Hacker News: laweijfmvo

New comment by laweijfmvo in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold"

laweijfmvo — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:46:34 +0000

between the cost, lack of interesting new features, and often addition of features i do not want, it’s starting to seem like i may never get a new phone, and i’m ok with that

New comment by laweijfmvo in "Bike Bureau: Report Bike Lane Obstructions"

laweijfmvo — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:34:10 +0000

I know it’s not exactly a bike lane, but if I took a camera on just one trip down a San Francisco “slow street” I could probably report a dozen violations on any day.

New comment by laweijfmvo in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

laweijfmvo — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:23:33 +0000

i’ll take a stab: the enormously rich people rushing to build AI and replace everyone’s job will get richer, while everyone else suffers. that’s why.

New comment by laweijfmvo in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

laweijfmvo — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:16:12 +0000

pretty much everything is “1 or more versions behind” by the time it comes out. the question is whether or not it’s still useful? at some point, presumably not every application will need the latest cutting edge huge model.

New comment by laweijfmvo in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

laweijfmvo — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:15:03 +0000

I’ve been using Gemma as my default (via Kagi) because it’s served on Cerebas hardware. The speed is honestly a game changer for day to day queries.

New comment by laweijfmvo in "Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users"

laweijfmvo — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:21:20 +0000

What a bizarre example of a more direct answer. Any human would simply say “No, it doesn’t rain here in summer.”

Even after identifying the 0% chance of rain, it still drags the conversation on and on and on

New comment by laweijfmvo in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

laweijfmvo — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:53:17 +0000

this is easily solved by buying the corresponding wearable made by your phone manufacturer!

New comment by laweijfmvo in "Iran warns Gulf states: tell Trump to desist or we hit you hard"

laweijfmvo — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:05:13 +0000

the Iranian people are probably worse off, and yeah the former supreme leader and many of his lieutenants are dead, but it’s really hard not to think that Iran won this war

New comment by laweijfmvo in "Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2"

laweijfmvo — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:54:36 +0000

“don’t forget about us”

New comment by laweijfmvo in "Meta Muse Spark 1.2"

laweijfmvo — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:33:09 +0000

interesting to see the MASSIVE price reduction they are offering if you “agree to improve their products,” which must mean giving them full access to all your data.

New comment by laweijfmvo in "At least we're warming the planet for a good reason"

laweijfmvo — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:04:44 +0000

  > AI will overbloat the code in any chance they get. There is no way around it. What I do is plan a refactor phase with claude code (thanks to unlocked 1M context limit), where it reads entire code, evaluate, document a markdown file. Then hand it off to gpt 5.6 sol, after a few revision, you'll have a solid plan. Then allow gpt 5.6 sol (or claude code) to implement it in a new sub-branch like refactor, when it's done ask claude or gpt to compare old branch to new refactor branch to ensure they didn't miss anything. In the end, you'll have a smaller codebase but don't believe the advertised savings. Sometimes it doesn't work.

this comment was a gem

New comment by laweijfmvo in "Utah produced more power from solar than any other source in May, a new first"

laweijfmvo — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:18:06 +0000

Sad to see coal going up (?)

New comment by laweijfmvo in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

laweijfmvo — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:13:52 +0000

  > Firing an employee for doing exactly what they were instructed to do during a mandatory retreat

So fired if you don’t play along, fired if you do.

New comment by laweijfmvo in "Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means"

laweijfmvo — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:58:08 +0000

it’ll probably end up badly, not because someone fed a raccoon, but because someone halfway across the planet will develop an unreasonable relationship with this wild animal.

New comment by laweijfmvo in "Did they ghost you?"

laweijfmvo — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:51:06 +0000

I’m on google’s list of special people who qualify for an interview whenever I’m ready, no screen required. I think most “big tech” employees are. I get an email every 6 months or so from a new recruiter letting me know they took over from the previous one, who’s no longer with the company.

New comment by laweijfmvo in "NYC Apartment Aquaponics"

laweijfmvo — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:55:59 +0000

a lot of landlords ban fish tanks. they can do far more damage than a dog or cat ever will..

New comment by laweijfmvo in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

laweijfmvo — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:52:58 +0000

if its that simple, why doesn’t Anthropic just distill its own models and release Fable 5.1, 5.2, ...?

New comment by laweijfmvo in "Orion Browser by Kagi"

laweijfmvo — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:32:30 +0000

ditto, it’s just not stable or usable at all for me.

New comment by laweijfmvo in "Pebble Mega Update – July 2026"

laweijfmvo — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:24:32 +0000

agree, not being able to guarantee or even know, it seems, how your sizing works is a deal breaker and i might have to cancel my order until i see how the first reviews come out :/

New comment by laweijfmvo in "Codex Micro"

laweijfmvo — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:35:40 +0000

After a few minutes on the site, I have no clue what this is for. A keyboard that interacts with Codex? That’s just a software feature, why am I paying $230 for hotkeys?