<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: qudat</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=qudat</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:40:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=qudat" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qudat in ""Next-token predictor" is the wrong mental model for LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Shrug. My intuition is LLMs predict the new word based on a tensor vector space of patterns using arithmetic and similarity scores.<p>What’s not intuitive to me is that through pattern matching it’s able to express logic and reasoning.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:26:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570420</link><dc:creator>qudat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570420</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qudat in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i think it's better than sonnet 5, especially when you compare speeds. i have to work with the llm anyway, the faster i can turn it the better the outcome.</p>
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<p>Or just run pihole or any other dns blocking service</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:48:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517427</link><dc:creator>qudat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517427</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qudat in "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>archinstall comes preinstalled on the official iso. It’s a normal install flow and takes 5 mins.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:15:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504209</link><dc:creator>qudat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504209</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qudat in "The turbulent AI era is here"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>3 citations and a lot of conjecture. Is the article only targeting SWEs? The one study cited said 22-25 age range saw a 16% decrease in relative employment declines (for SWEs)[0]. But everyone outside that range was not impacted.  Further, what about all the trades jobs around data center development?<p>“Demand is also being intensified by major investments in infrastructure, manufacturing, reshoring, and AI. Data center growth alone has added a net 315,000 skilled-trade workers over the past five years, according to the report, putting additional pressure on an already tight labor market.”<p><a href="https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-newswire/20260825cg32433/new-report-defines-135-skilled-trade-occupations-revealing-a-gap-of-13m-workers-and-3-openings-for-every-new-worker-trained" rel="nofollow">https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-newswire/20260825cg32433...</a><p>We literally do not have enough trades people to build out data centers and their salaries are increasing as a result.  These are skilled labor jobs (plumbers, electricians, IT, etc.).  Does Bill Gates care about the rest of the economy outside of SWE?<p>[0]: <a href="https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/app/uploads/2025/11/CanariesintheCoalMine_Nov25.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/app/uploads/2025/11/Cana...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:32:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448876</link><dc:creator>qudat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448876</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qudat in "Anger, Anxiety and Agency"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As far as I can tell, we've convinced companies and VCs to dump billions of dollars into infrastructure to support a vision where they can get more done with fewer people.  They've been duped.<p>I think of LLMs as a labor-liberating tool.  It's saving me effort so I don't have to drudge through enterprise codebases and memorize company-specific knowledge that is a dead end for my career.  Instead I can run an agent while doing chores.<p>The beauty of the entire LLM stack is that it requires us.  It is useless without a human-in-the-loop.  The entire stack is designed around human intervention.  We will not magically invent a way to remove the human without first removing it from training.<p>So rest assured, so long as there are humans in the training loop, there's nothing to worry about, because LLMs are a cybernetic enhancement, not a replacement.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:47:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424944</link><dc:creator>qudat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424944</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qudat in "fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pi is a composition of libraries that can be used to build agents. That seems far more interesting than this “minimal” agent.<p>This was written in zig and built by vercel. That’s the only notable characteristics about this project.<p>All code agents look the same and this one is no different.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:46:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356004</link><dc:creator>qudat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356004</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qudat in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Honestly I’m not looking for max iq on whatever benchmarks they are overfitting to. I want speed. I toggle between sonnet 5 low/med which is plenty good for my workflow.<p>My general strat with LLMs is to let them do the work and constantly talk to them about their choices and then heavy QA</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:56:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298085</link><dc:creator>qudat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298085</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qudat in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just subbed to Gemini a week ago and have been using antigravity and 3.6 flash. The speed is absolutely a differentiator compared to Claude.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:34:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293462</link><dc:creator>qudat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293462</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qudat in "SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 Scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> ... or are actively destillating it.<p>I just assumed every model manufacturer is distilling from the frontier models.  If they aren't they are definitely trying to do it.</p>
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<p>I'm very excited to try this out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:38:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273079</link><dc:creator>qudat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273079</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qudat in "OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Darn, still no host headers so we can reverse proxy on a single ip</p>
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<p>Yes and this month I hit my $10 AI assistant cap for the first time, which is why I started looking around for other options.<p>I do like Kagi but the Gemini deal was too good to pass up as it also gives my a code agent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:52:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259371</link><dc:creator>qudat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259371</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qudat in "Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hi, you're right.  I've been self-promoting on HN too much without any other contributions, which isn't right.<p>I'm going to spend more time contributing without so much self-promotion.<p>Thanks for the feedback.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:51:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259350</link><dc:creator>qudat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259350</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qudat in "No, local models will not win"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Or maybe models get so good that a 30B model is genuinely smart enough to do everything, so nobody really needs a model like Opus or Sol unless they’re trying to solve the Reimann Hypothesis. I don’t really buy this. Models can do frontier mathematical work today while still being not smart enough to refactor large codebases as well as me, so it’s hard to imagine a world where I don’t just want to use the smartest model available.<p>Idk, I already don’t bother with Opus and stick with sonnet med. I really care more about speed. I use qwen3.6 27b for personal projects and I think it works pretty great.<p>So like the article mentions, if scaling stalls and small models get better it’s not impossible to imagine a convergence and hardware costs drop.<p>Having said that, self hosting will be a niche thing like it is today for other services.</p>
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<p>Funny as I just cancelled my Kagi sub to get the Gemini ai pro sub. The deal was too good to pass up</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:45:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251404</link><dc:creator>qudat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251404</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qudat in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m iterating on a constellation of git collab services that I’m calling “the disappearing code forge.” All self hostable with a focus on minimalism and Unix philosophy.<p>I just revamped the collaboration portion which is a patchbin service: <a href="https://pr.pico.sh" rel="nofollow">https://pr.pico.sh</a><p>As part of that I work im also iterating on the ci/cd solution we are calling pici: <a href="https://ci.pico.sh" rel="nofollow">https://ci.pico.sh</a><p>AMA</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:39:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237438</link><dc:creator>qudat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237438</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qudat in "Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://prose.sh" rel="nofollow">https://prose.sh</a> for an ssh app to manage a blog</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:45:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217140</link><dc:creator>qudat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217140</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by qudat in "Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Try <a href="https://zmx.sh" rel="nofollow">https://zmx.sh</a> for a more minimalist tool</p>
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<p>Interesting idea! I like the idea of more deeply integrating code agent with the terminal (e.g. shell, ptys, etc).<p>It's spawning PTYs but does it support SSH'ing into a remote session and running commands from a remote shell?  That's something I built into zmx in order to scratch that "debugging in a remote VM" itch.<p><a href="https://zmx.sh" rel="nofollow">https://zmx.sh</a></p>
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