Hacker News: lacoolj

New comment by lacoolj in "ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)"

lacoolj — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 01:25:27 +0000

This is what openai needs to be spending their compute on. Screw the stolen math proofs. Help me sleep better

New comment by lacoolj in "Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death"

lacoolj — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:10:00 +0000

This is what happens when every single company we have an app for forces us to re-agree to new TOC (most this year, but last year too).

Go check your e-mail - look at all the TOC agreements you had to make recently. How many added a new (or amended an existing) arbitration clause?

Too many. And consumers are stuck either agreeing blindly/under duress, or uninstalling the app? These are apps we use and rely on, and don't have enough competition to refuse.

Lyft and Uber. Name one other competitor in the app space. Without googling it

Rant over (it wasn't even a rant at the beginning but couldn't help myself)

New comment by lacoolj in "There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet"

lacoolj — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:12:18 +0000

emdashes everywhere in this article

did we just do full-circle back to an AI writing about AI writing about AI writing ..?

New comment by lacoolj in "Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)"

lacoolj — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:53:56 +0000

now go make "Bowser: Kidnap the Princess"

Thanks!

New comment by lacoolj in "deSEC – Free Secure DNS"

lacoolj — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:25:48 +0000

Is this somehow related to the other post about another service shutting down its encrypted DNS?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568579

Weird timing?

New comment by lacoolj in "OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra"

lacoolj — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:52:30 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by lacoolj in "OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra"

lacoolj — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:02:15 +0000

Jesus what are you doing that requires Sol usage so often?

Terra not enough? I know Luna isn't reliable, so that's fair.

Genuinely curious though, because I use Cursor daily and almost everything I do, highly complex or high volume, can be handled with Auto mode or Composer 2.5 (or Grok 4.6 High). So I have to assume you're doing something far more complex than what I am

New comment by lacoolj in "OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra"

lacoolj — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:51:40 +0000

Would you mind posting that code to github? I'm curious about the complexity you're describing.

If not, no worries!

New comment by lacoolj in ".name Termination"

lacoolj — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:32:07 +0000

Dude, this is one of the craziest things I think I've read on HN

First, that a legit dealer could/did(does?) sell third-level domains at all (Verisign, no less) Second, that the top-level is staying available, allowing for second-levels to be bought/sniped like you mention.

If you do lawyer up and need help with legal fees, I think this would be a worthy cause.

New comment by lacoolj in "Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions"

lacoolj — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:18:20 +0000

Patent Pending?

Any patent attorneys here know what exactly about this is "patent-able"?

New comment by lacoolj in "Harness Engineering"

lacoolj — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:18:53 +0000

Not saying this is AI-gen but it's very dense and doesn't read like something I could glean info from easily

New comment by lacoolj in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

lacoolj — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:21:39 +0000

Link is paywalled

Is this a different case from the $1.5 trillion suit against them?

New comment by lacoolj in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

lacoolj — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:20:49 +0000

Oh, for sure. I have to actively prevent myself from opening one cuz once I pop I really just can't stop.

New comment by lacoolj in "A Blackstone real estate company exposed SSN digits, DOBs, addresses and more"

lacoolj — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:02:05 +0000

I'm glad you did this, but be careful man. Dudes have been prosecuted (right? wtf?) for way less:

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/14/1046124278/missouri-newspaper...

Hoping this doesn't happen to you!

New comment by lacoolj in "DiffusionGemma Technical Report"

lacoolj — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 23:40:36 +0000

I wonder how viable it would be to apply this to Qwen3.8-27b

Right now running it locally is about 7-11 t/s for me (16GB 4080 and plenty of RAM overflow). If it doubled or possibly tripled this, thats a game-changer

New comment by lacoolj in "Protobuf has LSP support"

lacoolj — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:42:52 +0000

"You're welcome" is absolutely hilarious to read from a company post.

New comment by lacoolj in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

lacoolj — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:19:09 +0000

Grok 4.6 is a game-changer. I have yet to go back to other models after starting to use it. You just can't beat the price + output quality (even K3 is more expensive)

New comment by lacoolj in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

lacoolj — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:16:17 +0000

Holy crap that is above and beyond

But, not animated like the Qwen 2.4T one you showed, so minus points for that

New comment by lacoolj in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

lacoolj — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:28:32 +0000

Totally agree. I actually didn't know you already got to it and I ran it on mine. It even added a scarf lol

https://imgur.com/a/IgYKnmk

Took almost 90 minutes on my Threadripper Pro, and feels well worth it.

28k tokens from the Q8 model

New comment by lacoolj in "AI by Hand"

lacoolj — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:51:11 +0000

Scroll all the way down and there's a video, it's a course he's making for deep-dive into how Qwen 3.6 works internally