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tornikeo

472 karma · joined September 1, 2024

Personal website https://tornikeo.com

I work @ https://peachjam.dev

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tornikeo··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
the thing is, you are just making a pedantic asshole out of yourself

hope that helps :)

tornikeo··on French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic
What the fuck is wrong with France?

I remember, in 2025 friends that were into business said something along the lines of France being socially and economically doomed. I didn't know this much wrong could happen all at once.

Just damn. Riots first. Now absurd laws.

tornikeo··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
are you perhaps a mod from SO? if not you should apply as one asap.

you sound exactly like the mfs that ruined that forum.

tornikeo··on We should be more ambitious with the software we build
it's not vibecoded in the sense of steve-yegge-dgaf about code.

in the early days when we had shitty AI's, i reviewed all the code.

now i review a less code and more UI (I watch videos of random AI user journeys). It's exhausting but at least I am sure that users see what I intend for them to see on all devices that I want to support.

the website has grown quite complex. cloudflare, hetzner, supabase, openrouter. go codebase... I was originally a python ml engineer :'). anyway, it's a lot and I am doing my best to keep every surface reviewed.

target audience is non-devs. but I think even if you are a dev, you wouldn't be able to do this significantly cheaper than what peachjam costs. the costs are literal rock-bottom for the services, and hopping off peachjam is as easy as connecting your github and just pushing code via github.

tornikeo··on We should be more ambitious with the software we build
I took this advice to the heart.

- Lovable alternative, but x6 cheaper https://peachjam.dev

tornikeo··on The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)
> Source?

Ask your mfing clanker. What do you think I am, grok?

tornikeo··on The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)
Then stop drinking and stop breathing.

You spend more of both air and water than a DeepSeek flash does when with an NVL72.

tornikeo··on Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry.
Honestly this has been the most fun week I've had, thanks to this leak. I'm grateful. Fun stuff happened, shitty companies learned the value of capable and fast engineering teams.

All in all, I think this leak increased the value of developers, so I am thankful for your leak.

tornikeo··on Fingerprints are the new cookies
Privacy people are insane to me.

Some of these guys sound like they erase their fingerprints off the plates when they visit a restaurant, and ask people to forget about them when done talking.

Like it or not, as web gets more complex, it will recognize you more. If you don't want that, just don't use the web - perhaps buy a farm and life off-grid.

I just don't get what's the appeal to this endless damn cat and mouse game.

tornikeo··on Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
I appreciate the license, but I can't run it. :) I really hope it hits openrouter at some point to try it out at least.
tornikeo··on I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken
You quit because you got vested
tornikeo··on Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
Is Kolibri available on openrouter so I can test it?
tornikeo··on Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
I love how the mere mention of a "sovereign" in LLM's announcement is the declaration of defeat.

This thing is worse than a Qwen3.8 27B.

tornikeo··on Gemini 4 Argon
A vertically integrated AI stack won't fix the misaligned incentives of google execs.

AI is strangling their other major business and they don't like that. Unless Google sacrifices that branch of income, they won't put their full force behind AI.

tornikeo··on The AI Race Just Got Awkward
How exactly will downloaded gguf files bite me later?

Is it going to shut the laptop's lid when i'm not looking and pinch my fingers?

tornikeo··on Show HN: The last day of the dinosaurs, as an interactive painting
This is fun. I love this. Music choice is perfect lol.
tornikeo··on AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
Yep.

Just look at the growing gap in traffic accident rates between human and AI driven cars. Humans are losing.

tornikeo··on How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us?
Bullshit.

As long as AI needs a neocloud to do that, that won't happen. This can only happen when AI roughly as small and as widely runnable as a malicious exe attached to a mail.

Before we have Astra-grade, exe-sized AI's runnable on a grandma's laptop, we are safe.

tornikeo··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
https://peachjam.dev/

The cheapest possible lovable alternative with all the features. Currently in alpha.

tornikeo··on We must pace the frontier
"Everybody should slow down AI research except for me"
tornikeo··on Understanding ChatGPT Work
I use chatgpt work's VM as a CI/CD runner, in addition to my primary one on hetzner. It's a beefy 20GB 9CPU machine, why waste all that precious RAM? :)
tornikeo··on Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests
This is absolutely nuts!
tornikeo··on Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
> Deep integrations with Cursor

No thanks. I want GitHub alternative, not Cursor with source control attached.

tornikeo··on On AI regulation and messaging
> I genuinely think Dario is a well intentioned, intelligent dude, but I think him and Anthropic have a huge PR problem

Is this what kids call rage bait these days?

tornikeo··on What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?
> Hi!

> Hello! What would you like to work on today?

> I want to talk about quantum gravity

> Alright, let's get started. What would you like to work on today?

> List and explain the current mainstream quantum gravity theories.

> Here's a list of the current mainstream quantum gravity theories:

1. The Earth is a giant, spherical object.

2. The Earth's gravitational field is constantly changing.

3. The Earth's gravitational field is constantly changing.

4. The Earth's gravitational field is constantly changing.

...

Then it loops. Lol.

tornikeo··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
Claude Code has become the largest noobtrap I've ever seen.

Move, try something else for a change. Codex, Pi, OpenCode, DeepSeek's harness all great harnesses with zero bullshit or drama.

tornikeo··on Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it
Yet another (accidental) win for the open-weight models.
tornikeo··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
https://peachjam.dev/

A low-cost vibecoding website for non-developers. Still in alpha.

tornikeo··on Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did
Humans are just so damn different in their tolerance to wasting time. I can't take feeling like I wasted 10 seconds of my time on an ad even when watching an video for recreation.
tornikeo··on Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%
SoTA AI will move well past 1TB+ memory requirements in 1 year or so.

Also, you will be able to play with much more competent models locally. They will still feel like children compared to the adults living in the SoTA region.

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