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DetroitThrow··on Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
No.
DetroitThrow··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Unfortunately this is how export controls work. We don't let foreign researchers around national security parts of national labs, even if they work there, because it's simply the easiest security measure you can take. It doesn't mean it's a good outcome for researchers or research. It's insurance of US directed funds.
DetroitThrow··on US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Methodology leaves a lot to be desired in terms of understanding the tasks you've used. Being detailed about why they're more meaningful tests than the long horizon and coding tests used by other rankings is important.

False positives and poorly defined tasks/acceptance criteria have let some models have insanely inflated scores on bad benchmarks.

And sure, you can say they're not disclosed to prevent gaming, but if you're the only one who can review them then the might as well be a random number generator display with an unreadable UI.

DetroitThrow··on An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight
HN constantly undervalues meth and this has been called out since at least 2009. Horrible.
DetroitThrow··on Shopify outage [resolved]
Psychosis from AI is, by definition of psychosis, dysfunctional. Or are you saying he isn't suffering from AI psychosis?
DetroitThrow··on Shopify outage [resolved]
I wonder if this is related to the CEO's AI psychosis
DetroitThrow··on Zig: Build System Reworked
Pascal has a lot of influence on this, but Go as well! My PL friends often talk about Go's benefits and flaws when thinking about advancing other their own projects or improving the mainstream languages they work on.
DetroitThrow··on Zig: Build System Reworked
Not working within the bounds of lifetimes, and more ecosystem that doesn't live in the world of lifetimes, gives Zig some of the wonderful dev ergonomics of Rust while making it easier to prototype.

For small, short game dev, or even smaller embedded projects, this ends up being a wonderful way to live as often times you're trying to eke out performance in ways that would require breaking out of whatever type abstractions or using unsafe.

For long-lived systems, for systems that need to have lots of people with various skill levels work on them, for a mature ecosystem, for a language/standard library with stability... You probably don't want to pick Zig right now. Some of these points will change over time with Zig becoming more mature, some won't. Zig will always be super cool to build things in.

As far as most low-level programmers not liking Rust like some other commenters say, lol, lmao even.

DetroitThrow··on Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests
Lol it's pretty bad UI
DetroitThrow··on Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks
it was a good alternative to cock.li for some time. alas
DetroitThrow··on Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off
based on your other comments, you don't appear to be all that savvy in evaluating what things on the market did the things you claim to have needed
DetroitThrow··on Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off
Nothing fits in this category, it's revolutionary (if you ignore every electric SUV on the market) !!

Buyers who got an expensive and gaudy pile of shit will never want to admit their pile of shit doesn't smell to themselves.

DetroitThrow··on I want to live like Costco people
I've had friends homeless recently, Costco was the basis of the best choices of their poverty finance even when living out of a car.

I think it's accessible to even the poorest people who work in the US, but it doesn't mean it's cheap for them or worthwhile without a home/reasonable commute.

Time is a major commodity for people working 2 or more jobs and an hour and back commute to Costco is often not worth it.

DetroitThrow··on AI Product Graveyard
Wish there was some better self moderation capability to ban sites or users that just post nonsensical slop.
DetroitThrow··on AI Product Graveyard
Some of these acquired products aren't dead or even in maintenance mode though, they're still running. So it doesn't really make sense to include them in a graveyard, among the other very much alive projects like Streamlit and LangFuse, or missing dead projects like Sora.

This is just slop. I wouldn't give this too much attention.

DetroitThrow··on AI Product Graveyard
It's missing some of the most famous AI products that have been turned off too. Horrible list.
DetroitThrow··on AI Product Graveyard
it's because this is just unverified slop that i doubt was thrown together by a human. Langfuse has ongoing conferences and is still used by many frameworks.
DetroitThrow··on Can anyone point me to a ShowHN first post policy documentation?
Looks cool! Want me to post it for you? If you have a message I can attach, I'd be happy to.
DetroitThrow··on Can anyone point me to a ShowHN first post policy documentation?
>I had an open source project launching but I found out that I cannot make ShowHN post

FYI, this is because a lot of ShowHN had turned into low quality slop. Not suggesting that it is, but if you do think your project could be slop, consider not posting it here.

This is not just the first stop in promoting your resume project or whatever random open source library. This is for showing _interesting_ projects to the community to get feedback.

DetroitThrow··on Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
They're trying to make it seem like it's not below 95% uptime really hard, so that might be the KPI they're trying to uphold.
DetroitThrow··on Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
>AI agents have changed the scalability properties of basically the entire internet.

Why is GH the only service provider seeing such consistently bad availability then? Everyone has had to scale massively all the time, if GH is choosing moltbots capacity over basic availability for the rest of the humans, they have made the wrong choice.

DetroitThrow··on DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
"Decent" is doing some work. This is going beyond any norms I've encountered in OSS to close issues by default via a LLM or an "issue holiday".
DetroitThrow··on Ask HN: How long do you commute by car each day?
45-50 minutes, each way. Sucks!
DetroitThrow··on Tell HN: Claude Opus 4.7 quota suddenly changed to 0 TPM in Bedrock
AWS GPU offerings are distinct from Bedrock. This is specifically about AWS Bedrock and using an inference provider that gives access to Claude.

If you just want GPUs, just talk capacity with an account manager at your favorite hyperscaler.

DetroitThrow··on Tell HN: Claude Opus 4.7 quota suddenly changed to 0 TPM in Bedrock
Amazon bedrock randomly throttles you. Quinnypig has talked about this extensively and how many times they've rugpulled even those with enterprise support for their critical production systems.

It's a bad inference provider. Consider moving to Google or Claude itself.

DetroitThrow··on Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down
They work with US military.
DetroitThrow··on [dead]
You've submitted this same project, how many times in the last day? @dang I had thought showlim prevented this kind of stuff from showing up in Show HN, or at least instructed people to understand Show HN guidelines.
DetroitThrow··on Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE
>Mostly a bunch of people extremely proud of themselves for not reading an LLM-written article

I'm not sure it's proud as much as people voicing displeasure with the uncertainty about what went into the LLM prompt. This may have been a 1 sentence prompt, or it may have been some well researched background that simply reformatted it. Why waste minutes-hours on verifying it if it's possible someone could have spent 10 second on it? It's very easy to see their point.

People seem to indicate people they disagree with voicing their opinion about anything lately is some auto-fellatio, I wonder what causes them to think this way.

DetroitThrow··on Mike: open-source legal AI
This doesn't have most of the important features of Harvey or Legora. This is just a vibe coded project that escaped showlim. Urgh.
DetroitThrow··on HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
In many countries, this also isn't legally tenable.
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