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New comment by whycombinetor in "Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)"

whycombinetor — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:26:56 +0000

After reading this and remembering an old hobby project, I decided to switch the deploy from a systemd service to PM2, which apparently has rolling deployments without needing Docker engine (for those of us minmaxing instance RAM).

New comment by whycombinetor in "Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)"

whycombinetor — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:11:27 +0000

Porque no los dos. Force a platform. Deploy non containerized. Build a dockerized version of the forced platform for cross-platform local dev.

New comment by whycombinetor in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

whycombinetor — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:11:25 +0000

>I read the Fogbank story and recognized it immediately. Not the nuclear material. The pattern. Build capability over decades. Find a cheaper substitute. Let the human pipeline atrophy. Enjoy the savings. Then watch it all collapse when a crisis demands what you optimized away.

>In defense, the substitute was the peace dividend. In software, it’s AI.

Before it was AI, the cheaper alternative was remote contract dev teams in Eastern Europe, right?

New comment by whycombinetor in "Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution"

whycombinetor — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:20:38 +0000

Interfertility is not an equivalence relation, does not form equivalence classes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species

New comment by whycombinetor in "Ask HN: Former grok-code-fast-1 users, what coding model are you using now?"

whycombinetor — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:11:44 +0000

For real work I'm already on Opus full time (plan+execute). I think there's a different space for cheap-but-good-enough options for small-to-med repo hobby projects. (Not enough usage to warrant a plan.) And Opus is only ~30 tok/s while grok-code-fast-1 is ~120. So planning with Opus and executing with grok-code-fast-1 is still on the table for me - it's good at following explicitly written plans, lightning fast.

Ask HN: Former grok-code-fast-1 users, what coding model are you using now?

whycombinetor — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:34:57 +0000

I get good, cheap, fast feature coding success with grok-4.1-fast for planning and grok-code-fast-1 for execution. But according to the Openrouter usage stats, grok-code-fast-1 is now old hat - usage dropped off a cliff in mid-Feb.

What are you using now? (That's around the same price per token) (AND also blazing fast (100+tps)? is that possible?)

(I'm finding Minimax M2.5 usable, but I think I still prefer grok-code-fast-1. Opus rocks but is expensive - good to have in the quiver for planning a big refactor.)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47735693

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by whycombinetor in "Is the pitch deck culture making founders worse at building businesses?"

whycombinetor — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:03:20 +0000

What feedback did your pitch analyzer product give to this pitch about itself?

New comment by whycombinetor in "Claude mixes up who said what"

whycombinetor — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:04:39 +0000

Do you have evals for this claim? I don't really experience this

New comment by whycombinetor in "12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit"

whycombinetor — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:12:34 +0000

Meanwhile on the HN main page right now: "Embarrassingly Simple Self-Distillation Improves Code Generation" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637757

New comment by whycombinetor in "12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit"

whycombinetor — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:10:24 +0000

If it's between a human or an AI copywriting SEO slop, I'm happy to see an AI take that job. SEO content marketing is so painful to read once you realize you're reading it, and I have to imagine it's as painful to write if you're a technically talented writer.

New comment by whycombinetor in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

whycombinetor — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:30:37 +0000

"It is the first time since 1972 that humans have travelled outside of the Earth's orbit." But they're not tho (Earth's gravitational dominance extends 4x the distance to the moon)

New comment by whycombinetor in "JSON Canvas Spec (2024)"

whycombinetor — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:50:54 +0000

Previously posted in 2022 as Obsidian Canvas before being open sourced in 2024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34066824

New comment by whycombinetor in "I don't know anyone who uses Grokipedia, it will never work, says Jimmy Wales"

whycombinetor — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:28:33 +0000

"Free encyclopedia service founder disparages competing free encyclopedia service" See also entry for "encyclopedia salesman"

New comment by whycombinetor in "How I've run major projects (2025)"

whycombinetor — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:41:25 +0000

Now AI is summarizing your daily progress from your commits and AI is writing the planning docs (with HITL). And version control makes it a historical record of your planning process. Keeping detailed planning docs doesn't take your whole day anymore and can be an integral part of any IC's workflow now.

Olympics.com cookie acceptance button text: "Yes, I am happy"

whycombinetor — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:28:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46948902

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by whycombinetor in "A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content"

whycombinetor — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:29:20 +0000

As a person who wants to consume LESS human slop in my news feeds, this seems like exactly the wrong direction.

New comment by whycombinetor in "Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?"

whycombinetor — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:03:05 +0000

Yea, this project gives less "my contract partners will benevolently read my diary after I die" than "enabling and incentivizing my closest friends to hold a vote to redistribute all my assets amongst themselves"

New comment by whycombinetor in "Opentrees.org (2024)"

whycombinetor — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:50:43 +0000

Every local tree listing that I've clicked is incorrect. I'm guessing bad municipal data. But this seems useless if it's all wrong.

New comment by whycombinetor in "Aks HN: What's the right process for context transfer between co-founders"

whycombinetor — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:16:44 +0000

It sounds like AI summarization tools would be beneficial. You can just have the conversation, not fill out any forms afterward, then your partner can either watch the recording or read the AI summary of the relevant customer needs from the recording (or ask their AI agent questions about the transcript of the recording).

New comment by whycombinetor in "The web runs on tolerance"

whycombinetor — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:35:57 +0000

Are other phrases of the form "ending ____ness", where ____ is a racial qualifier, also acceptable, then? Someone using that term could similarly argue that they're not advocating for the eradication of ____ people - just the identity and behavior associated with ____ people.