Hacker News: oompydoompy74

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Codex is switching to API pricing based usage for all users"

oompydoompy74 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:06:09 +0000

Kimi K2

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "I Quit. The Clankers Won"

oompydoompy74 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:11:41 +0000

I disagree that this adds anything new to the conversation, but fair enough.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "I Quit. The Clankers Won"

oompydoompy74 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:10:34 +0000

I have some amount of hope that local open models with sufficient quantization are the future as hardware becomes more powerful and models become more optimized. I don’t think we will be living in thin client land forever. Human expertise and intelligence will continue to be important and anyone who says otherwise is being disingenuous.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "I quit. The clankers won"

oompydoompy74 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:18:22 +0000

I get it. I’ve been doing this for 11 years. I use agents everyday at work now and deal with all the benefits and problems of that. The craft is certainly changing and it will take years for everything to shake out and settle. I understand the desire to publicly wax poetic, but nobody actually knows shit about where we will land, so it gets a bit tiresome to see over and over.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "I quit. The clankers won"

oompydoompy74 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:02:51 +0000

Good lord I’m going to have to figure out some way to filter Hacker News. I’m so tired of this same sort of article (and the opposite) being posted every day. AI isn’t going away. AI is better than you think it is. AI is probably also worse than you think it is. The world has nuance, so can we please all chill?

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Tar: A slop-free alternative to rsync"

oompydoompy74 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:20:10 +0000

Yes and Yes and Yes. I’m not an AI maximalist, but this is an extreme position that I believe is, in fact, ridiculous.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Tar: A slop-free alternative to rsync"

oompydoompy74 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:46:48 +0000

What a ridiculous position to take.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Quantization from the Ground Up"

oompydoompy74 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:26:14 +0000

Remaining dependent on proprietary frontier models that you can only access via an API makes no sense whatsoever. My hope is that the future is open weight models running on local hardware.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Flighty Airports"

oompydoompy74 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:23:22 +0000

What’s up with all the complaining that this wonderful app isn’t available on non Apple platforms? Android isn’t worth it for monetization and one of the reasons Flighty is so good is that the developer picked a platform and created a native app. Idgi.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

oompydoompy74 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:46:39 +0000

Not that it really matters, but does this article read as LLM authored to anyone else?

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

oompydoompy74 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:17:00 +0000

Might I suggest choosing an EV that has more range?

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch"

oompydoompy74 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:13:57 +0000

This doesn’t excuse the issues, but the mainstream alternative, Windows 11, is infinitely worse imho.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "The MacBook Neo"

oompydoompy74 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:13:49 +0000

I have a relatively recent expensive gaming laptop from Asus for the occasional LAN party with friends. I hate it and it’s a huge piece of shit. Windows 11 is necessary for anti-cheat shenanigans. Apple could change the Mac OS wallpaper to a permanent photo of a turd and it would still be better than Windows 11. Also the trackpad and keyboard suck.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

oompydoompy74 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:10:25 +0000

I’ve come around to Tahoe. Liquid Glass isn’t my favorite, but the tinted appearance setting largely fixes most of my gripes. I suspect this will become the default. They just need to keep tweaking and it will be fine. Most users that don’t lurk on tech forums really enjoy the look.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

oompydoompy74 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:53:11 +0000

Good. If you aren’t there to catch me it didn’t happen. The last thing we need is even more of a surveillance state. They should be illegal federally.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Ask HN: What career will you switch to when AI replaces developers?"

oompydoompy74 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:16:18 +0000

As an experienced dev who uses these tools daily at my job and at home, I’m not worried. It seems that good taste, experience, and system design skills will continue to be in demand for the foreseeable future. LLM’s accelerate output regardless of if the input is good or not, so skill still matters imho.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

oompydoompy74 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:12:14 +0000

Exported all my chats and deleted my ChatGPT account yesterday. The current administration not liking you is the strongest signal I could possibly have to go all in on a particular company.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Sam Altman asks if government can nationalize artificial general intelligence"

oompydoompy74 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:42:09 +0000

Hey y’all I’m starting to think this dude might not be a good guy! What a surprise.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications"

oompydoompy74 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:46:28 +0000

Have you tried pairing THC with a coffee? This is my go to for pain relief without being overly sedated.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Keep Android Open"

oompydoompy74 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:01:08 +0000

Not sure if you have been following the LLM space or even the emulator handhelds space, but Chinese companies have been doing great with putting out open source software lately.