<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: pvtmert</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pvtmert</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:43:21 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pvtmert" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pvtmert in "Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>May happen with Android, not going to happen on $AAPL devices... Heck, even the battery is non-swappable!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:11:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697205</link><dc:creator>pvtmert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697205</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pvtmert in "AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When someone else -whether AI agent or a human- solves the recurring minor problems for you, those problems become non-issue, get swept under the rug, just to accumulate more dust.<p>One day, those may become bigger as they are forgotten, causing havoc. The standard root-cause-analysis depending on systems having certain retention period, which may be expired at that time.<p>It is important to get real hold of one's systems from end-to-end aspect, which holds true for both AI and human operators...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:45:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49574872</link><dc:creator>pvtmert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49574872</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49574872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pvtmert in "Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Meanwhile they keep making _mistakes_ and announcing global token resets for everyone. (Like ones for Pro and Max users). Making them happy although Claude Code made them consume tokens faster or more than necessary in the first place.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:44:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241960</link><dc:creator>pvtmert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241960</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pvtmert in "Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Internet being full of bots, I usually do the s/users/bots/ automatically in my mind.<p>Even some users are just bots... (At least their behavior is/are)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:53:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234428</link><dc:creator>pvtmert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234428</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pvtmert in "Monitors for Work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Frugality at its best. Sometimes certain decisions prioritize frugality so much over anything else, the time lost fighting is more expensive than the savings.
 For example, the DevDesktop policy. My org had an Apollo/FMC fleet that only allowed 2-4 CPU and 4-8 GB RAM configurations. Anything else would require manual financial approval and justification from L6+ manager. This is between 2022-2024.<p>Take the following example, to save maybe 20-30$/month. You make engineers' life miserable while paying the same amount but in hourly rate...<p>When you run VSCode with bunch of Java plugins (where each uses Java), good luck reliably debugging anything. Me and basically anyone in my team would get into situation that the DevDesktop could not handle it anymore and would be stuck, requiring manual/hard restart or wait until load-avg dropping from 100+.
I did the simplest trick, kept the m5.large DevDesktop, but manually added another Apollo ASG, attached the HostClass to a random Production fleet that already has thousands of hosts (still under/in my VP org). Happily lived with m5zn.4xlarge until I left. I am pretty sure the machine is still there and running... (As my access was cut off right away...)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:09:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232687</link><dc:creator>pvtmert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232687</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pvtmert in "Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anthropic is the new AWS.<p>Amazon's first principle is the Customer Obsession. Making customers happy.<p>Fun bit is that the human psychology rates personal looking fixes better than having no issues at all.<p>For example, AWS overcharges you, you contact support, and more or less hassle free they refund or issue credits. The customer feels appreciated, or at least got something "extra" or "special treatment".<p>Meanwhile, any other (small) cloud. Simple, no weird charges. Even _most_ of network egress is free. But, no reason to call support or feel "extraordinary". Comes out as "meh" against Amazon's "top tier" support model...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:50:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202356</link><dc:creator>pvtmert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202356</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pvtmert in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Around 2020, I think tools like Notion (notion.so) made it popular. Even the Huggingface itself is an emoji...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:40:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202222</link><dc:creator>pvtmert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202222</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pvtmert in "Devtools must be open source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have sent several bugfixes to software I used as a "daily driver". I did the same when I was working at Amazon. While managers didn't usually understand the benefits of saving a minute or two from the test suite runner, at the scale I think it had tremendous impact. Especially when it comes to the cycle time during development. (Also relevant during the agentic workflows)<p>Since the code became a commodity, it is beneficial for companies to "open source" it. As the cost of doing so is negligible compared to the "responsibility transfer" by acquiring a license.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:10:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172587</link><dc:creator>pvtmert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172587</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pvtmert in "AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not an expert in this field, but the "expert" is consisting of multiple layers. To keep it small in terms of memory print, this project streams each layer (dividing even further).<p>It also requires extra space because of decomposition of the layers. Normally the file format optimized for compute intense workloads. But here the bottleneck is the memory capacity.<p>Also guessing that you need to be able to hold at least 3-layers at once in the memory, given M x N = R operation, M is the previous layer, N is next, and R is the result. on the next "layer", the R (result) becomes M, gets computed against the next layer, N, yielding the further result R'. And so on, until all layers are processed.<p>I assume it's horribly slow, but can be put in a non-intrusive background task...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:29:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155569</link><dc:creator>pvtmert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155569</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pvtmert in "Write in Markdown, serve it dynamic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Content of my website (although I was lazy enough to not fill all sections) already markdown, rendered dynamically as html on client side.