Hacker News: pimeys

New comment by pimeys in "DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)"

pimeys — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:07:50 +0000

If you use OpenCode, the sessions are all in a local sqlite database. After lunch I'm pushing one of my agents to crunch some data from that using duckdb...

New comment by pimeys in "KDE Plasma 6.7 Released"

pimeys — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:22:33 +0000

Yes. It's been so good for a while now. And never I'm scared about major versions: we just get iteratively better desktop. Commercial desktops should take a note.

New comment by pimeys in "Inside tech elites’ madcap war against the California billionaire tax"

pimeys — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:33:12 +0000

I'm not from the US either, and can't say if it's against the 1st amendment or not. But I'm also considering if the constitution matters there anymore, or will it be bent for the billionaires to keep their power.

Yes, a decent person would definitely look within themselves. I'm not sure are these billionaires decent people...

New comment by pimeys in "Inside tech elites’ madcap war against the California billionaire tax"

pimeys — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:07:19 +0000

Yep. And then you start asking questions such as are we actually living in a democracy anymore...

What Would It Look Like If the AI Bubble Popped?

pimeys — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:40:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/what-would-it-look-like-if-the-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515349

Points: 28

# Comments: 16

New comment by pimeys in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

pimeys — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:59:59 +0000

I don't understand why they still release super compressed and loud masterings when most of the modern headphones are so good you don't really need to master for the old cheap stereo sets. And isn't headphones with Spotify the most common medium for music nowadays?

New comment by pimeys in "Claude Fable 5"

pimeys — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:54:40 +0000

I'm with you here. We can't slide into a situation where you put a sizable amount of your budget for an American mega corporation if you want to survive in the competition. We need local models and we need them to be good enough to help us.

New comment by pimeys in "Claude Fable 5"

pimeys — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:24:26 +0000

> The question is: how long do you think that you employer will be willing to pay for you and Anthropic, if you yourself said if it were your money you'd put some time and effort to work with an open model?

I wonder what this question really means? Anthropic is useless if you don't know what to do with it. It's very useful if you do, and you can guide it to do the right things. Yes, it will for sure reduce the amount of people we need to hire. But we are always looking for hires who know what they do and can utilize agents to be faster.

But if you think about how long employer is willing to pay 10-20k per month per seat for Anthropic? I can't see this to be feasible and it will have to end at some point.

New comment by pimeys in "Claude Fable 5"

pimeys — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:51:17 +0000

I don't know, why would I pay to do my job? It's not my first database switch for a startup. Only this time it doesn't take two months of grueling work. I know exactly how this is done, but the amount of grunt programming and testing and repetitive work is just not great. And it's not a task that brings new customers or a new product. Just a mandatory and annoying thing to deal with when we are growing.

And don't get me wrong. Opus did an absolutely horrible job at first, second and third round in this task. You really needed to steer it to get to the right solution.

And now Fable is out. And its first round of code reviews for this huge PR was definitely worth the money too...

Don't think that I'm just shrugging to that number. I see it every day, and I don't like that it's in the thousands now. But for people paying the 100 or 200 dollar plans, I'm not super sure if you will be able to use them in the future if the token price is in the thousands for a bit bigger task...

If I'd pay this from my own pocket, I'd definitely go with DeepSeek or local models and figure it out how to make the best use of them.

New comment by pimeys in "Claude Fable 5"

pimeys — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:15:37 +0000

Fast mode max content window. The task was: replace all 1600+ queries from one database to another and make the whole integration test pass. We did multiple passes, with different concerns when changing from database to another. My OpenCode session right now says $4,365.02.

I haven't gotten close to this either before, but now we wanted to move fast because this branch gets conflicts all the time and we want to get over with the migration asap.

New comment by pimeys in "Claude Fable 5"

pimeys — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:38:20 +0000

We pay by token at work. I just finished one session with Opus that was 4000 dollars. In about three days.

Now that 200USD subscription starts to feel cheap...

Servo 0.2 Release

pimeys — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:31:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/servo/servo/releases/tag/v0.2.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344900

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by pimeys in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

pimeys — Sat, 30 May 2026 11:20:16 +0000

Well... Strip searching and jailing young German girls in the border is not something I hear happening very often in countries like Canada, Germany, Denmark, Finland... Actually I have not heard that happening even once! My American partner has crossed the German border countless of times from US. Before they got an EU passport, even then the border queue was prompt and the guard sometimes asked a joke in German and a minute later let them pass.

I waited hours in Newark even before the current joke of a government. The risk of being in a jail without my phone which has a life-saving app to manage my diabetes is a risk I am not going to take.

New comment by pimeys in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

pimeys — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:59:29 +0000

As a Nordic (Finland), I think this is true. In the history, US has been always admired and we've loved to travel there and cherish the culture. Damn, I was there when Conan O'Brien traveled to Helsinki, and greeting him with this massive crowd of people who really love him. I married an American, I've traveled through the country multiple times with my partner. Love the food, people, the nature, the cities.

But this has definitely changed for me now. The idea of crossing the border and having to flip a coin is the border control guy a nice guy or not is not appealing as a diabetic who needs his phone to be with him untampered and who doesn't want to sit in a cell somewhere for days/weeks because they posted a funny meme of a person you can't joke about. Or who just witnesses this absolute inequality happening, and who witnesses the leaders of this country coming to my country and giving their support for parties who want me to not marry and who doesn't want to see me existing.

I am just tired. And sad. I wish I could get our relationship back with the US but I don't know... Even if we backtrack from here, get back to the "olden times", it will take a moment until I can enjoy US again.

P.S. Conan is still a treasure!

New comment by pimeys in "Jira Is Turing-Complete"

pimeys — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:19:35 +0000

To give a bit longer answer: Linear.

They have a first class MCP server, and you can basically run a project from your agent. Implementing something, and you find out there's more to do later on in a separate issue? Agent creates the issue for you and off you go. It works very nicely, and also has a great UI but I mostly using it from my agent.

New comment by pimeys in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

pimeys — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:27:00 +0000

I still use 4.6 if I need Opus. It's mostly GPT-5.5 for me. Only if I know it cannot do some thing like push without running the tests (because AGENTS.md said so), I switch to 4.6.

Although GPT's been acting weird since Thursday...

New comment by pimeys in "Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark"

pimeys — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:08:54 +0000

Nix is also great at work. You keep the server nix code in the same repo and OpenCode can just change and test server config.

New comment by pimeys in "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"

pimeys — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:44:24 +0000

Yes. Every possible pain they have makes me happy when their other hand is slowly destroying Android. Let them suffer.

New comment by pimeys in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

pimeys — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:19:59 +0000

No computer use yet. I wonder when they enable it for this model, CUA was one of the main selling points for us with the previous version of Flash.

New comment by pimeys in "Show HN: GlycemicGPT – Open-source AI-powered diabetes management"

pimeys — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:41:24 +0000

Yeah. That's why my doctor lets her patients to test with different CGMs. They work differently with different people. For me Dexcom has always been best, but my doctor uses Libre because that suits her better.