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flaburgan··on Goodbye Claude, hello Pi
Zed GUI allows you to do it it's very straightforward, you click on new Claude thread, subscription, your browser opens, you allow the access and that's it.
flaburgan··on Goodbye Claude, hello Pi
Why would you use it via the API?

I personally don't use Pi but Zed, but Claude is plugged using ACP on my Pro plan. I would never pay the API prices that's way too expensive.

flaburgan··on Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
Curious, as I am using Zed myself, when was the last time you used it?
flaburgan··on Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
I use the Zed IDE with Opus 5.5 pro subscription. I use to have access to Fable with the max plan and I miss it, despite what everyone is saying I still find that Opus does weird things. Just yesterday I pointed it to a queue suddenly being twice slower to be processed in prod. A select SQL query called thousands of times per minute became slower because of a data increased. Opus proposed several non trivial ways to optimize the query by forcing some execution plan. I just kept the result in a variable for one minute, as the data don't change often. x1000 perf with 3 lines of code. I would have expected it to say that this query didn't have to be executed that many times in the first place. It codes well when you tell it what to do, but it is still dumb about what is the real problem (and so the real solution). That's worrying me a bit because Opus 5.5 clearly is SOTA, so better than any open weights models, and I really want to be able to run smart models locally on my laptop for independence and privacy reasons. So, if I still find Opus dumb now, when will I have an open weight model better than 5.5 that can run on my Ryzen 7 AI 350 with its Radeon 860m and 32GB of RAM? ... This summer with all the releases of DeepSeek and Qwen I was hopeful I could have it for Christmas, but it looks like I will have to wait much more...
flaburgan··on WTF Ubuntu?
As far as I know the only working exploit is working on machine with MultiTCP enabled. Redhat also downgraded the issue to "high" and also did not release a patch yet. I would have preferred a patch but I accept that they know better than me what they are doing.
flaburgan··on TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8
Use IPv6
flaburgan··on MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space
Are you sure? Login doesn't work on mine, and language is stuck to English idk why
flaburgan··on SlopCodeBench 10/2026 – Opus 5.5, Astra wins overall, xhigh considered harmful
Do you mind listing some? I only know xxcancel.com
flaburgan··on Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping
I agree, but if we go one step further, what is the goal of those logical units? If the answer is, to make the code more maintainable, then the next question is, for whom? For humans, or for llms? Is it still important that the code is maintainable for humans if no humans read it anymore? Those are not rethorical questions, I am asking them for real. What is "good quality" code in the age of AI? If there is a lot of duplication but no performance consequences, is it really a problem if only AI modify it?
flaburgan··on AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs
I agree, nevertheless, Murena has 50 employees and is profitable as a company. Idk how much money lineage and Graphene have, hopefully the partnership with Motorola is going to provide them some funding.
flaburgan··on AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs
Which is why /e/ OS and Graphene OS adoption is higher than projects such as PostmarketOS (now Nura) or Ubuntu Touch, even if they are already quite mature. I daily drove Ubuntu Touch for two years in 2019 and 2020, and it's the need of Signal which made me switch to /e/.
flaburgan··on AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs
Btw /e/ OS people have already shared that they were getting ready for a hard fork of AOSP looking at how Google is acting. But to be fair the challenge is more around the hardware support than the OS itself, so in the end it will be the chip makers which will decide which OS can run or not. If they go the AMD way then great, if they go the old nvidia way where even basic reclocking is impossible then we are screwed.
flaburgan··on Passkeys are a trap
The problem here is not about them being copyable, it's about the "attested" keys which depend on a 3rd party.
flaburgan··on Fingerprints are the new cookies
It's the complete opposite. What killed DNT is Microsoft adding it to their browser and set it to true by default, pretending they cared about their users. Doing so, it was not the expression of the users anymore and so web developers ignored it, and so it died.
flaburgan··on Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help
How do you solve the domain name issue though?
flaburgan··on Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help
Where do they communicate then? How do they reach citizens? I am genuinely asking, because there are not many ethical ways to communicate, some have mastodon, some have newsletters, but it's a fraction of them and they reach a fraction of the people they reach on Twitter. Think about your local politician, your local sport club... How do you actually reach people of your town?
flaburgan··on I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it
Yes, which means after doing this research alone instead of collaborating, he went to go see NASA with his findings and they agreed there was something interesting so they will look at it. My point is not that his discovery is small, my point is he could have done it directly in collaboration with NASA, they encourage that.
flaburgan··on I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it
While I find it great that Claude is now helping people to progress on topics they may have not have time or knowledge for before, I found it a bit sad that this is done alone in a bedroom. NASA and ESA do have this kind of program, where they publish data and encourage people to help. There is exactly this for exoplanet searching:

