Hacker News: shepardrtc

New comment by shepardrtc in "Show HN: KiviDB, a faster Redis-compatible memory database and vector cache"

shepardrtc — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:07:58 +0000

I don't care about AI being used to build it, or to write the site, but I do care about why its so much faster than redis. Antirez is pretty performance-obsessed. But outside of that, this looks like a fun project.

New comment by shepardrtc in "We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers"

shepardrtc — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:30:09 +0000

If you're looking for a decent local model, JevK5-4B is excellent. On my own benchmark for the things I work with (seeing if the answer to a question was correct given the evidence that was provided), it was within a point of jev.

New comment by shepardrtc in "The Copilot+ PC brand is dead"

shepardrtc — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:53:12 +0000

When people say they use copilot, I no longer have any idea which copilot they're talking about. Most of the time, neither do they.

New comment by shepardrtc in "Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models"

shepardrtc — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:42:19 +0000

It really does just work. And it works so well I already integrated it into my product. Saves me about 75% of costs for the section its working in, which isn't a small amount. I see a lot of negativity and I don't really get it either. Its so cheap and so fast, why not give it a try?

New comment by shepardrtc in "Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain"

shepardrtc — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:18:06 +0000

Thread about this from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49755533

New comment by shepardrtc in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

shepardrtc — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:42:58 +0000

People creating free software for everyone to use, only to pull it away when suddenly there's a technology that can instantly let everyone use it at the drop of a hat, is not something I quite understand. If you're doing it so you show people, hey I made this, then you can still do that. If you're doing it to help the world, then that's very much happening. Of if you're doing it just for fun, that's possible too, though I totally understand how much less fun it is when AI can rip it out in a few minutes.

New comment by shepardrtc in "AgentsDock: An IDE designed for agentic AI research"

shepardrtc — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:32:25 +0000

When you move the app to the trash, it leaves the server you have to install. It's still running and set to restart automatically.

New comment by shepardrtc in "I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots"

shepardrtc — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:55:33 +0000

"Bots? In my ecosystem?"

New comment by shepardrtc in "Chicken products recalled in five states due to “false marks of inspection”"

shepardrtc — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:19:20 +0000

> Did they understand what they were cutting.

No, they were using llm prompts to make decisions.

New comment by shepardrtc in "Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved"

shepardrtc — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:03:14 +0000

Fun read about Azure and having 173 agents running a node: https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize...

Probably just a coincidence that Github started to have issues after beginning their move to Azure at the end of last year.

New comment by shepardrtc in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

shepardrtc — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:47:17 +0000

> We wanted it, and Meta gave everyone the ability to have it.

Slight modification: We wanted to feel good about things, and Meta, knowing exactly what they were doing, took advantage of that to enrich themselves while gaslighting everyone that their manipulation and exploitation was totally ok and normal.

Its easy for people without a conscience like Zuckerberg to do that and laugh about it.

New comment by shepardrtc in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

shepardrtc — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:37:16 +0000

Meta has warped society to think that life is meaningless without affirmation.

No amount of money can fix that or punish them.

I think that sharing things can be wonderful, but monetizing that or adding Like counts to gamify it is very damaging to people. This idea that everyone should know better and take a ideological stand against some dumb app is ridiculous. Life can be hard at times, and these apps manipulated that.

New comment by shepardrtc in "Black hole singularity is a surface not a point"

shepardrtc — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:36:56 +0000

You can't turn around though. Everything goes toward the black hole. If you turned around, atoms would be moving away from, or at the least changing their direction in respect to the black hole. And that's not possible. You wouldn't even see anything because all light is going toward the center, and it wouldn't go into your eyes.

Unless you went in butt-first, but the path of the photons would have changed and would now be going toward the black hole, and everything would look probably all smushed together.

New comment by shepardrtc in "Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise"

shepardrtc — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:12:26 +0000

I lived in Seattle for a couple of years, where its completely legal, and I almost never smelled it. I smell it far more often in cities where its illegal.

New comment by shepardrtc in "New York’s office market is home to the most tech workers: CBRE report"

shepardrtc — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:17:16 +0000

I lived in Seattle for a couple of years, out in one of the suburbs (West Seattle). I would say that housing cost is the primary issue in Seattle, but its nowhere near San Francisco. Outside of that, public transit is pretty good. I have gone back and forth across the city, to Bellevue, even to Olympia, on public transit very cheaply and within a reasonable amount of time. The light rail recently opened up to Bellevue, though Bellevue is not really all that much cheaper lol.

The food didn't feel super expensive, but it definitely wasn't great. San Francisco and NYC are so much better. I have been consistently disappointed with the food in Seattle.

The one issue I see with Seattle is that they have a 30% or so vacancy rate for office buildings in downtown. A lot of companies have left, or will be moving. Many to Bellevue. The city decided to target businesses to fund more progressive policies, but with remote work, the businesses just moved across Lake Washington. Or to other states (like Starbucks). I don't see that changing. So now they have a budget deficit, lots of office vacancies, and the looming threat of more companies leaving. Not sure if that'll change it's standing or anything, but its not great.

New comment by shepardrtc in "Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise"

shepardrtc — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:59:57 +0000

Why was it a mistake?

New comment by shepardrtc in "The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]"

shepardrtc — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 01:29:58 +0000

At exorbitant costs or lackluster execution, with plenty of campaign donations along the way

New comment by shepardrtc in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

shepardrtc — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:23:39 +0000

That is easily fixable with the "Instructions for Claude" in your settings. Just put:

"be critical, but correct. I don't want affirmation, i want to actually accomplish things."

I don't get any sycophancy from it. The conversations are actually quite good, and it'll push back if it thinks I'm wrong.

New comment by shepardrtc in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

shepardrtc — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:06:25 +0000

It has an MIT License

New comment by shepardrtc in "Improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin"

shepardrtc — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:42:37 +0000

It happened to my father, who was suffering a severe mental decline because of hydrocephalus. After weeks of trying to figure out what happened, one day he was sitting in the hospital perfectly fine, talking normally. I remember being so relieved. But then the next day he was back to not knowing anything and being half aware. He died a few weeks later.