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_s_a_m_on Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data

The natural progression of projects in the U.S. Capitalism eats up your country.

_s_a_m_on Toit v2.0.0

The last thing this planet needs a new programming language

_s_a_m_on WTF Ubuntu?

much newer software, kernel, default setup is much more user friendly

_s_a_m_on An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them

Dinkelpasta..is...a..acquired taste.. lol

_s_a_m_on HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

i wished yt would be so fast. yt itself is the most bloated heavy app

_s_a_m_on Pidgin 3.0.0 Alpha 4 (2.98.0) has been released

Still looks like an app from 1999

_s_a_m_on Gemini 4 Carbon

The only important benchmark is FrontierSWE and there it is of course 3rd. even after Opus 5.5 which is relatively old compared to their brand new model..

_s_a_m_on Gemini 4 Carbon

will this again will be one of those mediocre two-prompt models like Nitrogen, or whatever it was called?

_s_a_m_on Genie 4

i am starting to get model fatigue..

_s_a_m_on Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

Hahahah, of course they never list the FrontierSWE benchmark..

_s_a_m_on OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

Ah yeah, our lovely free market, always asking for tariffs, blocking competition, to build cartels and monopolies.

_s_a_m_on Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages

So Anthropic is now the authority on life or death decisions? How far has the US deteriorated?

_s_a_m_on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017

still a myracle to me what people achieve with it? I tried so many things with it, everything is broken it produces

_s_a_m_on Tesla Roadster

anything still takes this conman serious? Must be bots..

_s_a_m_on Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts

> Google is probably the most aggressive anti-privacy big tech company currently operating

isnt that their only business model almost from day 1? Everyone shitting on Meta because of privacy but Google's the worst.

_s_a_m_on Gemini 4 Argon

I hate everything with Google and consumer facing services, they dont give a shit because 99.9% are monetized through spyware or are buisness customers.

They had gemini cli, what happened to that? Was fine

_s_a_m_on Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data

so more data breached than people live in Denmark..

_s_a_m_on Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived

Hahahah this is too funny 8)

I wished almost it was terminal based

_s_a_m_on OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005

The bullshit machinery is going full blast lately, the correct title: researcher uses Astra to decipher a message nobody really bothered or cared to decrypt.

Is ClosedAI running out of money or what is going on?

_s_a_m_on Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August

How? It is extremely slow and dumb, hundred times dumber than Claude. Why should anyone do that?

_s_a_m_on Grok 4.7

DeepSeek 4.1 Flash is garbage, it almost only produced trash code. if you do extremely dumb things it is maybe sometimes fine to use.

_s_a_m_on Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]

Absoltely crazy amount of detailed work

_s_a_m_on Vinix – A modern operating system written in V

the desktop needs 41mb so that must be some external stuff with overhead

_s_a_m_on Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries

Good, nice, who would have thought.

_s_a_m_on Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023

Yep, exactly why Bitcoin people dont understand their own system.

_s_a_m_on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

If Google didnt have their ad buisness theiy'd be out by now. They're like BlackBerry and Nokia at this point almost.

_s_a_m_on Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste

Vibe coding?

_s_a_m_on I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots

Shouldnt this be Google's job? They seem to profit from this scam. Fake clicks and traffik.

_s_a_m_on If coding is solved, what now?: Measuring the sloppiness of code

Amen. I sometimes wonder if all programmers are now marketing people who know shit about software development and engineering.

_s_a_m_on Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

are they launching for the graphics in the background the whole MS Office and PowerPoint?