Hacker News: tomComb

New comment by tomComb in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

tomComb — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:36:22 +0000

> Anthropic wanted to have rules on how the military used AI

No, they want to have rules on how the military used Anthropic AI.

Military would still be free to use OpenAI for the nasty stuff

New comment by tomComb in "Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier"

tomComb — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:53:45 +0000

Most of these models, both open and closed, are now so over tuned to agentic and coding tasks that they no longer work well for general purpose. Kimi K3 is an exception to that – maybe you need that larger size todo well on a broader range of tasks.

New comment by tomComb in "The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change"

tomComb — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:16:16 +0000

Clearly you don’t read the economist

New comment by tomComb in "Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases"

tomComb — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:26:02 +0000

I wonder about mapping RDF data (like Wikidata) to this. I guess the RDF predicate becomes the edge in your node-edge style of graph.

New comment by tomComb in "Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)"

tomComb — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:19:37 +0000

Because we are depressed by the realization of how stupid we are.

We aren't optimized for smart, for happy, or for truth - we are optimized for getting our genes into the next generation.

New comment by tomComb in "New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S."

tomComb — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:44:18 +0000

It seems wrong that Amazon should get in trouble for this when it was XAI that began this new race to the bottom.

Peoplecheered xAI on and admired how quickly they were able to move, without much regard to the methods or legality. IMO competitors had no choice but to respond in kind when they see XAI not just getting away with it, but also getting a pass on legal issues.

New comment by tomComb in "Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index"

tomComb — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:56:14 +0000

> an annoying personality

I was with you until there. Qwen and the OpenAI models are great, aggressive agents, but they’re not as good as the anthropic models for human interaction. They just don’t have the subtlety, understanding, or attention to detail.

New comment by tomComb in "Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite"

tomComb — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:21:10 +0000

> Billed per-second on actual resources consumed, … memory tracks active resident pages

Wait, are you saying it has dynamic vertical scaling of RAM?

New comment by tomComb in "Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode"

tomComb — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:52:58 +0000

IMO, if you "put a quick note in AGENTS.md" then you should expect a cache miss.

I think that is reasonable and intuitive.

That was the first complaint I came across in the article and it made me question the level of indignation of the whole thing.

New comment by tomComb in "GPT-5.6"

tomComb — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:48:22 +0000

Um, the 'codex world' is the OpenAI world and there is a ton of drama and product confusion there!

Anthropic has certainly had some drama inflicted on them by the US administration, but otherwise they have just had heads down and executed with great focus. That is why they have succeeded.

New comment by tomComb in "Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop"

tomComb — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:53:24 +0000

This looks great, but let's see if I have this right ...

The "Agent Apps" (or whatever we are calling them) from the big vendors are organized around projects/folders, and we attach apps (via plugins) to the projects.

This appears to mae the apps (work surfaces) the primary artifact?

New comment by tomComb in "Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret Palantir bills"

tomComb — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:18:52 +0000

I don’t know the specifics of this case, but in Canada, calls like this (all wrapped up in the flag), usually come from Canadian companies hoping for some sort of sole sourced contract that they have no business getting.

So so perhaps we should be excluding American companies at this time, but in the name of competition and openness, we should allow bids from our real allies, such as the Europeans or the Asians.

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

tomComb — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:10:14 +0000

> Anthropic and OpenAI could fight it in court.

They did exactly that with supply chain risk designation, and look what it got them: the administration simply found another more effective way to punish them.

New comment by tomComb in "MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control"

tomComb — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:52:52 +0000

But these have near instant suspended/resume, and they even have vertical scaling of the ram, which is a great feature that’s not very common.

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

tomComb — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:31:04 +0000

> This amount of courting the current administration is pretty scary imo.

That’s ironic – I interpreted that paragraph with the opposite slant: positively. If that’s what the government mandates then these companies, in the end, have little choice, so was at least relieved to see them publicly pushing back.

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

tomComb — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:21:06 +0000

> We don’t believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default.

Really glad to see some reasonably prominent pushback against this government overreach.

The information has been reporting that the government wants to individually approve which companies get access and when.

Imagine the wonderful opportunities for corruption and influence peddling, not to mention, excluding any companies that don’t support Trump

New comment by tomComb in "Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion"

tomComb — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:23:02 +0000

But there’s no good WYSIWIG markdown editor extension for VS code.

New comment by tomComb in "Show HN: Bun-sqlgen – Type-safe raw SQL for Bun, no ORM"

tomComb — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:59:34 +0000

Yes, bun is good locally, but need node support for deployment. So while the bun specific stuff sounds great I feel I need to avoid it.

New comment by tomComb in "Deno Desktop"

tomComb — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:04:57 +0000

You are running a binary that you got from the developer. If it presented you with Deno permissions, I think that would be misleading because there’s no guarantee of their integrity.

New comment by tomComb in "The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars"

tomComb — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:46:41 +0000

Can we get better source for this story? I find that website to be unreadable.