Hacker News: mholm

New comment by mholm in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

mholm — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:50:11 +0000

If a teenager on your street said he was going to spend $1,000 to customize his Honda Civic for his needs, you'd believe him. If he says he's going to build a brand new car, better than a Honda civic, for $10,000, you'd laugh and say good luck.

New comment by mholm in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

mholm — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:35:00 +0000

OpenAI and Anthropic don't make small models. Google happens to already have a billion devices that would benefit from small models, so they made one. Google basically gets 1 billion per year for free*.

New comment by mholm in "The real cost of owning a home"

mholm — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:58:48 +0000

Predictable for a year or two, yes. I know how much I'll be paying a decade from now, exempting property tax and insurance fluctuations.

New comment by mholm in "The real cost of owning a home"

mholm — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:56:14 +0000

I was in middle school in 2007

New comment by mholm in "The real cost of owning a home"

mholm — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:40:38 +0000

Beyond the financials, the psychological impact of both being able to make greater-than-superficial changes, and having extremely predictable payments for years without worrying about substantial rent increases, is substantial.

I redid/improved the bathroom to exactly what I wanted. I renovated the kitchen. I added paneling to the walls. I added a few outlets to rooms that needed more. I wouldn't do these things in an apartment, because rent could go up any year and exploit me for liking my home. Property value has gone up by 50% in the years since I bought.

New comment by mholm in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

mholm — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:34:26 +0000

Content quality and content monetization are very different. The EU had exceptionally low monetization and brand recognition.

New comment by mholm in "A Tiny E Reader"

mholm — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:04:45 +0000

I bought an X4 back in November, and bought an X3 in March, after realizing the X4 was too big to fit on the back of a regular iPhone.

I absolutely love this thing. It's great because of its limited scope and featureset. It just sticks to the back of my phone, ready for whenever, and the battery is good enough that I don't have to worry too much about the dumb connector. I bought a USB C to pogo adapter that seems to work fine for charging it, and keep that in my travel pack.

New comment by mholm in "A Tiny E Reader"

mholm — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:01:48 +0000

Seconding this. I installed a new dictionary to it fairly easily

New comment by mholm in "AI is making me dumb"

mholm — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:51:45 +0000

I've seen a lot of people hop into prompting with no trouble, and people who have been using it for years that get bad results. Ultimately, prompting skill is just downstream of technical communication skill. It's probably a good way to practice, if you pay close attention to what you forgot to specify, and what the model got wrong.

New comment by mholm in "Killed by Apple"

mholm — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:42:13 +0000

This has a very different feel than similar pages for other companies. Hardware is still supported if it's within age, most of the software features are just elsewhere and renamed, and some of it is just previous generations of products they currently sell?

Usually these pages convey how capricious the parent is, but this just feels like an arbitrary accounting of things Apple has moved or updated, with a few of them not having replacements.

New comment by mholm in "Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue"

mholm — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:11:34 +0000

I think I'd largely disagree with your recommendation, unless they specifically wanted to get into 3D printing (the hobby) rather than 3D Printing (the tool). I got my printer wanting to make things, and didn't enjoy the tinkering with my mk3 at all. It was a great printer for the time! But I swapped to a P2S and never looked back. I hear Prusa is competitive these days, though not perhaps in price at the low end.

New comment by mholm in "The AI Great Leap Forward"

mholm — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:50:15 +0000

Decent sentiment and analogy, but writing this with AI with hackneyed examples undercuts the point

New comment by mholm in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

mholm — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:16:29 +0000

This product is explicitly not being released for usage

New comment by mholm in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

mholm — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:23:42 +0000

The only real secret sauce is the training methods and datasets used for refining harness usage. Claude Code is a lot better than gemini-cli/open-code/etc because Claude is specifically trained on how to run in that environment. It's been rlhf'd to use the provided tools correctly, and know the framework in which it operates, instead of relying solely on context.

New comment by mholm in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

mholm — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:39:45 +0000

My org gave us 5 months to transition our personal usage away from Anthropic products. Presumably that's paused now, though they haven't made an announcement. I work with medicare/medicaid, and the supply chain risk was directly cited in the initial decision.

New comment by mholm in "Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features"

mholm — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:50:11 +0000

That's been the standard for a decade. $200 for a 4k 55" TV is not realistic without a secondary profit source

New comment by mholm in "Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons"

mholm — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:30:36 +0000

I don't even have any special handling set and haven't had any Tahoe prompts beyond maybe the first one. I often forget that I'm not on the latest anymore.

New comment by mholm in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

mholm — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:24:12 +0000

Not OP, but I've got a friend of a friend in the Windows org that backs this up. Most engineers are teamed up by manufacturers. HP team, Lenovo team, etc. These are the primary drivers of feature development. If it won't sell grandma another $500 HP laptop, they're not interested.

New comment by mholm in "Time to Dump Windows?"

mholm — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:40:28 +0000

I think this is the year for me too. I'm in a similar situation as the author: remoting into a windows computer for games (Moonlight + Sunshine). But everything I play is Proton Gold/Platinum, which means I can move pretty seamlessly.

The biggest issues with the platform had previously been one-off errors 'Audio switcher doesn't work' or the annoyances of desktop environments. I don't want to browse stack overflow during my free time. LLMs solve this entirely. Claude solves these problems trivially, and helps me take advantage of the platform without bogging me down on its ux failures.

New comment by mholm in "Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers"

mholm — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:14:23 +0000

Doesn't even feel like they've committed code since December 2023