Hacker News: smgpie

New comment by smgpie in "GPT-6 Astra"

smgpie — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:47:49 +0000

AGI has always been expected to outperform humans or else what is the point of it?

New comment by smgpie in "The August 17 outage"

smgpie — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:26:26 +0000

I have setup a gitea instance on my gitea server which I think is good for me and GitHub both. For one, I dont have to worry about GitHub service outages, and GitHub gets to be free from my toy (and mostly AI slop) projects that no one else will ever read/use/participate in :-)

New comment by smgpie in "git git git git git"

smgpie — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:18:46 +0000

And sometimes when I type fast there is "gis tatus"

New comment by smgpie in "Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo"

smgpie — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:08:30 +0000

Dont know about other places, but in my place, almost every xbox user I know already play all digitally now. Literally xbox is the first console platform to drop physical disc long before sony, though not officially stated.

New comment by smgpie in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

smgpie — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:00:20 +0000

But that's not how the numbers work. I bought a PS5 (instead of gaming on Steam or Xbox) because I could buy physical discs, and I like having them. I buy digital games from time to time as well, but if the PS5 hadn't supported physical games at all, I wouldn't have bought one in the first place, just as I most likely won't buy a PS6 because of this announcement.

New comment by smgpie in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

smgpie — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:05:03 +0000

Well, chromium the web engine is open source but it is still hard to craft a web engine with equal level of performance and other metrics, even with a team of talents.

Besides that, what you say may be true from the google's perspective. From a user(which I am) perspective, Google and Microsoft and other big corps have proven again and again with their actions that they cannot be trusted, just refer to https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary.html.

New comment by smgpie in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

smgpie — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:12:13 +0000

Yes I do think cloud providers should open source all of their platforms, and this is not charity because it is essentially the hosting that they are providing as a product. Even if, say, google open sources its whole search infrastructure, it does not at all means you can just host your own due to the huge hardware requirements, but you can know(especially after AI which can be utilized to do this) that they are not using your data in a way they shouldnt.

New comment by smgpie in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

smgpie — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:18:21 +0000

And I just checked kagi search API is in public preview now

New comment by smgpie in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

smgpie — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:11:21 +0000

kagi seems to provide a mcp server as well although maybe no direct API access

New comment by smgpie in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

smgpie — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:51:01 +0000

I am indeed looking into an alternative to Google recently, but more because of my need of a good search mcp server for my coding agents. I am thinking about either exa or kagi, but I have no idea which one is better. Also exa seems not quite frequently mentioned in the community, wondering why.

New comment by smgpie in "Using Kagi Search with Low Vision"

smgpie — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:40:43 +0000

Just curious, with this privacy pass setup, how do I know that the server generated "auth token" is not actually linked to my account somehow?

New comment by smgpie in "AI eats the world"

smgpie — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 06:56:14 +0000

But I do think our current path on these huge networks are far from leading us to the long-desired AGI, this is just doubling the compute as well as cost as time goes on.