Hacker News: sixtyj

New comment by sixtyj in "Corgi kills short-lived website that ranked its female employees"

sixtyj — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:02:39 +0000

It will be a part of some book about sleaziness - this one, mano scene, incels, Weinstein, Epstein, Catholic priests… who else?

New comment by sixtyj in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

sixtyj — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:27:18 +0000

Free Chrome. /s

New comment by sixtyj in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

sixtyj — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:26:53 +0000

20 years and counting. :)

Thanks for every day that this browser works.

Sometimes I had to test something in Chrome - and it’s painful experience.

But it really depends on personal view - I have tried to convert my friends and they don’t feel it.

New comment by sixtyj in "WordPress Plugin Generator with AI"

sixtyj — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:17:37 +0000

This is both good and bad. :)

Good as it helps to test an idea really quickly.

Bad because Wordpress is frequent target for bad actors so using vibe-coded so probably vulnerable plugin without patches (how do you do them?) is a potential security mega hole.

New comment by sixtyj in "New DeepSeek Pricing Published (Peak and Off-Peak)"

sixtyj — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:39:50 +0000

DeekSeek did a strategic b2c mistake. It is always easier to start with higher prices and give discounts than go opposite way (=raise).

But people get used to higher prices. Or they churn out.

For hobby projects there can be local or free models. There are also some caching techniques.

New comment by sixtyj in "Why Not Always OCR?"

sixtyj — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:33:55 +0000

Offtopic but as it was mentioned in the text that Amazon Textract supports only few languages: Tesseract has so many languages support that I always wonder.

New comment by sixtyj in "TravelMatchr I built a matching app for travelers whose friends are never free"

sixtyj — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:59:15 +0000

Nice. Love the idea behind website.

Devil’s advocate here: Unfortunately, in this world, service provider should verify hosts and check them in registers (where available). At least it gives a little sense of security.

Without safety rules web could appear on the homepage of Daily Mail.

New comment by sixtyj in "HS₂ installs a plaque 40M below London to celebrate the Brunels' legacy"

sixtyj — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:52:14 +0000

That’s a nice detail:

> The plaque has been fixed to the wall of the Euston Tunnel just as it passes beneath Kensal Green Cemetery, where Sir Marc Isambard Brunel and his son, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, are buried.

New comment by sixtyj in "Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast"

sixtyj — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:34:07 +0000

Aha, thanks, that’s fresh; press release is from Aug 6

https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1296/am...

New comment by sixtyj in "Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast"

sixtyj — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:04:57 +0000

Yes, imho 14k TPS is just a beginning.

This Gas Town? https://github.com/gastownhall/gastown

New comment by sixtyj in "Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast"

sixtyj — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:40:10 +0000

At such output speed, I wouldn’t expect reasoning. (But I didn’t know it, thanks.)

700 TPS with reasoning is awesome and it speeds things up.

Cerebras as public traded company is worth keeping an eye what they produce.

New comment by sixtyj in "Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast"

sixtyj — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:19:35 +0000

Output from Cerebras with GPT model is 750 tokens per second.

Don’t blink.

(Chatjimmy has 14,200 TPS.)

New comment by sixtyj in "How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT [pdf]"

sixtyj — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:11:17 +0000

69 pages long.

New comment by sixtyj in "Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it"

sixtyj — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:48:18 +0000

The reason why Anthropic did it is imho the different - they don’t want to ingest their own output again (or somehow differentiate from already stored data) so they try to sign it.

The data volume that is generated daily is staggering so every petabyte counts :)

New comment by sixtyj in "Recast uses hyper-resolution AI weather model"

sixtyj — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:34:53 +0000

Recast Systems focuses on cloud seeding through a combination of hardware, biological, and software interventions. They want mitigate the effects of floods, hail, and other extreme events.

In the past 6 months they have produced a cheaper, more efficient seeding material, trained a hyper-resolution AI weather model, and operated 100+ cloud seeding flights for the governments of Texas and New Mexico.

Recast Systems is coming out of stealth.

https://x.com/recast/status/2087582521320177932

Recast uses hyper-resolution AI weather model

sixtyj — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:34:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.recastsystems.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282801

Points: 1

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New comment by sixtyj in "Dutch Train Map Simulator"

sixtyj — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:16:32 +0000

My bad. It works on mobile but I haven’t realized I need to tap the wheel to hide control panel. OP hid it by default now.

New comment by sixtyj in "Show HN: A website for exploring historical photographs of my city"

sixtyj — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:10:43 +0000

Awesome.

Any plans to make it global?

I think there is a lot of people who document (urban) landscape and would like to place their photos into map together with the view vector.

OldMapsOnline has a lot of georeferenced old map layers from around the world…

New comment by sixtyj in "Dutch Train Map Simulator"

sixtyj — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:16:33 +0000

I get it. In fact, managing and debugging two versions sucks.

In such cases, you can easily implement simple device detection and display “this is desktop app only”…

New comment by sixtyj in "The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)"

sixtyj — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:47:58 +0000

600 images in the page takes time to load.