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Anoian··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
If you use open models you can also read the thinking tokens, I think this makes a huge difference because one tends to read them leading to better understanding of the end results and also giving opportunities to correct course if its hung up about ambiguity and stuff like that. It also helps a lot with not being distracted while the clanker is working, instead of going to youtube or reading up on whatever, you spend more time with the code and the thoughts behind it.

It stops the constant context switching.

Anoian··on Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
I have told llms all kinds of stories to find out what its answers would be. I always make it sound like it is the truth to make sure the AI answers in a way that it would if somebody actually said this. I also tested internal flagging systems of the ai company I work at with the most evil things a person can ever say to find out if it would flag them.

Of course I did not mean any of that stuff, but how can you make sure a human reviewer knows you did not mean it while the llm does not know that you did not mean it.

I guess its a miracle I am not in jail yet.

Flagging people for anything said to an llm sounds wrong to me because an LLM is not a real person and while some people put in their internal thoughts, others just roleplay and the two are inseparable just from reading it.

Anoian··on I said no and Apple said yes
I think this highly depends. I would feel comfortable with giving my older relatives a linux mint cinnamon machine.
Anoian··on Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions
PSA: Soon german brand AVM will have dns blocking of advertising right in their routers (fritz box). Search the web for Fritz!OS 8.40 if you are interested.
Anoian··on Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
I have never seen a comment this gray
Anoian··on Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
I am a typescript dev and I like reduce but also feel like I am the exception.

The standard linter plugin eslint-plugin-unicorn even has a rule "no-array-reduce" that is part of the recommended config, which means most people using this plugin will have no reduce in their codebases:

https://github.com/sindresorhus/eslint-plugin-unicorn/blob/m...

Anoian··on Simple Is Not Small
I mean I am not part of the same company, so I am just talking out of my butt, but I cannot imagine a dev worth their money taking more than two weeks, to fix a bug, especially today with AI assistance, most bugs are found the same day, the gnarly ones maybe take two days and in my lifetime as an engineer (10 years), I have not yet seen a bug that took me more than a week.

Taking 9 months to fix a bug sounds alarming to me.

Anoian··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
Respect for the consumer has long been gone generally except for a few brands.

I am still wondering why consumer respecting brands are not emerging more and thriving.

Anoian··on Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
As an european I approve of the claim being "Its not this, its that", because for once its an actual good use of it, as many things claim to be european when in actuality they are american companies, hosting their stuff in an aws/azure european data region, so not really european at all.
Anoian··on Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
I feel like they only exist so that google can claim that competition exists.
Anoian··on OpenRouter is joining Stripe
Its sad that you gotta be a software engineer, to immediately get this joke, because its pretty good
Anoian··on OpenLogi
It just feels hollow and cheap.
Anoian··on Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
People do not want to talk to their devices because they are in the room with other people and they dont want to disturb them. I think their device is going to be a flop.
Anoian··on Software Engineering fundamentals matter more
But a big part of software engineering is literally defining the requirements.
Anoian··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
Chrome became popular in the time where firefox was already more popular than IE.
Anoian··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
TLDR: We need agents that can read our minds.

I think we want two opposing things:

1. An agent that acts autonomously 2. An agent that acts like we would

The problem is that an agent can only act like we would if it would know our mind and all the bits and pieces we did not define but are obvious or clear to us.

The only real solution to get an agent to act like we would is to make it ask clarifying questions, breaking the first requirement we have. Until we have agents that can literally read our minds, we cannot have both.

Optimizing the harness/context is the best way to make it act like we would, but this of course isn't working perfectly.

Anoian··on Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?
Out of curiosity: Why?
Anoian··on _for-sale DNS records
Renting a domain for the the sole sake of selling the ability to rent it to someone else or even worse: Renting it at a higher price to someone else and pocketing that extra money every year without providing any additional service. Bonus points if you also track recent companies that have been created and immediately buy also the related domains and social media handles and extort the founders of the new companies.
Anoian··on _for-sale DNS records
Yeah cause we really had to improve domain squatters lives.

In my opinion domain squatting should be banned instead.

Anoian··on Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Max
That sounds like the most boring exciting livestream of all time.
Anoian··on Our position on open-weights models
"Nobody has the intention to build a wall" - Walter Ulbricht, June 1961, 2 months before building the berlin wall.
Anoian··on Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27
It's 404 now
Anoian··on ARC-AGI Leaderboard
Any benchmark is not an accurate benchmark anymore, the moment the model makers can freely access it and had the time to train their models on it.
Anoian··on AI Kill Switch Act
Is this the groundwork for banning big open weight models like Kimi K3?
Anoian··on EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps
We have some things to go by, but yes we are not competing with the lawless companies of the USA.
Anoian··on Codeberg: ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions
As it is a german company that is not as far fetched as one might think. (I am german and the on requesting this would be government institutions)
Anoian··on Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa
The less people know, the better. These places are better left untouched by humanity.
Anoian··on The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How the New Pricing Decreased Demand by 80%
But they also introduced a new console and probably changed its advertising strategy on steam to promote it, probably taking away space that previously was used for the deck. Also, I think people are less likely to buy something that is perceived as old and because there is a new console, the thing they sold before now feels old. Additionally to all of this, they also introduced a new controller that seems to be doing pretty well, probably also taking advertising space away.

No doubt the high price of the deck has an impact, but I would say that there are multiple reasons and not just one.

Anoian··on When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?
For private companies building ai data centers that the communities don't want?
Anoian··on Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning
Went to the website and inserted the blogposts I wrote in the last year. I had a pretty good understanding which of my blogposts had more reworks and which ones had entire passages being generated using AI and then left as is because I was happy with them. None of my articles were over 50% according to your model but the ones that I know took me a long time to write, even though I used lots of AI in the creation of them, hit below 10%, probably because I hand-edited them a lot. Overall a nice website, thanks for sharing :)
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