Hacker News: rtaylorgarlock

New comment by rtaylorgarlock in "Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal"

rtaylorgarlock — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:21:26 +0000

party-line voters would be really mad if they could read this

New comment by rtaylorgarlock in "ChatGPT Pro 500"

rtaylorgarlock — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:32:22 +0000

Oh don't worry, you get to keep your higher usage allowance for one month. hahahaha

New comment by rtaylorgarlock in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

rtaylorgarlock — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:12:55 +0000

Pretty sure this is the reason HN exists ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ lol

New comment by rtaylorgarlock in "Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting"

rtaylorgarlock — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:21:13 +0000

Interesting; I checked my personal acct setting this morning given other news, and found it disabled. I hadn't used my chatgpt account since ~'23 or earlier, and it was retained since then.

New comment by rtaylorgarlock in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

rtaylorgarlock — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:47:15 +0000

"hacker news"

New comment by rtaylorgarlock in "Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM"

rtaylorgarlock — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:09:26 +0000

Heads up, I've universally been downvoted here for humor. Telling, really.

New comment by rtaylorgarlock in "Mistral OCR 4.1"

rtaylorgarlock — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:06:01 +0000

I've been a bit more careful about complaining about regulations broadly due to competitive advantage, e.g. ITAR

New comment by rtaylorgarlock in "Mistral OCR 4.1"

rtaylorgarlock — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:05:02 +0000

Yet: how is pricing? Evaluating contents and routing appropriately isn't a new challenge in OCR, one of the oldest fields of applications in ML. Thus, how do the smaller open models perform in tandem with relatively pricy $/pg models & APIs? Your use case is remarkably rare relative to the volume and price sensitivity of enterprise data warehouse ops.

New comment by rtaylorgarlock in "Gloomberb"

rtaylorgarlock — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:52:40 +0000

Let those be the 40% we prefer less :) Revealing stack does not validate the framework, but we appreciate some foss sauce 'round these parts.

New comment by rtaylorgarlock in "The SpaceX Sham"

rtaylorgarlock — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:31:20 +0000

I remember when a post of mine was flagged due to pretty obvious patent trolling against a cool FOSS project, but i made the critical error of 'crying' in my title. Maybe I should flag this to get it out of my system.

New comment by rtaylorgarlock in "How to Spot AI Writing"

rtaylorgarlock — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:35:01 +0000

https://archive.is/i9UQP

New comment by rtaylorgarlock in "Amen Break"

rtaylorgarlock — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:29:03 +0000

With some very healthy 'fair use' aspects, though I also would not have picked the Wikipedia article (as others have noted in these comments). Judicious use of flags is encouraged.

New comment by rtaylorgarlock in "Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all"

rtaylorgarlock — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:59:54 +0000

I also classify 'presence on HN' as a cause of adverse reactions. ;)

New comment by rtaylorgarlock in "Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all"

rtaylorgarlock — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 02:24:28 +0000

Have you ever been downvoted for calling 'dupe?' I once was downvoted after calling dupe on a link posted thrice. HN is an interesting place to hang out, that's for sure.

New comment by rtaylorgarlock in "I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)"

rtaylorgarlock — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 02:22:19 +0000

Hold on, rational humans downvoted this? Because you can't discern which is satirical and you have no sense of humor? I'll give you the same treatment I give cringe lords in online first-person shooters: take a shower.

New comment by rtaylorgarlock in "Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all"

rtaylorgarlock — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 02:17:33 +0000

Agreed, though open weights + relatively small is still headline worthy. This thing really cooks.

New comment by rtaylorgarlock in "I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)"

rtaylorgarlock — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:53:30 +0000

Your comment, or the post? ;) (I'll see myself out)

New comment by rtaylorgarlock in "Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion"

rtaylorgarlock — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:18:55 +0000

PSA: If your comment includes a variant of "I like releasing directly AI in my vault..." or "My vault as context is required..." I ignore your comment :D

New comment by rtaylorgarlock in "Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer"

rtaylorgarlock — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:01:20 +0000

I got you a gold star ;) Excited to use this, as I've been frustrated by vendor lock-in for this exact use case.

New comment by rtaylorgarlock in "Zed 1.0"

rtaylorgarlock — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:30:06 +0000

^^the #1 reason I limit my daily time allowance for HN