Hacker News: voiper1

New comment by voiper1 in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"

voiper1 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:15:25 +0000

OpenRouter offers 1% discount to save your conversations, explicitly opt-in.

Anything else they don't save it. Even if they tell you the model provider saves your data for training.

New comment by voiper1 in "Choose Boring Technology (2015)"

voiper1 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:43:44 +0000

Only do one new thing at a time.

Don't drive a new car, using new a new type of engine, with a new type of steering wheel, with a new type of entertainment system, .... all at once.

WHEN something goes wrong it will be intense trying to figure it out.

New comment by voiper1 in "I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy"

voiper1 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:09:59 +0000

> My GPT-7 agent... I become .... annoyed at the AI-speak in its first paragraph

When we have GPT-7 it will still do AI-speak?!

New comment by voiper1 in "Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management"

voiper1 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:04:38 +0000

>Asking "what have note-taking apps accomplished?" is like asking "what have spreadsheets accomplished?" or "what have cameras accomplished?". A tool doesn't accomplish anything on its own. A tool is a means to an end.

Yes, but, the _shape_ of something does offer affordances of what it makes easier or harder to do. So "obsidian" vs "saving files on my computer" does seem to be a legitimate question.

New comment by voiper1 in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

voiper1 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:25:44 +0000

The blog claims rust chosen mainly to address memory issues, which rust is a better language for. So, success would simply be less new memory errors / easier to patch old ones.

New comment by voiper1 in "How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)"

voiper1 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:42 +0000

>At least I've done what I can do, but we can't save people from themselves.

Why should doctors NEED to save people from themselves?

The default should be what the people in the industry have learned, with full permission to say "For myself, I have written a legally binding document that this is my personal wishes. I suggest you make that decision for your loved one, too."

Patients have the ability to ask for more, but there shouldn't be a constant need to save people from inadvertently choosing risky/painful low payoff medical care!

New comment by voiper1 in "This time is different"

voiper1 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:06:28 +0000

>Blockchain... NFTs >The problem is, the same dudes who were pumped for all of that bollocks now won't stop wanging on about Artificial Intelligence.

I was firmly in the camp that blockchain was not a viable solution to any problem, and that NFTs sound stupid. I think AI is much different than that list. So, there goes your argument?

New comment by voiper1 in "Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem"

voiper1 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:13:27 +0000

I hear your pushback, but that I think that's his point:

Even seasoned coders using plan mode are funneled towards "get the code out" when experience shows that the final code is a tiny part of the overall picture.

The entire experience should be reorganized that the code is almost the afterthought, and the requirements, specs, edge cases, tests, etc are the primary part.

New comment by voiper1 in "Claude Code gets native LSP support"

voiper1 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:32:04 +0000

My theory is that even if the models are frozen here, we'll still spend a decade building out all the tooling, connections, skills, etc and getting it into each industry. There's so much _around_ the models that we're still working on too.

New comment by voiper1 in "The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude"

voiper1 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 22:11:14 +0000

I definitely didn't expect one-shot to mean "let it run itself in an indefinite loop"

New comment by voiper1 in "It’s been a very hard year"

voiper1 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 06:58:11 +0000

Surely there's AI usage that's not morally reprehensible.

Models that are trained only on public domain material. For value add usage, not simply marketing or gamification gimmicks...

New comment by voiper1 in "Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release"

voiper1 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 06:54:11 +0000

Of course my first thought was: Let's use this as a tool for AI searches (when I don't need recent news).

New comment by voiper1 in "Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste"

voiper1 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:20:29 +0000

Never seen that one, thanks! Alt text: "Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit."

(And obligatory https://xkcd.com/1053/)

Provider Variance: Introducing Exacto

voiper1 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:39:26 +0000

Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/announcements/provider-variance-introducing-exacto

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45674861

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by voiper1 in "Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings"

voiper1 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 20:16:07 +0000

Wow, looks like a tremendous commitment and depth of knowledge went into this one-man project. I couldn't even read the whole write up, I had to skim part of it. I'm super impressed.

New comment by voiper1 in "Lasagna Battery Cell"

voiper1 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:16:57 +0000

I know tomato (acidic) will make holes in aluminum foil but I didn't know more than that.

I guess today's my day: https://xkcd.com/1053/

New comment by voiper1 in "New study offers clues about what makes someone cool"

voiper1 — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 11:41:05 +0000

>Cool people are largely perceived to be extroverted, hedonistic, powerful, adventurous, open and autonomous.

New comment by voiper1 in "Claude Code now supports hooks"

voiper1 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:38:23 +0000

But "utter crap" isn't just an aesthetic issue - that can mean all kinds of bugs and malfunctions!

New comment by voiper1 in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"

voiper1 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:36:48 +0000

He did say he doesn't know if the center has cash inside... but a hollow core definitely defeats the display purpose!

New comment by voiper1 in "Show HN: Cpdown – Copy any webpage/YouTube subtitle as clean Markdown(LLM-ready)"

voiper1 — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 08:56:29 +0000

Chrome web store link got truncated, this is the link from github: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/cpdown/knnaflplggjd...

Will give it a try, thanks!