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K0IN··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
wait, someone took the stealmybitcoin.com poc code to the next level!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224916

K0IN··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Claude I want to be a billionaire fast, make no mistakes.
K0IN··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
I was a big fan of deno, so much that I migrated all my cf worker to demo, cause you can run the same engine in there cloud and local/selfhost - perfect no vender lockin(like with cloud flare workers), it's so sad to see it gets shelved.
K0IN··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
I really really love deepseek v4(and 4.1), but for everything I thrown at it, it felt like gpt 5.6 + 6 luna or terra do it faster, in way less tokens and in a way I like more. So even tho the price is (very) cheap, i found myself using it less just cause I don't want to wait on something I have to itteratee on with the model.
K0IN··on Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
TeamSpeak, git backup(I use gittea) to backup public repos, backups in general, my website/blog, game servers, ssh(obv) for local app port forward, litellm as ai bridge to monitor usage, some of my own apps: (notification broker to send messages to my devices using a simple http push), everything behind traefik (with let's e encrypt)
K0IN··on VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)
agree, but do you think every dev you know konws this?

also "i just want to edit a config file and i want a nice ui", is how you get there.

K0IN··on Jev in 25 Lines of Python
a hile ago (when big providers still provided logprobs) i created a VS Code highlighter that visualizes unsure tokens.

Since most chat models want to answer with a human-readable message i think their logprobs are not as meaningful. It would be interesting to see if one choice is like "correct" and if the model wants to choose it more often, cause it might not answer the question but to prose to the user.

K0IN··on Type Punning in C and C++
Does reinterpret_cast works in c++ for this?
K0IN··on I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot
I saw a lot of ppl think about what jev could use under the hood and could someone explain why this can't just be an embedding model where we just embed all the input + decisions and give back the cosine (or whatever) similarities?
K0IN··on Why AI Cannot Save an Enterprise That Doesn't Understand Its Data
My day job is improving data quality in big enterprises (we build products for this), and I see where this article is going, it's a bit watered down, but I see this every day at our customers, most companies just don't have a simple way to query their own data, create metrics, get ai to actually do stuff cause data is spread between 3-10 systems where 4 are legacy and don't even have an API and even if they can access they have like zero context 100 custom fields and suffer from no first time right inputs from the last 30+ years.

(ofc. I see only the ppl who need this kind of service so I'm biased, and maybe it's not a wide spread issue)

K0IN··on Hacking OpenAI
Good video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjHh9g7yo9Y
K0IN··on Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue
now add a source tab and lets see, how many ppl. will fix it themselves and how many turns it needs.
K0IN··on DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro
I have used the flash model for over 3b tokens and ofc. I saw some hallucinations and premature termination (I also get this on Astra - way more often than with deepseek v4 flash), but I never had a infinite loop (using the copilot as harness).
K0IN··on [dead]
Am I missing something,I'm getting a 404?
K0IN··on [dead]
upvote, k0ins hold together.
K0IN··on Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
I just want to put this out there, smolmachines is a wonderful program to solve this, I use this mostly for stuff needing docker socket / docker in docker (example strix and agents). (I'm using podman on my host)
K0IN··on "IT WoRKs BeTter in the App "
Me and my wife share calanders both ways between Google cal and iCloud cal its an absolutely shit show to setup, and I also rember having to use the Web app for certain settings how can we not have solved this by now?
K0IN··on Microduck
what a nice platform, i would love this to patrole my house and have some fun.
K0IN··on Ask HN: How do you code review?
first the automated part, that makes a pr "review ready", this helps us alot to gain confidence.

1. Automated tests that actually test real cases 2. Automated tests to test for regressions 3. Automated end-to-end tests, to make sure all core functions (and new functions still work and ui flows are stable / correct) 4. automated ai reviews (we use strix for security and a small Copilot SDK harness) 5. linters (for go: gosec,govuln) and formatters

For the human review process, we try to "never do big refactorings out of the blue", normally we do this in pair, or in tight loops. We dont have special reviewer roles, every dev can review any pr, we think, that everyone in a team is responsible for the product (and its quality, this also helps alot with knowledge transfare, we have retros and dojos to keep everyone on the same levle and align our teams "taste").

K0IN··on When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python
I was also startled when python did ß.upper() returns "SS". Which is kind of unsuspected in some cases (if string length changes with an upper call)
K0IN··on The entire city of San Francisco as a video game
funny timing, i was exploring the same, some friends and me play alot of geogussr (a game where you put into streetview somewhere on the world, and have to find out where) lately.

I want to make it more video game like, cause the jumps of google maps make me motion sick.

I used google streetview as image source (cause you need to read signs, cars, see geometry) and colmap to reconstruct 3d chunks.

But it never really worked that well, jumps in time (cause the google car does not always continuously scan) and the image density is just too low, but was a fun side project.

K0IN··on There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
I think this is our third lap.
K0IN··on Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
you mean you dont want a singe company to have all your code?
K0IN··on Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis
yeah but using the rule of thumb (I see floating in the Internet) which is sqrt(#params * #active params) which would give sqrt(284B*13B) = 60B, so deepseek should perform better.
K0IN··on Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis
I used Qwen 3.6 27B extensively (>1B tokens) and DeepSeek V4 Flash (the older one also 2B+ tokens).

And I just can't fathom that the new 3.8 beats the new DeepSeek V4 Flash (which, in my eyes, is one of the best everyday coding models).

What an insane release, and convenient size to use every day/locally.

but i will test this model extensivly.

K0IN··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
Some china proxies charge as little as 1 cent / Mio tokens for luna, which I use. As far as I know they bundle multiple codex subscriptions to get subsidized token pricings, so in codex it should be.
K0IN··on DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X
As other calculated, even with a Mi300 you could not saturae it enough with one stream to break even with the DS API, so I think renting sparks would make it even harder cause they are considerably slower.

(274gb/s vs 5.3tb/s)

K0IN··on Show HN: MicroCodex Coding Agent – OpenAI/codex reimplemented in C++ <1MB binary
I think it's nice to have options, but I also don't see the appeal in "sub x mb" (except as codegolf or just for the hacky part, for day to day this does not matter) especially if features are missing or other compromises have been made just for the sake of remaining small.
K0IN··on Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended
i use it too,can only recommend, also funny website btw.
K0IN··on Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs
Sick that you can get 2 arm cores and 12 GB ram for free at Oracle cloud, did not know that
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