Hacker News: winstonp

New comment by winstonp in "Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Max"

winstonp — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:20:43 +0000

16 tokens / s is not nothing.

New comment by winstonp in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

winstonp — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:40:19 +0000

Apple isn't counting on their model to be a frontier coding and cowork model. Gemini is perfectly fine for the tasks that new Siri is supposed to be doing.

New comment by winstonp in "Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS"

winstonp — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:48:51 +0000

That is not the Grok CLI being discussed. That's an open source, third party CLI. https://x.ai/cli is the official Grok CLI being discussed, and it is not open source.

New comment by winstonp in "Introducing Muse Spark 1.1"

winstonp — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:51:10 +0000

The avg coding session has hundreds or thousands of tool calls. Even a 5% failure rate noticeably notches up token use and cost. See Gemini.

New comment by winstonp in "Grok 4.5"

winstonp — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:47:44 +0000

Doubt. Tried it, Grok 4.5 is leaps and bounds ahead of Gemini for real work.

And token costs vs. raw compute+electric cost is unit profitable too.

New comment by winstonp in "Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven't progressed enough"

winstonp — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:15:52 +0000

While I mostly agree with your post, I do want to point out one thing:

> Or he could release a model trained largely by existing open weights models. Which without some huge breakthrough probably has no chance of surpassing them, so is pointless.

This seems to be categorically untrue. Composer 2.5 is a substantial improvement on its underlying Kimi base model.

New comment by winstonp in "Claude Sonnet 5"

winstonp — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:22:17 +0000

same happened to Opus 4.7

New comment by winstonp in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

winstonp — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:17:15 +0000

the British are notoriously sensitive to heat. They'll call 30 Celsius weather a heat wave.

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

winstonp — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:01:40 +0000

do we think he found it on craigslist

New comment by winstonp in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

winstonp — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:44:08 +0000

Gemini pretty clearly has the best underlying model, and the worst RL and post-training of the lot.

New comment by winstonp in "Why Can't Walnut Creek Build 3 Bedroom Apartments with a Playground?"

winstonp — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:36:26 +0000

It is ridiculous to be building infrastructure with a seventy five year lifespan under an assumption that may never come in its entire life.

New comment by winstonp in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

winstonp — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:32:48 +0000

Car apps, beside Tesla, are universally awful to use. Even Tesla's is not beyond reproach (app size is massive, for one), but at least it doesn't make me want to poke my eyes out. Apple should make a "Cars" app that's like the "Watch" app and let them standardize.

New comment by winstonp in "The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety"

winstonp — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:55:58 +0000

They are absolutely clueless about how to talk to this administration.

New comment by winstonp in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

winstonp — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:05:52 +0000

CC TUI is often a culprit of memory leaks, image-pasting is a nightmare, particularly over SSH, flickering all over the UI, among others.

New comment by winstonp in "Claude: Elevated errors across many models [resolved]"

winstonp — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:58:16 +0000

You can!

You just have to pay API prices.

New comment by winstonp in "Claude: Elevated errors across many models [resolved]"

winstonp — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:57:40 +0000

google models are still very unreliable at actually calling the tools you want it to call.

New comment by winstonp in "Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers"

winstonp — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:32:00 +0000

I don't believe Anthropic trains on Trainium, only serves models on it.

New comment by winstonp in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

winstonp — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:08:04 +0000

Claude Code TUI is garbage. There's nothing worth protecting in there.

New comment by winstonp in "Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated"

winstonp — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:41:11 +0000

I do think Anthropic nailed their naming down much better than OpenAI

New comment by winstonp in "Claude Fable 5"

winstonp — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:00:11 +0000

OpenAI's training is better suited to developing models that don't have these tendencies