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Lucasoato··on GitHub Down Again?
Solid open source alternatives?
Lucasoato··on RealPage rent-pricing case wraps with nearly $360M to renters
What about a law that bans house ownership and rentals unless you are a physical person and not a company? What would be the cons of such a thing?
Lucasoato··on AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
We could rephrase it like this: “AI has removed all the excuses we had not to remove technical debt”

Yes, AI developed code might have vulnerabilities or bugs, but so already has your JSP based web server that has Oracle and God knows what else among dependencies.

Lucasoato··on French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic
So I could troll French visitors of my website by starting a huge data transfer from their browser?

Interesting...

Lucasoato··on Tell HN: Scribd Breached
So here we are. We’re in the new era of technology. Whoever has the best agents will win. As airport security, this is an asymmetrical war: the effort to protect your systems is going to be much higher than hacking them in the future. It’s just my opinion, but I foresee this happening given the strong capability the models are showing in reverse engineering.
Lucasoato··on Gemini 4 Carbon
Next version: Gemini Tokyo Drift
Lucasoato··on Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models
Let’s not be this negative, we might be going towards a new direction with technology that could allow small teams to build their own models. Maybe not frontier models. Maybe not close to the others in generalized benchmarks. But perhaps they could be really specialized into solving one particular problem better than the others.
Lucasoato··on Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?
> its optimized for the most amount of information in the lowest amount of context or tokens as possible

Is it? I mean they get payed more if they return longer answers.

Lucasoato··on Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed
Never deploy to prod on Friday.
Lucasoato··on France needs to read my paper
> France needs to read my paper

We Italians should be taking some notes as well... :)

Lucasoato··on OpenAI CLI
In MacOS there are two ChatGPT apps. The new one and the old one called ChatGPT classic. No matter how hard I try, I can’t get the new one to work with either the “live” realtime mode or the vocal transcription feature.

It’s absurd, I have the latest OS version, a M4 MacBook, but the new app seems to be buggy as hell.

Is this the new software quality standard we should expect from a company that is worth billions (if not trillions)?

Lucasoato··on Way to Play Super Mario 64: On Apple Vision Pro
What's the current best device for VR/AR? Have there been any advancements in this field lately? Or any upcoming device that has been announced?
Lucasoato··on Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest
> users can request refunds under 2 hours of playtime

This already exists (or did)

Lucasoato··on IKEA – 3D Guide
It's incredible. Please, Ikea, hire this guy and generate animated/interactive websites for all of your stuff.
Lucasoato··on Google open-sources TorchTPU, a native PyTorch back end for TPUs
Are there TPUs outside Google Cloud?
Lucasoato··on Voxtral 3
Wait, did they release any new model or just changed the voxtral page? Voxal Mini 3B rocks hard in Handy!
Lucasoato··on If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?
Just one info for many: if you’re a big company and have enterprise needs, subscriptions aren’t a solution. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google (ain’t sure about them tbh), GitHub Copilot aren’t offering subsidized subscription prices in their enterprise plans; discounts are calculated differently and these services are much more expensive.

For example, Github Copilot has these AI credits that are insane in terms of costs with the usual token-based pricing.

Feel free to prove me wrong, I really wish I was.

Lucasoato··on Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft
They don’t stand a chance against my cannon rush, I reached platinum with 10 APM and that strategy ahaha
Lucasoato··on Japanese people still aren't having sex. And nobody knows why
If you use marijuana (not posses, just use) you can risk up to 7 years in jail.

Legalize it, organize free rock and roll parties with no phone policy every weekend, see sex and pregnancy rates go sky high in the matter of months.

This and maybe prosecute a parent when he/she kidnaps the children, denying visits or any interaction with the other parent.

Do both please.

Lucasoato··on What I self-host
This. Docker compose is so great that you don’t even need to use it, for it to be useful. It can describe so well the dependencies your system needs (alongside proper documentation).
Lucasoato··on What I self-host
> I prefer running services natively when possible, but will containerize complex services or those with many dependencies. Love: a service that’s a single Go binary. A service that only comes as a Docker compose file and wants to run MySQL, Redis, and three other containers? I’m already looking for an alternative.

Ok, I respect your opinion, but remember that there are poor souls like me out there that actually love the opposite.

Lucasoato··on OpenCode 2.0
It’s great, they’re embracing even more the “everything’s a plugin” principle that has been pushed by other harnesses like Deepseek. Shoutout to all the AI model companies out there: if your subscription can’t be used on open code, I’ll buy something else.

Many of the workarounds I had to develop for the v1 now come as native features in v2 (i.e. session rebinding to other folders), now the only thing that was missing is the ability of plugins to read the response you’re writing (useful if you want to have the double-Esc feature like in claude code).

Lucasoato··on Switzerland proposes banning profiling-based ads to minors
Meta had such feature but was bullshit: it always showed extremely generic reasons for extremely specific ads.
Lucasoato··on Show HN: An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP
From time to time I like asking AI to give me some suggestions for jazz chord progressions, but so far they haven’t been that incredible. Maybe I need to include a bit more of context, or maybe I shouldn’t mess with that and let that for humans.
Lucasoato··on AWS Lambda Web Functions
I had the same impression that this is an answer to Cloudflare workers success, but are AWS Lamba web functions hosted in containers or WASM?
Lucasoato··on Gemini 4 Argon
At least now they don't play the "client side key can now access your very expensive resources" game anymore.
Lucasoato··on Gemini 4 Argon
Same thing, I've always paid my bills, I have had some sort of google subscription for the last 10 years. Now they're requesting me to switch to pre-paid billing. They won't accept my card (that has worked every time this year so far).

Is there anybody in Google having a look at how bad and complicated their payment system is? In all the other AI providers you just sign in, pay, get a key, done. In other clouds like AWS, you add a card, pay little to verify the card the first time, monthly bill, done. In Google it looks like you have to fight them every time for the very thing they should make as easy as possible: opening your wallet.

Lucasoato··on MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors
> Wristband device from Encora Therapeutics started as a project in 2.009, MIT’s iconic product-design class.

Ok, maybe you're not reviewing the entire article, but at least the subtitle.

Lucasoato··on Show HN: An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP
I remember when it was released, Splice has definitely been an exception :) I used it in the past to share projects with others, I had a bit of a mixed experience but anyway their effort was really appreciated at that time.
Lucasoato··on Show HN: An experimental pattern-first DAW that supports MCP
You might not like that AI is getting its way into the art of music, but one thing I really didn’t like is how the whole music software industry has been stagnating for so many years.

Countless hours of work gone, because nobody dared to develop a versioning system for musical projects in any DAW.

Now the game has changed, if you don’t evolve or adapt, people will just develop their own stuff in no time.

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