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New comment by randomgermanguy in "Mistral raises €3B"

randomgermanguy — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 06:56:06 +0000

But a better model almost always comes with a better dollar-per-task-accomplished ratio, compared to worse models.

So not only outpriced, outperformed, but also outregulated.

Idk i wish there was some bright light in the future, but i dont see it

New comment by randomgermanguy in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

randomgermanguy — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:55:32 +0000

When was FOSS apolitical ?

New comment by randomgermanguy in "DeepSeek v4"

randomgermanguy — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:57:07 +0000

Definitely something in this realm, they call the models "preview" at a bunch of different points in the paper.

What im really hoping is for a double-punch like with V3 -> R1

New comment by randomgermanguy in "DeepSeek v4"

randomgermanguy — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:54:20 +0000

> "can I get my coding work actually done today" vs. "this can do customer support chat"

I think you need to define "can get coding work done" for this to make sense. Ive been using GPT-3 back-then for basic scripts, does that count ? Or only Claude-Code ?

I also think this is a false dichotomy, if you look at the Project Vend project or Vending-Bench, customer support etc. is at no means trivial. (Old but great story https://www.businessinsider.com/car-dealership-chevrolet-cha...)

New comment by randomgermanguy in "DeepSeek v4"

randomgermanguy — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:47:54 +0000

I mean its almost halve a year, i think that counts ?

New comment by randomgermanguy in "DeepSeek v4"

randomgermanguy — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:47:10 +0000

Only comparing on SOTA scores (ignoring price etc.) is like choosing your daily-driver by looking at who makes the fastest sports-car...

New comment by randomgermanguy in "DeepSeek v4"

randomgermanguy — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:41:47 +0000

If you found a rare 9000 card with 200+ GB of VRAM, sure

New comment by randomgermanguy in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

randomgermanguy — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:20:39 +0000

I think the general question is if they'll release it at all, haven't yet read anything stating that they would

New comment by randomgermanguy in "The Cloud: The dystopian book that changed Germany (2022)"

randomgermanguy — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:42:57 +0000

One can see the impact of this cultural-wave on people above ~40 pretty heavily.

Hand-in-hand with the whole "Atomkraft ? Nein Danke" campaign. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Power%3F_No_Thanks)

New comment by randomgermanguy in "Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning"

randomgermanguy — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:17:56 +0000

The major selling point of the tinyboxes is that you're able to run them in your office without any hassle.

I used to own a Dell Poweredge for my home-office, but those fans even on minimal setting kept me up at night

New comment by randomgermanguy in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

randomgermanguy — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:05:51 +0000

Yes, but in practice land-ownership is only zero sum in places like Europe where every square-kilometer has 300 years of documented ownership etc, or other high-density areas.

The Asia, Africa & the Americas have so much unused space that isn't as inhospitable as central Australia

New comment by randomgermanguy in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

randomgermanguy — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:02:58 +0000

I think the author might argue, that simply becoming more efficient at creating a rent-seeking mechanism is not beneficial. No matter how well motivated you are to improve your zero-sum game skills, it's still zero-sum.

Or something like that.

New comment by randomgermanguy in "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

randomgermanguy — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:18:10 +0000

You can already buy A100/H100s on eBay. While it might not ever be economical to run these at home (cost of electricity), but it's plenty fun.

Optimizing a Rust Thread-Pool (Part 1/?)

randomgermanguy — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:43:34 +0000

Article URL: https://jakobsachs.blog/threadpoolpt1/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129343

Points: 2

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New comment by randomgermanguy in "Show HN: Diffuji – a diffusion-powered instant camera"

randomgermanguy — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:46:58 +0000

Cool idea, but kinda sad that it has to go through a cloud-provider. I feel like there's a possibility with an accelerator-board (Coral TPU or something), to make this into a totally local thing maybe? The longer-waiting time is surely not an issue when considering how many people still use Polaroids.