Hacker News: mitchell_h

New comment by mitchell_h in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

mitchell_h — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:04:53 +0000

Tried. The context windows just weren't big enough.

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

mitchell_h — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:10:00 +0000

I take it as a signal they don't see any of their value being provided by the models. They're strong point was never frontier technologies. It's always been the delivery of the technology.

New comment by mitchell_h in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

mitchell_h — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:28:06 +0000

I use anthropic's models daily, and sometimes switch to Gemini. Google is losing the marketing front BADLY, but their AI service is surprisingly great. It's far cheaper than anthropic for one. and for my kind of research it's just better.

New comment by mitchell_h in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

mitchell_h — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:10:42 +0000

I think it's proper. When you release something like this, a raw data dump is the only way to cut out a BUNCH of the "this is modified and falsified" noise.

New comment by mitchell_h in "Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10"

mitchell_h — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:29:19 +0000

The login cards were the killer feature on them(at the time). I managed a fleet of them things spread all over 4 buildings. Being able to work in one location, get up and goto another and just pickup what you were doing was INSANE in that day and age. Slapping in a keycard do it all was unheard of.

We had citrix and sunray in those days. Citrix was for those that had BIG BIG BIG money and needed windows. We were a java shop, so it was either an e450 in the server room and sunrays, or ultra5s at every desk.

New comment by mitchell_h in "Workflow Engine for Async Microservice Flows"

mitchell_h — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:17:44 +0000

Nice series. The real problems created by microservices need a solution.

New comment by mitchell_h in "HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'"

mitchell_h — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:12:05 +0000

They can claim that...but if you've built a public SaaS before you know the job is not to host the software, it's to put rails around people taking it down. They've had since 2008 to build those rails, and they're just now hitting places that take the service down on the regular?

New comment by mitchell_h in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

mitchell_h — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:54:41 +0000

> I imagine the clutch is easier on the knees these days! Modern tractors don't really have a clutch. I mean they sorta do, but it's electronic. Even on sizable consumer positioned tractors(I have a JD 5055, but it applies to almost all the JD models), there's just a lever for forward, N, and reverse. Gear shifters work MUCH MUCH better now.

New comment by mitchell_h in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

mitchell_h — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:09:34 +0000

I watched some explain how deepseak got good and the Chinese approach to LLM training. Really wish I could remember it. The premise was China thinks of LLMs not as a thing separate from hardware, but gains efficiencies at each layer of the stack. From Chips to software, it's all integrated and purpose built for training.

Wonder if Anthropic is making a mistake by focusing on "consumer" hardware, and not going super specialized.

New comment by mitchell_h in "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder"

mitchell_h — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:42:54 +0000

In my AGENTS.md I have two lines in almost every single one: - Under no condition should you use emoji's. - Before adding a new function, method or class. Scan the project code base, and attached frame works to verify that something else can not be modified to fit the needs.

New comment by mitchell_h in "First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In"

mitchell_h — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:51:54 +0000

I'm sold. My wife is a teacher(refuses to use a chromebook because they suck, or an Ipad because data input sucks). She'll be getting one of these. Kids probably will too. I'm having a really hard time finding another laptop on the market the hits the "i use gmail, and gdocs, and some other webapps all day" demographic so well.

New comment by mitchell_h in "Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification"

mitchell_h — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:22:46 +0000

A name I hear about once a year and still somehow surprised. I was a totalfarker back in like ~2000. was a great place.

New comment by mitchell_h in "Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification"

mitchell_h — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:57:15 +0000

A well known path....bluesky saw it with twitter. Reddit with digg. /. with digg are the ones that come to mind. Interesting to see if this works out better.

New comment by mitchell_h in "Testing Ads in ChatGPT"

mitchell_h — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:49:04 +0000

Maybe they charge a price that covers the cost of the service + a little profit.

New comment by mitchell_h in "Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow"

mitchell_h — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:13:50 +0000

I'm a small time cattle rancher and raise a few pigs per year. Also friends with many fellow ranchers. My only response to this is entirely "duh". Cows and pigs maybe dumb, but they figure things out with trial and error at an amazing rate.

New comment by mitchell_h in "Cows can use sophisticated tools"

mitchell_h — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:11:02 +0000

I have Cows and Pigs, raised for show and meat. I would not call either animal "intelligent". I would call them stupid determined. They have all the time in the world to push, pull, grab and generally implement mayhem.

New comment by mitchell_h in "Test your square brackets"

mitchell_h — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:38:48 +0000

such nostalgia. There was a time when you could tell a fair bit about someone if that was in their email signature.

New comment by mitchell_h in "Eat Real Food"

mitchell_h — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:51:38 +0000

I agree. This is nearly the exact diet anyone with credibility has suggested for a long long time. If you get into the bro-science(which I believe tends to front run mainstream by a long ways), this is the diet every athlete and gym rat has been doing for years and years, with AMAZING results.

New comment by mitchell_h in "The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300"

mitchell_h — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:20:52 +0000

way back when, I had a 32" CRT from SGI attached to an o2. So heavy I had to buy a special desk to hold it. I can't imagine carrying that PVM-4300 anywhere.

New comment by mitchell_h in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

mitchell_h — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:19:17 +0000

I had the same thought when openai acquired rockset.