Hacker News: novaRom

New comment by novaRom in "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time"

novaRom — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:11:36 +0000

But so is German industry - every day in the news either insolvency or workforce reduction and moving production to Eastern Europe - main reason often stated "expensive Energy". I wonder what are the stats for industrial production in 2025 or total energy consumption in Germany?

New comment by novaRom in "Don't Take the Black Pill [video]"

novaRom — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:46:46 +0000

> It clearly memorized the code

This code could appear many times in training data; but I wonder what decoding params did you actually used, because that effect appears likely with close-to-greedy way. Also, if it is a coding assistant model, chances are this skill was increased by additional sampling from that domain during training? Or maybe RL has teached model to provide verbatim answers for certain questions? So it was rewarded if that kind of answers is really helpful (I guess it was?).

New comment by novaRom in "SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading"

novaRom — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:44:05 +0000

Big shift will happen after their Q2, 20% of eligible shares release; directed-share (friends & family) participants may sell for the first time.

Q2 call is expected in a month or so? But they also state Aug 21 is 37% of shares will go public.

https://spcx.capital/spacex-stock-lockup-dates

Show HN: AI-CLI – tiny C terminal assistant powered by local LLM

novaRom — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:46:18 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vkataev/ai-cli

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48918840

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by novaRom in "Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone"

novaRom — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:04:57 +0000

Gemma 4 12B QAT is amazing - agents run very fast, and it's really very smart, at least in my agent's harness domain which is GNU software development - on par with frontiers like GPT Sol, DeepSeek, or Claude - Why to buy those expensive tokens if a local tiny model performs so well?

New comment by novaRom in "A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age"

novaRom — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:17:06 +0000

>> At the moment, we are locked in an extremely intense, multilayered commercial and geopolitical race.

* Creating (and replicating) any software which can run in isolation locally is completely solved - we already see initial tries to create completely new operating systems, messengers, tools and platforms

* Replicating large Web-services like Netflix, Google Search, YouTube, or TikTok is more difficult but not impossible - national regulations may cause major and quick shift here. Tech is there, initiative is missing yet. Next 2-4 years we'll see new Amazons, Netflixes, and Spotifies.

* Remaining "hard" blocks are due to hardware production monopolies, but it's a matter of months or few years: we will see more and more new GPU types with new software frameworks, completely from scratch, covering all stages, incl. full physical layout - tapeout ready; new CPU and DRAM architectures; EDA tools - HPC-ready, GPU-aware

Yes, Singularity is near ...

New comment by novaRom in "Old and new apps, via modern coding agents"

novaRom — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:19:31 +0000

Have you tried most powerful recent models? You may even don't understand at all "how" - what you get is end result you asked for, verified and tested. I am pretty sure if I can vibe code quite non trivial solution in just say 4-8 hours today, then why will it be impossible say in a year or two to vibe code something at the level of most sophisticated apps and services today? Pretty reasonable expectation taking into account what was possible just a year ago and what you can make today without even understanding "how".

New comment by novaRom in "Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k"

novaRom — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:08:28 +0000

Exactly! I just vibe coded (with GPT Sol and Claude whatever-number) my own agent, it's trivial to add now any feature I want - simply ask more powerful model to do it for you. I am happy with end result, however it looks indeed these tools are trained to increase token count - they do quite stupid token-spending steps while making code, but the code itself is also a bit weird - it's like they intentionally do code which is hard to modify on your own without using exactly those authoring models. Interestingly, when I am using DeepSeek with OpenCode, I don't see that - it understands my intent well enough and overall code quality is not bad. I recently switched to local Gemma 4, and I often switch (in opencode) to just that less powerful model, because it understands my intent and has enough skills to provide good quality solution although it's rather for small size projects, and for not coding from scratch, but it's also free and private. It feels slower than any big cloud model, so my model switching is probably most quickest path to robust end result :)

New comment by novaRom in "Old and new apps, via modern coding agents"

novaRom — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:56:48 +0000

It's probably a matter of short time until it's possible to disassemble any sophisticated software, rewrite it entirely with better features and usability, generate all needed artifacts, port to any platform. The only moat left is probably remote massive data storage. So if you want to replicate YouTube or TikTok, it's not impossible, but requires a lot more hardware assets than say anything that runs entirely locally (like operating systems or most video games).

