Hacker News: stavros

New comment by stavros in "Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots"

stavros — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:58:43 +0000

310 tok/sec on my browser, hm.

New comment by stavros in "Recycle – Floppydisks"

stavros — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:23:30 +0000

Hm, if there's anything of note in the floppies, maybe archive them? There are some USB devices that will read and store the actual magnetic flux values, for max fidelity.

New comment by stavros in "Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week"

stavros — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:33:32 +0000

I guess they conflated "sprint" with "crunch".

New comment by stavros in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"

stavros — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:52:43 +0000

It sends a request to requestb.in and reads the public log of the headers. There are ways.

New comment by stavros in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"

stavros — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:21:30 +0000

That's what the GP means as well, you can use pyenv and uv to install multiple versions of Python and create envs with whichever version you want to use.

New comment by stavros in "User Interfaces of the Demo Scene"

stavros — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:49:31 +0000

Can confirm it's ημίτονο in Greek.

New comment by stavros in "What Happened to HackerOne?"

stavros — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:26:09 +0000

It doesn't let me, it says says sending crypto is temporarily blocked. Maybe they just blocked me.

New comment by stavros in "What Happened to HackerOne?"

stavros — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:23:41 +0000

Can't do that with cash either, yet lots of people are using that.

New comment by stavros in "What Happened to HackerOne?"

stavros — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:22:50 +0000

No it doesn't. You can gamble with it, but it doesn't let you own or send it.

New comment by stavros in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

stavros — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:04:08 +0000

What's good about it? I use OpenCode and it does what I need, basically.

New comment by stavros in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

stavros — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:03:25 +0000

I use the Deepseek API and pay peanuts. Very satisfied.

New comment by stavros in "Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users"

stavros — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:22:02 +0000

That tracks, I wonder what the people who say that the models are too dumb expect to see. Miracles?

New comment by stavros in "Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users"

stavros — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:07:02 +0000

How are the models too dumb? How are they dumber than the average person? I wonder if anyone gave Claude an IQ test (the one for humans).

New comment by stavros in "Don't be a meat proxy"

stavros — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:04:45 +0000

Did Claude write that top-level comment?

New comment by stavros in "What I love about Django"

stavros — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:31:50 +0000

Thanks, my love of comedy is only surpassed by my love of Django.

New comment by stavros in "What I love about Django"

stavros — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:23:17 +0000

I agree, Django is just fantastic. Nothing is perfect, but Django is just really well-designed, with components that fit together naturally into a balanced whole.

New comment by stavros in "Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July"

stavros — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:15:55 +0000

True, I see lots of Teslas and BYDs here in Greece (and own a BYD). Wouldn't go back to ICE.

New comment by stavros in "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time"

stavros — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:14:00 +0000

I don't think it is, I think it's the methane, which is by far the largest greenhouse gas contributor in the process. Besides, the other emissions go away once your energy production is renewables.

New comment by stavros in "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time"

stavros — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:49:27 +0000

Wait, how does beef emit carbon? I thought the main problem with beef was methane, not carbon emissions.

Ah, I see, your graph says CO2-equivalent, not CO2. It's the methane.

New comment by stavros in "Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share"

stavros — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:33:20 +0000

I think you're both right. An EV is wonderful if you can charge at home, and a chore if you can't. Fast chargers help, but they're expensive and still not as fast as gas.

If you have a wall plug at home, an EV is basically always full. I'm shopping for a flat and one of my non-negotiable requirements is a parking spot with a plug. The one I'm looking at now even has a three-phase plug, which is a nice extra, but not really necessary.