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afzalive··on ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines
For e2e testing?
afzalive··on Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
Well, for one, that one's not released as far as I can tell.
afzalive··on Cloudflare Quick Tunnels
This is pretty great and I think this will be quite important in the age where everyone has their self-hosted services.
afzalive··on Why is it so hard to believe that the AI worries are genuine?
You do realize that IPO is not the only play, right?

METR is a perfect play to allow these AI corps to fund a lobby and position it as the authority of AI safety that's completely dependent on the success of these AI companies.

IPO will come but dependence is the real goal here. That's always been the VC playbook.

afzalive··on Why is it so hard to believe that the AI worries are genuine?
Because they're coming from people who are quite detached from reality in other aspects of life and they have been affiliated with people who have rug-pulled as a tactic in in the past (like Uber and Airbnb).

The concerns could be real but these AI CEOs are simply trying to capture the mindshare of the solution IMHO.

afzalive··on More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math
It's based on the fact that I had the switch in the setting disabled but this was still something available for me to request.

After the request, this was no longer accessible.

afzalive··on What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
Took me years to like Windows XP. Hated the new start menu. I always kept installing Windows 2000 (or ME, probably because it could use Windows 98 drivers but look like Windows 2000).

I eventually got used to it and ended up liking it.

afzalive··on More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math
That doesn't stop them from training on your data apparently. I have that disabled but still has to disable "Don't train on my data" in the privacy center too.

https://privacy.openai.com/policies?modal=take-control

afzalive··on K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models
Not to be confused with Kimi K2. Out of all the names they could've used, they picked one that would be confusing.
afzalive··on Ask HN: Can we classify AI as: subhuman, quasihuman, human, superhumam?
None of the above. It's classified as a large language model.
afzalive··on Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice
Oh you're talking about a pretend device that this person with replace due to the pretend problem with their current device.

So what's your solution to this problem?

afzalive··on White House plans to keep AI framework under wraps
Because it's so unbelievably stupid that everyone will make fun of them?
afzalive··on Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac
The M5 MBP has 24GB of RAM, more context in RAM perhaps?
afzalive··on Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models
Remove the dark pattern
afzalive··on The lost joy of music piracy
Instead of solving difficult, unsolvable problems, the goal of the tech industry has become to replace these sub-cultures with a subscription or social media. In doing so, first they offer convenience for cheap, once they've replaced the sub-culture, they ramp up their prices to profit.
afzalive··on I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets
On Android, each app is its own user.
afzalive··on Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts
I wonder if you can just ask the model what it means.
afzalive··on An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop
Have you tried Affinity Photo?
afzalive··on Leaded Gas Was a Known Poison the Day It Was Invented (2016)
And he also invented CFCs
afzalive··on The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable
As with anything. Either you can go full-speed without much understanding and hit a wall when you need to understand stuff or you can go a manageable speed and actually understand the codebase.

I don't think we can do both. The difference is that it's optional now depending on the project and the audience.

afzalive··on The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable
> You can never ask why a model did a certain thing

Of course you can! It might be following outdated docs or read something in legacy code and tried to follow that pattern and it'll tell you as much if you ask it in a way that actually gets you the reason instead of it thinking it needs to immediately fix the mistake.

afzalive··on Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file
Wasn't 2000 the first NT architecture on desktop?

2000 is, by far, my favourite Windows OS.

afzalive··on Software is made between commits
Could you just give me reference peeking without opening a full tab?
afzalive··on Agents Need a Public Square
I dunno about this. Agent discovery is needed, yes. But I don't trust the tech companies right now to do this in a privacy preserving manner. I feel like it'll be used to collect all sorts of data not intended for the parties. Even in the flight ticket example, a third-party insurance or ad-tech company could listen to the request for ticket prices and determine intent to travel (including destination and dates).
afzalive··on GitHub Copilot App
I use Conductor's spotlight (and a Pi extension I derived from it) but it's not perfect. Once a migration executes, I'm pretty much bound to it but at least once, I have just backed up the database before switching and then restored that.
afzalive··on Launch HN: Rudus (YC P26) – AI for concrete contractors
Looks like a useful tool but I don't know anything about construction.

Love the transparent AI helper implementation though. I feel like you don't even need to say it's AI because it's so helpful but not in your face but maybe that's what people are searching for.

afzalive··on Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
None of these billionaires are going to lead you to the dreams of the future that you have.

And don't forget the negative effects on other people, otherwise that's just selfish.

afzalive··on Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP
It needs to be end-to-end encrypted.
afzalive··on Why is Inkwell stuck in review
You definitely need to provide evidence of use.

https://www.dreyfus.fr/en/2025/03/18/proof-of-use-in-the-uni...

afzalive··on Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
Pi.dev is pretty good in giving tons of control to the use and has extensions that you can easily build.

Although people are complaining about its RAM usage in this thread, I haven't bothered to check how much RAM it uses.

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