<p>But I rather keep LLMs from scraping it...<p>For other use cases like documentation, again the source (reStructuredText or Markdown) shall be consumed directly instead.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:32:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141700</link><dc:creator>pvtmert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141700</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pvtmert in "Severance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The "macroeconomic" phrase sounds like $AMZN. Kept hearing this until the new buzzword showed up; AI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:09:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49128554</link><dc:creator>pvtmert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49128554</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49128554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pvtmert in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><p><pre><code>  > With only a couple of minutes experimentation I discovered that the app works by concatenating the username and password5 and using it in a URL of the form:
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In 2026, these terrible practices still <i>common</i>. Meanwhile we are discussing the LLM generated code quality, the race to the bottom continues...</p>
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<p>The comment from a 5-year old: But Google is doing that too!<p><pre><code>  > The spokesperson added: "We remain concerned that ignoring the growing power of Google Cloud and Gemini will tilt the market in a harmful way."</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:30:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696023</link><dc:creator>pvtmert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696023</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pvtmert in "Apple Intelligence may become mandatory in iOS and macOS 27"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am 100% sure there will be a `defaults write ...` command and/or a policy setting via Apple Configurator (mobileconfig profile) to disable it completely.<p>They will probably push hard on the "enabled by default" part. Since they are literally paying millions to Google...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:52:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577410</link><dc:creator>pvtmert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577410</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pvtmert in "EU Air travellers to enjoy free cabin luggage and keep delay compensation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ryanair et.al. advertising minimums that are not including anything larger than a purse or a small laptop bag.<p>When you go through the funnel, adding a cabin luggage (or anything basically) usually doubles/triples the price.<p>Most of regular airlines include a proper cabin item up to 8kg.<p>Furthermore, it is not possible to have a just cabin item option in Ryanair's booking website. It is always bundled with things like priority boarding (read: wait outside & standing longer while other people depart from the plane)<p>Nevertheless, these practices are misleading. Hurts customers more, creates unnecessary complaints and bureaucracy as well.<p>Because you can in fact pay a regular airline a reasonable price (40-60eur) and get the standard package (with cabin luggage) and get treated like a human being rather than a farm animal. (Btw adding cabin luggage bumps the ticket price 45-55 eur range in Ryanair's case. In a normal airline, you get a beverage & croissant for free while you must pay 5eur for 0.2L water in a Ryanair flight)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:04:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548264</link><dc:creator>pvtmert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548264</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pvtmert in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I guess the article is targeting regular people. However combining terms like "Linux distro" with other non technical explanations like "useless components such as screens, cameras, etc" sounded a bit weird to me.<p>Also;<p><pre><code>  For example, phones have a “low memory killer” daemon, which throttles memory-hungry applications.
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I mean, this is also needed for server applications, more-so than personal use. Reason being in fact a runaway process would interrupt many users rather than a single user in server versus client use cases respectively...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:52:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527782</link><dc:creator>pvtmert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527782</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pvtmert in "Trial of 12mph bike lane speed limit grinds gears of Dutch cyclists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They need a distinction between pedal assist and fully electric (motor) bike.<p>I live in Luxembourg and the infrastructure is not as good as the Netherlands. Majority of offenders (in my experience) are delivery guys and teenagers. Where teenagers simply don't care & do reckless things like passing on a big intersection at full speed on a red light, delivery guys do the same things for extra tips.<p>Some of the fat-tire electric bikes are really fast, I happen to chase them on Kirchberg cycle road. I sustained 40km/h average behind delivery guys and they were still faster, eventually dropping me. (I was on a road bike).<p>Simply put, anything above 250watts does not belong to cycle lane.Includes humans :j</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 08:19:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48525282</link><dc:creator>pvtmert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48525282</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48525282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pvtmert in "Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Given the advent of LLMs and agentic coding, I believe this article needs re-visiting as it makes it much more discoverable to compare individual files across commits.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/12/04/mounting-git-commits-as-folders-with-nfs/">https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/12/04/mounting-git-commits-as-folders-with-nfs/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190373">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190373</a></p>
<p>Points: 117</p>
<p># Comments: 58</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 07:32:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/12/04/mounting-git-commits-as-folders-with-nfs/</link><dc:creator>pvtmert</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190373</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pvtmert in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>...each PhoneTool profile contains relevant "awards" (titles) on people's profile. Things like "Blaze", "Thunderstorm", etc are awarded publicly. Any employee can also click to these awards, and see who else also been awarded the same thing. (Plus total number of people)<p>*) PhoneTool = Internal People Directory. Shows user-profiles of employees...</p>
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