Hacker News: rat9988

New comment by rat9988 in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

rat9988 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:57:59 +0000

Still, seems useless to measure tokens when you can measure speed.

New comment by rat9988 in "OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI"

rat9988 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:17:06 +0000

This is why I have been asking to fire product owners. Givven the same input, but different software engineers working with them, they can produce different output (code).

New comment by rat9988 in "Meta's AI models are powering the first wave of Genesis Mission projects"

rat9988 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:51:16 +0000

> My guess is, Zuck really likes the idea,

You made an assumption, that's a good thing to expand thinking.

> It's almost as if having a CEO of a company placed beyond the control of the corporate board is a bad thing.

You can't draw such conclusion then.

New comment by rat9988 in "Qwen 3.8"

rat9988 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:38:53 +0000

Please link these comments in chatgpt, grok, claude and gemini announcement threads on hacker news.

New comment by rat9988 in "Qwen 3.8"

rat9988 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:23:47 +0000

I don't see it in grok or chatgpt launch threads.

New comment by rat9988 in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

rat9988 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 01:22:47 +0000

The current case still seems very heavy on personal preference. Principles application is subjective as we are all human. I found the comment as interesting as the quote it is answering.

New comment by rat9988 in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

rat9988 — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:30:57 +0000

They never claimed it was technically hard. Brand recognition is their forte. They found out there is a need, developped a product around it.

New comment by rat9988 in "Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle"

rat9988 — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:41:04 +0000

Your answer's tone is weird.

New comment by rat9988 in "France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American"

rat9988 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:17:06 +0000

Obviously B2B given the context

New comment by rat9988 in "Japan's cherry blossom database, 1,200 years old, has a new keeper"

rat9988 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:53:50 +0000

Not really, there is a promise of a better career in the future.

New comment by rat9988 in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

rat9988 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:10:08 +0000

The art is not lost, just not funded. Feel free to fund the programmers for your own software projects.

New comment by rat9988 in "StepFun 3.5 Flash is #1 cost-effective model for OpenClaw tasks (300 battles)"

rat9988 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:13:06 +0000

Too late for what? For you? maybe. There are many others that are okay with it and it doesn't disminish the quality of the work. Props to the author.

New comment by rat9988 in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

rat9988 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:46:09 +0000

You usually cite the original story

New comment by rat9988 in "2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews"

rat9988 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:31:02 +0000

Banned from doing free work?

New comment by rat9988 in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

rat9988 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:28:35 +0000

N*Log(N) can be approximated to O(N) for most realistic usecases.

As for LLM, there is probably some cost constant added once it can fit on a single GPU, but should probably be almost linear.

New comment by rat9988 in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

rat9988 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:56:38 +0000

I wonder how you get paid if you fail the interview.

New comment by rat9988 in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

rat9988 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:29:59 +0000

There is a difference between being smart and acting smart.

New comment by rat9988 in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

rat9988 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:28:38 +0000

if you answer ""Well I would probably go home and work on my resume because that's a fool's errand." You probably are missing the wood and the trees.

New comment by rat9988 in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

rat9988 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:41:47 +0000

This part of trust was not about you trusting the government though so it is okay.

New comment by rat9988 in "Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data"

rat9988 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:33:05 +0000

Just curious how much does it sell? It gives an idea about how much my personal data is worth