Hacker News: pmdr

New comment by pmdr in "Stolen Buttons"

pmdr — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:38:47 +0000

Haha, there was a post about 98.css the other day, I'm pretty sure it's one of those.

New comment by pmdr in "Stolen Buttons"

pmdr — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:37:43 +0000

Well, it is somewhat entertaining.

New comment by pmdr in "Stolen Buttons"

pmdr — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:36:13 +0000

Is there something similar, but for menus?

New comment by pmdr in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

pmdr — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:05:05 +0000

> in 10-15 years, we are going to have consumer PCs (and phones!) running models doing pretty much anything that frontier models can do right now.

The way things are going with regards to RAM/storage prices, I highly doubt that anyone but the richest among us will be able to afford them.

New comment by pmdr in "The classifiers Anthropic puts in front of Fable are too zealous"

pmdr — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:12:01 +0000

I think they're not testing Fable as much as they're testing guardrails which they can later apply to anything they want.

New comment by pmdr in "Fable is not a useful model"

pmdr — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:10:33 +0000

That's where the free marketing comes from.

New comment by pmdr in "RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers"

pmdr — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:15:55 +0000

Static typed languages had been around a long time before Python, JS and Ruby gained popularity. All three of the latter now support some form of type hints.

Why did people switch to these languages in the first place and what's driving the current back-to-typed-languages trend?

New comment by pmdr in "Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech"

pmdr — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:25:39 +0000

His Apple keynotes conveyed a sense of magic, for example demonstrating pinch to zoom on the iPhone and pulling a MacBook Air out of a manila envelope. And something he'd be angry because things didn't go as planned.

These pre-recorded keynotes we get nowadays are just bland and AI-generated.

New comment by pmdr in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

pmdr — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:18:05 +0000

I got to use it for a couple of days on Pro. Feature implementation actually fit into subscription usage, but then it went on chasing its tail fixing bugs it introduced and burning through about $15 in credits. It got the job done in the end, though. I'd say it's good, better than Opus, but I found that both GPT 5.4 and 5.5 are way better than Opus.

So Fable is as good as GPT 5.5, if not better.

New comment by pmdr in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

pmdr — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:31:45 +0000

Might never replace completely, but those remaining will be expected to pump out a lot more code so companies won't need to hire as many.

New comment by pmdr in "The desperation of NYTimes"

pmdr — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:44:09 +0000

I'd say 2015-2016.

New comment by pmdr in "The desperation of NYTimes"

pmdr — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:24:26 +0000

> C'mon developers, stand up to marketing for a change and stop writing these software nags.

Only things they ever stood up for were social issues (that's why you see banners with Ukraine and BLM, etc). Google kinda put an end to that when they fired 28 workers protesting Israel.

I never saw any banners protesting dark patterns.

Now, with (perhaps) most developers in the shadow of the AI-layoffs boot, there's really no hope for change coming from the inside.

New comment by pmdr in "If AI data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"

pmdr — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:58:50 +0000

> I know Ed Zitron is a divisive figure

The main counterarguments to his claims are "but Sam/Dario/Satya/Jensen said X" and that we should treat them as gospel.

New comment by pmdr in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

pmdr — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:29:12 +0000

We're all grownups, why should we care about RAM prices? /s

This is insane. We've built our apps and websites to require ungodly amounts of memory and now AI scrapes away said websites while pricing us out.

Fast apps and websites need to make a comeback.

New comment by pmdr in "Shopify Is Down"

pmdr — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:22:31 +0000

I wonder if River is a reference to the Firefly character, which was known for being unstable and unpredictable.

New comment by pmdr in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

pmdr — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:17:18 +0000

KDE 3.5.x really was peak desktop at the time, especially when all the K* apps were working as intended. As a Windows user discovering Slackware 10.2 back 2005, I was really blown away. KDE 4 just didn't feel the same.

New comment by pmdr in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

pmdr — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:27:18 +0000

Can't directly outlaw VPNs? No problem, we'll have the the few corporations powering the internet block anyone who even thinks about anonymity!

New comment by pmdr in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

pmdr — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:21:23 +0000

This. What even is the point of blocking scapers if Google consumes your content anyway and serves it as an AI answer?

These are sad times we're living as far as openness of the web goes. People would have less of a scraping problem if their websites didn't ship with 20MB of JS.

New comment by pmdr in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"

pmdr — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:23:29 +0000

"speed" in Swedish and Norwegian. Probably Danish as well.

New comment by pmdr in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

pmdr — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:23:14 +0000

Alternative search engines are popular with the tech/HN bubble. Other than Bing, they have no palpable market share. Google does not care about said bubble because it mostly overlaps people who would use an adblocker anyway and who are capable of finding their way around other for-profit restrictions (i.e. downloading videos with yt-dlp instead of paying for YT Premium).

DDG has <1% market share, so +28%, while encouraging, means nothing for the monopoly. I use it. I use Brave Search as well. Paid for Kagi for a while.

But getting people to use anything other than Google (or the default Bing for on Windows) is nearly impossible at scale.