<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: layoric</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=layoric</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:10:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=layoric" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by layoric in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They also banned crypto mining which previously was using the free to cheap electricity, so if AI data centres are using those now under utilised supply, very possible subsidies are very low.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 22:02:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48261451</link><dc:creator>layoric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48261451</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48261451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by layoric in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Overall, economic growth is good for society as a whole, so it makes sense that a state should encourage it as much as it can.<p>The problem with basing the language in the aggregate, is implies that distribution doesn’t matter, and all modern economic models agree. This is a big problem for the reality of people living in ever increasing inequality. Money is a competitive resource, we use it to bid for real resources. If constant economic growth disproportionately goes to the already wealthy, it worsens inequality when resources to exploit become more scarce. It’s one thing to have massive swaths of untouched natural world to exploit for human benefits, but those days are long gone IMO.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 01:55:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243779</link><dc:creator>layoric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243779</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by layoric in "AI is making me dumb"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This was a large part of my problem with Claude code, it is far too eager to get to the code writing. Matt Pocock's skills and Codex I have found to work together quite well. You still have to ensure design/architecture is being followed, and review carefully obviously, but Codex by default seems to look for minimal change approach a lot more than Claude does/ever did.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 23:33:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142610</link><dc:creator>layoric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142610</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by layoric in "Cisco workforce reductions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It absolutely does and a very good effort of compatibility with GitHub actions. It’s not perfect but migrating is far less of a pain than I experienced moving to others</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:43:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133126</link><dc:creator>layoric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133126</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by layoric in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've heard stories of bills like that and is wild to me.. I built a SaaS that had just over a PB in data and our monthly was low 5 digit and largest part was S3, and co-location was already on the table. I can't imagine getting to 6-7 digit a month.. I understand how it happens with rapid growth, but even 6 months of that I would be scrambling for other hosting options.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 20:16:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100090</link><dc:creator>layoric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100090</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by layoric in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Honestly surprised to hear that GPT OSS 20B runs slow on mac hardware. It's absolutely one of the fastest models I've run on local GPUs for its size, but only tried Nvidia cards.<p>Edit: TIL it is MoE and only has 3.6B active, explains a lot.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 02:06:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090281</link><dc:creator>layoric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090281</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by layoric in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I might be reading the pricing wrong but you have to pay per hour for the port plus per GB transfer? And looks like the cheapest is $0.02 per GB? Is that really the 'cheap' option? That looks fine for a TB or two, but still crazy when getting closer to PBs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 23:09:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089099</link><dc:creator>layoric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089099</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by layoric in "Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most of the hospital consultancy firms tied to nonprofit hospital management/board for 500 Alex.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 01:56:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057562</link><dc:creator>layoric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057562</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by layoric in "DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very impressive. One thing that seems odd to me is that is at like 4 minutes before it starts a response for large input? I don't use mac hardware for LLMs, but that is quite surprising and would seem to be a pretty large stumbling block for practical usage.<p>Edit: Caching story makes a lot more sense for regular usage:
> Claude Code may send a large initial prompt, often around 25k tokens, before it starts doing useful work. Keep --kv-disk-dir enabled: after the first expensive prefill, the disk KV cache lets later continuations or restarted sessions reuse the saved prefix instead of processing the whole prompt again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 23:33:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056505</link><dc:creator>layoric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056505</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by layoric in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree, the mechanical refactoring of modern IDE tooling, especially with typed languages is so much faster and safer, it's not even close. These tools can be useful for sure, but I think in general they are being wayy over prescribed to different tasks.</p>
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<p>This is very true, I've found these tools that I am highly encouraged to use very hit and miss, which they are by nature. After using Matt Pocock's skills, I've come around to the idea that LLM's main utility is to act as the ultimate rubber ducky. The `grill-me` feature is honestly the most useful, not for guiding the follow up writing of code, but to make me write down and explore the idea I have more quickly. It's guesses of questions to ask are generally pretty good. I don't believe there is any 'understanding', so I feel the rubber ducky analogy works quite well. This isn't anything you couldn't do before with some discipline, but at least I find it helpful to be more consistent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 23:46:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043433</link><dc:creator>layoric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043433</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by layoric in "The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A 90s Camry, Corolla, or Civic seems to have become the peak minimalist car. Shame we will never likely see an EV equivalent focused on utility and cost efficiency without all the bloat. I don’t think there is a good option sadly, any ICE car will eventually just become unmaintainable, and I can’t see a path to EVs that are just cars and don’t come with all this tracking.. hope to be proved wrong..</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 04:27:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48018033</link><dc:creator>layoric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48018033</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48018033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by layoric in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you concerned this will just lead to coupling everywhere like microservices tend to do?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:32:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897468</link><dc:creator>layoric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897468</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by layoric in "Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, I tried Codex pro today and the $20 plan is way more generous than Claude's, especially lately.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:45:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847035</link><dc:creator>layoric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847035</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by layoric in "Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've found MiniMax 2.7 pretty decent and even pay-as-you-go on OpenRouter, it's $0.30/mt in, and $1.20/mt out you can get some pretty heavy usage for between $5-$10. Their token subscription is heavily subsidized, but even if it goes up or away, its pretty decent. I'm pretty hopeful for these openweight models to become affordable at good enough performance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:43:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847020</link><dc:creator>layoric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847020</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by layoric in "Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm trying out codex for first time as well cause something up with Claude for sure, 4.7 has been super frustrating. For other models, highly recommend trying MiniMax 2.7, using it with Hermes is actually pretty good, and their token subscription plans include a lot of usage for $10.</p>
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<p>+100 this. As devs we need to internalise this issue to avoid repeating the same class of exploits over and over again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:39:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47812459</link><dc:creator>layoric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47812459</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47812459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by layoric in "Renewables reached nearly 50% of global electricity capacity last year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Worked on the software side of increasing the rate of solar penetration in electricity networks between 2016-2020 via global solar radiation forecasting. The uptake of the software was slow the first year but then rapid once more electricity networks were struggling with knowing how much solar was in the network. Once it is easier to predict, the network becomes easier to manage, and more can be safely added, and make it economically profitable. Sucks this was a commercial operation, but excited to see all the hard work across various industries is solving problems to get more renewable energy into networks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:30:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621029</link><dc:creator>layoric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621029</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by layoric in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Building websites, I agree has little value, but using it as a way to explain basics of how the web works I think is pretty valuable. Web likely isn't going anywhere for a long time, having some basic knowledge of how it works I think very useful for a lot of people. I hate the idea of any more MS apps like Excel being regularly incorporated, but basic usage of something similar definitely can help know of how to use a useful tool/computer skill. Even in the early 90's we had computer labs for learning computer skills which I think there is value. But forcing tech everywhere into teaching is an issue IMO.</p>
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<p>"side loading", I know this term is the one used but I think should be pushed back against with just using the standard "installing"/"install". It makes the control point clearer and (should be) unsettling when you can't "install" software on hardware you own.</p>
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