Hacker News: mtct88

New comment by mtct88 in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

mtct88 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:46:18 +0000

I have a GitHub Copilot subscription and this really sucks.

I subscribed two months ago, frustrated with Claude Code and their tight session limits.

The Copilot offer was unbeatable 100 dollars for a 12 months plan, if I remember correctly.

It was pretty clear they were losing money, but hey, it's Microsoft and they need customers, so a competitive push on pricing is expected.

Let's see what these limits look like and I'll decide whether to cancel my subscription or not.

Still a terrible move from them.

New comment by mtct88 in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

mtct88 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:03:20 +0000

100k is a lot of money for a software agency where I come from.

New comment by mtct88 in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

mtct88 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:07:36 +0000

Nice release from the Qwen team.

Small openweight coding models are, imho, the way to go for custom agents tailored to the specific needs of dev shops that are restricted from accessing public models.

I'm thinking about banking and healthcare sector development agencies, for example.

It's a shame this remains a market largely overlooked by Western players, Mistral being the only one moving in that direction.

New comment by mtct88 in "BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time"

mtct88 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:01:58 +0000

Employee costs vary greatly depending on where the factory is located. Here in Italy, a line operator costs around €60,000–70,000 per year, and half of that goes back to the government for public welfare redistribution.

Robots costs have a fixed CapEx that humans don't have. If they become expensive you can move the factory to a cheaper nation.

People keep saying that a humanoid robot will cost around €30,000, but is that just for the hardware, or does it include all the additional services required to operate it? Will they be as interchangeable as humans, who can be reassigned to a different task in 30 minutes without notice?

Honestly, it still doesn’t make sense to me; to use an analogy, it's like you're building and "horseless carriage" instead of a car.

New comment by mtct88 in "BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time"

mtct88 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:56:54 +0000

I still don’t understand how this can be considered cheaper or more productive than using a human.

I’m all for automation in industry, but the "human simulation" approach (where a robot mimics a human on a production line instead of using a process optimized for machine operation) just doesn’t make sense to me.

New comment by mtct88 in "AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says"

mtct88 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:05:47 +0000

I think it’s still a bit too early to draw the conclusion.

We need to get past the hype first and let the cash grabbers crash.

After that, with a clear mind we can finally think about engineering this technology in a sane and useful way.

New comment by mtct88 in "Pocketbase lost its funding from FLOSS fund"

mtct88 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:55:12 +0000

Supabase? https://supabase.com/

Show HN: Claude Skill Editor

mtct88 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:41:47 +0000

I love Claude Skill, but the UX for creating and modifying them is pretty bad. So I decided to vibe-code a local-only, privacy-focused editor for skill archives.

Note: this is a quick hack I put together as an experiment.

If you find it useful or have any remarks, let me know in the comments! I'll consider adding more features later if there's interest.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46692285

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mtct88 in "The Antarctic Snow Cruiser"

mtct88 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:45:53 +0000

The naivety behind this vehicle is really fun; you would expect that by 1934, there was enough experience with tires and snow to know that it could never work.

Yet, they still built it and delivered it to Antarctica. Only to fail there.