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New comment by tadasv in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

tadasv — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:10:19 +0000

I hope that open models will dominate. The difficult part to reconcile for me is the amount of compute that's required to create and run such models. Small models are fine, I run local llms 27b param on a gpu, but it's not even close to frontier in capability. Who wants to drop $40k+ on hardware to run these things. Companies, maybe/perhapts. On the other hand, to run a DB I can get a server for $3k and handle tons of traffic on it and other things too.

New comment by tadasv in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

tadasv — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:58:46 +0000

This is great IMO. I like zig as a language and the idea behind it. But boy, it has a syntax issue. I with they figure out better syntax before 1.0, developer ergonomics I think are as important.

New comment by tadasv in "Optimal Strategy for Connect 4"

tadasv — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:25:28 +0000

for those who are into books i'd recommend taking a look at alphago simplified by mark liu. It has rule based strategies + DL for connect for and other simple games.

Show HN: Vibe Coded Text Categorizer

tadasv — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 03:01:08 +0000

Used gemini-cli with gemini 3 pro preview to vibe code this thing. Share your vibe coded projects or discuss the feature of software engineering lol. │ │ Wall Time: 1h 50m 45s │ │ Agent Active: 35m 34s │ │ » API Time: 19m 57s (56.1%) │ │ » Tool Time: 15m 36s (43.9%) │ │ │ │ │ │ Model Usage Reqs Input Tokens Cache Reads Output Tokens │ │ ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │ │ gemini-2.5-flash-lite 40 73,035 0 7,131 │ │ gemini-3-pro-preview 105 668,945 5,509,166 33,723 │ │ gemini-2.5-flash 15 53,544 2,782 8,580 │ │ gemini-3-flash-preview 70 451,003 2,988,500 24,096

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642510

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New comment by tadasv in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

tadasv — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:42:31 +0000

https://vilkeliskis.com/ - rebooting as of recently to a self-hosted solution from under my desk.

Btw, https://nownownow.com/ is a great place to discover people. This project is somewhat similar to what you're doing.

New comment by tadasv in "Become unbannable from your email"

tadasv — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 23:54:32 +0000

I'm thinking about trying something similar to this on top of AWS SES. They make it fairly trivial to accept email and store it to S3. So email forwarding would be straight to S3 backup. But still would need a system to backup these emails to some local storage.

Not sure what's the best way to handle this, I had my gmail account since the early days and it's baked into so many important accounts. It definitely crosses my mind what it'd be really difficult if I were blocked out somehow.

Coinbase CEO 'went rogue' and fired some employees who didn't adopt AI

tadasv — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:43:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/coinbase-ceo-fired-employees-not-using-ai-tools-onboarding-2025-8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45025192

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New comment by tadasv in "Math Not Required (2023)"

tadasv — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 20:40:35 +0000

i've been ~15 years in the tech industry, working as swe. I recently purchased 15 books on from proofs, calculus, linear algebra, real analysis combinatorics, diff equations to self-study math. Yes, you almost never need to use anything beyond basic math, but there's so many things to learn. And math is fun, I miss my university days.

New comment by tadasv in "2M users but no money in the bank"

tadasv — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 02:14:26 +0000

I don't understand. I don't even know what exercism is.

You created a site that has 2 million users and don't know how to monetize? Just charge people $5 a month to use. It will solve all your problems.

New comment by tadasv in "Yi-Coder: A Small but Mighty LLM for Code"

tadasv — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 16:31:22 +0000

you can easily run 8b yi coder on 4090 rtx. Probably could do on a smaller gpu (16GB). I have 24gb, and run it through ollama.

New comment by tadasv in "NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules"

tadasv — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 19:00:44 +0000

great. rtx 4090 works out of the box after installing drivers from non-free. That's on debian bookworm.

New comment by tadasv in "Intel apologises in China over Xinjiang supplier statement"

tadasv — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 22:24:08 +0000

Buy https://stores.balticvalue.com/products/electric-potato-grat...

They ship it straight from lithuania. I got one recently myself. Made it Lithuania also.

Then use this device to make Kugelis.

New comment by tadasv in "Your Daily Coffee Habit Is About to Get More Expensive"

tadasv — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 22:03:53 +0000

I get 4-pack espresso from sams for $10 that lasts me a month. I stopped getting "lattes" and other fancy stuff long time ago.

New comment by tadasv in "Porn, Zen, and .vimrc"

tadasv — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 03:20:48 +0000

Exactly! I like being able to log in to any server and use vim/vi without any issues.

I've noticed similar pattern with other tools, e.g. git. I've seen coworkers add all kinds off aliases to simplify git commands, and I'm very much against it since I prefer portability.

New comment by tadasv in "Porn, Zen, and .vimrc"

tadasv — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 03:10:14 +0000

It's been a while since I started using vim. I can see some similarities. Though, I didn't really do much configuration in the early days. Currently, I have pretty much no configs when it comes to key maps or some custom or shortcuts. I only add plugins for code completion and highlighting. Nothing else.

New comment by tadasv in "Arch Conf 2020 Streaming [video]"

tadasv — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 16:34:08 +0000

I've been using arch for the past several years. Decided to get it installed after buying a new desktop. Overall it's good (and I've used it before), I have very simple setup and I don't really need much. Just dev tools.

The issue I'm having is (I think) hardware related. I'm a bit afraid to update systemd since by doing it several times before I got a kernel crash during install which left the system in an odd place. requiring me to boot up from usb to correct the installation. I can deal with it, but this is not something I particularly enjoy. I currently have almost 2GB of pending updates because of this, which I think defeats the purpose of rolling release distro.

I was actually thinking about trying out some other distros, maybe debian. With hopes that it will fix the kernel crashes. Another thought that I had, was to switch to FreeBSD, the only thing currently preventing me is the lack of Docker.

Show HN: Htmlkit – lib for declarative HTML construction in Go

tadasv — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 03:08:32 +0000

Hi!

Author here. I made a Golang lib this evening. It's pretty rough and low level at the moment, but I think there's opportunity to build higher level constructs on top of it.

I kinda like React components (but I don't like JS), and I was wondering if there's some reasonable way to bring "component" style web development to Go on the server side. So this is a rough draft of html dom rendering from Go.

I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts.

P.S. Gonna have a beer and hang out for another hour or so if you want to discuss in the comments.

https://github.com/tadasv/htmlkit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24574872

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