<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: niles</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=niles</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:09:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=niles" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by niles in "Plex laid off the whole player team"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Any plans for Android (phones or TV), or Roku clients?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:48:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50195308</link><dc:creator>niles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50195308</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50195308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by niles in "Show HN: Pivot – fast analytics on Iceberg, 2x+ faster than ClickHouse / DuckDB"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks interesting! Could you add a when to use / when not to use / compare with duckdb and click house section to the docs?<p>It's a little hard to reason about the use case for "in memory" but file based, and what the limitations are. What specific product problem did you build this to solve?<p>Beyond that it would be helpful to have some hardware variation in the performance claims. Does zen5 avx512 make a difference? A node with optane (memory or disk)? Threads vs clock speed? ARM vs X86? Feels like this was built with a specific cloud native deployment in mind and a certain scale and speed of storage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:53:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50019208</link><dc:creator>niles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50019208</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50019208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by niles in "Show HN: A Free RSS reader with a configurable recommendation engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Dark Reader on FF mobile can't redraw for some reason. Too bright white !</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:04:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48917224</link><dc:creator>niles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48917224</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48917224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by niles in "Laguna XS 2.1 33B on a RTX 3090: 296 tok/s peak, 152 tok/s at 256K context"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Any 3090? Or does the Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 and 128GB LPDDR5X unified memory on the Lucebox matter?<p>Anyone compare with the club-3090 dual setup?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 07:08:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48879026</link><dc:creator>niles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48879026</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48879026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by niles in "Wayfinder Router: deterministic routing of queries between local and hosted LLM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great name, but ironically hard to reason about from a role perspective, at least at the read me.<p>Does this interfere with cache hits?
Could a single conversation or task span multiple roles?<p>Why are you building this? Does this maximize my toxen value by saving the hard tasks for the hard model? Does it maximize cache hits as part of its scoring? Does it help agents develop a specialist mindset? Are you anticipating users will have many local models hot, or is this also a model load/unload controller?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:07:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707387</link><dc:creator>niles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707387</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is Artificial (Opus 23) [video]]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CbmC2aWhjY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CbmC2aWhjY</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195621">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195621</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 16:34:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CbmC2aWhjY</link><dc:creator>niles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195621</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by niles in "Wikidata: WikiProject Ontology/Ontology Course"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks like an interesting approach to on-board new data editors</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:36:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47623829</link><dc:creator>niles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47623829</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47623829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by niles in "Corn tortillas in California now must contain folic acid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe consider this is not good for all<p><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/folic-acid/data-research/mthfr/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cdc.gov/folic-acid/data-research/mthfr/index.htm...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:26:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583458</link><dc:creator>niles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583458</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by niles in "The Window for Local-First AI (Before the Defaults Ship)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your thesis is likely correct on consolidation and cloud tie-in. Your pipeline model is also intriguing. I like the direction and would like to chat more about the registry or how the ghost gets interconnected.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:57:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46444626</link><dc:creator>niles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46444626</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46444626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by niles in "AMD 8745hs vs. Apple M5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Blog spam? Now reads:<p>"There's no better PC under $350 than this Ryzen 7 powerhouse with a CPU that's faster than a 10-core Apple M5 CPU, and that's no mistake<p>Deals<p>By Wayne Williams published November 4, 2025<p>Machenike AI Mini PC comes with 16GB of high-speed RAM and a 512GB M.2 SSD<p>"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:52:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859865</link><dc:creator>niles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859865</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by niles in "Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop and disks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Which solutions do you find stable?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 02:17:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487027</link><dc:creator>niles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487027</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45487027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by niles in "I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hyperion is the only other one that I know of that creates covers for folders. You can swipe up on the icon to reveal a folder with related apps (but still show the primary app icon instead of 4 little ones).<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=projekt.launcher">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=projekt.launch...