Hacker News: yandie

New comment by yandie in "Apple Foundation Models"

yandie — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:31:39 +0000

I doubt that. What stops the Chinese labs from figuring it out? It’s not like these models are fundamentally different from each other

New comment by yandie in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

yandie — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:55:43 +0000

https://security.apple.com/blog/expanding-pcc/

The code is open source: https://github.com/apple/security-pcc

New comment by yandie in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

yandie — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:53:23 +0000

I was referring to Google Gemini AI (their branding is horrible) - Google can see ALL of your interactions with their services - that's not what Apple gets to see

https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

New comment by yandie in "Claude Fable 5"

yandie — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:52:11 +0000

I use spec-driven development heavily (generate architecture docs + specs first). Opus still get lost often and have to be nudged constantly. Like it can get super detailed for something like some deep SQL optimization but it just can't keep hold of the bigger picture.

New comment by yandie in "Claude Fable 5"

yandie — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:39:02 +0000

Agree. Deepseek has also been pretty good for my personal use.

I'm struggling to see the moat for these models. What's stopping a competitor or a Chinese lab fromr releasing a comparable one?

New comment by yandie in "Claude Fable 5"

yandie — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:21:12 +0000

Of course it's all about building the hype for the IPO :)

New comment by yandie in "Claude Fable 5"

yandie — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:12:37 +0000

I've been running Opus 4.8 for agentic coding and I don't see it being significantly better than Sonnet 4.5 (not that I can tell). I find that pairing Google Gemini and Claude (having Gemini review Claude's code) seems to yield better results. Curious if this jump to 80.3% score in agentic coding will make me see a big difference in actual usage.

New comment by yandie in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

yandie — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:44:15 +0000

Appples architecture prevents them from seeing customers data (see Private Cloud Compute documentation). Data that Gemini Assistant (not referring to the distilled version Apple uses) see goes straight to Google. Big difference here.

Weird to say it but the only assistant with any guarantee for privacy by design is Siri at the moment.

New comment by yandie in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

yandie — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:06:32 +0000

> it's you taking your task to OAI/Anthropic like a consultant/external entity

Good luck with that. This reminds me of the inspiration of declarative programming languages such as Prolog - you're supposed to declare the problems in such a way that the machine can solve it - rather than the imperative way where you tell the machine what to do. What they didn't realize that the definition is harder than the solution itself.

New comment by yandie in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)"

yandie — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:47:36 +0000

During my 5 years of my startup, we had only 1 outage due to AWS because we picked us-west-2 as the primary reason. If anyone starting a company and picks us-east-1 as the primary reason, they should be fired. There's absolutely no reason to be in that region.

New comment by yandie in "Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration"

yandie — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:05:13 +0000

You can create a new instance directly on AWS aurora. Takes less than 20 minutes!

  aws rds restore-db-cluster-to-point-in-time \
      --source-db-cluster-identifier  \
      --db-cluster-identifier  \                                         
      --restore-type copy-on-write \                                                   
      --use-latest-restorable-time \                                                   
      --db-subnet-group-name _{\                     
      --vpc-security-group-ids  \            
      --serverless-v2-scaling-configuration MinCapacity=0,MaxCapacity=16}

New comment by yandie in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

yandie — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:46:45 +0000

My Amex cards show up like the physical ones with the actual physical design elements like colors etc… so maybe it’s bank dependent?

New comment by yandie in "S3 Files"

yandie — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:35:04 +0000

It appears that they put an actual file system in front of S3 (AWS EFS basically) and then perform transparent syncing. The blog post discusses a lot of caveats (consistency, for example) or object namings (incosistencies are emitted as events to customers).

Having been a fan of S3 for such a long time, I'm really a fan of the design. It's a good compromise and kudos to whoever managed to push through the design.

New comment by yandie in "A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses"

yandie — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:23:36 +0000

Now I need a fund that will honor a year of price discovery rather than 15 days. Any recommendations?

New comment by yandie in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

yandie — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:17:07 +0000

My childcare cost is $52k/year for two kids. To hire a private nanny for TWO kids, it'll be at least $35/hour with benefits (insurance, paid time off etc) in my area. That'll be around $80k/year for a private nanny. And once the kids are older, the value of a nanny isn't as good IMO since they don't provide the variety of social challenges that a daycare can provide (group working, relationship building, conflict resolution etc...). We have friends with kids of the same age that don't go to day care and have nannies instead, and the differences in social interaction are significant - maybe we just get lucky but I think our kids build a lot of skills being in a bigger group.

New comment by yandie in "xAI joins SpaceX"

yandie — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:09:49 +0000

WeWork or Theranos. Have we forgotten about them?

New comment by yandie in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

yandie — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:00:05 +0000

> Take politics out of it. My comments are not at all based on politics or ideology. It's purely a matter of process issues. It's like saying that short passwords are insecure.

When there're people with unlimited resources who are actively looking for evidence to back up the claim, it makes sense to bring that up because they haven't found anything.

New comment by yandie in "Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp"

yandie — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:58:35 +0000

Yeah telegram is so easy to develop with - I was blown away. I was able to spin up a bot that checks for GE appointments with minimal effort.

New comment by yandie in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

yandie — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:07:50 +0000

Because you can’t make me sign my ballot? Because without my signature the ballot is void. I can also show up in person to cure my vote if you force me to sign it at home btw.

It’s not impossible - I won’t deny it. But we haven’t had any substantial evidence despite the current administration trying to claim otherwise.

If we are to roll back mail in ballot, let’s also make voter ID free and easy, and also make Election Day the weekend or a public holiday, rather than the various frictions including long lines at the poll.

New comment by yandie in "Minor says ICE took his iPhone, later found in used-electronics vending machine"

yandie — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:41:22 +0000

This guy would tell people to just comply with the Nazi back then. ICE behavior is not far from how the SS worked back then