Hacker News: solumos

New comment by solumos in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

solumos — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:22:35 +0000

No no, MemPal is a memory system, not an LLM

New comment by solumos in "“Collaboration” is bullshit"

solumos — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 05:03:05 +0000

I think it's just explaining the difference between comms/collab being a supporting thing vs the only thing? It doesn't seem intended to be deep to me, but it's a little verbose.

New comment by solumos in "Migrating the American express payment network, twice"

solumos — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:36:05 +0000

My ISP (Spectrum) is also blocking it as suspicious...it's kind of funny that they haven't migrated the blog to SSL

New comment by solumos in "Migrating the American express payment network, twice"

solumos — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:34:54 +0000

It's definitely not 140ms round-trip. Issuer processors typically have a ~2.5s window for approval.

In practice, the POS sends a message to the acquirer processor -> hits the network -> is sent to the issuer processor, and back again.

https://medium.com/wharton-fintech/the-anatomy-of-the-swipe-...

New comment by solumos in "I’m joining OpenAI"

solumos — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:49:25 +0000

Yes, just like Jony Ive has been doing

New comment by solumos in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

solumos — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:13:35 +0000

It can make/take phone calls[0], but they need to be prompted on the nature of the call, the data they need, and how to collect it. They can also output the results of the call via API. An AI agent from Masterworks recently called me using this technology.

[0] https://vapi.ai/

New comment by solumos in "Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled"

solumos — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:04:58 +0000

You generally want to IPO (and fundraise in general) at the most favorable terms possible — not when there are market headwinds.

New comment by solumos in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)"

solumos — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:31:33 +0000

> $8k contract → 5% equity

Surely this is a typo, and you mean 50% equity?

New comment by solumos in "Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B"

solumos — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 03:16:53 +0000

Fintech of that cohort is trading poorly, if they haven't found a way to survive post-ZIRP. Many have not.

New comment by solumos in "Go away Python"

solumos — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 11:26:19 +0000

> I started this post out mostly trolling, but the more I've thought about it's not a terrible idea.

I feel like this is the unofficial Go motto, and it almost always ends up being a terrible idea.

New comment by solumos in "Be Like Clippy"

solumos — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 18:20:22 +0000

Data brokering is a good business model, actually

New comment by solumos in "Modular monolith and microservices: Modularity is what matters"

solumos — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:08:04 +0000

1 Could maybe make sense for a proof of concept, but realize that you're probably throwing it away (sooner better than later).

Start with 2, and think about the separation of deployable targets and shared libraries/plugins. You can eventually carve out separate infra for deployable targets when resource contention becomes a problem (e.g. DB load is affecting unrelated services)

3 is rarely the right first step for a small team

4 is never the right first step for a small team

New comment by solumos in "Public Montessori programs strengthen learning outcomes at lower costs: study"

solumos — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:53:25 +0000

As a product of public montessori, I couldn't agree more

New comment by solumos in "Designing software for things that rot"

solumos — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:58:50 +0000

You're absolutely right!

New comment by solumos in "Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an Nvidia Spark via brute force with Claude Code"

solumos — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 23:39:42 +0000

> And like a junior dev it ran into some problems and needed some nudges.

There are people who don't get blocked waiting for external input in order to get tasks like this done, which I think is the intended comparison. There's a level of intuition that junior devs and LLMs don't have that senior devs do.

New comment by solumos in "Show HN: PDF Link – Text deep links for PDFs"

solumos — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:40:43 +0000

I was building a RAG system with a lot of PDFs, and I couldn't find a great way to "deep link" into specific citations, so I built this. It uses existing standards for PDF page links, and HTML text fragment directives.

It works well on Chrome/Edge, but still working out some kinks with Firefox/Safari!

Show HN: PDF Link – Text deep links for PDFs

solumos — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:37:38 +0000

Article URL: https://pdf-link.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45657888

Points: 3

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New comment by solumos in "Show HN: Metorial (YC F25) – Vercel for MCP"

solumos — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:54:17 +0000

The distinction between "Vercel for MCP [integrations]" and "Vercel for MCP [servers]" is meaningful — maybe "Zapier for MCP" is a more appropriate "X for Y"?.

Congrats on the launch!

New comment by solumos in "Financing My Klarna Doritos Locos Taco"

solumos — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 02:30:17 +0000

We should meet.

New comment by solumos in "Financing My Klarna Doritos Locos Taco"

solumos — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 02:17:23 +0000

If it were truly as exploitative as you're suggesting, wouldn't the aggregate consumer fees/interest be more than the merchant fees?