</a><p>Has a bug with 120hz VRR or OneUI and also kinda abandoned.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 05:40:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45193744</link><dc:creator>niles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45193744</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45193744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by niles in "A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.servethehome.com/intel-arc-pro-b50-and-b60-for-lower-cost-pro-gpus-and-18a-panther-lake-shown-at-computex-2025/" rel="nofollow">https://www.servethehome.com/intel-arc-pro-b50-and-b60-for-l...</a><p>24GB and 48GB cards are supposed to be coming.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 14:27:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44846730</link><dc:creator>niles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44846730</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44846730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by niles in "Hack, a native Hacker News client for iPhone, Mac and Android"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Harmonic is an open source alternative for Android<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simon.harmonichackernews">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simon.harm...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:10:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583154</link><dc:creator>niles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583154</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by niles in "Show HN: The news in the last 30, 14, 7, 3, or 1 days"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I understand this is for people so busy that they will press one time frame and keep returning at that same pace.<p>For me, I expected each date to reflect the most important stories, but to exclude the prior ranges.<p>For example, somehow three people getting exchanged is the most important news of every time period?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:08:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43072217</link><dc:creator>niles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43072217</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43072217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by niles in "Windows 10 begins one-year countdown to end of support"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you go weird, note that GamePass (xbox) and MS store installs tend not to work or can break. For steam and other launchers it works fine.<p>See <a href="https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links" rel="nofollow">https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links</a><p>Same issue with most mini/slim scripts that mod your win 11 iso. Be sure to keep gaming services and Xbox from install.<p>Once it does its first update it will try and put back what you remove. And when you make a non-admin local account it will try again. Best to use a post-install script you can run often to keep settings off.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2024 14:14:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41887873</link><dc:creator>niles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41887873</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41887873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by niles in "Freemasonry in 2024: What makes young members decide joining a lodge is for them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From the article, Odd Fellows are co-ed. Unitarian Universalist for more open but still religious. YMCA for more modern but slightly religious. All 3, probably a library.<p>Are you absolutely sure you believe there is no sixth dimensional force that existed before the big bang, or semi conscious entity keeping track of and or influencing the parameters of each multiverse?<p>Given the group and it's members are excommunicated by many Christians,  it might be true that a lot of their baggage doesn't apply.<p>I'm curious if AGI will raise or lower guards related to spirituality.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 06:05:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41763193</link><dc:creator>niles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41763193</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41763193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by niles in "Meta Movie Gen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Crashes Firefox mobile. Looks pretty impressive on Chrome! Apparently hosted only</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2024 13:15:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41741056</link><dc:creator>niles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41741056</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41741056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by niles in "Show HN: Ask LLMs to predict anything based on news"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Basically what I'm describing is "backtesting" from stock trading space, where a trader comes up with a hypothesis on what will come in the future. Then they retry that scenario in slices where the same conditions happened in the past and see how it would have played out. Importantly, the "algo" sees in real time based on when you start it, so it can not cheat. It makes it easy to see whether or not your intuition is based on actual data.<p>I kinda feels like you are using the LLM to assign "weights" or important properties of an algo and then directly translating the basic arithmetic accounting of those factors into a prediction. What I expect is that the LLM would also be used to read all past news to find similar patterns and then create time slices where its weights could be tested against a control. It can then backtest its own weights to better tune what factors really led to an outcome and expose this refinement as part of the prediction.<p>News Data Sources:
<a href="https://www.gdeltproject.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.gdeltproject.org/</a>
<a href="https://credibilitycoalition.org" rel="nofollow">https://credibilitycoalition.org</a>
<a href="https://data.worldbank.org/" rel="nofollow">https://data.worldbank.org/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2024 21:49:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41525941</link><dc:creator>niles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41525941</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41525941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by niles in "Show HN: Ask LLMs to predict anything based on news"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was hoping for a tool that would reference "all" news, mainly historical news, and give some reasoning based on past patterns. My query on Kamala does not seem to factor in the news from just before the last Trump win over Hillary and how that time period contributed to a surprise win. It also doesn't seem to incorporate Regan, or past high inflation periods and how those news stories influenced the elections of the time.<p>It seems like this is a tool that "if you could read all the news of today, what would your gut tell you", and that is helpful but not thorough.<p>For example, can you apply the cureent reasoning to news articles from previous time periods and use the prediction on a past result. Would your prediction be accurate? If no, maybe re-reason.<p><a href="https://aipredict.fun/prediction/1074cf90-c818-44fd-be0b-c0091457957e" rel="nofollow">https://aipredict.fun/prediction/1074cf90-c818-44fd-be0b-c00...</a></p>
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