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by LaurensBER 8mo ago
I really enjoyed using Claude but the ever changing limits, weird policies (limited to Claude Code, you can't run Openclaw, etc) made switching a very easy choice. OpenAI simply provides more value for the money at the moment.
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by LaurensBER 8mo ago
Effectively yes, this does illustrate how hard it is to effectively structure welfare at a national level. Everyone involved would be better of with a lower (or negative) income tax instead of subsidies.
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by LaurensBER 8mo ago
I'm sorry to read this, I was just thinking about rereading the entire saga the other day. His words and ideas will forever life in my mind.
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by LaurensBER 8mo ago
It's amazing how quickly Anthropic is turning into the "bad" guys. First we couldn't use our Claude subscription with anything but Claude code, then the limits seemed to change every week without any communication, then
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by LaurensBER 8mo ago
Very cool! I love the approach, OpenClaw is really cool but there's two major things holding me back for deploying it from friends a family; - Cybersecurity (you can't expect a non-technical person to read a skill) - Token usage (
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by LaurensBER 9mo ago
I concur, open-source will be more reputation based and no doubt, in the future, LLMs can also act as a quality gate. I work a lot with quants (who can program but are more focused on making money than on clean-code) and Opus 4.5 and Kimi 2
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by LaurensBER 9mo ago
Given that there's very little benefits (that I'm aware off) of a "high score" HN account it does seem that there's little benefit for people to do karma farming. I'm sure that there's still some people wh
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by LaurensBER 9mo ago
In all fairness there's enough Elon Musk spam in the media and on X. I'm quite happy that HN seems to stay mostly free of Musk (irrespective of positive/negative posts).
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by LaurensBER 9mo ago
Plus on Reddit people often delete their heavily down-voted comments (I dont know if this actually matters for a users karma but people sure do think so) which makes it impossible to follow the entire discussion and see what was actually go
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by LaurensBER 9mo ago
It's hard to accurately measure but one advantage that the multi-agent approach has seems to be speed. I routinely see Sisyphus launching up to 4 sub agents to read/analyse a file and/or to do things in parallel. The quality
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by LaurensBER 10mo ago
The registration process is so cumbersome and annoying that I gave up. At that moment we were in contact with Oracle for a business contract at work, the horrible sign-up process, increasing CDS (Credit Default Swap) spread and risky AI inv
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by LaurensBER 10mo ago
The improved Broadband Adapter support, latency improvements and performance improving game patches (by capping parts of the game loop) are really cool and exciting improvements! I grew up with the GameCube and spent many hours gaming on it
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by LaurensBER 10mo ago
America has a hugely succesful tech sector and low taxes and minimal regulations. Europe has a weak tech sector and relatively high taxes and high regulations. As an European I have to say, perhaps the American approach is better. But he, f
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by LaurensBER 11mo ago
+ we can continuously let a LLM monitor our log files and alert/propose/fix issues 24/7. If intelligence becomes cheap enough this would be an enormous market. Having a LLM run as "fact checker" /coach for ever
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by LaurensBER 11mo ago
Perfect should not be the enemy of good, after all Django is the framework for perfectionists with deadlines ;)
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by LaurensBER 11mo ago
It's a reference to Amazon's statement that teams should never grow larger than a team that you can feed with 2 (large) pizza's. The optimum is probably closer to 1 than to 2.
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by LaurensBER 11mo ago
> What I want is a lightweight infrastructure for macro-services. I want something to handle the user and machine-to-machine authentication (and maybe authorization). > I don't WANT the usual K8s virtual network for that, just an
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by LaurensBER 11mo ago
1 micro-service per pizza sized team seems to work pretty well. Put it into a monorepo so the other teams have visibility in what is going on and can create PRs if needed.
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by LaurensBER 11mo ago
The case of Nicolas Guillou was an eye opener for many. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/19/n...
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by LaurensBER 11mo ago
In general a better option, in the early days of AI video I tried to generate a video of a golden retriever using Google's AI Studio. It generated 4 in the highest quality and charged me 36 bucks. Not a crazy amount but definitely an u
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by LaurensBER 11mo ago
Since coding is such a common usecase and since Claude and GPT5 - Codex are fairly high bars to beat I'm guessing we'll see an updated code model soon. Given the strict usage limits of Antrophic and unpredictability of GPT5 there
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by LaurensBER 1y ago
This is a very reasonable approach until somehow your competitors service loads twice as fast on the Vodafone Germany network. As a business, at that point, you're basically extorted to pay the ransom or deal with a loss of revenue. Si
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by LaurensBER 1y ago
While this is great when it works it does raise some interesting challenges, what happens if the ISP loses money, should taxes be used to cover the cost since this is a public service? Is it reasonable for this ISP to undercut commercial of
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by LaurensBER 1y ago
Not anywhere near close. Europe doesn't have the infrastructure (legal or energy) and US companies offer far better compensation for talent. But hey, at least we have AI regulation! (sad smile :))
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by LaurensBER 1y ago
Sure and I see that they're fully owned by the German government but getting the entire German government to switch (lots of politics involved even if the product is developed by the government) is a lot harder than starting bottoms-up
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by LaurensBER 1y ago
Requirements intended for initial evaluation deployment (not production usage!): - 12 cores - 32 GB ram - Kubernetes cluster Finally a use cases for all those awesome overpowered homelabs I see on Reddit. For the rest of the world this se
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by LaurensBER 1y ago
Exactly plus upscalers are pretty amazing. Upscaling from 1080p to 4k is 80-100% of the quality of native rendering at a far lower cost. Now if only major studios would budget for optimizations..
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Grokipedia: A First Look(larrysanger.org)
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by LaurensBER 1y ago
The beauty of ZRAM is that on any modern-ish CPU it's surprisingly fast. We're talking 2-3 ms instead of 2-3 seconds ;) I regularly use it on my Snapdragon 870 tablet (not exactly a top of the line CPU) to prevent OOM crashes (it&
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by LaurensBER 1y ago
The (cognitive) overhead of managing and deploying to multiple clouds usually isn't worth it for most teams. Hiring experts and maintaining knowledge about the ins and outs of two (or more) clouds is less feasible for small, fast movin

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