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chabes··on Spy world panic as Tulsi Gabbard prepares to unleash bombshell file dumps
Daily Mail and Tulsi Gabbard are both known liars.

Anyone trustworthy have anything to say on the matter?

chabes··on Want your images back? That'll be $5
> 4. Customer found that the account was apparently unused and empty

Empty does not equate to unused. This was their old account that they definitely used.

chabes··on A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)
My point is about letting wild places be wild, not about the environmental impact of climbing as a whole.
chabes··on A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)
> Humans leave their traces everywhere so why this principle for mountains?

It’s called conservation. It is why we have these places to climb in the first place. These are protected wild places.

chabes··on A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)
I am of the belief that we should leave a place better than we find it.

When litter is in my path, I remove it. To do otherwise would go against this fundamental principle.

Natural places should be protected from the widespread exploitation by humans. We are destroying the entire planet. Why can’t we protect the places we have long agreed should be protected? Enough with the anthropocentric BS already. We are a part of the world, not separate.

chabes··on A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)
The mountain should have never been bolted in the first place.

The debate that it is an established route and thus should be left up comes from a place of entitlement.

If you can’t climb the mountain, what are you even doing there? There are plenty of mountains in the area that can be climbed instead.

Same can be said about the Dawn Wall of El Cap. Harding should have never bolted it. Removing his bolt ladder was the ethical move by Robbins.

chabes··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Qwen does closed and open. This is not new.
chabes··on Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T
The small models are getting really impressive.

I recently realized that Qwen3.5:4B is way more capable than I thought a model that size could be.

Combine that with the work Liquid puts into RL and fine tuning, and you get models that perform extremely well on minimal hardware.

Combine that with your own fine tuning, and you get a specialized tool that is fast, private, and doesn’t require internet connection.

chabes··on Building Pi with Pi
> The frontier models will likely always be better than the open source ones.

Their lead is only a few months, and shrinking.

Local is the future.

chabes··on Building Pi with Pi
Hard disagree.

Pi has optimizations as well, and development is quite active.

We are literally months into this new frontier. Mainstream harnesses are not far off from a minimal + extensible open alternative.

You don’t have to build your own plugins, as you can simply install an existing plugin that does what the mainstream harnesses do. Folks are already making the same functionality, but with more control to the user.

If you are a builder, like many reading this thread, pi is the way to go. Pi already gives you the tools to leverage LLMs to assist with building plugins, if that’s the way you want to go.

chabes··on When (if ever) it's appropriate to make jokes before the US Supreme Court
Obama should have picked a replacement for RBG. Biden and the democratic congress should have done more to get the judiciary back in line. They had their opportunities.
chabes··on When (if ever) it's appropriate to make jokes before the US Supreme Court
Democrats, while better than republicans in this regard, are also to blame. It is not one or the other.
chabes··on When (if ever) it's appropriate to make jokes before the US Supreme Court
Analysis by Fix the Court identified 546 gifts valued at over $4.7 million given to 18 current and former justices, with Justice Clarence Thomas as the primary recipient.

Judicial reform bills have tried to address the issue, but these bills have very little chance of success in the current political environment.

From 2024:

https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-releases/van-hol...

chabes··on When (if ever) it's appropriate to make jokes before the US Supreme Court
Lol, that gets an upvote from me.

I actually like to call out AI shortcomings

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47507666#47513216

Also, hope I’m not succumbing to AI psychosis, and starting to talk more like a bot. Autism be like that sometimes.

chabes··on When (if ever) it's appropriate to make jokes before the US Supreme Court
I am a human. I see overlap in thought on a fresh post.
chabes··on Ask HN: Why do people seem to generally hate AI?
Many reasons, and it depends on who you’re talking to.

I use LLMs for coding, as well as a few other minor things.

I do not like the corporate AI garbage slop being forced on an unwilling population.

I do not like the widespread anthropomorphism of AI.

I do not like the idea of fucking everything up with slop and hoping future models will clean up our messes.

I do not like hypercapitalists buying up land, water, electricity rights, while shitting on everyone else and the planet.

It is a complex and diverse topic. It is also very new to most people. Of course there is diversity of opinions.

chabes··on When (if ever) it's appropriate to make jokes before the US Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is the joke… it has lost all credibility with partisan inconsistency and overt bribery.
chabes··on DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost
Aka pi.dev
chabes··on Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence
It was in the DOJ releases

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA000221...

chabes··on Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence
Yes https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA000221...

There are graphic descriptions in Virginia Giuffre’s diary entries as well.

chabes··on Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence
Downvoting won’t hide the truth.

Y’all are welcome to offer a counterpoint, and yet…

chabes··on Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence
Eww, I see what you did there
chabes··on Grok Build
Does the space need another biased tool? Does this offer anything unique?

I’m good with the open source options.

OpenCode and Pi agent are much more customizable than the proprietary options will ever be.

chabes··on Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation
What purpose does a statement like this serve?

Like most, I’d much rather my food not be spiked at all.

chabes··on Show HN: A multi-model interface where LLMs discuss & argue with each other
I like the idea of a real-time discussion. Going to try that as an option in my hobby project.

HN is a great place to share projects like these. So much to learn from each other. Thanks for sharing yours!

chabes··on Show HN: A multi-model interface where LLMs discuss & argue with each other
I know very little about obscure coffee as well.

I do know that coffee comes from East Africa / Ethiopia, and that there are many varieties there due to this.

Heirloom varieties tend to be more “wild”. Farmers growing in regions outside of Ethiopia tend to select stable varieties to match the region.

I don’t know about the frost protection from deep canyons, but it makes sense.

I opened a bag of freshly roasted heirloom beans from Jimma, Ethiopia this morning, and they were indeed more tart and fruity than the Colombian variety I had earlier in the week. The discussion tracked with my experience, at least.

chabes··on Show HN: A multi-model interface where LLMs discuss & argue with each other
A short conversation about coffee regions (free trial ran out quite quickly)

https://rauno.ai/c/rtGafWQoU9

chabes··on Show HN: A multi-model interface where LLMs discuss & argue with each other
Love the idea.

Similar to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47507666 …much to learn from each other, I think.

I am working on a similar hobby project, but for local models and human participation: https://github.com/ch4bes/roundtable

Edit: Asked “what year is it” which gets mixed result if using an LLM without tools.

Results were accurate: https://rauno.ai/c/7nEx8PAVMD

Compared to: https://opper.ai/ai-roundtable/questions/what-year-is-it-7a0...

chabes··on Tim Cook's Next Act: Apple's Diplomat-in-Chief
Have we not had enough of the sucking up to dictators and pedophiles with trophies and praise?
chabes··on Pi Agent Being Merged?
Yes. Mario is still “at the helm”, but with help from a team now.

See Mario’s post about the acquisition: https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-04-08-ive-sold-out/

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