Hacker News: nsbk

New comment by nsbk in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

nsbk — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:30:53 +0000

It is 17% more token-efficient than 3.5 and performs significantly better in coding and tool usage benchmarks.

It is also cheaper than 3.5:

> This enhanced efficiency is also combined with a lower price than 3.5 Flash. At $1.50/1M input tokens and $7.50/1M output tokens, 3.6 Flash reduces the overall cost per agentic task, making agents more cost-effective to build and run.

New comment by nsbk in "Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon"

nsbk — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:35:00 +0000

Hahaha well played! Hat tip

New comment by nsbk in "Qwen 3.8"

nsbk — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:06:41 +0000

Sweet. Are you running a Mac Studio Ultra or 4x3090?

New comment by nsbk in "Qwen 3.8"

nsbk — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:51:02 +0000

I run a 2x 3090 rig, but a single 3090 already provides a great experience at a reasonable quant and context size. On a single card I used to run Qwen_Qwen3.6-27B-Q4_K_M or similarly quantized 35B MoE at 65536 context size

New comment by nsbk in "Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon"

nsbk — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:46:41 +0000

Indeed! That would be the sweet spot for my 2x3090 rig

New comment by nsbk in "Codex Resets"

nsbk — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:45:07 +0000

This feels a lot like free spins in slot machines. I have a friend obsessed with using up all the Fable usage which supposedly ends today. He's doing a lot of stuff of questionable usefulness just because it's a resource perceived as scarce.

New comment by nsbk in "Qwen 3.8"

nsbk — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:18:25 +0000

Bring it on! Hoping that they release smaller sizes of Qwen3.8. I use the 35B MoE and 27B dense models locally and most of the time I don’t need to reach out to Claude. Extremely useful specially when requests include sensitive and/or personal data

New comment by nsbk in "The human-in-the-loop is tired"

nsbk — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:49:54 +0000

Such a good read. Makes you think. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by nsbk in "The Vespa at 80"

nsbk — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 13:18:47 +0000

My brother and I restored my dad’s ‘64 Vespa 150S and the thing is extremely loud!

It is very smelly as well as it’s a two stroke engine, but I don’t mind that at all. Quite the opposite

New comment by nsbk in "Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot"

nsbk — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:34:24 +0000

Last month we consumed all the subscription credits by the 7th day, and had to top the extra credits up every 2-3 days. Last month was definitely not cheaper than a CC subscription. It actually triggered a cost savings effort across the Engineering org (cancelling subscriptions, stopping environments,...) in order to be able to afford AI usage which was not appropriately budgeted for ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: wording on the cost saving effort

New comment by nsbk in "Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot"

nsbk — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:22:53 +0000

The price hike was insane. My $dayjob is moving away from Copilot and into Claude Code subscriptions. In parallel we are testing AWS bedrock and Deepinfra for open weight models in preparation for when CC inevitably stops being such a good deal and aligns with actual token cost. Fun times.

New comment by nsbk in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

nsbk — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:59:43 +0000

Bummer! Based on the current trajectory, PS6 will be the first non-handheld PS I will not own.

New comment by nsbk in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

nsbk — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:54:20 +0000

I beg to differ. Have a look at this repo with single/double 3090 optimized configs for Qwen and Gema models: https://github.com/noonghunna/club-3090

New comment by nsbk in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

nsbk — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:28:19 +0000

Alright. OpenAI feels like a better fit for him after all

New comment by nsbk in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

nsbk — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:22:15 +0000

Hahaha yeah same here! My $dayjob has offices in Sweden and their summer breaks are legendary. We also have offices in the US, and the culture shock with the Americans never gets old

New comment by nsbk in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

nsbk — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:27:10 +0000

"But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars"

New comment by nsbk in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

nsbk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:12:31 +0000

Agree, their "innovations" usually involve taking an existing concept or idea and executing it better. Hopefully they can pull that off and raise the bar for foldable electronics

New comment by nsbk in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

nsbk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:07:06 +0000

Peak Apple "innovation" incoming!

New comment by nsbk in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

nsbk — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:15:27 +0000

EVERYTHING in Python is an object. I’m not sure how that could have been bolted onto the language

New comment by nsbk in "Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms"

nsbk — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:11:14 +0000

And Latvia