Hacker News: zymhan

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

zymhan — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:30:19 +0000

It is simply a benchmark. It is well known that benchmarks are not meant to apply to every possible task you might perform.

New comment by zymhan in "REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500"

zymhan — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:25:27 +0000

Slate already has that covered.

New comment by zymhan in "Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k"

zymhan — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:56:57 +0000

That's what the person you replied to is saying. You don't need this model.

New comment by zymhan in "FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder"

zymhan — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:30:20 +0000

Well tyvm, I found a new tweak for my transcoding pipeline :)

New comment by zymhan in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"

zymhan — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:15:19 +0000

Once you add multiple machines reading and writing simultaneously, you'll hit a limit. But that's fine, build what you need now, no need to over-optimize.

New comment by zymhan in "Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts"

zymhan — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:28:16 +0000

>should be reported, discussed, dissected and critiqued early and often.

And why does anonymity detract from any of that?

New comment by zymhan in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

zymhan — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:26:15 +0000

It will make it harder for "worthy" companies to get loans and credit.

New comment by zymhan in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

zymhan — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:56:17 +0000

Restricting knowledge is fundamentally different.

New comment by zymhan in "Google Flight Simulator"

zymhan — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:18:14 +0000

Yes it was. And probably still is.

New comment by zymhan in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

zymhan — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:02:49 +0000

> You'd be laughed at if you said that ChatGPT could help you with graduate level mathematics in 2024, but this year, AI models on simple prompts are solving previously unsolved Erdos problems.

I'm curious, do you have a graduate degree in mathematics?

New comment by zymhan in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

zymhan — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:09:39 +0000

It's a press release.

New comment by zymhan in "AI is slowing down"

zymhan — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:23:02 +0000

You are missing the forest for the trees.

New comment by zymhan in "AI is slowing down"

zymhan — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:57:43 +0000

They were not asking for your individual opinion. They were asking why any given person would need it.

New comment by zymhan in "AI is slowing down"

zymhan — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:55:05 +0000

Just consider the math there for a second, when you factor in the average US wage.

New comment by zymhan in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

zymhan — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:18:52 +0000

> There is no evidence yet in the labour-market data of AI destroying many jobs.

Literally from the article https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/05/14/prepare-for-an-...

New comment by zymhan in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

zymhan — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:29:25 +0000

Surely you're not referring to this prediction that was so bad, it's now a meme: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

New comment by zymhan in "Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”"

zymhan — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:24:45 +0000

I was confused by the short commit history, and then I checked the branches.

I love that someone went to this effort.

New comment by zymhan in "Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links"

zymhan — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:22:10 +0000

That is an unnecessary interrogation, you don't need to verify the initial call at all. Simply call your bank on your own.

New comment by zymhan in "I’ve banned query strings"

zymhan — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:31:36 +0000

The standard doesn't say that you must accept all URIs up to a certain length. You're allowed to decide, based on context, what is "too long".

That is to say, you're allowed to have a double standard. And I love this sort of stuff, thanks for sharing.

New comment by zymhan in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

zymhan — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:52:12 +0000

I hate that I never considered this before.