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New comment by sneilan1 in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

sneilan1 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:06:28 +0000

I am so happy that Anthropic has signaled the possibility that their UI moat for agentic AI is copyable by competitors. At least that's the way I read this. When companies try to lock something down it can be a signal of weakness.

If so, it's possible to built great user interfaces in Chatbots and more companies/people can have amazing agentic development workflows! We don't have to live in a world where only the market leader has the most enjoyable model.

New comment by sneilan1 in "I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert"

sneilan1 — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:37:10 +0000

I wish the author had not used the words "Abandoned Mine in the Atacama Desert" Abandoned mine would've been fine. But now you've communicated the value of your find and given a basic hint of what mines to look up. The bright side is so far, author is probably fine because nobody's buying quantum crystals yet in a futures market.

At least the author has time to secure property rights and buy out old mines.

New comment by sneilan1 in "The Future of Obsidian Plugins"

sneilan1 — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:42:46 +0000

Awesome!! Super excited to try this out. Amazing work.

New comment by sneilan1 in "Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan"

sneilan1 — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:01:30 +0000

I've been using obsidian for years as a paying customer. Will continue to pay as price point is good and it just works. However, unless plugin security massively improves I will never install any plugins.

New comment by sneilan1 in "Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan"

sneilan1 — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:00:38 +0000

This is why I NEVER install any obsidian plugins - EVER. Obsidian itself is good. Obsidian plugins = security nightmare.

New comment by sneilan1 in "Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)"

sneilan1 — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:07:42 +0000

I did not realize Boris made the tutorial that got me into programming. Wow. What a great find! And is the Ilya S Ilya Sutskever?

New comment by sneilan1 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

sneilan1 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:57:35 +0000

This is insanely cool. Thanks for sharing. I'll follow you on https://muppetlabs.com/.

New comment by sneilan1 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

sneilan1 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:04:11 +0000

I'm learning how to train transformer models locally to do useful work instead of having to pay for claude. I regularly update my blog here https://seanneilan.com/posts

New comment by sneilan1 in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

sneilan1 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:42:25 +0000

If it can be used for inference, who cares right? Just have claude vibe code some objective-C or run the Enclave app.

New comment by sneilan1 in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

sneilan1 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:41:34 +0000

That's very funny. Bravo.

New comment by sneilan1 in "Right-sizes LLM models to your system's RAM, CPU, and GPU"

sneilan1 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:08:26 +0000

This is exactly what I needed. I've been thinking about making this tool. For running and experimenting with local models this is invaluable.

New comment by sneilan1 in "Latency numbers every programmer should know"

sneilan1 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:20:25 +0000

Does anyone have Jeff Dean's sources for how he computed these numbers? What's the margin of error? How accurate are they now? Is there a set of numbers that also talks about memory bandwidth in GPUs? Are these numbers intel/amd only? How do they differ between an m1 architecture?

New comment by sneilan1 in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

sneilan1 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:10:03 +0000

I'm a lot happier now being an anthropic customer.

New comment by sneilan1 in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

sneilan1 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:19:22 +0000

Yes, this is probably the piece I am not realizing. However, there is no better approach to getting more capital than by scaring people?

New comment by sneilan1 in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

sneilan1 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:22:01 +0000

Yes, the CEO's of these AI companies are clearly not the people who should be selling AI products. They need to be hidden away and kept behind closed doors where they can do their best work. And they need advertising companies, PR firms and better marketing tactics to try and soothe the customers.

New comment by sneilan1 in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

sneilan1 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:12:05 +0000

I don't understand why some of these AI companies check their egos at the door and hire public relations companies. Yes, I understand they are changing the world but customers do not open their wallets when they are scared. Very few people I know are as avant-guarde as I am with AI, but, most people look at these new technologies and simply feel fear. Why pay for something that will replace you?

New comment by sneilan1 in "What I Learned Using Local Vision Models for Scraping"

sneilan1 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:18:07 +0000

Learned a lot about local models using them to scrape target.com.

What I Learned Using Local Vision Models for Scraping

sneilan1 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:18:07 +0000

Article URL: https://seanneilan.com/posts/scraping-target-with-qwen/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106601

Points: 2

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New comment by sneilan1 in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

sneilan1 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:51:08 +0000

I love it! I'm at level 6 and brave enough to try. I'm in. Giving this a shot!

New comment by sneilan1 in "Show HN: I built a text-based business simulator to replace video courses"

sneilan1 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:25:09 +0000

This wins the internet today. Amazing work!!!