Hacker News: mstaoru

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

mstaoru — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:46:35 +0000

Hashing microservice deployment was blocked by random generator microservice stuck in Pending because it needed an UUID from UUID microservice which was blocked by hashing.

New comment by mstaoru in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

mstaoru — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:34:29 +0000

You should try this in Germany. You'll probably get arrested.

New comment by mstaoru in "Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code"

mstaoru — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:50:00 +0000

You are absolutely right!

New comment by mstaoru in "European AI. A playbook to own it"

mstaoru — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:06:40 +0000

Sehr gut! I need to show it to my colleagues. Unfortunately half of them are on vacation currently and another half on sick leave. We decided to make a Teams call in August to discuss how to proceed with this.

New comment by mstaoru in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

mstaoru — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:52:20 +0000

I'm team "taking on CUDA with OpenVINO" (and SYCL*), Intel seems really upped their game on iGPU and dGPU lately, with sane prices and fairly good software support and APIs.

I'm not talking gaming CUDA, but CV and data science workloads seem to scale well on Arc and work well on Edge on Core Ultra 2/3.

New comment by mstaoru in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

mstaoru — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:56:37 +0000

While I applaud the acumen, this reads like watching a kid standing on the 3rd floor balcony shouting "look what I can do!"

$20/month. Yeah. Great, but why? You get a lot of peace of mind with "real" HA setup with real backups and real recovery, for not much more than $20, if you are careful.

Another half of article is about running "free, unlimited" local AI on a GPU (Santa brought it) with, apparently, free electricity (Santa pays for it).

New comment by mstaoru in "Claude mixes up who said what"

mstaoru — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:58:36 +0000

When I ask Gemini for some purchasing decisions (e.g. "I'm looking for the best medium-end audiophile IEM to buy, compare Campfire Audio Astrolith and 64 Audio U12t"), then go on discussing and spinning the results for a while, after a few days it decides to have a "memory" that I own it (I don't) and starts to inject it everywhere.

"Oh, you ask which dark roast coffee is least acidic, well, since you own Campfire Audio Astrolith, you will enjoy..."

New comment by mstaoru in "Claude Code Down"

mstaoru — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:42:14 +0000

What? But "coding is largely solved" isn't it?..

New comment by mstaoru in "Cursor 3"

mstaoru — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:53:21 +0000

It's also faster to inject nutrients for your body intravenously.

Are we, as an industry, really limited by "not typing fast enough"?

New comment by mstaoru in "Cursor 3"

mstaoru — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:17:51 +0000

I echo the others' sentiments that I still strongly prefer to write code mostly manually, assisted by Tab completions, and only generate piecewise via Cmd+K where I'm not sure about APIs or forgot the exact syntax. Chatting in Ask only mode about more complex problems.

Maybe I'm not a 10x developer, I'm fine with that.

Cursor shoving Agents down my throat made me abandon and cancel it once this year. I jumped around between Sublime, Zed, VS Code, and alas none of them has a Tab completion experience that even remotely compares with Cursor, so I had to switch back.

If possible, I'll probably stay on v2 until it's deprecated. Hope Zed catches by that time.

New comment by mstaoru in "Hong Kong police can now demand phone passwords under new security rules"

mstaoru — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:46:17 +0000

This whole PRC law (system) is designed to condemn already targeted individuals, there's no big difference if there's nothing on the phone. Chinese laws are specifically formulated in this pattern: "A, B, C, or at the discretion of the relevant authorities". Since there's no attorney-client privilege in PRC, once you're targeted, the "discretion" can always be found.

New comment by mstaoru in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

mstaoru — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:49:40 +0000

When used to help with something that I don't much understand, Claude works AMAZING!

With something that I understand deeply, it's an absolute disaster.

Wonder why...

New comment by mstaoru in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"

mstaoru — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:32:27 +0000

So it's back to the original question, why spend $5-10k on the Studio, when it will still be 10x slower and half the intelligence vs. $20 Sonnet?.. What is the point (besides privacy) to use local models now for coding?

PS: I can understand that isolated "valuable" problems like sorting photo collection or feeding a cat via ESPHome can be solved with local models.

New comment by mstaoru in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"

mstaoru — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 09:13:29 +0000

Right, it was more of a rhetorical question :) With my point being - how are these local models really useful to me now? Is the Only Way ™ to sell my house and build a 8x5090 monster?.. How does that compare to $20/month Opus? (Privacy aside.)

The second order thought from this is... will we get a value-based price leveling soon? If the alternative to a hosted LLM is to build $10-20k+ machine with $500+ monthly energy bills, will hosted price asymptotically climb up to reflect this reality?

Something to think about.

New comment by mstaoru in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"

mstaoru — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 09:09:11 +0000

(I think) yes, via the latest openwebui + ollama.

New comment by mstaoru in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"

mstaoru — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 09:06:27 +0000

I use search as well via openwebui + searxng.

New comment by mstaoru in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"

mstaoru — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:59:05 +0000

I periodically try to run these models on my MBP M3 Max 128G (which I bought with a mind to run local AI). I have a certain deep research question (in a field that is deeply familiar to me) that I ask when I want to gauge model's knowledge.

So far Opus 4.6 and Gemini Pro are very satisfactory, producing great answers fairly fast. Gemini is very fast at 30-50 sec, Opus is very detailed and comes at about 2-3 minutes.

Today I ran the question against local qwen3.5:35b-a3b - it puffed for 45 (!) minutes, produced a very generic answer with errors, and made my laptop sound like it's going to take off any moment.

Wonder what am I doing wrong?.. How am I supposed to use this for any agentic coding on a large enough codebase? It will take days (and a 3M Peltor X5A) to produce anything useful.

New comment by mstaoru in "Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died"

mstaoru — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:34:10 +0000

Every now and then I will google "books like Hyperion", read something, and conclude that it was nothing like Hyperion. Wonderful books, wonderful writer. A loss.

New comment by mstaoru in "36yo: Career at home vs. Simple life abroad?"

mstaoru — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:29:39 +0000

Health insurance? Remote role taxed where? Would it even count for Portuguese PR?

Spent €10k on visa consultants?.. What did they do exactly?

I wouldn't also fully assume that Portugal is more stable than Turkey. EU is not what it used to be 10 years ago.

...

I would stay in Turkey.

New comment by mstaoru in "What Is OAuth?"

mstaoru — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:16:40 +0000

I guess it says something about OAuth when you implement it "at scale" and still have multiple misconceptions (all very common though).

Most importantly, OAuth is an authorization framework, OIDC is an authentication extension built on top.

Refresh tokens are part of authorization, not authentication.

HTTP header is Authorization: Bearer..., not Authentication.

There's no such thing as "HMAC encryption", it's a message authentication code. RSA in OAuth is also typically used for signing, not encryption. Not much "encryption" encryption going on in OAuth overall TBH.

Nonce and client IDs are not "salts", but ok that's nitpicking :)