Hacker News: moontear

New comment by moontear in "Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac"

moontear — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:21:29 +0000

Very interesting rabbit hole for today. Thanks for mentioning Pareto frontier!

New comment by moontear in "Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac"

moontear — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:29:37 +0000

Is „frontier“ overused? I thought frontier models were the best-of-the-best such as Fable right now. I assume you can’t host these models yourself since you would need many GB of RAM and expensive GPU of is my thinking of „frontier models“ wrong?

New comment by moontear in "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"

moontear — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:53:00 +0000

Back when eastereggs were semi-allowed in MS software. Shame it is being discouraged or disallowed.

Totally understand it from a security and maintenance perspective, but things were more fun back then.

New comment by moontear in "Show HN: 18 Words"

moontear — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:20:23 +0000

Same! I did it by using private browser windows, this way I could see all the words.

New comment by moontear in "Trade, merchants, and the lost cities of the Bronze Age (2019) [pdf]"

moontear — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 06:23:01 +0000

So what’s a better form than the current capitalistic (?) model? Surely we would say the market is efficient, but at the same time it can’t be good for society that so much capital is localized with a few people (bezos, musk etc.).

If the roots for capitalism or similar market economies are so old, what would be better for society?

New comment by moontear in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

moontear — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:30:31 +0000

So what’s the functional difference to Cloudflare (free) DNS? Anything besides „this is European“ that makes me want to switch?

New comment by moontear in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

moontear — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:54:24 +0000

Their claim is that they are European, but I see a US support hotline in the footer and all prices are in Dollar. Seems to be targeting the US market (which is smart), but I don't know whether the European angle wins there.

New comment by moontear in "Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day"

moontear — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:34:18 +0000

You are right. Sometimes I do care about overly Americentrist views. But maybe better to now reply, thanks.

New comment by moontear in "Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day"

moontear — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:15:28 +0000

* to some countries. We don’t all celebrate Father’s Day on the same day and we don’t all celebrate Father’s Day at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_Day#/media/File:Fat...

New comment by moontear in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

moontear — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:34:20 +0000

Ah, so this is ANOTHER price increase in a short timeframe? Thought I read about this before

New comment by moontear in "I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)"

moontear — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:43:55 +0000

I'm sure! But then I would need a custom PCB and spare time on my hand as well as possibly skills I don't have like SMD soldering.

I would love to buy a cheap (~50€/$) finished LoRaWAN gateway product, but those don't exist (yet) AFAIK.

New comment by moontear in "Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix"

moontear — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:17:27 +0000

This is awesome! Thank you rajveerb. Here is to hoping issues from 2022 will be fixed ;-)

New comment by moontear in "I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)"

moontear — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:34:21 +0000

I really like LoRa and its range, but unfortunately the hardware is much more expensive than e.g. Zigbee or WiFi devices.

Would love a LoRaWAN router but they run around ~80€/80$ and just for playing around with it it is a bit much.

New comment by moontear in "Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files"

moontear — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:23:47 +0000

I don’t think rushed is the right word. Copilot Cowork is still in beta (or „Frontier“ as MS calls beta now) and is not generally available. Beta features have bugs, good on this researcher to find bugs before its release.

New comment by moontear in "US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials' names with Senate"

moontear — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:13:38 +0000

> "I don't know why they expect to be able to discuss policy constraints without the government of the company's place of business knowing."

My interpretation of this quote would be that it is not liked that individual names are shared of people working in e.g. the competition authority. They are saying if you want to discuss things, come through the front door, i.e. contact the competition authority which maybe has an official government liaison and don't go after a person who is only responsible for writing some regulation.

New comment by moontear in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

moontear — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:19:26 +0000

The laws around the world are different. The laws within countries are different. Without giving any indication where you are from, nobody can give you any information.

There is a FAQ page https://annas-archive.gl/faq#donate which for example gives you a Monero address which would mean completely anonymous donation.

New comment by moontear in "Internet Archive Switzerland"

moontear — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:52:43 +0000

Uhm... https://blog.archive.org/2026/05/06/internet-archive-switzer...

New comment by moontear in "pgxbackup: Continuity Support for pgBackRest"

moontear — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:32:40 +0000

Is the co-authoring by Claude good practice or is it better to not have that reference in each commit?

I kind of feel all the commits by Claude everywhere are a marketing gig. In terms of transparency of course state somewhere that you are using AI, but personally it doesn’t help me seeing this on every commit. Ultimately you don’t know anyways which part of the commit was AI-inspired, AI-written or human-written, but the co-authored by Claude makes it seem that everything was done by AI and maybe diminishing its credibility.

New comment by moontear in "Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?"

moontear — Sat, 02 May 2026 08:12:24 +0000

And it’s quieter than many of its counterparts from other vendors. And it actually doesn’t cost that much - more expensive than cheap-o versions for sure, but then again significantly quieter, that’s their whole premise.

New comment by moontear in "Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?"

moontear — Sat, 02 May 2026 08:10:48 +0000

I enjoyed reading it. Informative and showing of their processes and giving some intricate details. And yes, the end goal is to sell products which is fine by me. I take this over any generic non-saying marketing-blurb any time.