<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mhast</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mhast</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 10:12:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mhast" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mhast in "Apple TV's Upcoming Cyberpunk Series Will Be the Matrix Meets Blade Runner"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Their Foundation adaptation is pretty terrible at understanding what the books are about.<p>Going from a story where societies and not individuals are the "heroes" to people with magical powers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 07:42:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822497</link><dc:creator>mhast</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822497</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mhast in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm assuming it's meant the other way around.<p>Given their estimates of a Mac being able to generate $1k (per month?) a 5090 with a lot more power would be able to generate $50k. For a $3k piece of hardware. Which is obviously not realistic. (As in, nobody is paying that much for the images, which seems to match well with no actual requests on the system.)</p>
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<p>Strange. I've been running it on several different ubuntu 24 04 machines with standard terminal with no issues.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:01:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462514</link><dc:creator>mhast</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462514</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mhast in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But with waymos it would be possible. Mark those streets as "extremely slow" and never go there unless you are dropping someone off. (The computer has more patience than human drivers.)<p>If that's too annoying then bad parking by school areas so the situation doesn't happen.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:20:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814159</link><dc:creator>mhast</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814159</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mhast in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The field of "AI assisted programming" is progressing extremely rapidly.<p>Claude code (arguably the most recent large change, even if it wasn't the first of it's type) was released one year ago.<p>After watching the video I'd say that it is similar to my own reaction when opening my own code that is 2 years old. (To be clear, code I myself wrote 2 years ago, without AI.) Or even more realistically, code I wrote 6 months ago.<p>Buy it mostly reads like someone making an exaggerating claim to get s boost from a populist narrative.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:16:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46763439</link><dc:creator>mhast</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46763439</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46763439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mhast in "Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you just want to play I believe the Google alternative can even run on the free tokens you get from them. It's not going to do all that much before running out of tokens but you can probably have it make a simple single page web site for a company or something like that.</p>
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<p>Even at the Max plan it's not unlimited. IIRC they say the limit is something like 20x the $20 plan.<p>With "normal use" you're unlikely to hit the limit though, unless you only use the Opus model and do things in parallell.</p>
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<p>If you want to fingerprint text you can also do it by small insignificant changes to text which doesn't change the meaning.<p>If you have a number such locations with alternatives then you can make a number of identifiable versions by combining alternates.</p>
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<p>The typical "best practice" for these tools tend to be to ask it something like<p>"I want you to do feature X. Analyse the code for me and make suggestions how to implement this feature."<p>Then it will go off and work for a while and typically come back after a bit with some suggestions. Then iterate on those if needed and end with.<p>"Ok. Now take these decided upon ideas and create a plan for how to implement. And create new tests where appropriate."<p>Then it will go off and come back with a plan for what to do. And then you send it off with.<p>"Ok, start implementing."<p>So sure. You probably can work on this to make it easier to use than with a CLI chat. It would likely be less like an IDE and more like a planning tool you'd use with human colleagues though.</p>
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<p>It is typically neither free nor open to develop on consoles. As in, you pay to access developer tools.<p>iOS and Android less so (even if there is a one time charge for Android and a yearly charge on Apple). OTOH I have not heard of them usually reaching out to more than a handful of devs for promotion purposes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 23:04:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46141536</link><dc:creator>mhast</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46141536</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46141536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mhast in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Jim Keller goes into some detail about what difference the ISA makes in general in this clip <a href="https://youtu.be/yTMRGERZrQE?si=u-dEXwxp0MWPQumy" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/yTMRGERZrQE?si=u-dEXwxp0MWPQumy</a><p>Spoiler, it's not much because most of the actual execution time is spent in a handful of basic OPs.<p>Branch prediction is where the magic happens today.</p>
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<p>That would probably be preferable from a PR standpoint.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 11:35:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46013977</link><dc:creator>mhast</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46013977</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46013977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mhast in "Roblox CEO interview about child safety didn't go well"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>None of those games are made for children. Particularly not CoD and Battlefield.<p>That doesn't mean kids don't want to play them. But Roblox is pitching itself as a safe space for kids.</p>
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<p>"People Make Games" on YouTube made some videos about it. Recommended watching for any parent who is trying to figure out if they should allow their child on Roblox. (Spoilers, the answer is "no".)</p>
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<p>There are Python bindings for the framework as well.<p>Personally I could see Go being quite nice to use if you want to deploy something as eg a compiled serverless function.<p>I'm assuming the framework behaves the same way regardless of language so you could test using Python first if you want and then move over to eg Go if needed.</p>
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<p>I have a M4 Max with 128 GB memory. Even on that machine I would not consider 70B+ models to be useable. Once you go below 20 tokens/s it becomes more like having a pen pal than an AI assistant.<p>MoE models can still be pretty fast. As are smaller models.<p>(This is mostly a warning for anyone who is enamored by the idea of running these things locally to make sure to test it before you spend a lot of money.)<p>Currently I'd probably say the Nvidia RTX pro 6000 is a Challenger if you want local models. It "only" has 96 GB of RAM, but it's very fast (1800 GB/s). If you can fit the model on it and it's good enough for your use case then it's probably worth it even at $10k.</p>
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<p>It depends on the model.<p>It's typically ok for MoE models but if you try to run something non-MoE the speed will plummet. In that same thread there are people getting 50 tok/s on MoE models and 5 on non MoE. (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1n79udw/comment/nc9oyxe/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1n79udw/comment...</a>)<p>And while it has unified memory the memory is quite slow. 250GB/s compared to 500+ for M4 Max or 1800 GB/s for a 5090. So it's fast for a CPU, but pretty slow for a GPU.<p>(That said, there are not a lot of cheap options for running large models locally. They all have significant compromises.)</p>
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<p>Using chip and pin is what makes the system secure. The PIN is verified by the chip on the card so it can't be skimmed. (You can copy the PIN of course, but you also need the same physical chip to clone a transaction.)<p>Signing the recipe is a useless security theatre. That's why it's not done in Europe.</p>
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<p>Git won't catch new files the agent is adding. To get around that you can of course always add all new files, but then you'll potentially have your repo polluted with a bunch of temporary scratch files instead.<p>You can typically go back and edit git history. But it will require force push and breaking changes. And a few sacrifices to ensure that it doesn't make a mistake because then your repo is potentially broken.<p>Best way to do that is probably to have it work on branches and then squash merge those.</p>
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<p>The problem is Dunning Kruger effect.<p>The people who shouldn't disable these security features tend to be the first to do so. And then complain the loudest when the enter the "find out" phase.</p>
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