Hacker News: pampas

New comment by pampas in "DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”"

pampas — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 02:12:53 +0000

+1 on kusto query langauge. It's much nicer than SQL.

New comment by pampas in "Strafe: A new open-source, E2E Encrypted, and federated alternative to Discord"

pampas — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:56:15 +0000

No reaction emojis?

New comment by pampas in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

pampas — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:04:08 +0000

You only need your aunt Janus to take a test and it's mostly out of the bag.

New comment by pampas in "I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic"

pampas — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:56:13 +0000

It happened to me too. I got a big cloud egress bill because my game[1] is basically a mirror of thousands of Wikipedia articles. AI bots would smash all the pages so my cache hit rate was low. [1] https://redactle.net (come at me Claude)

New comment by pampas in "Mistral Large 4"

pampas — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:05:16 +0000

I ran it on my trivia game Redactle which features a redacted Wiki article. Mistral Large 4 is not very good. It can sometimes solve a game with ~40 guesses whereas the top models like Gemini 3.8 Flash or Grok 4.7 can one shot most puzzles. My benchmark here aligns with AA Omniscience. I also have a version where the text is rewritten to detect over fitting to exact wiki text which changes the scores but not the leaderboard order.

https://redactle.net/llm-leaderboard?view=vital-500

New comment by pampas in "Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data"

pampas — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 23:17:18 +0000

People need to be paid out whenever there is a leak. If the institution hides the leak make it 10x more. The status quo is not working for people.

New comment by pampas in "Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland"

pampas — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:50:48 +0000

Surely capacity should be GW hours?

New comment by pampas in "Web Search API"

pampas — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:58:45 +0000

It doesn't help that a lot of companies want to sniff out how much cash the customer has before even showing any terms and pricing.

New comment by pampas in "Web Search API"

pampas — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:56:57 +0000

Replace trusted with convenient. They're glowing pretty hard giving out all that stuff very cheap in exchange for being the middle man on everything. Not that I mind for my trivial use case.

New comment by pampas in "Sites in ChatGPT"

pampas — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:52:27 +0000

That's what I do but normal people don't know what any of those terms mean so their daily AI app does that shopping for them and they don't need to get an "Appy Key".

New comment by pampas in "Sites in ChatGPT"

pampas — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:44:24 +0000

Don't underestimate it though. The easy on-ramp is why PHP was popular a decade ago despite being a crap language.

New comment by pampas in "SvelteKit 3"

pampas — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:56:42 +0000

I don't think that's true anymore. I've seen a few benchmarks where svelte results in less tokens than React frameworks to complete the task. There was a time when LLMs were awful at svelte (especially v5) due to stale knowledge but that's not the case today. The knowledge cutoff isn't so bad and LLMs are much better at copying the patterns in your own codebase rather than relying on baked in knowledge.

Edit: This is the benchmark. But if you suspect it's wrong it's always fun to run your own evals. https://martinalderson.com/posts/which-web-frameworks-are-mo...

New comment by pampas in "SvelteKit 3"

pampas — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:54:47 +0000

I've had no problem using them in 2.x

New comment by pampas in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

pampas — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:56:49 +0000

That's my experience too. GPT-6 Sol tends to rabbit hole and over engineer things.

New comment by pampas in "Does Georgism work? Five years later"

pampas — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:40:17 +0000

Not necessarily. It can be arranged so for owners with no income the tax accrues to the land and no cashflow is necessary until sale.

New comment by pampas in "Does Georgism work? Five years later"

pampas — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:29:06 +0000

The fact that economically right wing economists like Milton Friedman supported LVT is a great argument against landlord type labelling LVT as far-left and attempting to push the idea outside the Overton window. I think the only valid argument against is it is that a significant LVT would punish those who've worked for their wealth as they've already paid significant income tax. But there are plenty of ways to introduce it gradually. Other arguments boil down to vested interests when I dig into it.

New comment by pampas in "Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space"

pampas — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 03:45:10 +0000

It's a bit like the hyperloop. They know it's not practical but having the idea out there makes money. There will be some niche demand for military use though.

New comment by pampas in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

pampas — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:41:35 +0000

It's not just that. EV charging and solar resources have improved while fossil fuels have become more expensive. The maths is very regional. Some countries are better at producing electricity or oil than others.

New comment by pampas in "Meta VR Glasses"

pampas — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:35:06 +0000

You should look up the story behind Pokemon Go.

New comment by pampas in "Grok 4.7"

pampas — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 23:21:54 +0000

I have no idea how good it is at coding but it seems to be good at omniscient tasks like solving a puzzle game I made [1]. It's a bit of a silly eval but I wonder if strong recall makes it good for knowledge tasks like legal work.

[1] https://redactle.net/llm-leaderboard