Havoc

The bet here is that it's not selling shovels but rather magic.

...a dubious proposition except this time there is a small but real chance it may be actual magic

If that was true my day to day job would be so much easier

Bad argument.

Why go into the hamburger business when you think you've got an infinite profitability recipe on your hand potentially. The big AI houses have doubled down and quadrupled down on their core founding myth for better or worse.

The AI boom is a full send. Either this works in spectacular fashion or it blows in spectacular fashion.

That presumably depends on your tolerance for bureaucracy and pain.

Guessing they started with 1 and have worked their at up to 4

Plus „scrutiny“ - a company is a trust line of business shouldn’t be afraid of scrutiny

Probably just a botched translation though

Just purchased a TV - TCL - and was pleasantly surprised to find it has a basic TV mode. ie enough to feed in HDMI

Still trying to figure out whether it’s safe to update it

From government and regulated places perhaps but a large portion will not care

The phrase always seemed a bit silly to me.

Having a streamlined process and good tooling with automation makes sense though.

Mostly using GLM/zai and pi agent these days. GLM also allows hermes on their subscription which is very useful.

If I do need Opus/whatever to look at a specific issue I just use openrouter API.

Can't say I particularly care for the US providers walled garden ToS restricted handholding suprise fallback nonsense even if their models are the strongest. Most of my tasks work just fine with lagging behind absolute SOTA so don't feel the need to tolerate it.

Toyed around with it back when claude code showed up, but never really got any useful actionable insights from it so stopped

(Aside from ditching CC & it's bloated sys prompts that is)

Administration is no longer a reliable narrator - not even on their own position

Short of sanctioned jurisdictions pretty much anything can get purchased. You just get a local corporate lawyer to help straighten things out

Think the era of respecting stuff like robots.txt is over.

I build a web-fetch tool for my own LLMs that is essentially the same tech as web-scraping except its single requests not high volume.

You can't really get anywhere these days without disguising UA etc.

I'd say it's more like a global broad push to kill privacy than encryption specifically. Encryption is a big part of it, but not the whole picture

* Flock monitoring

* Border device searches

* Age controls and the implied "hand over real ID"

* Push for backdoors

* Palantir & DOGE grabbing data

* Move towards cloud (and less ability to afford own hardware)

* Secure boot style attestation

* Cross device tracking

* CF and friends acting as internet police

* GrapheneOS troubles

* Independent sites dying & more focus on walled gardens

...some of those aren't necessarily intentional (e.g. price of hardware), but it's hard not to read this as a larger agenda of sorts. Or maybe I'm just paranoid haha

I have a searxng instances but stopped using it after doing a comparison vs actual search provider APIs.

searxng gets rate limited fast and the results are inconsistent depending on what providers it can reach at any given time / isn't captcha'd out.

Meanwhile there are multiple providers with generous free tiers so no point in feeding LLMs inferior data

Also did a couple of side by side tests asking LLMs directly which feed results it prefer for some sample technical searches. Exa and tavily #1, brave #2, searx last

I ended up building an MCP that pulls results from multiple places and dedups it.

The free tiers on most are generous enough for normal agent MCP usage

Also...pretty sure decodo just launched a search thingie

>it’s a TOS violation

Competitor uruky is more relaxed about api and is cheaper. Creator is active on hn

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BrunoBernardino

As reference point exa charges 4 bucks

Maybe they should quit and join ICE to align with the administrations priorities

That’s not the flex you seem to think

The more likely explanation is everyone reckons the AI bubble is about to pop and is suddenly very interested in assets known to hold their value in times of turmoil

If you print you cause more inflation and all the debt you need to renew requires higher yield to shift. So in practice printing yourself out of trouble is in itself a cause of trouble

Paperclips are famously not that expensive to maintain

Seems like a very sophisticated setup.

> highest junk

Hilarious

I don't buy that AI is at saturation. From the usage the labs have internally its clear that when cost isn't a constraint they launch 10k agents. I don't see why other companies wouldn't want to do the same

Comes with a Stanley cup and a small cork

>“seed” parameter

>provided by the NSA with no explanation or justification.

Really? Nobody is concerned about the NSA just cheerfully dictating that? Smells very rainbow-table-y

And yet first cousin marriage is still both allowed and fairly common in some circles in the UK.

God help you if your pixels aren't the government approved kind though...