<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: mhitza</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mhitza</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:59:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mhitza" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mhitza in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting over the price increase rollover now the setup fee is around 110 euros.<p>The machine itself is basically useless for any type of realtime inference, no matter what the marketing page states, but I still use it for prototyping LLM integrations and running comparisons across MoE models.<p>If only the alternatives to framework desktop wouldn't be so poorly built, I might swap it out for a local machine which has more ram but comparable performance for stuff like gpt-oss-20b (around 70tok/s)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:48:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544727</link><dc:creator>mhitza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544727</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mhitza in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are also becoming greedy. I rent their 20GB VRAM instance GEX44, for which they now ask a 500 euro one-time setup fee. Whereas it was something like 60 euros a year ago.</p>
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<p>Coincidentally (?) also discussed today<p>"European sunscreens are safer than American (2024)"
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503940">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503940</a></p>
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<p>Also discussed in <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500447">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500447</a></p>
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<p>> Director of Android Platform Security<p>Is this the person I have to complain about for the removal of fulldisk encryption in Android 13?</p>
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<p>Would be interesting if they released an updated open weights model to go along to whatever hardware dell will configure.</p>
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<p>Does this guy have exponential breakfasts?<p>I agree on some points about the missuse of AI particularly for surveillance, military and propaganda.<p>But this reads like a post further glazing Mythos, and we are just one or two years away "trust us guys", and similar to Mistral's policy plea "please use AI everywhere or we are going to be left behind".<p>I had the hardest time accepting one of his first points that LLMs could barely write a line of code 4 years ago.<p>ChatGPT 3.5 was reasonable at code writing but hallucinated a lot of library functions. Yes we have better harnessing today, and models have been further finetunned with reallife code, but pushing this argument just to support his exponential narrative is deceptive. Like most AI marketing.</p>
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<p>This is downvoted, but the industry does want people to use such an approach. For example see IBMs Granite Guardian model which is targetted at this usecase.<p>If it is that much better in practice I'll await confirmation through some kind of research paper before building even more stacked layers of LLMs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:34:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479770</link><dc:creator>mhitza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479770</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mhitza in "AI is slowing down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Anthropic's revenue increased from $1 billion in Dec. 2024 to $47 billion May of 2026.<p>That's the kind of claim that requires and asterix, and things like this are what feeds into the AI propaganda machine.<p>That is an anualized revenue, which are projected numbers and not "real numbers".</p>
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<p>That is one reason why I, at least try to, check the label and avoid products with non-EU ingredients.<p>Also one of my worries with the mercusour trade deal. And any deal that involves meat imports from the US, with specific laxer regulation requirements (at least what Trump would like).</p>
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<p>999 billion liters of water.<p>From a quick search I gather that US citizens' daily use is around 300B gallons <a href="https://watercalculator.org/footprint/how-united-states-uses-water/" rel="nofollow">https://watercalculator.org/footprint/how-united-states-uses...</a><p>I was just curious of the number and scale.</p>
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<p>Individual voices aren't strong enough to drown the marketing machine.<p>Artists and writers are unionized, why they have a more powerful collective voice.<p>Second, there are enough peole for which their jobs are very well paid and too cozy to dare to rock the boat.<p>The economy and job market isn't so hot either at the moment for people to quickly be able to jump ship.<p>Can you even be sure that you find a tech company that isn't jumping head first onto the AI hype train? Even politicians can't have enough of AI in their mouth.</p>
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<p>My favorite bug family, that somehow to sneak in every time, is how their react frontend (or whatever the store runs) manages to semi-crash and the controller inputs are no longer recognized.<p>I kind of hope at least they'll fix such issues permanently before the steam machine release.</p>
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<p>Same as with any distribution it gives you flexibility over update cadence, validate your software doesn't break with updates, and push out your own hotfixes without being tied to the release process upstream.<p>Default configurations as well, since it states FIPS compliance it has to change defaults <<a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RemoveFipsModeSetup#Why_remove_fips-mode-setup?" rel="nofollow">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RemoveFipsModeSetup#W...</a>></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:30:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407959</link><dc:creator>mhitza</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407959</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mhitza in "Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Comparison with Kagi is making them more harm than good. Only way they are comparable is that both want to charge money for search and there are a few options to personalize search results.<p>Their UX is really at most a proof of concept, not good enough for daily use.</p>
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<p>Are projects still chosing to pick RxJS (or equivalent) which make the code heavily layered and a pain to debug?<p>Or has sanity reached the Angular ecosystem by now?</p>
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<p>In theory, locally you'd use these where lossiness is acceptable for audio transcription and image labeling (as simple examples).<p>In practice I haven't got around to building something around multimodality since I'm primarily using their text generation capabilities.</p>
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<p>SteamOS recently shipped KDE with Wayland by default (for desktop mode).<p>They have their own custom compositor for handheld-mode, named gamescope. <a href="https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope?tab=readme-ov-file" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope?tab=readme-ov-fil...</a> XWayland based.</p>
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<p>All metrics towards more token spend, as expected.<p>Post classified under "improvement". Maybe for revenue targets.<p>I can't believe that font and color passes accessibility checks.</p>
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<p>With declining birth rates big corporations might get the idea that "you know, child labour isn't really a big problem today with the extra precautions we take"<p>At the same time having these large companies that operate in emerging economies where they hide under the rug all child work exploitation.</p>
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