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gkbrk··on HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
> whereas AI generated media is problematic

It's not problematic to 99% of the population that's not part of a very vocal minority on Twitter and Bluesky. Everyone else is enjoying AI art and making funny family pictures and memes together.

gkbrk··on Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable
Memes I share with friends on Signal and verification codes from my bank with my life savings require very different levels of trust.

Why would I give any app permission to read my messages, no matter how secure it claims to be?

gkbrk··on mitmproxy adds --emudhra option
Frida can usually un-pin those pretty easily.
gkbrk··on Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua
AI works much better when it gets immediate feedback from a good type checker
gkbrk··on Can gzip be a language model?
Top contestant in the Hutter Prize uses a neural network for compression. So fair to say, LLMs would perform pretty well compared to gzip.
gkbrk··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
Official Deepseek v4.1 Flash API costs are more than GPT 5.6 Luna. Deepseek v4 Pro performed worse than Luna, so I wonder if 4.1 Flash will justify the cost.
gkbrk··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
Clearing cookies when all you want to do is read static content is not "breaking expected behaviour on websites".
gkbrk··on Pre-Release of Polars 2.0
What's inconsistent about their versioning?
gkbrk··on AWS Acquires DuckLabs
DuckDB is still OSS btw. It didn't go proprietary like Redis or ElasticSearch.
gkbrk··on OpenRouter is joining Stripe
Hint: It's not 15%. And there are many reasons, such as not having to keep up-to-date billing details in 70 providers, and not wasting money because most providers want you to prepay a balance that gets stuck in there if you switch to another provider.

It also has way better uptime than the underlying platforms, even for proprietary models like Claude. When Claude APIs are having issues, OpenRouter Claude still keeps working because they can route to AWS Bedrock instead of Anthropic etc. This effect is even bigger with open-weight models because they typically have 5-10 providers.

gkbrk··on Show HN: Privacy focused client side password generator
It's such a bad idea to use a random website to generate passwords, surely this has to be bait.

> Strong passwords, generated only on this device. Nothing is sent or stored.

> Private by design

And the only way to verify this is to read and understand 288 KB of obfuscated Javascript code every time you launch this app.

gkbrk··on GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter
The Offline test ranking of Tracking AI lines up much better with my experience of using the models.

https://trackingai.org/home

gkbrk··on Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
This is more app instances than 99% of deployments. Most apps and websites run a single server.
gkbrk··on How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
Really glad open-source password managers are resisting the bullying and not implementing DRM.
gkbrk··on Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
If it's designed well, your application also opens a pool of connections and re-uses them each time the code needs a DB connection.
gkbrk··on Bluesky Protocol Services
It's the #6 most popular website in the world. Chances are, someone will fix the libraries or investigate and write about any changes done to the internal API pretty quickly.
gkbrk··on Bluesky Protocol Services
It still has an internal GraphQL API. How would the official web app and mobile apps work without an API?
gkbrk··on Mistral OCR 4.1
It's still open-weight models that you can download and run locally. You don't need to send anything to China.
gkbrk··on Europe is the fastest warming continent. What is to blame?
Most people would consider Europe a continent. What kind of strange definition of continent are you using?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent

gkbrk··on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
If the model cannot figure out simple and ubiquitous tools, how is it supposed to figure out complex problems? All of the good models basically work with any harness, including giving them a single "shell command" tool. They can just figure things out.
gkbrk··on China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines
You’re insane if you think supporting Russia is not “more wrong” than supporting Ukraine during a war Russia started to invade Ukraine.
gkbrk··on MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH
Wine has better backwards-compatibility than Windows these days.
gkbrk··on Which streaming service was that on again?
It's always on The Pirate Bay. That's the streaming service everything is on.
gkbrk··on The unreasonable difficulty of time series forecasting
The best advertisement for these companies would probably be running a public Polymarket account so everyone else can quickly check how accurate they are.
gkbrk··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
I wouldn't classify getting random malware as "nothing happening".
gkbrk··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
A monitor cannot install software on your computer by the way. It's Windows installing this software automatically (for some reason), so the blame should be on Microsoft.

Autorun of malware when you plugged in a USB drive was also a Windows issue, I'd classify this as the same security problem.

gkbrk··on How I use HTMX with Go
The same server that's responsible for sanitizing garbage JS out of user content is also responsible for sending the Content-Security headers. Why would you trust it with one, but not the other? If it's buggy garbage it will also send the wrong headers.
gkbrk··on Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch
All the codecrafters content is available on Github too, for free.
gkbrk··on GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday
You can't just say perchance.
gkbrk··on CursorBench 3.1
It looks very natural, cheaper is better after all. Performance axis going up, and cheapness axis going up match each other.
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