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rtaylorgarlock

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rtaylorgarlock··on OpenAI CLI
Cool product :) I'm still so gun-shy on using any llm tooling in prod for sysadmin, devops, etc. but frontier models walk circles around me in bash at insane tok/s. cURL and cat + json sounds nice
rtaylorgarlock··on Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary
Also possible to find the 'Speculoos' spice mix for further recipes :)
rtaylorgarlock··on Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal
Uhoh, looks like some party-line voters have HN accounts
rtaylorgarlock··on Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'
Wise to critique both holistically, which makes it funny when people want to ignore an individual's or group's track record (especially regarding specific mental models or types of analyses) when evaluating a specific argument
rtaylorgarlock··on Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?
Happy OPNsense user here, with no current plans to change. Ruckus unleashed + brocade ICX treat me very well. The all-in-one router indeed are only access points to me, and I don't exactly wish 'only having an AIO router' on people.
rtaylorgarlock··on Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal
party-line voters would be really mad if they could read this
rtaylorgarlock··on ChatGPT Pro 500
Oh don't worry, you get to keep your higher usage allowance for one month. hahahaha
rtaylorgarlock··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Pretty sure this is the reason HN exists ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ lol
rtaylorgarlock··on Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
Interesting; I checked my personal acct setting this morning given other news, and found it disabled. I hadn't used my chatgpt account since ~'23 or earlier, and it was retained since then.
rtaylorgarlock··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
"hacker news"
rtaylorgarlock··on Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM
Heads up, I've universally been downvoted here for humor. Telling, really.
rtaylorgarlock··on Mistral OCR 4.1
I've been a bit more careful about complaining about regulations broadly due to competitive advantage, e.g. ITAR
rtaylorgarlock··on Mistral OCR 4.1
Yet: how is pricing? Evaluating contents and routing appropriately isn't a new challenge in OCR, one of the oldest fields of applications in ML. Thus, how do the smaller open models perform in tandem with relatively pricy $/pg models & APIs? Your use case is remarkably rare relative to the volume and price sensitivity of enterprise data warehouse ops.
rtaylorgarlock··on Gloomberb
Let those be the 40% we prefer less :) Revealing stack does not validate the framework, but we appreciate some foss sauce 'round these parts.
rtaylorgarlock··on The SpaceX Sham
I remember when a post of mine was flagged due to pretty obvious patent trolling against a cool FOSS project, but i made the critical error of 'crying' in my title. Maybe I should flag this to get it out of my system.
rtaylorgarlock··on How to Spot AI Writing
https://archive.is/i9UQP
rtaylorgarlock··on Amen Break
With some very healthy 'fair use' aspects, though I also would not have picked the Wikipedia article (as others have noted in these comments). Judicious use of flags is encouraged.
rtaylorgarlock··on Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all
I also classify 'presence on HN' as a cause of adverse reactions. ;)
rtaylorgarlock··on Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all
Have you ever been downvoted for calling 'dupe?' I once was downvoted after calling dupe on a link posted thrice. HN is an interesting place to hang out, that's for sure.
rtaylorgarlock··on I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)
Hold on, rational humans downvoted this? Because you can't discern which is satirical and you have no sense of humor? I'll give you the same treatment I give cringe lords in online first-person shooters: take a shower.
rtaylorgarlock··on Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all
Agreed, though open weights + relatively small is still headline worthy. This thing really cooks.
rtaylorgarlock··on I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)
Your comment, or the post? ;) (I'll see myself out)
rtaylorgarlock··on Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion
PSA: If your comment includes a variant of "I like releasing directly AI in my vault..." or "My vault as context is required..." I ignore your comment :D
rtaylorgarlock··on Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer
I got you a gold star ;) Excited to use this, as I've been frustrated by vendor lock-in for this exact use case.
rtaylorgarlock··on Zed 1.0
^^the #1 reason I limit my daily time allowance for HN
rtaylorgarlock··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
Wow, thanks for your honesty here. I'm commenting primarily to commend your decision-making which I couch in empathetic understanding. I saw your post and immediately thought, "good, surprised it took {any organization leaving github} this long." I don't hate big M nor the 'github ecosystem' (except maybe github actions, which seems to get 10x the attention it deserves); the challenge is I perceive far better solutions to be chosen which would serve the open source world if we simply deploy a slight increase in cognitive energy.
rtaylorgarlock··on Show HN: HNswered – watches for replies to your Hacker News posts and comments
My comments have a weird history: either I display technical prowess and flavor my comment negatively (as is statistically more common on HN), or I get downvoted. My response is to spend less time on HN :D if I want pressure to think a certain way by people with limited skin-in-the-game in my life, i'll just show up to a fundamentalist church ;)
rtaylorgarlock··on Show HN: HNswered – watches for replies to your Hacker News posts and comments
Can we get one which scans for downvotes on comments which are either positive or in anyway against any dominant narrative in HN? *If you feel attacked by this comment, you know exactly what to do. Do it. Fulfill your destiny.
rtaylorgarlock··on Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign
kinda crazy to see this comment required in this particular context, yet here we are
rtaylorgarlock··on Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era
Do you think that Junie specifically inside the context of jetbrains IDEs and tooling matches the competitors?
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