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bezkoon Gemini 4 Carbon (High) Scores 59 on Artificial Analysis v5

Fable 5.5 out this week confirmed

bezkoon Gemini 4 Argon

Argon available in Antigravity CLI 1.4.0 with Pro subscription today

bezkoon Gemini 4 Argon

can't use in agy with Pro subscription:

Unavailable · Gemini 4 Argon is currently available to Ultra plan subscribers.

bezkoon Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards

These are tiny compared to what Hans Zimmer is using: https://synthanatomy.com/2025/10/syntesla-giorgio-iii-a-mons...

bezkoon GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

Great publicity for GLM 5.3

bezkoon Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux

someone has to ask the question: can you run lsl in wsl?

bezkoon Picking the right (archaic) Window Manager

Really sad to no see Blackbox in the list, it was the only one I found useable at the time (around 2001)

bezkoon Ask HN: So is AI taking our jobs?

Automation has been "taking our job" now for over 400 years, the cool thing about programmers is they produce automations and thanks to the Jevons Paradox, we are guaranteed to have inifite work as long as we are willing to adapt to the new tools.

bezkoon Astra for Law

Will it be able to sue itself?

bezkoon Unison: A friendly programming language from the future

reminds me of https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-inner-json-effect

bezkoon YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning

Angine de Poitrine is the perfect example of that, something current AI would have a hard time replicating but I'm not saying it's not possible.

bezkoon ZX Spectrum: Experimenting with 1-Bit Sound

Turns out 1-Bit encoding is the most efficient solution, even for the highest end of audio quality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-sigma_modulation

bezkoon OpenAI is "80% of the way" to AGI

Sounds like they haven't heard of the Pareto principle.

bezkoon Ask HN: Which software do you happily pay for every month?

vi, I pay willing with my extra time using nano to never have to learn that atrocity

bezkoon Ask HN: What's a Dirty Secret No One Wants to Admit in the Tech Industry?

It's all bash scripts

bezkoon What's the best programming language for coding agents?

I would argue that the fact that there is a lot of bad python code out there is actually a good thing for training data, gives the chance of learning what works and what doesn't.Also there are bad programmers that have found original solutions to very niche problems, would be nice to know about those even if it means rewriting the whole thing.

bezkoon Discovery Loop

So Ralph Wiggum in a suit?

bezkoon Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

Stay away, I had bad experience myself, I'm sure there is something better out there. For me I ended up asking Claude to build a custom RAG pipeline, took an afternoon and is 10x faster.

bezkoon KOReader

No Windows? Is it a political choice or is there a technical limitation?

bezkoon Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library

Something something Roko's basilisk

bezkoon Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields

Couldn't help myself and asked Google Studio to one shot this: https://perlin-noise-fields-explorer-560691554368.us-east1.r...

bezkoon 1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long

“History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” – Mark Twain

Looking forward to the impending AI and crypto crash and have people run GoL simulations on expensive computer systems like it's 1972 again.

bezkoon Introduction to Computer Music

https://vcvrack.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/c/omricohen-music

bezkoon Show HN: I486SX_soft_FPU – Software FPU Emulator for NetBSD 10 on 486SX

What are some examples of an OS needing to do floating point numbers calculations?