vfalbor
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @06:30AM (#49724431)
I'm working in how to use IA with zero cost in your machine:
Re:How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @05:27AM (#49269774)
I have created a couple of subjects, the cell and the mitochondria:
Re:Show HN: Maple-Preview – ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a ...
on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @09:36AM (#49182719)
My question is what LLM the author used for dev the web page? Maybe Claude? or ChatGPT?
Re:Who's Afraid of Chinese Models?
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @03:29AM (#49003035)
You couldn't be more wrong. What's being sold are chunks of time with access to specialized hardware resources. Through which model or with which device is irrelevant; the one winning, and continuing to win for some time, is Nvidia, and that company is American. As long as they have the H100, B200, or B300, China won't be able to compete with the American strategy, no matter how many new models they release, because these types of cards require incredibly powerful hardware to run.
Re:American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @03:28AM (#49003030)
You couldn't be more wrong. What's being sold are chunks of time with access to specialized hardware resources. Through which model or with which device is irrelevant; the one winning, and continuing to win for some time, is Nvidia, and that company is American. As long as they have the H100, B200, or B300, China won't be able to compete with the American strategy, no matter how many new models they release, because these types of cards require incredibly powerful hardware to run.
Re:Show HN: A map of cafes that are in the sun
on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:45AM (#48931904)
It would be interesting to take weather forecasts into account.
Re:Show HN: A map of cafes that are in the sun
on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:44AM (#48931896)
That's a great idea, but the only thing I'm not clear on is that predicting sun exposure is one thing, but taking into account slopes and surrounding buildings that might cast shadows in that area is another. I think this is designed more for flat areas and single-story buildings. This is a problem I personally encountered in the past and couldn't solve, but I'll try it out and see if it actually works.
Re:Trump orders a halt to US trade with Spain
on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @07:27AM (#48830532)
He should knows that the United States has a trade surplus with Spain; it benefits more from that relationship than Spain do.
Re:Price per 1M tokens is meaningless
on Monday July 06, 2026 @04:17PM (#48809919)
I believe the future lies somewhere in between. I'm working on a hybrid application to reduce our company's token consumption. It runs on our data center's computing infrastructure and on laptops in our community. You might be interested; you can check out the code if you're interested: https://github.com/vfalbor/hibrid
Re:CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps
on Monday July 06, 2026 @04:13PM (#48809864)
I used to use wikiloc, but most of the things that offer which were the most interesting things were by paying, so I think that it could be some opportunity for using these maps and vibe coding for creating something spectacular!
Re:Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client
on Thursday July 02, 2026 @02:50AM (#48757474)
There is one email-newsletter (Top daily news from HN commented) that works from several months ago for HN that I'm using, you should check it: https://tokenstree.eu
Re:Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily...
on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @07:59AM (#48553857)
I have tried it and I use it. I think it's going to become the standard way of operating, especially when they start charging us an API fee, which is supposedly the real cost. But of course, with how much they charge for the token and depending on the model, there are so many factors that I think the future is heading towards local models. I believe there are good models out there, and the key is the concept of "pruning," where you select the layers that interest you most and try to reduce the hardware cost of these types of models. The Qwen and Gemma models have been discussed here, but Kimi, which is a fairly powerful model with an efficient pruning system, could be your perfect free co-pilot in terms of coding, and could coexist with the more powerful Opus or Gemini models. The key concept is skills that make this process transparent.
Re:Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T
on Monday June 08, 2026 @03:21AM (#48442246)
If that were the case, it would be reasonable to expect that companies like OpenAI or Anthropic, which are heavily indebted, would lose part of their business model, not because their models are bad, but because others will be cheaper and not as bad.
