Hacker News: tacomagick

New comment by tacomagick in "Forgot your phone PIN? Google could look to past to save you from factory reset"

tacomagick — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:09:55 +0000

Literally any Android phone?

New comment by tacomagick in "Gemini 2.5 models extended indefinitely for aactive users"

tacomagick — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:05:42 +0000

What is still interesting about Gemini 2.5? Is it still used for image classification?

New comment by tacomagick in "Forgot your phone PIN? Google could look to past to save you from factory reset"

tacomagick — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:03:53 +0000

This is horrible.

New comment by tacomagick in "MiMo v2.6"

tacomagick — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:24:18 +0000

OpenAI had to cut costs because of Anthropic. I also do not trust the benchmarks when it comes to models anymore. I have tried both Claude and OpenAI models and while it is true that the 5.6 series is smarter than Deepseek (at the time i tested it against 4.0) at that price it is still not worth it and sometimes randomly refuses to do tasks or stops midway etc.

Do also remember China is this far in the AI race despite all chip restrictions from America. If they were in equal standards I truly think Chinese models would have long surpassed American ones. Also would like to remind how Anthropic CEO is being hostile and blaming Chinese models with distilling meanwhile their own models claimed to be Qwen¹ and their stance against open models is negative² and they still keep blaming China for it.

1- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671252

2-https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models

New comment by tacomagick in "MiMo v2.6"

tacomagick — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:04:01 +0000

Absolutely! Chinese models are both cheaper and more capable in many cases, compared to the American models and their makers continuously fumbling or reducing model capability with each update. Deepseek decreased costs when they released Flash 4.1 you would not see any American company do this, in reverse they would try charge you more.

New comment by tacomagick in "GNU/Linux Has Grown a Lot Lately"

tacomagick — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:25:44 +0000

I don't see a reason not to call them Clownflare.

New comment by tacomagick in "Heretic removes restrictions from language models"

tacomagick — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:11:10 +0000

I personally never saw much of a quality drop from models put through Heretic if that amounts to anything. They have been working quite well on small local models so far.

New comment by tacomagick in "Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5"

tacomagick — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:02:47 +0000

I guess you have AI to write your docker files and push your images now.

New comment by tacomagick in "ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and Compression"

tacomagick — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:51:14 +0000

Something a calibration tool surely can do I assume.

New comment by tacomagick in "Typesafe-computer-use drives a Mac toward a goal for 1/50th of a cent per step"

tacomagick — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 06:53:24 +0000

If you do not respect your project to write your readme yourself chances are i will not care though.

New comment by tacomagick in "North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes"

tacomagick — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:10:07 +0000

Before Blackrock buys and sells them at 50000% markup

New comment by tacomagick in "Replacing Pull Requests with Delta"

tacomagick — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:52:42 +0000

That sounds like a problem waiting to happen.

New comment by tacomagick in "CrowdSec Source Code Leak"

tacomagick — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:43:19 +0000

Ah, I just learned this, thanks for the heads up.

New comment by tacomagick in "Introducing GNOME 51, "A Coruña""

tacomagick — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:43:26 +0000

Really? I have been struggling to get mine to work on my Asus laptop. I guess I have a driver problem more than anything. Thanks for letting me know!

New comment by tacomagick in "Running a personal website is not fun anymore"

tacomagick — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:10:54 +0000

I think Hugo is enough, if you want a web admin interface or an editor it goes into the CMS region which becomes bulky and hard to manage compared to just editing a few .md files under Hugo.

New comment by tacomagick in "Spotify lets parents exclude kids' music from Wrapped and recommendations"

tacomagick — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:06:06 +0000

Has this been a thing? AFAIK after removing the Family Mix from the daily playlists there is nothing merging accounts under a family plan other than a Blend.

New comment by tacomagick in "Libinput 1.32 Released with Circular Scrolling Support for Circular Touchpads"

tacomagick — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:04:19 +0000

This could be useful for Asus' dialpads too i think? Letting them have a use case under Linux as a scroll wheel I wonder how well it would work.

New comment by tacomagick in "Introducing GNOME 51, "A Coruña""

tacomagick — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:02:53 +0000

The accelerometer rotation feature will be an awesome addition, I think so far there is no DE that lets you do that without some custom scripts. I have to test that out real soon. Windows used to handle that pretty good (if you ignore wallpapers breaking etc.) so it was one of the stopping points for users who just want a Linux that works for their AIO laptops.

New comment by tacomagick in "HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?"

tacomagick — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:02:48 +0000

Moving from CC I can agree OpenCode seems very simple. I don't see what is too much about it honestly.

New comment by tacomagick in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model"

tacomagick — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:15:59 +0000

Depends on a lot of factors, AFAIK Claude Code (TUI Harness) does not work well with Deepseek, but Opencode is surprisingly good.