Hacker News: low_tech_punk

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Sonnet 5.5"

low_tech_punk — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:18:05 +0000

The documentation mentions error code "frontier_llm": The request could assist the development of competing AI models.

I'm very curious how do they know what requests could assist competing AI models.

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Improving site performance by shipping more CSS"

low_tech_punk — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:28:17 +0000

You either "improve performance" or "ship more ___", never both.

Planetary Gear (Code Art)

low_tech_punk — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 03:46:12 +0000

Article URL: https://code.chuanqisun.com/planetary-gear/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49853010

Points: 2

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New comment by low_tech_punk in "Ink and Switch Interactive Homepage"

low_tech_punk — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:32:32 +0000

Hint for mouse users, press and drag on them to hear sound and see visual effects. Mouse X/Y coordinates are inputs.

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Meta VR Glasses"

low_tech_punk — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 02:37:49 +0000

> Stream hundreds of games with XBOX Cloud Gaming

This might be the killer app if latency is low enough.

New comment by low_tech_punk in "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"

low_tech_punk — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 02:35:47 +0000

I like VSCode server in general, but it's too memory hungry. It would crash Raspberry Pi (1GB) by eating up all the RAM.

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second"

low_tech_punk — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:42:47 +0000

it's stupid fast!

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Whoisinspace.com/"

low_tech_punk — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:16:50 +0000

Chinese and Russian space suits are almost identical in the photos!

New comment by low_tech_punk in "iPhone Duo"

low_tech_punk — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:20:12 +0000

iPhace Duo https://news.microsoft.com/surfaceduo/

New comment by low_tech_punk in "iPhone Duo"

low_tech_punk — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:13:41 +0000

This made history because Apple never copied Microsoft before. https://news.microsoft.com/surfaceduo/

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Music Theory for Programmers"

low_tech_punk — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:04:38 +0000

I still enjoyed going through it, for what it is.

1. runjs promoting itself using music REPL as an example

2. author used LLM to fit a few music related ideas into the web audio API

3. they tried it with math two years ago: https://runjs.app/blog/equations-that-changed-the-world-rewr... They are clearly targeting js developers, which is one of the largest coding community

4. "The naming is not arbitrary, and the harmonic series explains why.", stop wasting tokens. Just say what it is please.

New comment by low_tech_punk in "MAI Transcribe 2"

low_tech_punk — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:47:53 +0000

just tested it, it can be paired with a streaming setup called Voice Live. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-s...

New comment by low_tech_punk in "MAI Transcribe 2"

low_tech_punk — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:14:25 +0000

According to Artificial Analysis https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2095521214777442546 it is on the pareto frontier.

MAI Transcribe 2

low_tech_punk — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:12:07 +0000

Article URL: https://microsoft.ai/news/mai-transcribe-2-is-the-fastest-most-accurate-and-cheapest-speech-recognition-model-in-the-world/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563026

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s"

low_tech_punk — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:10:49 +0000

my hunch is that their hardware can't cache

New comment by low_tech_punk in "GPT-6 Astra"

low_tech_punk — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:41:51 +0000

which raises the question, is the model in the demo actually gpt-6? or it is gpt realtime 2.1? It's unclear how gpt-6 can interact at the realtime level and if so, how can developer get access to it?

New comment by low_tech_punk in "GPT-6 Astra"

low_tech_punk — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:38:44 +0000

What's the point of enlarging the screen into a room? In the 1979 Put That There demo, the user at least used his hand to point things. The model is impressive but the demo felt like a step back.

Original demo (fun ending) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyBEUyEtxQo

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s"

low_tech_punk — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:10:10 +0000

No. You buy a minimum of $10 worth of credit, then use it at $1.49/M rate. There is no recurring charge.

There is a separate subscription based plan, which is sold out now.

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

low_tech_punk — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:54:25 +0000

Soniox website has a live comparison demo: https://soniox.com/compare-stt

For me, Gemini-3.5-Transcribe actually has slightly lower latency. Kudos to Soniox for both paying their competitor and letting them win. But yes, Soniox is much cheaper.

NeuroStack NS1 (Shallow Perceptron Simulator)

low_tech_punk — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:44:24 +0000

Article URL: https://code.chuanqisun.com/neurostack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49470189

Points: 1

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