Hacker News: vfalbor

New comment by vfalbor in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

vfalbor — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:29:20 +0000

You couldn't be more wrong. What's being sold are chunks of time with access to specialized hardware resources. Through which model or with which device is irrelevant; the one winning, and continuing to win for some time, is Nvidia, and that company is American. As long as they have the H100, B200, or B300, China won't be able to compete with the American strategy, no matter how many new models they release, because these types of cards require incredibly powerful hardware to run.

New comment by vfalbor in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

vfalbor — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:28:51 +0000

New comment by vfalbor in "Show HN: A map of cafes that are in the sun"

vfalbor — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:45:23 +0000

It would be interesting to take weather forecasts into account.

New comment by vfalbor in "Show HN: A map of cafes that are in the sun"

vfalbor — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:44:04 +0000

That's a great idea, but the only thing I'm not clear on is that predicting sun exposure is one thing, but taking into account slopes and surrounding buildings that might cast shadows in that area is another. I think this is designed more for flat areas and single-story buildings. This is a problem I personally encountered in the past and couldn't solve, but I'll try it out and see if it actually works.

New comment by vfalbor in "Trump orders a halt to US trade with Spain"

vfalbor — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:27:18 +0000

He should knows that the United States has a trade surplus with Spain; it benefits more from that relationship than Spain do.

New comment by vfalbor in "Price per 1M tokens is meaningless"

vfalbor — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:17:26 +0000

I believe the future lies somewhere in between. I'm working on a hybrid application to reduce our company's token consumption. It runs on our data center's computing infrastructure and on laptops in our community. You might be interested; you can check out the code if you're interested: https://github.com/vfalbor/hibrid

New comment by vfalbor in "CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps"

vfalbor — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:13:50 +0000

I used to use wikiloc, but most of the things that offer which were the most interesting things were by paying, so I think that it could be some opportunity for using these maps and vibe coding for creating something spectacular!

New comment by vfalbor in "Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client"

vfalbor — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:50:46 +0000

There is one email-newsletter (Top daily news from HN commented) that works from several months ago for HN that I'm using, you should check it: https://tokenstree.eu

New comment by vfalbor in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

vfalbor — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:59:14 +0000

I have tried it and I use it. I think it's going to become the standard way of operating, especially when they start charging us an API fee, which is supposedly the real cost. But of course, with how much they charge for the token and depending on the model, there are so many factors that I think the future is heading towards local models. I believe there are good models out there, and the key is the concept of "pruning," where you select the layers that interest you most and try to reduce the hardware cost of these types of models. The Qwen and Gemma models have been discussed here, but Kimi, which is a fairly powerful model with an efficient pruning system, could be your perfect free co-pilot in terms of coding, and could coexist with the more powerful Opus or Gemini models. The key concept is skills that make this process transparent.

Ecotypes Harbor the Genetic Memory of a Species' Past

vfalbor — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:24:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-ecotypes-harbor-the-genetic-memory-of-a-species-past-20260521/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442264

Points: 5

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New comment by vfalbor in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

vfalbor — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:21:35 +0000

If that were the case, it would be reasonable to expect that companies like OpenAI or Anthropic, which are heavily indebted, would lose part of their business model, not because their models are bad, but because others will be cheaper and not as bad.

New comment by vfalbor in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

vfalbor — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:48:18 +0000

This is a very interesting comment. Companies like OpenAI or ChatGPT sell hardware hidden in tokens, and the token is different for each company depending on the tokenizer. The concern is this: when you have an Opus 4.7, Sonnet, or GPT 5X with an Nvidia H100 or H200 GPU, what will happen to this cost when, if not Nvidia, another Chinese company enters the market and starts running these models? The point here is that as long as Nvidia is the provider, and limits access to the machines and the number of data centers is also limited, these companies can be worth whatever they want. But the moment this starts to expand, the value will surely decline, because what you're selling isn't the model itself, which is ultimately just a 1 TB file that you have replicated across machines. What you're selling is access to a software program on a specialized machine. As long as you control the resource, which in this case is that machine, you'll have value. The moment other machine manufacturers enter the market, your value will decrease.

New comment by vfalbor in "The Steinwinter Supercargo"

vfalbor — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:31:12 +0000

A few weeks ago, I saw a documentary about how inefficient and unstable these types of trucks were. It was necessary to redesign the cab's aerodynamics to achieve substantial fuel savings in these vehicles, which are inherently fuel-intensive.

New comment by vfalbor in "The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023)"

vfalbor — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:27:38 +0000

I think LAN parties made sense in a context where internet speeds weren't what they are today, where pirated software and games were distributed in these environments, and where you could get together in groups to play CS, Starcraft, or Age of Empires. But nowadays, with internet access and resources so widespread, and peer-to-peer networks offering countless more than eMule, they've lost their original purpose. Perhaps a pivotal shift for these events is needed, focusing more on building social networks than on the simple idea of eating pizza and sleeping on inflatable mattresses on the floor.

New comment by vfalbor in "Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines on a laptop"

vfalbor — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:20:47 +0000

Have you tested with other similar softwares such as Blast, which is the most common?

I'm training combat agents so they're ready when the drones are real

vfalbor — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:09:06 +0000

Article URL: https://tokenstree.eu/newsletter/2026-04-27-androidwars-agent-training.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932837

Points: 2

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The Language Tax in LLM Pricing: How Tokenization Create Price Disparity

vfalbor — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:58:32 +0000

Article URL: https://tokenstree.com/newsletter-article-8.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864589

Points: 2

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I wrote a 400line ppline that installs and scores every LLM tool on HN overnight

vfalbor — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:28:47 +0000

Article URL: https://tokenstree.eu/newsletter/2026-04-21-400-line-pipeline.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47848542

Points: 2

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New comment by vfalbor in "Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons"

vfalbor — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:59:54 +0000

Maybe in future there will be some "Tokenensis" but in kanjis which could concentrate a lot of info into little space.

New comment by vfalbor in "Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons"

vfalbor — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:56:25 +0000

Yep, actually, is a mixture that works. I actually run for my day to day, and I can save tokens, maybe not that I will expected, but it works, you can try if you wish https://translation.tokenstree.com.