Hacker News: lukevp

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

lukevp — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:40:17 +0000

Well your comment adds no value and is just offensive. Why don’t you argue a counterpoint?

New comment by lukevp in "Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America"

lukevp — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:13:29 +0000

What have they iOSed about macOS? The latest versions haven’t lost any features as far as I’m aware. But Windows lost the ability to even pin the task bar to the side of the window in Windows 11… and the ability to stop auto updates.

If anything, iOS is getting more Mac-like, especially the iPad version. It has multi windowing and a window manager now.

New comment by lukevp in "Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac"

lukevp — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:16:38 +0000

I’ve got a 32 gig m1 MacBook Pro. how would I go about trying Gemma like you mentioned? Would it run at an acceptable speed, and what could I do? Coding?

New comment by lukevp in "Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter"

lukevp — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:12:09 +0000

It seems like this person is incredibly intelligent and resourceful. Why not just design a new PCB for this instead of modding one? Surely the component cost of 2 connectors and a little PCB could still be in the < $20 range and actually output good quality analog signals? $20 is the same as $3 if you’re also buying CRTs just to play Switch games. This is such a hobby level activity I’m sure people would love a kit + a guidebook, could even provide a 3d printed case.

New comment by lukevp in "Fossil Fuels Are 40% of Freight Shipping Tonnage, but Half Its Fuel Use"

lukevp — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:08:31 +0000

Why is the EV better? Because electricity transmission is more efficient than gas? What about the losses in the electricity transmission and the batteries and the conversion to motive force in the motor? Is it way less than that 40%? And wouldn’t there be more than 0% losses because refinery -> power plant shipping?

I’m pro EV by the way, I just want to understand your point better. Being able to go all the way to transportation using clean energy is an obvious benefit of EVs. The “dirty electricity” angle is less obvious to me.

New comment by lukevp in "Image Compression"

lukevp — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:48:39 +0000

blur hash is an algorithm for a low res representation of an image for placeholder purposes, it's pretty nice. https://blurha.sh

New comment by lukevp in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

lukevp — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:26:48 +0000

The US has no social safety net. Healthcare comes from your employer. Everything is centered around having a job. Opinions on AI diverge significantly and someone’s response to this question would be pivotal to me in a hiring role. The market is not great for job seekers. The hiring manager can wait for someone who aligns with their company’s perspective on this.

New comment by lukevp in "Waymo Premier"

lukevp — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:07:22 +0000

Yes, if you get a Toyota and maintain it, it would be expected to make it past 200k miles. They are by far the most reliable cars. Timing belt failures are only catastrophic for interference engines, and most cars use timing chains now, which have a much lower failure rate.

New comment by lukevp in "Siri AI"

lukevp — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:49:33 +0000

Not in the same request. I often want to turn off 2 lights and the other on, I have to build scenes to do this

New comment by lukevp in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

lukevp — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:26:49 +0000

Got anything from your orchestrator you could share that’s usable by others? Sounds like how I’d like to work but is difficult to get going from scratch

New comment by lukevp in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

lukevp — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:10:34 +0000

Traffic is usually caused by adding inefficiencies across a system with little slack - someone brakes too hard or too early, and if all the cars are stacked up, that one brake event can ripple through hundreds of following cars, getting worse and worse because each person brakes more. Self driving cars can perfectly sync up and move like a train. Theoretically there could be no traffic on highways if all cars are self-driving. Rarely is a highway so full that there couldn’t be more cars (eg. The entrance ramps are backed up) which implies the issues are related to the driving flow and not the capacity of the street itself.

New comment by lukevp in "WASM is not quite a stack machine"

lukevp — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:46:00 +0000

Does that mean you could compile a wasm program to go, then run it with wazero? How many levels deep can it go?? Might be a fun blog topic :)

New comment by lukevp in "Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them"

lukevp — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:34:36 +0000

You really don’t believe that software is or can become safer than human drivers?

New comment by lukevp in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

lukevp — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:17:47 +0000

I have a fairly large house (2 story 3k sqft) with all cat5e. I iperf’d every run and they could all do 10gb negotiation and TCP, most of the runs could sustain very high UDP rates with low packet loss. There’s just one run (which is the one to the internet) which had a slightly higher UDP packet loss rate. So basically every run can do 10gb fine. Been running the whole network like this for a year. It’s been great! I just need a 10 gig capable NAS. My current one can only do 3.5 or so because it’s a usb 5gb/s which isn’t really 5 gb.

New comment by lukevp in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"

lukevp — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:27:20 +0000

If I was running a physical business and I wrote down each person’s name and credit card number and the exact time and order they placed, that would be pretty invasive and “spying”. If I write down how many units I sold of each item per day, and the volume of transactions by credit card vs cash, it’s anonymized and I don’t think this would generally be considered “spying”, just normal business metrics. How’s the latter much different than anonymized product analytics?

New comment by lukevp in "Matt Mullenweg Overrules Core Committers; Puts Akismet on WP 7's Connector List"

lukevp — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:06:14 +0000

Cloudflare already did that and it’s available now[1], although it’s billed as a “spiritual successor” and not a literal one (so probably not backwards compatible).

1: https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/

New comment by lukevp in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

lukevp — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:21:28 +0000

Anodizing and oxidation are 2 totally different things.

New comment by lukevp in "Claude Is Dead"

lukevp — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:12:31 +0000

Well they had enough tokens to write this article…

New comment by lukevp in "43 hours battery life: Dell XPS 14 2026 lasts almost 3x longer vs MacBook Air 15"

lukevp — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:21:51 +0000

Does anyone believe this? Is it real? Windows laptops always claim crazy battery life figures but when I have the latest, nicest windows machine it ends up lasting like 3-4 hours every time, with a normal coding workload. My MacBooks in contrast will last 8+.

New comment by lukevp in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

lukevp — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:33:21 +0000

And what is using Confluence in the first place? Your MacBook Pro is faster than a supercomputer from 20 years ago. As we make compute cheaper, we find ways to use it that are less efficient in an absolute sense but more efficient for the end user. A graphical docs portal like Confluence is a hell of a lot easier to use than EMacs and SSH to edit plain text files on an 80 character terminal. But it uses thousands of times more compute.

It seems ridiculous right now because we don’t have hardware to accelerate the LLMs, but in 5 years this will be trivial to run.