Hacker News: toddmorey

New comment by toddmorey in "Codex Micro"

toddmorey — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:11:56 +0000

I did too! That HAD to be by design.

New comment by toddmorey in "Collection of Digital Clock Designs"

toddmorey — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:55:52 +0000

This is awesome! I made a Soroban (Japanese abacus) version, but I couldn't add it to the collection since I used css-based animations. Published here: https://soroban-clock.netlify.app

New comment by toddmorey in "SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status"

toddmorey — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:16:55 +0000

I'm very pro tech. Because I'm pro tech, I honestly wish there were more ethical companies in the space. It can be hard to find US tech companies to cheer for. My main business-related challenge with Elon is his public predictions are so wildly ungrounded. Skepticism is absolutely warranted.

Two things:

  - You can cheer for his companies and technologies but against these financial maneuverings because they risk genuine harm & setback to the industry

  - I stopped asking for people to put politics aside in support of these companies when I realized Elon couldn't put politics aside to support these companies.

New comment by toddmorey in "Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper"

toddmorey — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:46:35 +0000

But it's not about whether it was AI or human authored. That misses the point. We're all fatigued on the writing style. The same cadence and patterns; the same phrases and terms like "load-bearing". Used everywhere, they create a super fatiguing monoculture in all the writing. It's like if every illustration on the internet suddenly contained Garfield the cat.

New comment by toddmorey in "Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k"

toddmorey — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:16:51 +0000

I thought I read somewhere that according to filings for going public, subscription revenue is tiny… like 5%.

Edit: consumer Claude subs are the 5%. I’d bet most all of CC subs lump in under enterprise.

  - API & Enterprise: 75% to 85% of total revenue.
  - Business Subscriptions: Roughly 10% to 15%.
  - Individual Subscriptions: About 5%.

New comment by toddmorey in "Satteri: A Markdown pipeline forged in Rust for the JavaScript world"

toddmorey — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:58:13 +0000

Processing markdown into html is a significant task for many blogs, sites, and apps. Satteri moves that processing into rust for speed gains.

Now used in Astro 7: https://astro.build/blog/astro-7/#markdown--mdx-in-rust

New comment by toddmorey in "Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?"

toddmorey — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:02:03 +0000

“Carlyn Beccia is an award-winning author and illustrator of 13 books.”

New comment by toddmorey in "Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?"

toddmorey — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:59:03 +0000

Also: load-bearing!

New comment by toddmorey in "Astro 7.0"

toddmorey — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:05:12 +0000

Thanks for your work on this!

New comment by toddmorey in "Please stop the AI confidence theater"

toddmorey — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:44:30 +0000

I value both great devs and great marketers because I’ve seen dev teams build awesome tech that never found its audience.

It’s the culture of the org and that decides how the ammo is used. What you want is good devs AND good marketers building and promoting great product.

Anyone in any role who works at facebook holds culpability. Marketers aren’t building all those user hostile features.

New comment by toddmorey in "ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2"

toddmorey — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:55:38 +0000

Does anyone use an agnostic TUI or harness for development tasks that can fairly seamlessly switch between providers?

I'm wanting local context in the spirit of "here are 3 AI providers available, for coding tasks use this one... and for writing prose use this one... and for generating images use this one..." etc.

New comment by toddmorey in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

toddmorey — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:45:48 +0000

I predict we all be using the hell out of fable until the next great model comes around and in two weeks we won’t be talking about the export controls anymore. We just don’t have the attention span.

Nobody should be putting loadbearing weight on Amazon or Microsoft with their ruthless monopoly ambitions, yet here we are

Wall Art of CDN Locations

toddmorey — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 01:29:49 +0000

Article URL: https://eduardoboucas.com/posts/2026-06-29-wall-map/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48727531

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by toddmorey in "Apple increases MacBook and iPad prices by 20%"

toddmorey — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:56:12 +0000

I think the AI companies are so motivated (desperate) it just puts all the existing rules and contracts at risk. The Apple supply chain has always had aggressive contracts and commitments... for normal times.

New comment by toddmorey in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

toddmorey — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:53:22 +0000

Well, I think from the technology side, the performance and capacity you can get in a personal computer (especially a laptop) is absolutely incredible.

It's just component suppl and that supply is being eaten up and re-diverted to data centers. Prices and availability will be in poor shape. Though I am wondering if GPU compute and memory start to diverge enough that AI companies begin using such specialized chips they stop threatening consumer devices. Maybe that's just wishful thinking.

New comment by toddmorey in "Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV"

toddmorey — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:01:41 +0000

counterpoint: I have an EV that I never drive more than 77 miles a day and I paid over $70k for it. Top speed would definitely be a limiting factor, but I do think there's a huge gap in the mobility market between e-bike and a traditional (and expensive!) car.

New comment by toddmorey in "GLM 5.2 vs. Opus"

toddmorey — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:22:26 +0000

I’m actually amazed at the output since GLM doesn’t have eyes. If GLM 5.2 costs 1/5 as much, seems like it could be set up to reach out to a multimodal model for vision tasks when required. Closer to parity but probably still significantly cheaper.

New comment by toddmorey in "Running local models is good now"

toddmorey — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:24:13 +0000

For the curious, it looks like a PC with a RTX 5090 32GB graphics card will run you about $6,000.

New comment by toddmorey in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

toddmorey — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:46:21 +0000

I always imagine the model rolling its silicon eyes when it’s assigned a personality (“you are an expert growth hacker”) at the start of the prompt. Was that ever actually shown to be effective? Is it still?

New comment by toddmorey in "Waymo Premier"

toddmorey — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:02:20 +0000

I'm SO tired of subscription services that only offer the opportunity to buy more stuff.

  - Doordash wants you to subscribe
  - AMC movies want you to subscribe
  - Now Waymo wants you to subscribe

You can't buy anything now without being hassled for a subscription. I don't see any value here except for when they degrade the service for non-subscribers to make the priority pickups seem worth it.