Hacker News: mottosso

New comment by mottosso in "Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model"

mottosso — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:23:07 +0000

Specs for whatever they used to achieve the benchmarks would be a good start.

New comment by mottosso in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

mottosso — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:44:52 +0000

Mine as well. :D

New comment by mottosso in "Step 3.5 Flash: Open Frontier-Level Intelligence with 11B Active Parameters"

mottosso — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:50:24 +0000

In the process of downloading this to run on a DGX Spark which is explicitly mentioned in their documentation. Never heard of it before but sounds good, too good to be true?

New comment by mottosso in "Bear is now source-available"

mottosso — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:30:40 +0000

I'd have to agree with this stance. You choose MIT when you are happy to share your source with no strings attached. Some do pick MIT with this intent, but that was not the case here. But rather a case of either miscommunication or wanting to have the pie ("look how altruistic I am") and eating it too ("look how business-minded I am").

New comment by mottosso in "How to win an argument with a toddler"

mottosso — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 21:48:17 +0000

I was nodding the whole time until I got to this comment. This is the one that is unusual to me, because it would be my fault and the person informing me is just doing their job; well or not. They have no opinion about me nor should I of them. The whole transaction would be effortless if not for having emotions mixed in, I think those are best saved for personal relationships.

New comment by mottosso in "Clay (short for C Layout) is a high performance 2D UI layout library"

mottosso — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 18:48:51 +0000

I was looking for exactly this about two weeks ago for a 3D editor UI and ended up with Facebook's Yoga library. So far things are running smooth.

I would look closer at this library too, if it wasn't for:

"Clay UI hierarchies are built using C macros"

Yikes :S

New comment by mottosso in "The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)"

mottosso — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:54:50 +0000

I still remember my first credit in a blockbuster production, after a first few years in TV advertising that name no names, and it was exhilarating. My name is since forever embedded into the artwork we all worked towards. I was also paid, but with that money now long gone I just wanted to highlight that there is value not just in money.

New comment by mottosso in "Ask HN: Where are the good resources for learning audio processing?"

mottosso — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 08:28:25 +0000

I was curious what you meant and went to have a look. At first all seemed well, until I got to the actual audio processing part. :)

https://github.com/airwindows/airwindows/blob/master/plugins...

Then again, maybe this is the norm for audio engineers? Not my field.

New comment by mottosso in "Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down"

mottosso — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 15:39:44 +0000

Streisand effect in action, can't wait to read this now. :) https://web.archive.org/web/20231121200115/https://insideroc...

New comment by mottosso in "23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack"

mottosso — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 22:56:09 +0000

That's exactly what a spy would say. Get'em boys!

New comment by mottosso in "Replace the “very” in your sentence"

mottosso — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 09:02:38 +0000

Very + Happy = Intoxicated. So true! :D

New comment by mottosso in "Ask HN: Why is there no performant remote desktop for Mac/Linux?"

mottosso — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 23:07:07 +0000

I second this! I was also looking for performance (3d graphics usage) and NoMachine is surprisingly performant; currently using it across both Windows, Linux and Mac and consider my search to be over.

New comment by mottosso in "Nerds Are Trolling Tesla Owners by Wirelessly Opening Charging Ports"

mottosso — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 07:56:29 +0000

The announcement for Flipper Zero was posted here not that long ago. Of course this is what people had in mind for it. :)

New comment by mottosso in "Ask HN: Why are you here?"

mottosso — Tue, 31 May 2022 16:17:45 +0000

The irony of you bringing politics into the conversation. :D

New comment by mottosso in "The age of the fast self-checkout lane is over"

mottosso — Sun, 29 May 2022 21:43:20 +0000

Employees are likely more expensive then theft.

New comment by mottosso in "Ask HN: Burned Out. What Now?"

mottosso — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 21:34:56 +0000

> Think of senior engineer in a typical DevOps-y SaaS startup.

This stands out to me. If I thought of my work as "typical", I'd ask myself whether what I'm doing is worth my time. Whether it's fulfilling and has purpose. Whether I'm having an impact on the work and whether the work has an impact on whatever problem is being solved. That on its own is enough to cause me feeling burnt out, especially over a multi-month period of time.

New comment by mottosso in "Farnsworth Munsell 100 Hue Color Vision Test"

mottosso — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 20:44:58 +0000

I got a 2! I'd imagine this depends not only on your vision, but also your display. A display with higher color contrast ought to give you an edge.

New comment by mottosso in "Ubisoft's unprecedented “exodus” of developers"

mottosso — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 21:00:33 +0000

> An example being Activision-Blizzard who keeps bleeding big names and new studios keep forming

If there's anything good coming out of all of this, it's this. We need less consolidation overall, and new studios emerging with this level of experience can only be a net-positive for the world.

New comment by mottosso in "Which programming language or compiler is faster"

mottosso — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 18:51:49 +0000

That the same logical steps expressed in one language results in less computation time spent - when compiled or interpreted - than when expressed in another language. Seems a resaonable question to ask, given there's more to a language than how you express things. Like toolchain, library availability and community.

New comment by mottosso in "Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe"

mottosso — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 06:29:43 +0000

A billion dollar fintech company, the X being how many billions.