Hacker News: monegator

New comment by monegator in "Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents"

monegator — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:09:08 +0000

The current sepia color scheme you see on all vibecoded websites is so, so tiring.

And before you ask, the next "trend" will be as much tiring.

New comment by monegator in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

monegator — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:47:28 +0000

It's them who don't want to be in the same room with me, they don't like their to have their bluffs called on

New comment by monegator in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

monegator — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:48:53 +0000

> If you are looking at upvotes as a measure of support OpenAI

who, but an incredibly dishonest person, would ever think that?

New comment by monegator in "LoRA Speedrun – a public wall-clock leaderboard for fine-tuning techniques"

monegator — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:58:37 +0000

Feels like i'm missing the introduction paragraph in the repo.

What is LoRA in this context? the communication protocol? Or another term appropriated by LLMs? Why the speedrun?

New comment by monegator in "Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS"

monegator — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:27:31 +0000

> Is really any guarantee that they even follow those?

No, there isn't. I just don't understand how naive (or imbecile) people are. The most valuable thing for these companies is people's data used for training, so giving unrestricted access to a tool from them and believing they will never take advantage of it to gobble up whatever they want from your computer, just because they told you they'll never do that, swearsies, is naive, or incredibly stupid.

Insulate yourself, or better yet, go local whenever possible, and there isn't much you can't do local if you have enough patience.

New comment by monegator in "AI 2040: Plan A"

monegator — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:26:04 +0000

> to me this article feels like an exercise in creative writing rather

because it is. Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43571851 / https://ai-2027.com/

New comment by monegator in "Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer"

monegator — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:46:31 +0000

that would be implying that "private" really means anything for AWS. Because if it's "private" as in "private" github repos that were totally not used for training copilot because they said so or "private" claude chats that are totally scanned even if you have enterprise contracts to check you are not doing anything malicious or are from china or whatever, and this will totally not be used for training...

can we trust any US based service to guarantee privacy and confidentiality? especially to us european frienemies?

New comment by monegator in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

monegator — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 05:56:31 +0000

And then you have repacks.

It's basically impossible to find any game that isn't on GOG that is not shared as a repack. You don't get the installer, you don't get the original media, you have to trust that the repack is not filled with malware. (and also the repack process somewhat confuses wine/lutris. More than once i couldn't make the repack run on my linux box, but if i managed to find the genuine install medium.. or if i ended up buying the game on sale, then no problem)

New comment by monegator in "Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland"

monegator — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:44:53 +0000

friends of friends simply need all that sweet government grant money

New comment by monegator in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection"

monegator — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:43:11 +0000

really? I have to keep making useless updates (just a version number bump) on one of the accounts i manage, because i keep receiving thread emails every 6 months that the developer account sees no activity and if i don't do anything they will remove and close.

that app is a done project and need only to be udpated when the target SDK becomes too old for the play store

New comment by monegator in "Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine"

monegator — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:21:31 +0000

Good. Now, if only they also fought against developer integrity..

https://keepandroidopen.org

New comment by monegator in "Nano Banana 2 Lite"

monegator — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:26:15 +0000

but until this comes to edge gallery i won't care

New comment by monegator in "The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online"

monegator — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:05:35 +0000

Meta is actively sponsoring the bills in my country. They go as far as ads on TV and Radio, something that never happened before

New comment by monegator in "Apple announces significant price increases for MacBooks, iPads, more"

monegator — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:20:22 +0000

Mediamarkt already had the neo on "special price" (launch price) until the end of this month, it was pretty obvious what would happen

New comment by monegator in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

monegator — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:35:29 +0000

Here we have a 15% limit on scanning for fair use

New comment by monegator in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

monegator — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:31:10 +0000

Soon, when even the enterprise subscriptions will have ads, every session will begin with a mandatory generated image:

> you would NEVER distill a model..

New comment by monegator in "Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police"

monegator — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:30:04 +0000

> He goes way too far though

that's what activist have to do to shake people

New comment by monegator in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

monegator — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:08:32 +0000

Hey! That's exactly what lobbyists against regulations would say!

New comment by monegator in "Running local models is good now"

monegator — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:02:57 +0000

But cloud is what will enslave them to the corporation's will.

Google (of all companies!) demonstrated you can get useful stuff with reasonable performance with model running local on their smartphones.

Depending on your expecations you can get the local models running on a recent enough laptop, you just need 16GB of ram to be comfortable. It certainly exceeded my expectations (but i don't use the LLM to write code, only to do the real boring stuff: docs.)

New comment by monegator in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

monegator — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:32:35 +0000

I have not called musk redarded, i have called the idea retarded.

Same as master branch or master/slave communication idiocy. People that get this hung up really have too much free time on their hand, or have too much to gain in discussing language instead of discussing the actual problem.

For example: see how many commenters here are debating words instead of debating the validity of yet another hype-inducing value-pumping statement for clueless investors and fanboys.

On local fintech radio the week it was first announced they spent 3-4 days discussing the financial implication, then just one discussing the feasibility. Guess we're lucky we got one whole day of engineering discussing things for a change