Hacker News: mattfrommars

New comment by mattfrommars in "Claude Opus 4.8"

mattfrommars — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:03:40 +0000

This is incredible. Amazing job Anthropic!

Now when will the innovation happen where say cost of running Haiku performs level of Opus 4.5?

I feel models are only getting bigger instead of models becoming more efficient and cheaper to run

New comment by mattfrommars in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

mattfrommars — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:56:48 +0000

That sounds about right. People generally under estimate how old Ancient Egyptian really are, me included and think it sometimes around the era of Middle Ages.

New comment by mattfrommars in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

mattfrommars — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:48:36 +0000

Incredible and congrats. I'm doing a bit retro that during the boom of AI and LLM, I was busy doing my day job in Java CRUD and figuring things out about micro services.

It had never occurred to me to go like, "I'm going to make an open source product for LLM". How is something like built from scratch from an idea? And what is the idea?

For example, it is fairly straight foreword to build a dash board of something with React as front end + backend API. This will be a typical web app.

But stainless is something different, from my limited knowledge in this space, its appears to be SDK, something like OpenAI SDK that reduces boilerplate code to interact with LLM providers by providing list of tools (MCP), temperature, context memory and bunch of other parameters...

New comment by mattfrommars in "[dead]"

mattfrommars — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:39:11 +0000

Depends worker from which demographic. Worker from India is far cheaper then worker who is in California.

New comment by mattfrommars in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"

mattfrommars — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:35:25 +0000

I have lot and hate relationship with windows native desktop application. As a kid, I use to look for something GUI application and .exe application since they are breeze to run and just felt right. Now in my day job, I just dislike developing for windows desktop application - partly probably the application is massive and super slow to develop or just there isn't a lot of investment from the company stand point into the product.

New comment by mattfrommars in "Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker"

mattfrommars — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:53:09 +0000

This got vibed coded AF

New comment by mattfrommars in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

mattfrommars — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:07:18 +0000

Yah but browser and computing are so much powerful, who needs to install software on their machine when web app and apps store is sufficient for general consumers

New comment by mattfrommars in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

mattfrommars — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:04:12 +0000

As someone who has been in the line of PC building, the entire “build your own” industry has been in a decline. And this “RAM apocalypse” is pretty much nail on the coffin.

Enterprise business from small, medium to large get laptops or use mobile application and online SAAS.

There entire PC industry is for enthusiasts and tiny segment of the worlds computing needs. The laptop variation has already been eating into PC market.

In today’s world, it’s just not practical to own a PC unless you are gamer. And for gamers, it’s just better to get console. And for developers, their is more money to be made selling games on console then PC.

In the end, from business, to revenue generation stand point, custom PC industry is just a legacy of old computing world. As I type this, custom PC is more of a “marketing segment” for Nvidia for example to upsell Nvidia cloud offering - i might be stretching too far - but that basically is the point.

New comment by mattfrommars in "Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote"

mattfrommars — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:22:04 +0000

Yeah, I’ve come to the same realization. Israel does the dirty work for the US and they take all the heat. If the U.S. really wanted Israel to stop, all they need to do is take out special privileges Israel gets and put down economic sanctions.

New comment by mattfrommars in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

mattfrommars — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:49:48 +0000

That’s good! We need to protect our children.

But who gets the $375 million dollars? Anyone know the cut the law firm will get from this incredible amount of money?

New comment by mattfrommars in "Arm AGI CPU"

mattfrommars — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:38:41 +0000

Hmm all my experience with using AI has been mostly VRAM. I haven't experienced any bottleneck on the CPU side. What does this chip offer over Intel or Apple Silicon? Anyone expert here know whatit is?

New comment by mattfrommars in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

mattfrommars — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:19:36 +0000

Agreed. This year around is the best time for OpenAI related firm to IPO. The stock market has been resilient reaching and hovering around ATH. Along with them, SpaceX plans to IPO and will force index fund to purchase their shares at trillion dollar evaluation.

OpenAI and SpaceX firms need exit liquidity - and markets are ready!

My advise for retails folks is to stay invested in the market since these trillion dollar companies cannot afford market to tank at all.

New comment by mattfrommars in "How I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

mattfrommars — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:00:55 +0000

Incredible. I'm more amazed at OP's ability to generate that kind of revenue from SAAS when we live in LLM world where the issue really isn't producing apps, but distribution and turning it into profitability.

New comment by mattfrommars in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

mattfrommars — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:30:18 +0000

that's reasonable I think if he isn't using any kind of game framework.

New comment by mattfrommars in "Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?"

mattfrommars — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:19:53 +0000

I find Gemini 'guided learning' to be very good as a Leetcode teacher. I finally been able to understand dynamic programming and have become better.

New comment by mattfrommars in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

mattfrommars — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:15:54 +0000

This is incredibly heart breaking, but unfortunately, in war, there are always casualties. This is the grim reality of war.

New comment by mattfrommars in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

mattfrommars — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:14:01 +0000

This is incredible piece of work. I was looking into .claude folder and skim reading it. One thing stood out to me how large it is.

If I'm not mistake how Claude Code or AI agent work, they need everything in 'context' and few tricks to reduce the context size. Sure, but given the number of files you have, how much of the context is consumed by all those claude files vs actual user input?

New comment by mattfrommars in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

mattfrommars — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:11:00 +0000

incredible. And this was all using $20 plan from Claude or do you pay extra for Claude bandwidth?

New comment by mattfrommars in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

mattfrommars — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:37:25 +0000

Random: are you personally paying for Claude Code or is it paid by you employer?

My employer only pays for GitHub copilot extension

New comment by mattfrommars in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

mattfrommars — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:21:25 +0000

I think it’s because of Kings Kids on their iPad playing this games vs being on PC playing a game on Miniclips or Ebaumsworld…