Hacker News: manmal

New comment by manmal in "Happy Map"

manmal — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:38:06 +0000

Or an autoresearch minimizing render times.

New comment by manmal in "The Miller Principle (2007)"

manmal — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:37:37 +0000

Those generated ADRs are pure crap, full of unnecessary hedges and superficial solutions that don’t survive scrutiny longer than 10 seconds. I do generate ADR skeleton drafts because I hate empty pages, but I need to add the substance or they are not helpful at all.

What we are doing is probably not in training data, maybe that’s why.

New comment by manmal in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

manmal — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:52:14 +0000

They should pick a lane because it’s not very believable if you put these things into defense systems and in the next minute claim that humanity is existentially threatened. Either you’re lying, or ruthless, or stupid.

New comment by manmal in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

manmal — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:47:06 +0000

It’s all breathless hyperbole because billions are at stake here.

New comment by manmal in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

manmal — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:54:04 +0000

The latest MacBook Pros don’t even need external GPUs to run AAA games.

New comment by manmal in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

manmal — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:20:50 +0000

Yes. There’s just no way to get above 1t/s that way with a large model.

New comment by manmal in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

manmal — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:19:19 +0000

Yes obviously. That VRAM is also slower and has weak compute attached. Loading to the external GPU will slow things down too much.

New comment by manmal in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

manmal — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:19:36 +0000

But isn’t the Mac Mini the weak link in that scenario?

New comment by manmal in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

manmal — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:16:31 +0000

That’s what, 14GB/s? The GPU‘s VRAM can do 100x that.

New comment by manmal in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

manmal — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:31:15 +0000

Maybe I’m lacking imagination. But how will a GPU with small-ish but fast VRAM and great compute, augment a Mac with large but slow VRAM and weak compute? The interconnect isn’t powerful enough to change layers on the GPU rapidly, I guess?

New comment by manmal in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

manmal — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:26:52 +0000

Graphics was not what came to mind when I saw the headline.

New comment by manmal in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

manmal — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:45:55 +0000

Both teams ship at breakneck speed and both randomly regress. I don't see such a big difference. Claude now uses Claude by default to judge whether a tool call is sane or not. At least OC is transparent about the insanity of running bash commands unchecked.

New comment by manmal in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

manmal — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:20:22 +0000

> not allow something like OpenClaw on our network

And where’s the difference between the Claude Desktop app and OpenClaw at this point? Anthropic have been hard at work porting the most important features. You can easily shoot yourself in the foot with both now.

New comment by manmal in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

manmal — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:17:56 +0000

They want you to do your shit through their own desktop apps.

New comment by manmal in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

manmal — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:16:16 +0000

Tell me you are not using Anthropic without telling me. Bursts of unlimited usage was never the case. And I bet their infrastructure doesn’t like bursts as much as more spread out activity.

New comment by manmal in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

manmal — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:11:53 +0000

Come on, someone on a Max account has a reason why they are paying $200. I bet many are at least often near the weekly limit, or they‘ll downgrade. If anything, OpenClaw usage is more spread out instead of ingesting whole codebases during office hours.

The Anthropic subs are likely priced at marginal cost (Amp‘s CEO recently said that in a podcast). It just doesn’t serve Anthropic to be operating as the service layer for OpenClaw.

New comment by manmal in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

manmal — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:24:16 +0000

The upcoming MacBook Pro (late this year) is rumored to have a hole-punch camera: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/24/touchscreen-macbook-pro...

It‘s reasonable to assume that menu bar items will be rendered differently as well, to accommodate for Dynamic Island (which changes its width as needed).

New comment by manmal in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

manmal — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:18:33 +0000

Compared to flaky bartender, I‘d prefer even that tbh.

New comment by manmal in "Cursor 3"

manmal — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:12:25 +0000

It is. Those plans are probably priced at marginal cost. Enterprise is 4x the cost or more.

New comment by manmal in "Cursor 3"

manmal — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:23:52 +0000

There is no Max sub for enterprise AFAIK, are you using a private plan for work?