New comment by novaRom in "GPT-5.6"

novaRom — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:02:13 +0000

I haven't tried Codex yet, but I for my tasks GPT-5.5 may correctly point to a proper direction but its code feels a bit weird. Opus 4.8 is way better in coding, and actually it's the only one who could catch very very sophisticated bug in a large codebase (I tried different models including GPT-5.5 and DeepSeek). Interestingly Gemma 4 under opencode running locally performs not bad at all, it's far yet from DeepSeek level, but it manages to understand tools quite well, and code quality is pretty good. So, for simple coding projects I can say local models already won. It's amazing how smart open models of desktop size have become today. I mean it's quite plausible to manage small codebase today relying on only open tools and local models, you don't need any subscription to produce high quality code, but yes I assume you already experienced and know what you're doing :)

New comment by novaRom in "Anthropic CEO: Open-Source AI is getting dangerous (2023)"

novaRom — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:19:41 +0000

Creating AI monopolies is more dangerous. How much better would it be for environment and privacy if instead of concentrating AI power in few data centers it's distributed across all compute and memory devices? If just few players control the narrative and the infrastructure it's a single point of failure or worse a single point of control. Bad for democracy, society, pushes inequality.

New comment by novaRom in "Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch"

novaRom — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:00:43 +0000

Do you have a guess why your code is so much slower than torch? I didn't look, but there must be no reason to have 2x slower code esp. for a simple grid of FMAs.

European heatwave is worst ever and impossible without climate crisis

novaRom — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:20:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/26/europe-heatwave-impossible-without-climate-crisis-scientists

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48682985

Points: 9

# Comments: 2

YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing around the world

novaRom — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:12:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/03/youtube-overtakes-netflix-in-average-daily-viewing-around-the-world

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385198

Points: 12

# Comments: 5

New comment by novaRom in "US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI"

novaRom — Sat, 16 May 2026 21:19:00 +0000

This doesn't look like too expensive if you compare it with Switzerland or with Germany assuming similar annual income. In Switzerland unlike in US your children stay on your plan until they turn 18, not 26 like in US. In both Germany and Switzerland, health insurance is mandatory and not employer-based - so you cannot simply say "no". In fact, in Germany you pay much more than in US as a share of your income, especially if your income is at least like 30% more than a national median: 1000+ EUR is a minimum per person per month (probably higher today). It doesn't cover dental care - you will pay in full - that's why many people travel to Turkey, or Eastern Europe, or to Baltic countries - just to take some dental care - which is extremely expensive in any German speaking country - we are talking about multiple months of your income after taxes.

Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom

novaRom — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:50:00 +0000

Article URL: https://undark.org/2026/04/01/sweden-schools-books/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47612601

Points: 902

# Comments: 432

New comment by novaRom in "How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports"

novaRom — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:52:52 +0000

Another method many don't know is to have 2 synchronized phones while traveling, so if one is out of you, you still have full control.

Enable self-destruction mode caused by a special unlock PIN on each of them.

New comment by novaRom in "Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers"

novaRom — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:13:52 +0000

https://archive.ph/s1hWN

Operation Sovereignty: Bundestag Plans a Breakthrough from Microsoft and Co

novaRom — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:03:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Operation-Sovereignty-Bundestag-plans-a-breakthrough-from-Microsoft-Co-11162864.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867525

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by novaRom in "Berlin: Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes"

novaRom — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:53:26 +0000

But how do they store and preserve that surplus for a longer time cheaply? Probably dehydration helps, but it adds some energy and storing costs.