Hacker News: octocop

New comment by octocop in "Mistral built a $14B AI empire by not being American"

octocop — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:49:14 +0000

Mistral brought Mixture of Experts and other really good innovations

New comment by octocop in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

octocop — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:40:29 +0000

Nobody is asking for a git replacement? I keep seeing these posts and I don't know who wants them.

New comment by octocop in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

octocop — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:57:32 +0000

Really? Maybe this is news to you then, I rarely get to educate ppl on here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack

New comment by octocop in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

octocop — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:38:03 +0000

A lot of hospitals run Microsoft. So it would be literal death you are talking about.

New comment by octocop in "The biggest heat pumps"

octocop — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:12:17 +0000

Dumb question, why is the water in the Rhine warm?

New comment by octocop in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

octocop — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:11:26 +0000

Well, for sure the price will go up too.

New comment by octocop in "Kenyan court declares law banning seed sharing unconstitutional"

octocop — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:07:36 +0000

> But seed counterfitting is a real problem that is hurting some of the world's poorest

I'm guessing these hybrid seeds you are talking about are probably the reason for the counterfitting to begin with. I don't imagine them being sold at a reasonable price, but with this law maybe you have less competition?

New comment by octocop in "Tesla's ‘Robotaxis' Keep Crashing—Even With Human ‘Safety Monitors' Onboard"

octocop — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:08:21 +0000

They are in completely different leagues, the Tesla robotaxi vehicle is probably cost 10x less, at least.

New comment by octocop in "Potential issues in curl found using AI assisted tools"

octocop — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:57:01 +0000

The models used have improved quite well since then, I guess his change of opinion shows that.

New comment by octocop in "Based C++"

octocop — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:14:30 +0000

The video is a compliment to the Github repository, the presenter even shows code and brings up the repo in the video. I guess you didn't watch that part and unfortunately you didn't get the joke either.

New comment by octocop in "AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'"

octocop — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:23:17 +0000

but wait, what about my Nvidia stocks bro? Can we keep the AI hype going bro. Pls bro just make another AI assistant editor bro.

New comment by octocop in "Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'"

octocop — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 13:30:25 +0000

I don't think it's strange because it feels like Meta is trying to do what OpenAI originally set out to do with making AI accessible to everyone.

New comment by octocop in "Math.Pow(-1, 2) == -1 in Windows 11 Insider build"

octocop — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 13:25:37 +0000

This.

It's like the first example you see when you start learning about unit tests as a concept.

New comment by octocop in "Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane"

octocop — Wed, 21 May 2025 11:55:07 +0000

"fix failing tests" does never yield any good results for me either

Hello World in Ruby

octocop — Tue, 20 May 2025 07:50:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/blob/master/QR.rb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44038899

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by octocop in "Ollama's new engine for multimodal models"

octocop — Fri, 16 May 2025 06:58:54 +0000

For me it's because ollama is just a front-end for llama.cpp, but the ollama folks rarely acknowledge that.

New comment by octocop in "Firefox Moves to GitHub"

octocop — Tue, 13 May 2025 07:29:51 +0000

Nice, I was just checking yesterday to find the source code of firefox. Even if it is only a mirror it's a nice step to make it more available I think.

New comment by octocop in "Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought"

octocop — Mon, 12 May 2025 15:01:52 +0000

the term "sooner" in this case is, you know, relative

New comment by octocop in "Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?"

octocop — Mon, 12 May 2025 08:19:19 +0000

Use vim

New comment by octocop in "LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo"

octocop — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:37:56 +0000

10x more effective than coffee