Hacker News: nik736

New comment by nik736 in "Hy3"

nik736 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:12:21 +0000

Gemma 4 31B is underrated. It surprises me a lot.

New comment by nik736 in "Mistral OCR 4"

nik736 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:30:06 +0000

I have put together an internal benchmark on 1000s of business documents with weird tables, structure, etc. that I run on every relevant model release. Opus 4.8 performs very very well. But it is obviously overkill for the task (and expensive at doing so). I just wanted to respond to the OP.

New comment by nik736 in "Mistral OCR 4"

nik736 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:15:39 +0000

Opus is very good at OCR. Way better than the small 1-4B VLMs. If Opus failed, most likely those smaller models will fail as well.

New comment by nik736 in "Claude Opus 4.8"

nik736 — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:23:15 +0000

Why would you need the 3rd run if you pick the "one in the middle"?

New comment by nik736 in "AI (2014)"

nik736 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:29:03 +0000

> (I originally was going to say a computer that plays chess, but computers play chess with no intuition or instinct--they just search a gigantic solution space very quickly.)

Isn't that how LLM models are trained right now? Trying to predict the next word within a "gigantic solution space". Interesting.

New comment by nik736 in "Winstwaker – automated bookkeeping with a real accountant attached"

nik736 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:50:27 +0000

In Germany we have several accounting software solutions like that for 5-10+ years that integrate with bank accounts, paypal, etc. - automatically suggests booking accounts and exports it via a REST API to the software accountants use. Accountants have access to it. Is this basically the same as your solution?

New comment by nik736 in "Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experience"

nik736 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:51:25 +0000

No lightmode?

New comment by nik736 in "Deutsche Telekom is throttling the internet"

nik736 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:41:42 +0000

Well, we have to "register" every new IP or new mail server with them as well. It's annoying and a weird system, but they respond quickly and it's just one todo we have to think about.

New comment by nik736 in "Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending"

nik736 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:45:48 +0000

> Meaning that the technology was there and ready to make an experience that was truly excellent

In general I would agree, but Siri is honestly still so bad.

New comment by nik736 in "Gnome is better macOS than macOS"

nik736 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:21:29 +0000

What I am missing with Gnome is the global menu I have with macOS. It's just my preferred way of working. This is also what I liked about Unity. Gnome seems to follow the same direction as Windows.

Additionally miller columns in Finder are just awesome and I don't have them with Nautilus. Those two things are honestly dealbreakers for me.

New comment by nik736 in "Ask HN: Do businesses want to leave the cloud and return to installable apps?"

nik736 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:58:42 +0000

Yes, but only because of data privacy concerns.

New comment by nik736 in "GitLab – do you host one? Or use the cloud?"

nik736 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:24:40 +0000

GitLab is very very heavy with a lot of bloat and sadly still a bad UI/UX. I prefer Gitea for its simplicity. Gitea Actions are similar to Github Actions and they work great.

New comment by nik736 in "Asus Ascent GX10"

nik736 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:31:04 +0000

Which models will this be able to run at an acceptable token/s rate?

New comment by nik736 in "Show HN: I built a self-hosted error tracker in Rails"

nik736 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 11:39:17 +0000

The problem with ONCE is that software is never finished. This is why most ONCE software that is still available today is charging a one off licensing fee + update fee (e.g. charge yearly for major updates or 10% of the one off fee per year). This is sustainable, but your model isn't. You will notice down the road in 2-4 years that it's no fun to work for free for users that expect an update because it requires patching or there are breaking changes.

New comment by nik736 in "AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS"

nik736 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:53:27 +0000

It's only on-die ECC not real ECC

New comment by nik736 in "AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS"

nik736 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:50:35 +0000

It's an interesting article, thanks for that.

What people forget about the OVH or Hetzner comparison is that for those entry servers they are known for, think the Advance line with OVH or AX with Hetzner. Those boxes come with some drawbacks.

The OVH Advance line for example comes without ECC memory, in a server, that might host databases. It's a disaster waiting to happen. There is no option to add ECC memory with the Advance line, so you have to use Scale or High Grade servers, which are far from "affordable".

Hetzner per default comes with a single PSU, a single uplink. Yes, if nothing happens this is probably fine, but if you need a reliable private network or 10G this will cost extra.

New comment by nik736 in "Tell HN: macOS 26 is making me have regrets for the first time in 12yrs"

nik736 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:21:59 +0000

The most annoying thing for me currently is that when connecting to local smb shares with Finder and adding favorites (directories on shares), after a reboot they are still there under favorites, but it won't connect to them when clicking on them. So I have to manually reconnect to the server every time. This wasn't happening before.

Other than that, of course some things got slower, but overall it's an OK release. For example he new system settings were bad before, now they got a bit worse, but macOS 26 didn't introduce those changes.

New comment by nik736 in "MinIO stops distributing free Docker images"

nik736 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:20:12 +0000

They changed their license to AGPL, removed features (Web UI, etc.) and now they don't provide docker images/binaries. It's their project but; what's next?

New comment by nik736 in "MinIO stops distributing free Docker images"

nik736 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:03:40 +0000

Is there a fork already?

New comment by nik736 in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

nik736 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 07:32:04 +0000

Twilio seems to be affected as well