Hacker News: marknutter

New comment by marknutter in "Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)"

marknutter — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:14:14 +0000

Whose ethics?

New comment by marknutter in "Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)"

marknutter — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:12:44 +0000

Zero proof that any of that works to prevent police states from forming.

New comment by marknutter in "Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)"

marknutter — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:11:12 +0000

You're not going to get far talking to political fanatics. And like you said, they very likely do not have their own houses in order.

New comment by marknutter in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

marknutter — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:26:46 +0000

Have you been diagnosed with depression at all?

New comment by marknutter in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

marknutter — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:23:32 +0000

I think that used to be the case but has dramatically shifted in the opposite direction in recent years.

New comment by marknutter in "Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion"

marknutter — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:00:21 +0000

As a counter point, I've been using CC since December and I've never really had any problems with it. It's always done exactly what I want it to and I continue to be blown away by its capabilities, regardless of which of their models I've used. I also almost never burn through my $200/m plan.

New comment by marknutter in "Grok 4.6"

marknutter — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 02:05:22 +0000

Haha, well said!

New comment by marknutter in "Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac"

marknutter — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:32:02 +0000

Say the word and I'll build it.

New comment by marknutter in "The arguments against open source AI are bad"

marknutter — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:57:15 +0000

Begun, the ai wars have.

New comment by marknutter in "The arguments against open source AI are bad"

marknutter — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:55:05 +0000

Better a private company in the US than an authoritarian communist country like China.

New comment by marknutter in "Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept"

marknutter — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:17:07 +0000

I'm building this exact thing, actually. Intelligence determines which model powers a mob/npc. Getting neat results so far!

New comment by marknutter in "Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept"

marknutter — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:55:40 +0000

I'm actually building a MUD powered in part by LLMs so this is very timely. It never occurred to me to use it to evaluate LLMs, which is a really neat idea. I'll be keeping an eye on this project.

New comment by marknutter in "John C. Dvorak has died"

marknutter — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:00:17 +0000

I loved listening to him on TWiT and other shows/podcasts. RIP, what a legend.

New comment by marknutter in "Perfection Is Not Over-Engineering"

marknutter — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:05:17 +0000

Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where he hires a contractor to work on his kitchen and ends up with twice as many cabinets as he had before.

New comment by marknutter in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

marknutter — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:05:08 +0000

I saw nothing wrong with the number of cuts, seems very in line with other commercials like this. I would not have been able to tell this was made by ai had I not known it going into it.

New comment by marknutter in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

marknutter — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:58:53 +0000

How about the full 360 head turn in the first video. Nightmare fuel.

New comment by marknutter in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

marknutter — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:58:22 +0000

Try Trazadone. I've struggled with sleep my whole life and now, after 45 years, I can finally say I have the problem thoroughly licked.

New comment by marknutter in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

marknutter — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:29:51 +0000

This an inspirational comment, thanks for posting it! I love that more and more people are being enabled (or re-enabled in your case) as software developers thanks to ai.

New comment by marknutter in "GPT-5.6"

marknutter — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:52:30 +0000

It honestly baffles me how people can ask a question like this and get such a wide spectrum of answers in response. It's all so much based on vibes and anecdotal evidence. I've not really noticed much of a difference in capability since Opus 4.6 and I've used a ton of different models. They all work pretty damn well for me.

New comment by marknutter in "We built a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch with 0.89 recall"

marknutter — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:53:50 +0000

At this point building a memory tool for your ai agents is like a right of passage.