Hacker News: mrbonner

New comment by mrbonner in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

mrbonner — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:19:38 +0000

Jeez, llama.c++ is becoming the ffmpeg cargo cult CLI now

New comment by mrbonner in "H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon"

mrbonner — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:22:26 +0000

I use Bonsai 27B ternary on my 24GB MBP. But, I believe you definitely can run it with 18 or even 8GB.

New comment by mrbonner in "H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon"

mrbonner — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:07:57 +0000

I have had 2 encounters with Dr Norvig, all online. One, I randomly reach out for him to get a referral to a hiring manager at Google. He gave me a couple of email leads. Two, I emailed ask him about a writing piece regarding fuzzy logic and why it was not popular in the US academic landscape. I got a very long, specific and detail response back. I need to print that email out and frame it lol.

New comment by mrbonner in "Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode"

mrbonner — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:46:14 +0000

I use coding agent but still don’t see the need to manage a swarm of them like this. Is there an actual use case for this or this is just for tokenmaxxing?

New comment by mrbonner in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

mrbonner — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:15:24 +0000

Hah tales as old as time. what’s next? Distillation of Disney theme park?

New comment by mrbonner in "Good Tools Are Invisible"

mrbonner — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:52:55 +0000

I agree with Odin creator here. I am not sure when or why we have come to a conclusion in our professional industry that "real software engineer uses vim/emacs/insert your CLI editor here" type of mental model. Is it just the testosterone level speaking here?

New comment by mrbonner in "Most arguments are about ego, not ideas"

mrbonner — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:51:57 +0000

I read “how to win friends and influence others” many times but didn’t realize the main lesson is not to argue. That is until I reached 40. So, some lessons will take certain age to understand. I bet the OP is not in their 20s or 30s even.

New comment by mrbonner in "PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s"

mrbonner — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:35:35 +0000

Fun fact: it is spam filtering application that makes Paul Graham famous (and rich)

New comment by mrbonner in "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company's AI on Slack"

mrbonner — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:07:52 +0000

Then how do they get promoted?

New comment by mrbonner in "Now is the best time to be a duct tape engineer"

mrbonner — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:24:26 +0000

This has been the the case all the time: most of our work are connecting pipes using glue code/duct tape so to speak. But now, we are delegating this to AI. Nothing new for me.

New comment by mrbonner in "Expanding Project Glasswing"

mrbonner — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:54:51 +0000

Maybe it is just me: I feel Anthropic most recent product announcements resemble more and more like what IBM tactic was at its high. For instance, the Watson AI hype after it defeated Kasparov. The difference is IBM actually wanted and let businesses buy and use Watson as opposed to time released like what Anthropic does to even boost the hype higher.

New comment by mrbonner in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

mrbonner — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:15:31 +0000

I really appreciate the documentation. But, it appears to me that this is how I also use Claude daily and I thought I am just using it as a coding agent. The intro however sounds like a recipe to use Claude for everything else beyond a coding agent.

Also, this stuff feels like alchemy to me . I bet some of you have the same feeling.

New comment by mrbonner in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

mrbonner — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:06:10 +0000

I’m doing it this year. Does the pill work as effectively as the drink?

New comment by mrbonner in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

mrbonner — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:06:14 +0000

I bought 3 programming books last month including this one. I really enjoy “Learning Go” over the official go book.

New comment by mrbonner in "Anthropic Is Preparing for IPO and We Should Be Worried"

mrbonner — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:11:36 +0000

That just means there will be legitimate ways to short them.

New comment by mrbonner in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

mrbonner — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:17:06 +0000

So I have seen people using Claude to change variables’ names. Is it tokenmaxxing?

New comment by mrbonner in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

mrbonner — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:27:24 +0000

We have had a service to add two numbers. What make you think this is not realistic? :-)

New comment by mrbonner in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

mrbonner — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:14:44 +0000

good luck and take care of yourself!

New comment by mrbonner in "DeepSeek V4—almost on the frontier"

mrbonner — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:00:34 +0000

Your method of combining models to strengthen the implementation reminds me of how we form stronger alloys by combining metals!

New comment by mrbonner in "Running local LLMs offline on a ten-hour flight"

mrbonner — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:30:08 +0000

Don’t listen to anyone saying it is fine for reading or writing extensively with the xReal. I have one and it is PITA to do that over a long period. You better just stick with watching videos or playing games with it.