

kangalioo — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:49:49 +0000

How does it compare against the Pi harness, which I thought was the unofficial harness champion so far, in your workloads?

New comment by kangalioo in "Mercury 2.5"

kangalioo — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:52:46 +0000

Where can you watch it happen? Is there a video visualizing the diffusion process on text?

New comment by kangalioo in "Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them"

kangalioo — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:52:09 +0000

I assume because promising trustworthiness by sourcing information from the web is specifically Perplexity's shtick. The fact that this study undermines the quality of random web sources hits Perplexity's value proposition the most.

New comment by kangalioo in "Gemini-3.5-Transcribe"

kangalioo — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:00:31 +0000

Is this sarcasm?

New comment by kangalioo in "Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)"

kangalioo — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:28:47 +0000

Thinking mode is exactly this. The LLM is allowed to dump thoughts, correcting itself along the way, and only surfaces the cleaned-up final answer to the user

New comment by kangalioo in "Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is"

kangalioo — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:31:18 +0000

From what I've heard, Ollama has a bad reputation because it's a thin wrapper around llama.cpp without attributing it properly, thereby stealing recognition from the maintainers doing most of the work

New comment by kangalioo in "Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload"

kangalioo — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:29:53 +0000

$500 would amount to just 10k requests. One million requests is $50k

New comment by kangalioo in "Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload"

kangalioo — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:39:59 +0000

0.05 cents even. The beautiful thing is, minuscule amounts of micropayments are already enough to fix the incentives

New comment by kangalioo in "git's –end-of-options Flag"

kangalioo — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:32:12 +0000

Every git repository hosting platform - GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Codeberg - necessarily gives end users control over filenames.

"User-controlled strings as parameters" is not "access to your git" but it is still an attack vector.

New comment by kangalioo in "The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate"

kangalioo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:46:41 +0000

How does Pangram detect this? How do we know this is any more reliable than just asking any HN user to judge a text for AI signs, i.e. how is this more authoritative than the comments you're responding to?

New comment by kangalioo in "Bun has been converted to rust. Now what?"

kangalioo — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:22:05 +0000

I haven't heard that number before and I'm actually impressed.

For a file-by-file close to literal translation of a memory-unsafe language to Rust, isn't that pretty good?

I was expecting the post-rewrite Bun's unsafe usages to be in the order of magnitude of C2Rust (https://c2rust.com/). I was _not_ expecting it to be in the same ballpark as hand-written Rust.

New comment by kangalioo in "Bun has been converted to rust. Now what?"

kangalioo — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:17:48 +0000

In what sense was Bun's rewrite performative? If I recall correctly, Jarred deliberately tried to fly a bit under the radar to prevent the inevitable outcry

New comment by kangalioo in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

kangalioo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:15:52 +0000

What would be a better way to incorporate AI as a spell checker?

In comparison to non-AI traditional tools, AI has the advantage of "understanding" the text, reducing the number of "stupid" mis-corrections. And its spelling correctness is usually already impeccable, so what is there to gain by interfacing it with traditional solutions, and how can it be achieved?