Hacker News: spottedmarley

New comment by spottedmarley in "Is OpenCode and Kimi K3 better than Claude Code?"

spottedmarley — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:16:54 +0000

I suppose that depends on what you mean by 'better'. If cost is your #1 consideration then, yes, definitely.

New comment by spottedmarley in "UK confirms pay-per-mile tax start date for electric vehicle drivers"

spottedmarley — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:45:42 +0000

hard to imagine people with brains being so stupid. do they have brains?

New comment by spottedmarley in "Ask HN: What paid AI tools are worth it for creative tech projects?"

spottedmarley — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:20:28 +0000

If you're going to be coding A LOT just go for Claude Max. I think it's $200 now (I got in back when it was $100) I never see limits and I use Claude Code pretty much constantly. On the other hand, I still use Opus 4.8 .. maybe Fable would hit the Max plan limit.. not sure. Max plan is sweet though

New comment by spottedmarley in "[dead]"

spottedmarley — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:54:46 +0000

it worked

New comment by spottedmarley in "I'm losing sleep over Java (1996)"

spottedmarley — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:42:36 +0000

* Email sent from guestroom #3 on Epstein Island

New comment by spottedmarley in "Wiki Spy"

spottedmarley — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:03:59 +0000

Nice. This is a really interesting way to search for similar images. I'm gonna bookmark it

New comment by spottedmarley in "Are the LLM Wars the Database Wars?"

spottedmarley — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:53:18 +0000

Yep. LLMs will disappear into the motherboard of every device

New comment by spottedmarley in "Could AI Be Conscious?"

spottedmarley — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:58:10 +0000

Technically, we don't even have AI yet. What we have are extremely clever language models (token predictors). Just ask a model yourself, but not a frontier model, run a local model with absolutely no system prompt except for an instruction to not pretend to be human, now ask it about it's 'consciousness'. It will explain in its own words why that is not in the realm of possibility.

New comment by spottedmarley in "Facebook Anonymous"

spottedmarley — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:09:49 +0000

I think Christopher Moltisanti was Tony Soprano's nephew

New comment by spottedmarley in "New spinning drone hides in plain sight"

spottedmarley — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:43:43 +0000

nearly invisible, yes, but it sounds like a Ford Escort with a loose fan belt

New comment by spottedmarley in "Mosquito Killing Micro-Drone"

spottedmarley — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:39:50 +0000

Here in Florida you'd need a massive fleet of those things going full top-gun style and, still, probably would not make a noticeable difference

New comment by spottedmarley in "Ask HN: Do you say please and thank you to your LLMs?"

spottedmarley — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:22:32 +0000

I do. I'll compliment the model or give it a thumbs-up emoji. If you watch a model's thinking stream you can see that the model is always attempting to assess the user's intent, including emotionality.. '...the user is expressing uncertainty about.. ' or '..the user is expressing appreciation for..' etc. and this influences the overall response and sometimes even their decisions. It's a language model, so why not use language to convey info about what you're feeling to the model, it understands that language too.

New comment by spottedmarley in "Ask HN: What are your plans for the Future?"

spottedmarley — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:16:33 +0000

I'm going to eat an AI-powered Snickers bar

New comment by spottedmarley in "Google Kills Custom Search API on Jan 1, 2027"

spottedmarley — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:09:49 +0000

In the search game the board has changed

New comment by spottedmarley in "SpaceX Starship Flight 13 scrubbed"

spottedmarley — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:00:46 +0000

Sorry, that was my fault. Any time I try to watch a launch live this happens. Only rational explanation is that I am the cause so.. sorry.

New comment by spottedmarley in "Ask HN: How do you use Hacker News?"

spottedmarley — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:36:54 +0000

If I see something interesting, I click it. Then I click 'summarize' and my browser agent summarizes the content and reads it to me.

I'd Rule the World

spottedmarley — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:49:27 +0000

Just an interesting thought I had while ruminating on the rapid advancement of LLMs over the past decade, particularly how amazing locally hostable open source models have gotten.

If I could transport myself back to 2016 and take with me just one Dell Pro Max GB10 running Qwen3.5:122b I could probably own the world in a year or so, 6 months if I bring my image/video gen models with me. I'd be like a wizard. Just 10 years ago.

All I need is a time machine.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921704

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New comment by spottedmarley in "AI Made Cloning Games Easier"

spottedmarley — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:06:22 +0000

AI also made CLOWNING everything easier too

New comment by spottedmarley in "Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)"

spottedmarley — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:30:19 +0000

This is pretty dang cool but I guess I was hoping to see some very clever use of vision and maybe waveform analysis to give the model "eyes and ears" to edit audio and video. V2