Hacker News: purplecats

New comment by purplecats in "Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD"

purplecats — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:35:32 +0000

would this work on a virtual disk, say w s3 or dropbox

New comment by purplecats in "2D Vehicles"

purplecats — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 07:59:17 +0000

> Sometimes

New comment by purplecats in "Spinal: A near-instant, predictive surface for any codebase"

purplecats — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 01:09:01 +0000

"near-instant" what's that mean. nanoseconds, milliseconds, seconds, mins, hours, days

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: Sezwhere – Ask any document "where does it say that?" (built on Jev)"

purplecats — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:56:30 +0000

its like Jeopardy

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: Trader News – Hacker News for Finance"

purplecats — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 04:33:42 +0000

direct to the news section: https://tradernews.fyi/#bigbox

New comment by purplecats in "I Hate Workday"

purplecats — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:45:56 +0000

thats _why_ its selected

New comment by purplecats in "OpenAI: "We use ... de-identified data to improve ChatGPT""

purplecats — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 03:35:01 +0000

bit unfair. if the second one is allowed an extra statement "And so does every LLM company." so should the first

New comment by purplecats in "Corporate profits hit highest share since WWII, as worker payouts wilt"

purplecats — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:24:46 +0000

how do u get banned from archive.is

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model"

purplecats — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 22:21:06 +0000

and caching is related to performance too ofc

New comment by purplecats in "Analyzing student votes across AI models for college essay help"

purplecats — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:35:31 +0000

You make some good points, but the best one is the one you might not be aware you've made.

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: Screen memory without screenshots, just text to Markdown"

purplecats — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:30:37 +0000

neat. why not screenshot and tesseract (videos/images/viewport/etc)

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

purplecats — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:52:28 +0000

anyone notice the jokes they put in?

* bot: "im nervous. is that a microphone?"

* bot: "great job, you're a machine!" (said to another bot, a machine)

* bot: clicks "i am [not] a robot" button on a computer

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models"

purplecats — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:14:36 +0000

but u wouldnt get caching savings

New comment by purplecats in "Recreating the math behind the first stealth aircraft"

purplecats — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:16:41 +0000

background

New comment by purplecats in "NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings"

purplecats — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:08:18 +0000

i love this rule, but then again everything i agree with is 'common sense' to me!

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: Follow London Trains in 3D"

purplecats — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:06:56 +0000

the tracks arent grounded to the map, they slide all over, and would it cool if we could use satellite view

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: Lightwave – Real-time notes app, 3.5 years of hand-rolled JavaScript"

purplecats — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:09:26 +0000

doesnt work. https://lightwave.so/undefined

New comment by purplecats in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

purplecats — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:56:24 +0000

shrinkflation

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: Morph – Videos of AI testing your PR, embedded in GitHub"

purplecats — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:03:13 +0000

seems trivial for antigravity to do

New comment by purplecats in "Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage"

purplecats — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:30:36 +0000

this is unironically useful bc if it works well, can use that algo to instead of serving ads, enrich ai responses by adding image and media previews appropriately at the right spots (layout modifications)