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flakinesson Gemini 4 Carbon

They seem to go with Android-style alphabetic order code names instead of pointed numbers (4.1, 4.2...) and drop "B" for some reason (which is creating this confusion.)

flakinesson Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models

What would be the computing cost to go through the book (or the course)? Do you need Cloud GPUs, or can this be run locally, if so how powerful your computer has to be?

I've been wondering about getting a PC to poke around LLM stuff (not a practical use, but more for learning purposes) but I don't have any intuition about how much is enough and whether it is worth it to me.

flakinesson Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest

Trivia: They did it locally at their home town Mountain View (in much smaller scale), then realized that they didn't need that land, and now are planting them back.

https://www.mv-voice.com/environment/2025/09/11/google-to-pa...

flakinesson Claude Duet

That's why I mentioned "non-model" quality. Although it's getting harder to tell harness quality from model quality, my impression was Muse is just lacking to deliver their ambition.

flakinesson Claude Duet

I worry how buggy their app is. I love their model but Meta/Muse has the edge on non-model implementation. Hope this turn out to be false alarm.

flakinesson DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (Max)

One explanation I heard was that it is to avoid slow government certification-like process. New version == another run of certification.

flakinesson More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke

Although I'm totally on board of the high-level points,

> This remains yet another shameful example of large AI companies appropriating the commons and presenting others’ work as their own.

If you work at Meta which is, you know, one of large (aspiring) AI companies, a bit of self awareness might help boost your credibility a bit more.

flakinesson More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke

The Anthropic article [1] has author names as initials or first names,and I thought it was to prevent talent pouching, but now other possible intentions come to my mind...

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-con...

flakinesson Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released

That sounds bad. I just haven't encountered it personally (or didn't notice).

flakinesson Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released

Despite of the shortcomings, I'm still sticking to Ubuntu. It's boring, and occasionally break things. But at least it's not hostile.

If you use the words like "still" and "at least", there is little enthusiasm. But that's how a long-term relationship looks like I guess.

flakinesson Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke

Can anyone explain the difference between sampling vs mononoke?

Edit: I was too lazy. From the README: "Mononoke is the server built for the Sapling Source Control System"

flakinesson Redesigning source control at Anthropic

They want you to vibecode this using Claude.

flakinesson My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps

The update section is somehow moving. Not sure why. Maybe because it captures the spirit of "もののあわれ" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_no_aware

flakinesson Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series

Android phones don't need (and often don't have) upstreamed "drivers". They use qualcomm's closed-source code. Also, Android user land driver (HAL) isn't useful for non-Android Linux distros.

flakinesson Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series

If the upstream is properly done (that is a big if), this can be a go-to choice for the Linux laptop because it has much smaller config variations compared to Intel-based laptops: Everything from wifi (and even modem?), to audio, to camera ISP is included in the single SoC. If it works it works.

flakinesson Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?

https://security.googleblog.com/2023/04/google-authenticator...

So relatively new, and I didn't know this and moved to proton for this reason recently.

flakinesson Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA

Yeah I had a slight hope that they'd be a one of the first real Rapidus customers. but apparently not (for this one at least).

flakinesson Shopify moves back to Native from React Native

mind sharing a link or two on the native code generation bit? I'm far behind from the scene but still curious.

flakinesson Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

I'm not sure it's a bad thing.

If you spend a long time with C++ code base you'll be able to decipher the otherwise-unreadable compiler errors pretty quickly, and I'd consider it a skill.

flakinesson AWS Acquires DuckDB

https://duckdb.org/roadmap

Current Google cache of this page states:

> "The DuckDB project is governed by the non-profit DuckDB Foundation . The Foundation and DuckLabs are not funded by external investors (e.g., venture capital)."

But "(Last updated: Aug 2026)" and I was not able to find this text anymore.

I wonder if they took vc money after all. I guess not, but still, it seem like to be difficult to live as an independent open source company. Getting a big co as a parent/sponsor is probably the next best thing.

flakinesson The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source

If we program NPUs on Qualcomm-based chips using Mojo, the PC AI programming as a hobby would be getting much more interesting. I wish they don't limit this to the server chips.

flakinesson The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source

Also MLIR which is so prevalent in the ML compile stack everywhere.

https://mlir.llvm.org/

flakinesson DeepSeek API Pricing Update

Now Baseten's pricing is cheaper than the official one? Probably won't last, but still interesting.

https://www.baseten.co/pricing/

If anyone has tried Baseten versions of these Chinese frontier models, let me know what you found.

flakinesson DeepSeek Harness developer preview

Tell me more about the ideas behind Cordis the plugin system. The paper is a bit too mathy to consume and I think it deserves a more accessible post or something.

flakinesson Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

The post in question: https://openjdk.org/legal/ai

It is 'OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI' and their lawyers are writing the final version, according to this page.

It sounds like a sensible action, given past scars around Java and copyright, plus this is from a big old corp.

That said I personally don't expect that final proposal will end up any better.

flakinesson I'll be stepping back from leading product for X

I felt the same before then realized that what I missed was my youth. Plenty of time to kill. No real privacy need. Being a night owl with little hangover, etc. etc.

Not saying that's you. Just cannot help going down the memory lane.

flakinesson Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet

Fair point. Their page doesn't list any investors.

flakinesson Discovery Loop

> we have pioneered massive scale computing and led the creation of critical infrastructure, products, and foundational AI advances that the world relies on, including multiple generations of Google Search, Google Ads, Google News, Google Translate, Google File System, MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner, TensorFlow, Pathways, TPUs, AlphaChip, AlphaStar, AlphaCode, AlphaFold, Gemini, model distillation, mixture-of-experts model architectures, word2vec, sequence-to-sequence models, chain of thought reasoning, neural architecture search, and multiple generations of Large Language Models (LLMs) among others.

holy shit. I've known this, but...