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2muchtimeon LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages

Ha! Didn’t realize that’s what it was doing, I’d compact and it would say snap compact with a little icon of a camera, so this all makes sense now.

2muchtimeon Russia issues international arrest warrant for Telegram founder Durov

I’d like to add my conspiracy theory and have some one completely shoot it down.

Telegram is a honeypot. They are supposed to be for privacy but their regular messaging isn’t end to end encrypted, you have to enable that per chat (I think per chat, I’ve almost never used the service).

The Russian government going after this guy is much like the fear mongering OpenAI and Anthropic put out about how powerful their models are or about having to see a doctor after taking Viagra and having a 4 hour erection. It’s marketing to make Telegram seem so private that the tech savvy Russian government has to stop this guy when in fact he’s giving the data to them.

2muchtimeon Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

I feel very foolish, I thought you were saying Jellyfin was trying to become a streaming service.

I was concerned.

2muchtimeon Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

What do you mean they’re moving toward trying to be a streaming service?

2muchtimeon America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report

The water is drinkable but in many places not what I would call tasty.

2muchtimeon Claude Sonnet 5

Opencode Go/Zen claim to use infrastructure based in the EU, USA and Singapore that have a 0 retention policy.

2muchtimeon DeepSeek V4 Peak Valley Pricing Change

Does opencode go use deepseek infrastructure?

I thought they just used open weights models on infrastructure they get from someone else. They say,

“What about data and privacy?

The plan is designed primarily for international users, with models hosted in the US, EU, and Singapore for stable global access. Our providers follow a zero-retention policy and do not use your data for model training.”

https://opencode.ai/go

2muchtimeon There is minimal downside to switching to open models

So the cost makes sense I was unaware but

“The advantage of OpenRouter compared to using API providers directly is that you can switch between API providers without binding your money to a single provider.”

Opencode Go gives you a choice between “the best” open weight models and you’re not tied down to just GLM or MiniMax and Zen gives you an even longer list of providers including Claude and GPT?

Is it that Openrouter gives you access to like… every model and provider?

2muchtimeon There is minimal downside to switching to open models

The amount the HN community, at least from what I’ve seen, is sleeping on OpenCode Go (and zen) is kind of amazing.

$10 a month gets you generous usage with the best open weight models and they claim to have zero retention and not to train on your usage.

It’s unclear to me what the advantages of openrouter are but it seems to be a default I see many people talking about here.

2muchtimeon Apple to Raise Prices Due to Memory Chip Crunch

I probably couldn’t (wouldn’t) run NixOS without it.

2muchtimeon SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Thousands is a conservative under count according to this.

2muchtimeon AI Coding at Home Without Going Broke

I’m using zen because I have a Claude subscription and just like dabbling with the other models and I was shocked at how little flash cost but it was noticeably not at the level I’d like my model to be.

For me MiniMax 3 has really hit the sweet spot of being very cheap, though more than flash, but I’d also very capable.

2muchtimeon The First Trillionaire Is a Killer

There is more than enough of everything to be sent everywhere and we have something that represents everything, it’s money.

Some people have more of everything than they’ll use in 10,000 lifetimes, others have not enough to pay for their AIDS medication to allow them to survive into their 30’s and beyond.

Why not take some from the people who have more than enough for 10,000 life times to give to others so they can not die to a disease that’s practically curable (AIDS)?

2muchtimeon EV demand up 50% in France and Germany since Iran war

The thing is a lot of people might be right at the tipping point of buying an EV and then some news like this comes out and it pushes them over the line.

I feel EVs at this moment are right at the level of “I’m gonna buy a new car, but maybe I’ll wait for the one after before I jump into an EV”. Better batteries (solid state), better charging speeds and more fast charger availability seem to have a large group of people waiting.

2muchtimeon SDSU Wired Its Dorms with 1,300 AI Cameras Without Telling Students

What’s the other SD university?

2muchtimeon Rsync and outrage

Probably best to spell that “baiting”

2muchtimeon [dead]

More than that mate

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

2muchtimeon The Lottery – Shirley Jackson (1948)

I’m curious if you’re a native English speaker.

Usually quotes are used to question something another person or other people say so I would think you’d quote “classics” or “classics of American literature” to question this story actually being a classic as many other people might say.

Putting quotes on the word “the” in this context seems to be for emphasis and I’ve seen this numerous times with non-native speakers.

If you are a native speaker I don’t mean to be rude, I’m just curious.

2muchtimeon Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API

I didn’t understand what this meant so I ran it through Claude and it told me.

2muchtimeon Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode

I believe Anthropic is trying to block the use of their Claude code subscription by third party applications like OpenCode.

I think they’re okay with someone using their API with anything, including OpenCode.

Please someone correct me if I’m wrong.

2muchtimeon Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg

Please expand on this.

2muchtimeon A Plain Anabaptist Story: The Hutterites

This is indeed one of the best episodes. Wrath of khan is also amazing if anyone is wanting to jump into hardcore history.

2muchtimeon Microsoft Is Stress-Testing the Agentic AI Bubble in Its Own Gaming Division

What do you mean by “the world’s most professionalized AI company”?

2muchtimeon Building a TUI is easy now

I do.

I want my interfacing with computers to be mouseless and TUIs offer that. I don’t think I’ve run into a GUI, no matter how many hotkeys it has and I know, where I didn’t have to reach for the mouse.

CLI only also requires remembering commands, some of which I use very infrequently, thus need to look up every time I use them.

I think TUIs hold a very nice spot between GUIs and CLI.

2muchtimeon Building a TUI is easy now

https://www.textualize.io/

2muchtimeon My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder

I’ve never really signed up for a blog by putting my email in their mailing list.

I did this time. I enjoyed reading this.

2muchtimeon Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?

I’ve been coding as a hobby since about 2020. I’m not particularly great at it and I’m still trying to teach myself.

I try to write whatever code, let’s say a function, by hand. It probably won’t work so I just have the LLM Socraticaly ask me questions about why it’s not working and then I try to fix it by hand and keep repeating this until the function works and does what I want.

If there is some more difficult to understand concept I write a small article to try to explain it and have the LLM explain me though my trial and error of writing until my paragraph or essay or whatever amount of writing needed to explain what I’m trying to learn is complete.