M4R5H4LL (u/M4R5H4LL)

M4R5H4LL commented on Wrapping my head around AI wrappers wreflection.com/p/wrappin... · Posted by u/nowflux

esafak · a month ago

I would argue that a "wrapper" denotes a product that could be replicated with little effort, not that one relies on the other. None of your examples fit this definition.

M4R5H4LL · a month ago

I believe the controversy arises from the notion of “little effort” and critics who have never independently pushed anything to market. It comes across as dismissive and arrogant simply because someone exudes excessive confidence in a limited set of skills. I can personally attest to the immense demands of building a successful business, and it’s evident that very few individuals possess the capability to achieve that. Therefore, while it may provide comfort to avoid challenging oneself and dismiss others’ total work, it ultimately doesn’t benefit anyone and feels more like a self-serving “I could, but I never will” attitude.

M4R5H4LL commented on .NET 10 devblogs.microsoft.com/do... · Posted by u/runesoerensen

parliament32 · a month ago

Create a hello world dotnet container, then do the same in a modern language. Then compare image size and resource consumption. Then imagine you're running tens of thousands of containers in a proper SaaS microservices model, and it'll make sense :)

M4R5H4LL · a month ago

Enterprise doesn’t spawn 10,000 containers to perform a simple “hello world” operation. That’s not how it operates. You’d be amazed at how many concurrent requests a single service can handle. This capacity must align with the actual requirements of the companies involved, not some unrealistic scenario like “we need to emulate Google.”

M4R5H4LL commented on INapGPU: Text-mode graphics card, using only TTL gates github.com/Leoneq/iNapGPU... · Posted by u/userbinator

M4R5H4LL · 3 months ago

Great work. I miss the speed we had before graphics card were a thing. Everything was literally 100x faster to render. I wish we could bypass graphics card entirely on modern Oses and computers but it looks like it’s not even possible anymore with EUFI. I would buy a card that works for TUI only, and with a large set of Unicode chars, and works on a 6K screen.

M4R5H4LL commented on Qodo CLI agent scores 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified qodo.ai/blog/qodo-command... · Posted by u/bobismyuncle

mupuff1234 · 4 months ago

I'm curious how do these LLM wrapper companies think they'll survive long term - especially coding related wrappers.

I could understand focusing on a niche business use case, but coding is a main focus of the foundation models themselves.

M4R5H4LL · 4 months ago

Labeling them as “wrappers” and “niche business” indicates a strong cognitive bias already. Value can be created on both sides of the equation.

M4R5H4LL commented on 36B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens academic.oup.com/mnras/ar... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

msk-lywenn · 4 months ago

With good quantization, I bet we can get it down to 8B and it will easily fit on consumer grade galaxy.

(Sorry, I had to, with all the AI flood, I really was about to skip this info after the first 3 characters)

M4R5H4LL · 4 months ago

thanks for brightening the day :)

M4R5H4LL commented on Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people apnorc.org/projects/food-... · Posted by u/speckx

beezle · 5 months ago

Americans confuse need with 'nice to have' which leads to the "I don't have money for food/rent/hc" problem.

You do not need cable tv or home internet. You do not need an iPhone or top end Samsung. There are many mid-range Android phones much cheaper that can add a MVNO phone plan for around $20/mo that has more than enough data for necessary internet. Key word: necessary. OTA HDTV is available to many millions at the cost of an antenna (in window/attic/roof). Free books at the library. People give away old dvds and players for free. There is a thing called 'the outside'.

Look at the cars many of the people who complain about being squeezed are driving. Pickups for the sake of driving one. Lower/mid end BMW/Lexus/Mercedes. Giant SUVs when a smaller one will more than do. There are actually still relatively low priced vehicles available but they are plain jane and looked down upon.

I mention those things as I was head of an HOA for about 10 years and we regularly had owners who were in arrears or in and out of arrears. They would come before the board asking for waivers of late fees, interest and even the basic common charge. Yet they were aghast when the board suggested they drop their cable TV or swapped their expensive car lease for a beater. And heaven forbid you suggest they stop going to Starbucks as they sit in front of you asking forgiveness with a large latte in hand.

M4R5H4LL · 5 months ago

This is anecdotal but here is the truth: I have a home that I bought around 20 years ago in Cali, and the HOA tripled during that time and is now rapidly approaching $700/mo. And that's with less benefits since we lost the earthquake insurance. And not to mention the special assessments that started showing up in 2025. You could make all sort of assumptions, but there is nothing special about the community.

M4R5H4LL commented on Open models by OpenAI openai.com/open-models/... · Posted by u/lackoftactics

wizee · 5 months ago

Privacy, both personal and for corporate data protection is a major reason. Unlimited usage, allowing offline use, supporting open source, not worrying about a good model being taken down/discontinued or changed, and the freedom to use uncensored models or model fine tunes are other benefits (though this OpenAI model is super-censored - “safe”).

I don’t have much experience with local vision models, but for text questions the latest local models are quite good. I’ve been using Qwen 3 Coder 30B-A3B a lot to analyze code locally and it has been great. While not as good as the latest big cloud models, it’s roughly on par with SOTA cloud models from late last year in my usage. I also run Qwen 3 235B-A22B 2507 Instruct on my home server, and it’s great, roughly on par with Claude 4 Sonnet in my usage (but slow of course running on my DDR4-equipped server with no GPU).

M4R5H4LL · 5 months ago

+1 - I work in finance, and there's no way we're sending our data and code outside the organization. We have our own H100s.

M4R5H4LL commented on Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor · Posted by u/mariano54

deanc · 6 months ago

That's exactly my point. This is at best a toy application driven by a prompt that many people will be able to extract and recreate. Putting the pieces together is easy and letting someone talk to an AI is not a particularly difficult problem. Creating magic and making people come back to learn the language is entirely different and I don't see anything magical here.

M4R5H4LL · 6 months ago

I think you're missing the point entirely. Yes, it's easy to reproduce 5% of the effort. But it doesn't make sense to call the whole 100% of the effort a toy application. Given market pressure, and if it was the case, we'd be flooded with applications like that. Being the master of 5% of the effort doesn't amount to much, and dismissing the other 95% as a toy when it requires a lot more work and as much expertise throughout doesn't make much sense. Drawing an airplane doesn't make it fly.

M4R5H4LL commented on Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor · Posted by u/mariano54

deanc · 6 months ago

I built a basic version of this for myself with a prompt in chat gpt in an afternoon. It's great that you've built this yourself, but where's the magic? If it's your prompt it can probably be extracted in a few minutes by those who know how to do so.

M4R5H4LL · 6 months ago

Why not finish, publish it to the store and get income if it was that straightforward? There's a long way to go between a toy application to demonstrate a product, and something on shelves actually selling. In other words, you can most often quickly tackle the concept or trivial parts of an app, but it's much harder to get a real product out, even if the implementation looks straightforward on surface.

M4R5H4LL commented on Show HN: I built a hardware processor that runs Python runpyxl.com/gpio... · Posted by u/hwpythonner

M4R5H4LL · 8 months ago

I love this kind of project, this is wonderful work. I guess the challenge is to now make it work for general purpose Python. In any case it looks very much like a marketable product already. I would seek financing to see how far this can go.