Hacker News: tinyhouse

New comment by tinyhouse in "Our position on open-weights models"

tinyhouse — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:53:54 +0000

Exactly. If you care about AI, simply don't use Anthropic - use open source.

New comment by tinyhouse in "International chess federation sanctions Kramnik"

tinyhouse — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:48:24 +0000

Are we talking about online chess cheating? Aren't players eventually need to show up and play in-person?

New comment by tinyhouse in "Half-Baked Product"

tinyhouse — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:41:04 +0000

This is so well written. Well done!

New comment by tinyhouse in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

tinyhouse — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:08:19 +0000

Cursor is great but they're all going to cash out and leave SpaceX as soon as they can.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

tinyhouse — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:34:19 +0000

At least on Claude Code it's completely useless. It tells me to run all the commands myself cause it's blocked ("Classifier's blocking me again" lol). Just tried now and saw the msg: "There's an issue with the selected model (claude-fable-5[1m]). It may not exist or you may not have access to it. Run /model to pick a different model."

I really have no clue how Anthropic released this thing without doing any real testing. I did use it on claude.ai with no issues; talking just for code.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

tinyhouse — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:00:32 +0000

This is very true and applies for everything in life.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

tinyhouse — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:30:35 +0000

I try to always buy tickets on TickPick when I can (no affiliation). No fees and total prices are often much better than Ticketmaster. But my usecase is almost always buying from resellers. I never up-to-date to buy official tickets.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

tinyhouse — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:09:25 +0000

Drew is clearly a very competent engineer who built an amazing product and company. He was the right person to build it from zero all the way to an IPO, but wasn't the right person to keep scaling it. Dropbox's product vision in the last 10 years was lacking to say the least. Their latest innovative product "Dash" is another flop, like Dropbox Password, Paper, and many others.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

tinyhouse — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:01:39 +0000

False is too strong. Biased information is more appropriate.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

tinyhouse — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:43:49 +0000

OpenAI and Anthropic are both private companies with lots of individual investors such as employees, secondary-market buyers, and so on, who stand to become multi-millionaires. So most of what you read about them here is probably colored by someone's financial interests. Not that it's gonna make a difference, but people are just being people.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

tinyhouse — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:52:32 +0000

Looks nice but seems overkill to me to run a Go server to sync with a telegram bot to authenticate. Maybe I don't fully understand the use case.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

tinyhouse — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:41:19 +0000

They own the best models and will probably keep owning the best models for a while. They have much more compute now and more data to keep improving their models on many tasks. Open source won't close the gap in 6 months. They are also trying to block other companies from distilling their models [0].

[0] https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-preventing-dist...

New comment by tinyhouse in "I've sold out"

tinyhouse — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:35:09 +0000

Pi is my preferred coding agent and I'm happy it lands in good hands. At this point the only reason to use CC is access to Opus. I think open source will end up winning the coding agents race among developers at least. We just need a 30B size model with Opus like capabilities for coding. Frontier labs will dominate the Desktop / Web.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates"

tinyhouse — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:27:41 +0000

I highly recommend everyone to use Pi - it's simpler and better harness. The only tricky part is that moving forward you cannot use the Claude subscription to access Opus. But for many tasks there are enough alternatives.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

tinyhouse — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:08:47 +0000

I really started to like Pi. That's unfortunate that I won't be able to use it with Opus (way too expensive without a subscription). I'm optimistic that open source coding models will be able to keep up. AI is too important, we're shooting ourselves in the foot if we don't adopt open source tools and models. The more adoption the better it will become.

New comment by tinyhouse in "If DSPy is so great, why isn't anyone using it?"

tinyhouse — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:16:34 +0000

A lot of these ideas Dspy and RLM (from the same people IIRC) are more marketing than solving a real problem.

New comment by tinyhouse in "2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March"

tinyhouse — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:23:31 +0000

That's going to happen in all of big tech (already happening at Amazon and Microsoft). These companies have too many employees. It was never really justified and with AI even more so. I've been in big tech and directors often tell everyone to hire when they can rather when they need. For example, if they know a hiring freeze is coming, they will try to hire as many people as they can before it happens. It's rare to find people in big tech where their incentives align with the company. (and the blame is not always on the people themselves)

As for Meta, I give Mark credit for trying, even if he failed so far with all the VR stuff. The main disappointment is about Llama cause it's clearly an execution problem. With Meta's investments in AI throughout the years, not being able to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI is a big failure.

New comment by tinyhouse in "Oil hits $100 a barrel despite deal to release record amount of reserves"

tinyhouse — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:40:20 +0000

Israel and the US completely control their airspace and Iran's entire navy got demolished. I think the US prefers not to got too far as they prefer to keep the negotiation talks open. According to reports they asked Israel not to target energy for example.

New comment by tinyhouse in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

tinyhouse — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:41:26 +0000

Less people visit the US because it's do damn expensive. That's the biggest reason for most people. Most people don't have any principles, they go where they can afford. Last year I was in NYC and Miami beach and was shocked how expensive everything was. (I know these are expensive places but that's where most tourists go - they don't visit Kansas)

New comment by tinyhouse in "AI is making junior devs useless"

tinyhouse — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:33:39 +0000

AI made juniors without potential useless, not all juniors.