Hacker News: zrn900

New comment by zrn900 in "The User Is Visibly Frustrated"

zrn900 — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:39:35 +0000

I don't understand - are people's agents making so many mistakes? I'm using VSCode + Cline + Mimo to refactor big codebases and add features (including payment integrations) and it's rarely making any mistakes.

New comment by zrn900 in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

zrn900 — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:37:05 +0000

You could just use Xiaomi Mimo for all of that and it would be cheaper and faster than all of them...

New comment by zrn900 in "FSFE intervenes against Apple before EUCJ for the second time"

zrn900 — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:39:08 +0000

> from the FSFs ideological perspective, the mistake is allowing Apple to have a closed source system to begin with

And they have been proven right.

New comment by zrn900 in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

zrn900 — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:36:31 +0000

> gigabytes upon gigabytes of random stuff that just gets pulled in from everywhere in IDEs, package managers, build pipelines and container images.

Let's face it though - things are working pretty well at gigantic scales despite that. Apparently, what we have now works. There would certainly be wrongdoers who abuse it at this scale, and some of them could be significant abuses. But, however you look at it, things are working well at large.

New comment by zrn900 in "The IBM-ification of Google?"

zrn900 — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:33:32 +0000

> you blast out products, see what sticks, and kill what doesn't.

They killed their chat app. Then had their pants on fire after Discord became the thing. The same can happen with any app they killed. So no, that's not 'taking risks'. Taking risks is shutting down perfectly working apps that can suddenly become 'the new thing'.

New comment by zrn900 in "Canada Is Acting Increasingly Like the EU's 28th Member State"

zrn900 — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:45:50 +0000

Amazing how the 'Eu' started to resemble the British Empire for some reason...

New comment by zrn900 in "AI is making me dumb"

zrn900 — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:26:09 +0000

> Every problem you want it to solve, it translates into "more code" rather than "less code"

Try Deepseek or Xiaomi's Mimo. They produce very lean code.

New comment by zrn900 in "DeepSeek v4"

zrn900 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:52:10 +0000

Yes and the Chinese president personally performs the operation.

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Holy crap...

New comment by zrn900 in "DeepSeek v4"

zrn900 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:51:39 +0000

Just ask American models about Gaza genocide. Compared to that, Chinese censorship feels amateur work.

New comment by zrn900 in "DeepSeek v4"

zrn900 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:50:36 +0000

> And the fusion with a one-party state government that doesn’t tolerate huge swathes of thoughtspace being freely discussed

Ah, so the one party state with two factions in the US repressing anyone who opposes Israel has guardrails. And also, 'accountability'...

> totalitarian

The US is literally, actually committing genocides, kidnapping presidents, pushing wars on every front while repressing dissent at home. If the US is not totalitarian, nobody is. And in a discussion about US models vs Chinese models whent it comes to totalitarianism, excuse my French but f*ck the US. The 'democracy' propaganda would have worked a decade ago. Not today.

New comment by zrn900 in "DeepSeek v4"

zrn900 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:46:31 +0000

Not really. The current SOTAs are already at the point that they can do that. The following models will start to surpass the daily work level. It's a diminishing returns situation just like anything else in tech.

New comment by zrn900 in "EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs"

zrn900 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:43:31 +0000

Statistics showed that bots don't change opinions. The only reason why certain establishments scream about them is to explain their election losses. People have very deep biases, and 'randos' blabbering online does not change them. It doesn't matter whether those 'randos' are bots or are real.

New comment by zrn900 in "DeepSeek v4"

zrn900 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:31:42 +0000

They already did - State Dept. launched global campaign against Deepseek.

New comment by zrn900 in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

zrn900 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:26:34 +0000

It's a mathematical reality rather than 'feeling'. It has become that a few years ago. It becomes even more serious when you consider that the Chinese models are just as good, and they are being just given away to run locally like Deepseek.

Why should anyone feed the SV AI bubble if they can just use cheap Chinese models, even locally if they want to...

New comment by zrn900 in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

zrn900 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:25:03 +0000

> I really think everyone will look back at this time as the golden area of cheap AI.

Chinese models like Deepseek v4 are as good and 10 times cheaper. You can even run Deepseek locally. So no, cheap AI wont be over. Just the US investors won't be able to profit off of the artificial bubble that is there now but wont be in the future.

New comment by zrn900 in "Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving"

zrn900 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:44:17 +0000

You can just use Cline in VSCode to get most of the tooling you need - it works with all models. Including Xiaomi's new Mimo with 1m context window and blazing fast speed. It's much cheaper than Claude's biggest plan and with much, much more quota.

New comment by zrn900 in "Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020)"

zrn900 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:03:06 +0000

Stripe is trialing a MoR solution (managed payments) right now.

New comment by zrn900 in "Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020)"

zrn900 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:02:18 +0000

Huh? Stripe is still the easiest payment provider to build a subscription on. The complexity with payments does not come from APIs. It comes from payment types, regulations, and the need to avoid losing customers. That doesn't change with or without Stripe.

New comment by zrn900 in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

zrn900 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:00:27 +0000

Crap...

New comment by zrn900 in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

zrn900 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:59:32 +0000

The new PHP? PHP is the same PHP and it's still running 80% of the web to the point that even Reuters, NASA, White House are on it.