Hacker News: ranman

New comment by ranman in "Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API"

ranman — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:30:22 +0000

They'll cut you a private offer for bedrock tokens but bedrock has a 32k output limit

New comment by ranman in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

ranman — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:40:37 +0000

Which countries? Density matters but raw volume matters too.

New comment by ranman in "More common mistakes to avoid when creating system architecture diagrams"

ranman — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:56:06 +0000

Route53 being off on the side but unconnected is still valuable info...

New comment by ranman in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

ranman — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:09:46 +0000

It's a little ironic that the text wrap doesn't work on some of these examples on WebKit.

New comment by ranman in "The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation"

ranman — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:44:18 +0000

Eventually he'll be about tree fitty

New comment by ranman in "Building better AI tools"

ranman — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:58:32 +0000

> we built the LLMs unethically, and that they waste far more energy than they return in value

If these are the priors why would I keep reading?

New comment by ranman in "Kiro: A new agentic IDE"

ranman — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:51:43 +0000

Caylent has been testing this for quite some time and I have to say it's an interesting take. With claude code you can shift between planning and coding modes and this offers a similar approach. The speed is quite good and the results are solid. The spec approach is solid but it takes a learning curve. Some of the tooling and autojumps take a bit to get used to because they differ from the other IDE approaches.

Overall I do believe this has accelerated our development and I'm interested to see where it goes. I don't think it's a direct comparison to claude code or cursor - its a different approach with some overlap.

New comment by ranman in "Tencent's 'Hunyuan-T1'–The First Mamba-Powered Ultra-Large Model"

ranman — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 22:34:40 +0000

Humanity fails that question an embarrassingly large number of times.

New comment by ranman in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

ranman — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:38:46 +0000

You get a scale at AWS that is hard to find elsewhere. There are still a huge number of very smart people there. You can learn a lot. I loved my time at AWS.

That said there are a ton of cons. There's an entrenched management class that is disconnected from reality. There are a number of ~L8-L10 folks who don't believe or understand how they're falling behind the cloudflares and other providers. There is a bizarre arrogance in Seattle that masquerades as "willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time". People aren't afraid enough.

What AWS will struggle with over the next few years is verifying the results of the narratives they tell themselves. At some point along their evolution a disconnect between narrative and reality happened and someone needs to bring everything back to a baseline of reality. Leaders tell a story of their success (that I'm sure they themselves believe) and no one follows through to actually verify the results.

This issue of lack of narrative/reality baseline, to me, is a cancer at the heart of AWS and if it can be addressed then I think they can recover and shine. Otherwise they'll fall into the same trap as MSFT back in the 90s/2000s where they think everything is going just fine while the floor falls out from under them.

New comment by ranman in "Extracting concepts from GPT-4"

ranman — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:31:35 +0000

Someone mentioned that this took almost as much compute to train as the original model.

New comment by ranman in "Rabbit R1 It's a Scam"

ranman — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 19:21:25 +0000

I don't get this take... what is the scam part? It's a real device that people can buy, and it does what it was purported to do... maybe it's not as amazing as people hoped, but does that make it a scam?

New comment by ranman in "1 in 4 U.S. Teachers Say AI Tools Do More Harm Than Good in K-12 Education"

ranman — Fri, 31 May 2024 04:17:12 +0000

Do 3/4 say it does more good than harm?

New comment by ranman in "Show HN: GritQL, a Rust CLI for rewriting source code"

ranman — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:26:21 +0000

I'd love to see one of these for migrating from Claude's prompt API to their messaging API

New comment by ranman in "How to Start Google"

ranman — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 13:11:48 +0000

Be lucky?

I don't have any particular advice. I've been very lucky to join a few companies that were on the run up at the time but I never really knew at the time that they were going to be successful.

I just think blindly pursuing passion to the exclusion of profit will leave most people happy (or not) but impoverished and some people happy, lucky, and wealthy.

It was really just a tongue in cheek comment. I think Paul's advice is inspirational but it should be checked with a healthy dose of reality.

New comment by ranman in "How to Start Google"

ranman — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 03:54:44 +0000

> Don't try to guess whether gene editing or LLMs or rockets will turn out to be the most valuable technology to know about. No one can predict that. Just work on whatever interests you the most.

This optimizes for Paul's outcomes not for the individual outcomes.

New comment by ranman in "Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI"

ranman — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:05:42 +0000

Is this why AWS had this announcement on Friday? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/mistral-ai-models-coming-so...

New comment by ranman in "Walmart to buy TV maker Vizio for $2.3B"

ranman — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 14:57:28 +0000

If this clears anti-trust but Amazon/iRobot didn't then we'll know the anti-trust side of things is just based on your lobbying spend.

New comment by ranman in "Ohio gives historical status to building that once housed CompuServe"

ranman — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 03:32:38 +0000

... why?

New comment by ranman in "Normal Operating Sounds"

ranman — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 14:00:41 +0000

> Every single one of these could be engineered away.

You clearly didn't read half of the article. 50% of these are purposeful chimes.

Also, why? What is the value of making a compressor or fan more quiet on the 3? It would be much better to lower the cost. Worry about the sound on the higher end vehicles but let the 3 be low cost.

Bedrock First Impressions

ranman — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 06:26:20 +0000

Article URL: https://caylent.com/blog/amazon-bedrock-everything-you-need-to-know

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37699972

Points: 1

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