Hacker News: neals

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

neals — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:19:01 +0000

How does one distill? Just send a million request asking for information? Start with the letter A?

New comment by neals in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

neals — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:20:02 +0000

They still update that? I thought it's all bedrock now?

New comment by neals in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

neals — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:17:12 +0000

This made me browse through my StackOverflow history. Funny to see how I though I was such a skilled developer, though the questions I asked and the answers I gave 16 years ago... cringe.

New comment by neals in "Announcing Box3D :: Box2D"

neals — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:38:54 +0000

Made look up some of my game stuff from back in the day, but the apps are not in the store (after 15 years, to be expected) oh well...

New comment by neals in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

neals — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:54:38 +0000

I was shopping for this past weekend. I found a 16core 128gb-ram(1!) unit for 110€/month with a competitor. Crazy deal. I suspected it to be a mistake, but after 24 hours it actually came online. Runs very smooth.

New comment by neals in "Cooling in Space"

neals — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:47:13 +0000

I think it's a vary valid option to launch swarms of datacenters into space. I think a few decades to a hundred years from now, it will be the norm. Until then, we can find plany of land to do it. Instead a launch, you just need a battery. Much cheaper. All the rest stays the same.

New comment by neals in "RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8"

neals — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:15:52 +0000

I tried implementing qwen through openrouter and deepinfra. Even without thinking, I had to wait 60s+ for the full result, where haiku or flash would be done in 5 or 6 seconds.

New comment by neals in "EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war"

neals — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:46:04 +0000

as a charging station network founder, I can confirm, the summer has never started off this welll.

New comment by neals in "Ryanair dark UX patterns summer 2026 refresher"

neals — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:16:28 +0000

It's why they're cheap though. I fly around Europe for 30 euro's. If this is how that works, it works. And after hundred+ flights with them, believe me, I have had my share or RyanScam. I just play their game and laugh.

New comment by neals in "C++: The Documentary"

neals — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:43:44 +0000

I love a free documentary about something that I'm passionate about. So many thanks.

However, I'm a my own kind of weird. I cannot watch a documentary that's made out of people saying short sentences. I get that it's made to 'have them tell the story', but I need a narrator to tell me what to think because I get distracted.

Still lots of love to the creators, of course.

New comment by neals in "Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months"

neals — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:12:31 +0000

So... did we just basically produce a lot of heat in a bunch of datacenters? Not a lot of value?

New comment by neals in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

neals — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:52:58 +0000

I've had about 4 generations of surface devices. Never again. The frustration of that SP4 where every bodies screen would jitter and they would just stoiclly send me a replacement with the same problem. Until warranty expired.

Or every model after that just slowed down to a crawl after a year. Or the keyboard connection not working reliably.

No thank you very much.

New comment by neals in "1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices"

neals — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:19:42 +0000

I'm curious how hardware and power cost would stack up to subscription cost

New comment by neals in "DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD"

neals — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:16:33 +0000

Would love to know what it is and what it is doing that others are doing wrong. I don't touch dns for anything other then pointing a domain to a server.

New comment by neals in "Don't Roll Your Own"

neals — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:29:34 +0000

Except...?

New comment by neals in "Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era"

neals — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:32:10 +0000

As many as we can new idea's from and figure out how to do this more efficiently. It's ok to stick with vim, of course!

New comment by neals in "Deno 2.8"

neals — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:24:33 +0000

Interesting, I'm not aware of that many nodejs alternatives...

New comment by neals in "AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills"

neals — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:24:44 +0000

Very recognizable and hard to reason about! I did something similar, but while looking at the code, it looked so procedural, hardly abstract, no vision. How was I ever going to maintain this? I guess Ai will do it forever?

New comment by neals in "Deno 2.8"

neals — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:24:02 +0000

It's good to have some options, to prevent the ecosystem from stalling

New comment by neals in "AI is too expensive"

neals — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:37:43 +0000

Token cost will come down in the future, it might even out