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New comment by sosodev in "Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest"

sosodev — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:36:20 +0000

Yeah, what people want is games that aren’t slop. Defining that is probably impossible. We’ve always had shovelware, but the volume now is unsustainable and only going to get worse.

New comment by sosodev in "MiniMax M3.1 Flash"

sosodev — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:07:07 +0000

I’ve been agentic coding at home with like 15 TPS on average. I don’t mind it at all. I can give my agent a big task or a list of little ones and just… do something else. Why do I need to watch it work?

New comment by sosodev in "Show HN: Flipflop – Iroh-powered persistent tunnels for filesharing"

sosodev — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:32:48 +0000

It’s something I’ve thought about a lot recently.

I decided not to build it because I think open, decentralized, and encrypted file sharing with good search is something of a Pandora’s box.

New comment by sosodev in "Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher"

sosodev — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:20:08 +0000

So I’m supposed to maintain a native app for each platform and try to be sure they’re aligned in every way except visuals? Sounds like a recipe for bad UX if anybody uses more than one of them.

New comment by sosodev in "Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher"

sosodev — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:26:06 +0000

But there’s still no way to get consistent results cross-platform without a web view, right? I guess Tauri isn’t even consistent because it relies on the system’s browser and they do differ to some degree.

New comment by sosodev in "LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents"

sosodev — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:03:31 +0000

In my experience, Qwen3.8-27b is so much more capable than its MoE predecessors. I find it odd that you think it produces the same results.

New comment by sosodev in "Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists"

sosodev — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:00:46 +0000

Yeah, I know we’re not supposed to say it, but HN is dying. The amount of slop that is getting praise on the site lately is insane.

New comment by sosodev in "Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages"

sosodev — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:10:42 +0000

Not ASCII and a lot of art looks off and has broken animations.

I’m not one to say that all AI art is slop, but there’s so little effort here. Why exactly are so many praising this?

New comment by sosodev in "'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us"

sosodev — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:07:12 +0000

Tracing definitely develops skills. I know many artists have traced their favorite works to get a sense of how it was put together. The trace doesn’t have any artistic value though.

New comment by sosodev in "Leaving Proton Mail"

sosodev — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:04:08 +0000

Oh, I totally agree that it’s a valid reason. I just don’t find the authors gripe very meaningful. I say that as somebody who switched to Proton for political reasons too haha.

New comment by sosodev in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

sosodev — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:31:29 +0000

There are a lot of bad arguments in this. My biggest problem is that he wants to claim that he knows the truth (AIs do not have rights, feelings, or consciousness), but all of his arguments point to something else (we have no clue).

It's in the training data? Training it to say "I'm just a LLM, I have no feelings" is the same bias.

Anthropomorphization? Completely disregarding the possibility of consciousness is no better.

Consciousness is very likely biological? We only have evidence of biological life due to our circumstances, but observation is not the same as truth. Every belief can be invalidated. That's the foundation of science!

New comment by sosodev in "Leaving Proton Mail"

sosodev — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:58:23 +0000

Maybe Proton’s copy needs some work, but another page on their website very clearly explains that emails aren’t encrypted when an email leave the ecosystem. Because, as the author points out, they can’t be.

Also, I hate Trump too, but a broken clock is right twice a day. It’s possible to agree with some of the things he says while not being a “Trump man”. Why should we be surprised that the company founded on anti big-tech principles would have a founder who is against big-tech?

I think too that the only way to escape AI-written code in software products is to have written every line yourself. Which is obviously impossible because you’re not going to bootstrap the operating system.

New comment by sosodev in "GPT-6 built this earth exploration site in 5 prompts"

sosodev — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:42:10 +0000

I’ve wanted something like this for a long time. However, I wanted it with extensive fact-checked information and AI slop is the opposite of that so I feel this is kinda pointless.

Patience Is Required for Local AI

sosodev — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:36:40 +0000

Article URL: https://kylemcgough.com/blogs/patience-is-required-for-local-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451972

Points: 16

# Comments: 2

Ripping Off the Hey.com Band-Aid

sosodev — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:39:24 +0000

Article URL: https://kylemcgough.com/blogs/ripping-off-the-heycom-band-aid

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441042

Points: 36

# Comments: 4

New comment by sosodev in "Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)"

sosodev — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:47:46 +0000

Yeah, but that computer can’t also do the AI stuff. And not everybody has a desktop with multiple 32GB GPUs available.

I’ll admit though I’m biased because I bought my board for $1600 back before the prices went crazy.

New comment by sosodev in "Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)"

sosodev — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:20:19 +0000

That’s only true if you think AI is the only reason to own a powerful and efficient server. Mine does plenty of traditional server stuff too.

New comment by sosodev in "Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs"

sosodev — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:46:48 +0000

One agent typically blocks the others on a local device because the GPU is already completely utilized either in terms of memory or compute. You can have true parallelism at home, but you need an absurd amount of resources. It's not a simple threading problem.

New comment by sosodev in "Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs"

sosodev — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:18:11 +0000

What about do you mean by single threaded? Each token is predicted by using parallel computation on the GPU.

New comment by sosodev in "Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs"

sosodev — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:16:23 +0000

That's not how that works. Selecting a different token is not inherently erroneous. A correct solution can still be found despite divergence.