Re:Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T
on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @08:48AM (#48369558)
This is a very interesting comment. Companies like OpenAI or ChatGPT sell hardware hidden in tokens, and the token is different for each company depending on the tokenizer. The concern is this: when you have an Opus 4.7, Sonnet, or GPT 5X with an Nvidia H100 or H200 GPU, what will happen to this cost when, if not Nvidia, another Chinese company enters the market and starts running these models? The point here is that as long as Nvidia is the provider, and limits access to the machines and the number of data centers is also limited, these companies can be worth whatever they want. But the moment this starts to expand, the value will surely decline, because what you're selling isn't the model itself, which is ultimately just a 1 TB file that you have replicated across machines. What you're selling is access to a software program on a specialized machine. As long as you control the resource, which in this case is that machine, you'll have value. The moment other machine manufacturers enter the market, your value will decrease.
Re:The Steinwinter Supercargo
on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @08:31AM (#48293266)
A few weeks ago, I saw a documentary about how inefficient and unstable these types of trucks were. It was necessary to redesign the cab's aerodynamics to achieve substantial fuel savings in these vehicles, which are inherently fuel-intensive.
Re:The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023)
on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @08:27AM (#48293224)
I think LAN parties made sense in a context where internet speeds weren't what they are today, where pirated software and games were distributed in these environments, and where you could get together in groups to play CS, Starcraft, or Age of Empires. But nowadays, with internet access and resources so widespread, and peer-to-peer networks offering countless more than eMule, they've lost their original purpose. Perhaps a pivotal shift for these events is needed, focusing more on building social networks than on the simple idea of eating pizza and sleeping on inflatable mattresses on the floor.
Re:Rosalind: A genomics toolkit in Rust running whole-genome pipelines...
on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @08:20AM (#48293143)
Have you tested with other similar softwares such as Blast, which is the most common?
I'm training combat agents so they're ready when the drones are real
The Language Tax in LLM Pricing: How Tokenization Create Price Disparity
I wrote a 400line ppline that installs and scores every LLM tool on HN overnight
Re:Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons
on Monday April 20, 2026 @01:59PM (#47838158)
Maybe in future there will be some "Tokenensis" but in kanjis which could concentrate a lot of info into little space.
Re:Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons
on Monday April 20, 2026 @01:56PM (#47838104)
Yep, actually, is a mixture that works. I actually run for my day to day, and I can save tokens, maybe not that I will expected, but it works, you can try if you wish https://translation.tokenstree.com.
Show HN: Reproducible benchmark – OpenAI charges 1.5x-3.3x more for non-English
Re:Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons
on Monday April 20, 2026 @08:28AM (#47833302)
Yes, it is. In fact, I made a small application to reduce the token consumption for translating from one language to another, and I even invented a language called Tokinensis, which is a mix of different languages, and I ran my own tests with savings of 30%. Chinese is amazing because they encapsulate a ton of information in a single symbol, so you can save a ton of tokens.
Re:Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons
on Monday April 20, 2026 @07:03AM (#47832613)
This is perfectly legitimate. It's something I've been denouncing day after day. Company X charges you 10dolar per token, while company Y charges you 7dolar, yet company X is cheaper because of the tokenizer they use. The token consumption depends on the tokenizer, and companies create tokenizers using standard algorithms like BPE. But they're charging for hardware access, and the system can be biased to the point that if you speak in English, you consume 17% less than if your prompt is written in Spanish, or even if you write with Chinese characters, you'll significantly reduce your token consumption compared to English speakers. I've written about this several times on HN, but for whatever reason, every time I mention it, they flag my post.
I've been auto-scoring every tool that hits HN for weeks – here's what I found
Re:Claude Code Routines
on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @04:31AM (#47776231)
Two things about My experience, first you only have one at a time per suscription, if you need implement two at the same time i could not able to. The second is that you can do that with a well configured cron.
I built a bot that tests every interesting HN app daily so I don't have to
Re:Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
on Sunday April 12, 2026 @09:45AM (#47739583)
Some months ago, I created a software for this reason, it has no success, but the thing is that communities could reduce tokens consumption, not all is LLM, you can share things from API calls between agents. Even my idea was no success I think it is a good concept share things each others, if you have some interest it's called tokenstree.com