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Will Angel
Personal blog · williamangel.net/blog · on HN as beckingzaihardwareproductivity
Will Angel's personal blog at williamangel.net covers ai, hardware and productivity. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-18, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Will Angel's essay "Beans and Noses" (2011). One commenter loved it and shared it, saying its lesson applies to life in general, not just business.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Welcome to Will Angel's personal web page. I'm an AI/ML / data / product person and this is my little corner of the web.
What Hacker News says?
I cancelled my subscription over this. [0] 0 - https://www.williamangel.net/blog/2026/09/18/i-cancelled-my-...
Comment linking /blog/2026/09/18/i-cancelled-my-claude-subscription.html
on “Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md”Submitted Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter as a story · 37 points
HN discussionThe complaint about not being able to switch between linear and log is valid, which is what I did for making a 3D speed/cost/quality frontier application for a recent meetup talk: https://www.williamangel.net/apps/model_performance.html Because speed is important, as the reasoning and hardware determine both cost and speed. it's a three dimensional tradeoff.
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on “LLMs: Intelligence vs. Cost”Submitted I Cancelled My Claude Subscription as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYou'd probably need to make it work with medium dot com, as that has weird embed requirements for images? You may also want to provide an option that generates a different meme/image if the api is called from the same page. Example: https://www.williamangel.net/context.html Would also fill this niche better if it could do tags like `random_meme?type=ironic` so that it could be used for this purpose, but at that poin…
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on “Show HN: Assetroulette – Randomized Assets for Webdesign”Submitted Anthropic's Fable 5 Is Opus on a Good Day as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAnd paying more for hardware costs extra! I ran the numbers and outside of privacy it doesn't make sense. But I did it anyways. [0] 0 - https://www.williamangel.net/blog/2026/05/17/offline-llm-ene...
Comment linking /blog/2026/05/17/offline-llm-energy-use.html
on “AI Coding at Home Without Going Broke”Submitted Claude.ai Pro plan quotas too small for deep research as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor agentic coding I 100% agree with you, it's worse and slower and more expensive for LARGE coding with local models. Narrow coding (like writing a specific function) is slow but viable. Regular LLM chat usage on high-end consumer hardware is competitive except on cost though. 0 0 - https://www.williamangel.net/blog/2026/05/17/offline-llm-ene...
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on “Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical vs. Frontier labs”Submitted OpenCode Bug: "I did not say that you did" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI did the math at least on a Macbook pro, and for inference it's definitely not worth it. - https://www.williamangel.net/blog/2026/05/17/offline-llm-ene... - Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168198
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on “Was my $48K GPU server worth it?”Submitted Jankmarking: Janky Benchmarking as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis was linked by Will Angel[0], and I loved it so much, I wanted to share it. This applies in life, in general; not just business. [0] https://www.williamangel.net/
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on “Beans and Noses (2011)”Submitted Offline Agentic Coding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Superhuman AI coding still makes software worse as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The AI Tarpit: Why You Can't Stop Reading Your Code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Stochastically K Shaped Job Market as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Offline Agentic Coding: OpenCode and Kilocode as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Washington DC on track for most volatile temperature year since 1959 as a story · 1 points
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