Hacker News: zihotki

New comment by zihotki in "I ran Gemma 4 as a local model in Codex CLI"

zihotki — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:09:57 +0000

For coding it makes no sense to use any quantization worse than Q6_K, from my experience. More quantized models make more mistakes and if for text processing it still can be fine, for coding it's not.

New comment by zihotki in "State of Homelab 2026"

zihotki — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:49:07 +0000

For those who's looking into a good homelab servers - better look at the refurbrished/used mini-pc based on 5th gen of Intel, like i5 11500T (HP ProDesk 400 G5 Mini for example), or ryzen. You'll get better thermals, better CPU, more expansion slots for cheaper than you can get out of NUC.

On top of that, resellers also often have upgrades for RAM and NVME available. WD-Red OEM 1Tb for less than 100 dollars sounds like bargain.

New comment by zihotki in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

zihotki — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:12:07 +0000

Misconception? That's a playbook, not a misconception.

New comment by zihotki in "Iran war energy crisis is a renewable energy wake-up call"

zihotki — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:37:04 +0000

This is false, you can make many plastics without fossil sources (pla, bio-pet, bio-abs, etc). The only challenge is cost and scale - it's cheaper and easier to use existing processes.

New comment by zihotki in "Show HN: Codala, a social network built on scanning barcodes"

zihotki — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:09:10 +0000

Once, or even if it gets some adoption, it will be filled in with ai-generated crap or abused in other ways directly via api.

That's for later, now you need to answer who is your audience is and why the target audience has to adopt this app.

New comment by zihotki in "OpenClaw Is a Security Nightmare Dressed Up as a Daydream"

zihotki — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:03:37 +0000

I also have the same concerns. I have my agenda meeting free and create meetings like once a few weeks. The same is for booking flight tickets - once a decade. Adding openclaw there would take more time and effort than doing it manually.

And none of the friends playing with openclaw have any useful non-trivial workflows which can't be automated in oldschool way.

The only viable workflow so far I could think of - build your own knowledge base and info processing pipeline.

New comment by zihotki in "Five years of running a systems reading group at Microsoft"

zihotki — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:35:10 +0000

That implies that you have a fixed time for lunch and also chat during lunch. I may be the minority but I prefer to eat when I'm hungry and focus on the food instead of chatting. And there is also allergies, as a celiac, I have big troubles eating together with others - they may accidently contaminate my food

New comment by zihotki in "Five Years of Running a Systems Reading Group at Microsoft"

zihotki — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:24:19 +0000

This is a very good question. I also struggle to find a good solution to process various signals (papers, tecniques, etc.) with my co-workers while maintaining proper work-life balance. Either you have to be a full time geek, or be left behind..

New comment by zihotki in "Why Some Men Struggle to Keep Up with Friendships"

zihotki — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 01:50:05 +0000

Recently I came across a good blog post about friendship maintenance, it's worth reading https://www.avabear.xyz/p/friendship-maintenance

New comment by zihotki in "Show HN: AI SDLC Scaffold, repo template for AI-assisted software development"

zihotki — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:06:42 +0000

Please show your benchmarks and evals to prove that your template actually makes any sense and doesn't waste the credits/tokens/requests/etc.

New comment by zihotki in "MacBook M5 Pro and Qwen3.5 = Local AI Security System"

zihotki — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:59:51 +0000

1. Local models become more capable 2. you can easily fine-tune them 3. availability of certain cloud models and your access to them is something you can't control 4. privacy of your data

New comment by zihotki in "[dead]"

zihotki — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:36:46 +0000

this was definitely written by an AI

New comment by zihotki in "How I write software with LLMs"

zihotki — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:07:11 +0000

Just like with many other submissions, I see a great I-shaped senior developer with a developed gut feeling who's able to do big chunks of work.

I wonder how the team members, if any, survive such throughput. I also wonder if there was any quantification applied for the prompts/results, cost analysis, etc.

New comment by zihotki in "Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories"

zihotki — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:54:34 +0000

Obviously, unicode is used in sources so that we can enjoy those nice and cool emojis in our code and readme's! /s

New comment by zihotki in "Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw"

zihotki — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:59:29 +0000

You can do it serverless, github and api keys is all you need - https://github.com/stephengpope/thepopebot

The openclaw-like system built using 'free compute' from github

New comment by zihotki in "Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages"

zihotki — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:04:30 +0000

Just tell the employees to make AI fully adopted in SDLC and make it secure and reliable. Don't make mistakes.

If it works for models, why not humans? /s

New comment by zihotki in "We Stopped Using the Mathematics That Works"

zihotki — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:46:27 +0000

I think it's just the time for full acoption of CodeAct in one form or another has not yet arrived. Math should be done using math tools. Just give the tools to model in an easily accessible way to work with data without loss on tokenization and data<->text conversions. That's basically what Anthropic did with their [programmatic tool calling]( https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-us... )

New comment by zihotki in "Claude built a system in 3 rounds, latent bugs from round 1 exploded in round 3"

zihotki — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:52:24 +0000

Your analogy with a Skil saw is genius! You can cut much faster but it's also much more dangerous. Just like the AI indeed.

New comment by zihotki in "Claude built a system in 3 rounds, latent bugs from round 1 exploded in round 3"

zihotki — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:50:43 +0000

According to the https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct... previously discussed on HN, it may be at least partially true:

> The vibes are not enough. Define what correct means. Then measure.

New comment by zihotki in "Ask HN: What career will you switch to when AI replaces developers?"

zihotki — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:29:54 +0000

Goose farming, following the example of someone from linkedin.