- NASA (with the TESS mission): https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/nora-dot-eisner/planet-h...

- ESA (with the CHEOPS mission): https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/bmerin/planet-hunters-ch... (Very new! Will be announced next week!)

If you are logged in with an account they will even recognise you and add your name to the paper!

So instead of playing alone, join the common effort, this is how science will progress efficiently!

flaburgan··on Claude Haiku 5.5
They say it in the announcement: Haiku is basically useful to be called as a subagent. So you use Opus, and you want to investigate your production logs, instead of throwing them right away which is going to use a massive amount of token for mostly noise data, Opus asks Haiku to determine patterns to extract only the relevant logs and feed it back in Opus. The models are meant to be used together.
flaburgan··on Pi 1.0
Not sure what "multiplexer" means in this context but Zed allows to switch between agents thread with a side panel and that works very well
flaburgan··on Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
You mean paying twice to five times the price for something that is not configurable and on which you can run only a small subset of software, all very expensive?
flaburgan··on Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]
I always start a new project with `ln -s AGENTS.md CLAUDE.MD`. Problem solved.
flaburgan··on Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
In the end, using any device is all about doing actions (the simplest being reading/viewing, but also editing etc.) on data. Now the biggest difference between desktop and mobile is that the first one is (was?) file oriented while the second one is software (application) oriented. Edit a document, listen to a music, on desktop you would historically navigate to where the file is, then open it with the program of your choice. On mobile, you would almost never do that, you would first open the app and from it select the file you want to interact with. This is changing a lot how you are organizing the way you work. On desktop, it is easy to put related files of different types in the same folder, for example you organize your birthday, you can have the list of the invited people in a excel file with their number, a subfolder with the songs you want to play, some pictures of the venue, a text files with notes and etc. It is not natural at all to organize things like that on mobile. Android and iOS are hiding the files as much as they can. (This is not the case on Ubuntu Touch for example). And it becomes the responsibility of the app to organize the files it can open. This has a big impact on what you expect your desktop manager to done or not. I would personally be very happy if I could organize applications how we can organize files, and simply reopen a work session where I left it (some PDF open, some terminals open, my IDE, my browser...) even weeks after. To complexify the topic even more, the same thinking can be done in the browser, which is basically an OS now...
flaburgan··on Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids
The machines run perfectly fine with cold water entering them. They just consume more energy to warm the water, compare to for example a heat pump. And same, to spin fast to remove the water out of clothes is hundred times less energy consuming than to try to make the water evaporate for hours in a dryer. So I'm not talking about if the machines work or if it is practical, just about what's more energy efficient.
flaburgan··on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Are the weights available?
flaburgan··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
Yes, exactly. I limit the scraping to popular enough accounts. The wikimedia community is already organized to decide who deserves a Wikipedia page so I use that.
flaburgan··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
I actually do want to do something. I started to scrape Twitter to make it freely available. The web should stay open.
flaburgan··on Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs
Can you point where Signal uses proprietary blobs? Also, I'm using Signal without the play services notifications just fine. Notifications that don't contain any message content while transiting anyway. The display of the notification was the issue with iOS bug and that would have affected molly as well (if it was on iOS).
flaburgan··on Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished
Interesting to read this while the US gov doesn't give a fuck at all and use Pikachu and Tetris to make racist hateful games...
flaburgan··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
All the people younger than 28yo in France, for sure.
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