Hacker News: pertymcpert

New comment by pertymcpert in "iPhone Duo"

pertymcpert — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:33:13 +0000

It's not ok if it uses resources that could be better spent elsewhere. At 3% share what do you expect them to do?

New comment by pertymcpert in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"

pertymcpert — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:56:56 +0000

I feel like they failed upwards into the right strategy. I doubt it was deliberate and not because of the failure of their foundation models to decent.

New comment by pertymcpert in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

pertymcpert — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:14:37 +0000

> No, Meta just amplified

No. "Just" is understating the effect.

New comment by pertymcpert in "Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive"

pertymcpert — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:30:27 +0000

I tested all recent Opus versions and 4.6 and 4.7 were both fine FWIW. Seems 4.8 is when something started to go wrong.

New comment by pertymcpert in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

pertymcpert — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 23:26:24 +0000

Even React.

New comment by pertymcpert in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

pertymcpert — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:54:56 +0000

Meta employees reading this: whether you work in Reality Labs, ads, operations, ML compiler, LLMs, marketing, whatever. You're all complicit in the harm. Remember that.

New comment by pertymcpert in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

pertymcpert — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:17:16 +0000

You say that like what they were doing was a bad thing. It was a feature.

New comment by pertymcpert in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"

pertymcpert — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:09:40 +0000

What processing do they do to the sausage?

New comment by pertymcpert in "California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year"

pertymcpert — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:06:43 +0000

> So either the manufacturer-supplied originals are more dangerous than replacement tires

There's 3 main components to tire performance: efficiency, grip and longevity. OEM tires optimize for the first. They can compromise on grip and longevity. Most often I've experienced is the latter. So yes, OEM tires are "worse" in some aspects as replacements.

New comment by pertymcpert in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"

pertymcpert — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:08:21 +0000

Most tokens are cached.

New comment by pertymcpert in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"

pertymcpert — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:54:44 +0000

Not sure why you had to take a pop at Greggs there. Nothing wrong with a hot sausage roll at all. Assuming you can find a hot one.

New comment by pertymcpert in "Show HN: Graft – Claude Code hooks that cut grep tokens by 42%"

pertymcpert — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:45:04 +0000

You can actually tell from the very first real sentence in the README:

> Efficiency is a 162-run controlled benchmark (same agent, same file tools, only the context differs).

It's so bad that I can tell it's Claude, specifically Opus 4.8/5.0, from the first 6 words.

New comment by pertymcpert in "Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?"

pertymcpert — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:13:33 +0000

Right but I've never seen these fp64 computations show up hot in a profile. I'm not saying they're not used but most of the work in a general computer usage in terms of profiles is in scalar integer code.

New comment by pertymcpert in "Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?"

pertymcpert — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:30:56 +0000

I really think you should use a more representative benchmark. Heck, even just take Chrome and run some browser benchmark on it like speedometer.

New comment by pertymcpert in "Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?"

pertymcpert — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:28:14 +0000

Which workloads?

New comment by pertymcpert in "Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI"

pertymcpert — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:54:37 +0000

The issue is theft of IP.

New comment by pertymcpert in "Apple is getting this wrong"

pertymcpert — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:25:37 +0000

I like how this addresses very little of Apple's core complaints. OpenAI are totally fucked.

New comment by pertymcpert in "Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300"

pertymcpert — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 03:33:24 +0000

You can tell because instead of making an arrow like this: -> it uses a Unicode symbol instead.

New comment by pertymcpert in "Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English"

pertymcpert — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:13:24 +0000

Why wouldn’t it?

New comment by pertymcpert in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

pertymcpert — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:54:40 +0000

It's ok, we get it you don't want one. I would happily pay $20k-$30k for one if it worked well. I know a lot of people who would.