Hacker News: pickledish

New comment by pickledish in "Upcoming critical PHP security release"

pickledish — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 04:05:42 +0000

Load balancer!

New comment by pickledish in "Best LLM for every budget, updated daily"

pickledish — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:42:52 +0000

Agree :) direct link for those curious:

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models#price-cost

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models?models=gpt-6-luna%2Cglm...

New comment by pickledish in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

pickledish — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:48:38 +0000

100%, back when it was Ox Alpha I had a little fun trying to guess what it might be by looking at the reasoning and I consistently laughed at how excited it got

AgeKey – Privacy First Age Verification

pickledish — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:51:53 +0000

Article URL: https://agekey.org/how-age-signals-work

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49811058

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Per-tensor layout maps for GGUF quantization

pickledish — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 20:03:58 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/blog/bartowski/per-tensor-layout-maps-for-gguf-quantization

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49676635

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Let's Build Intuition for Watermarking

pickledish — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:41:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.willett.io/posts/watermarking/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536092

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by pickledish in "Bazel's UX is really, really, really bad"

pickledish — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 03:26:43 +0000

hehe this was therapeutic to read. and doesn't even begin to talk about starlark, bazel's almost-but-not-quite version of python that doesn't support all manner of features you would hope for, including REGEX

New comment by pickledish in "Guess which of these LLM outputs is watermarked"

pickledish — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 23:26:49 +0000

(not sure why you were downvoted, you are correct)

New comment by pickledish in "Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code"

pickledish — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:28:41 +0000

You are very much not alone, and I don't think we're all getting dumber -- I kept using opus 4.5 all through the nonsense that was 4.7, 4.8, and 5, and kept having a good time :)

I think we just need to decouple "doing better on benchmarks" and "actually more useful to me", since they've clearly diverged

New comment by pickledish in "Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM"

pickledish — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:05:48 +0000

Word, that one also includes an example which is great, shows really clearly what the issue is for those who might be less familiar

New comment by pickledish in "Router by Ramp"

pickledish — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:51:09 +0000

router.com! Cool domain though that must have been expensive :P

New comment by pickledish in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

pickledish — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:23:29 +0000

The "a3b" refers to its active parameters -- unlike 27b it is a mixture of experts model, so it runs much faster, about as fast as a 3b model, but needs as much memory as a 35b model! So good for unified memory systems like macs :)

New comment by pickledish in "LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences"

pickledish — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:11:31 +0000

Haha indeed; maybe they just meant "won't replace"

New comment by pickledish in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

pickledish — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:20:54 +0000

clicks

> When a fire truck fails to deploy in a burning building and four people die, the cause isn’t just mechanical failure. It’s a business model.

leaves

New comment by pickledish in "Magnifica Humanitas"

pickledish — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:43:53 +0000

This is also the message I got from "the wind rises"! Though from talking with other people that takeaway doesn't seem universal -- which IMO is one of the ways to tell it's a great film :)

New comment by pickledish in "The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood"

pickledish — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:57:47 +0000

Don't know why you were downvoted -- I scoffed at that part too. The least we in tech can do is have some self-awareness

New comment by pickledish in "The happiest I've ever been"

pickledish — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:59:55 +0000

Ah -- IME people usually start a sentence with "in the nicest possible way" when they're couching something mean is all. Often it's even sarcastic, and the meanness isn't even meant to be couched, so I wasn't sure how to read it

New comment by pickledish in "The happiest I've ever been"

pickledish — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:34:31 +0000

Agreed! I'm not sure why the GP comment has a somewhat negative attitude about it, I think it's great for people to realize this and talk about it, every year a whole new year's worth of young adults turn up not knowing it! Insert XKCD lucky 10,000 comic here

New comment by pickledish in "BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive"

pickledish — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 05:05:47 +0000

They're talking about this I'm pretty sure!

https://www.telotrucks.com/

New comment by pickledish in "Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds"

pickledish — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:44:28 +0000

Hah yeah, I'd never really thought about it, but newspaper headlines must be a late-game boss for non-native speakers, they are super convoluted