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ilia-a··on [dead]
Trying to address the long-standing issue of un-safe deserialization by introducing built-in hmac into PHP serialization process and at the same time improving general performance (now better or equal to igbinary)
ilia-a··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Unfortunately at the moment the model is very quickly burning through plans, single session with 3-4 subagents, none using Max or Xhigh, mostly medium + some High can burn through 5h limit within 20-40 minutes of usage.
ilia-a··on DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)
DuckDB is really neat, recently added PDO interface for it for PHP https://github.com/iliaal/pdo_duckdb

Still a bit raw, but getting there

ilia-a··on The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK
First of all there is a way to made agents spot truncation by being aware of RTK compression and having bypass option (I use RTK_DISABLE=1) as a way of restoring original full text.

Works fine, yeah it only compresses command output so only input tokens are affected in terms of "compression".

ilia-a··on Codex for open source
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ilia-a··on Codex for open source
I did fill the form our a while back (it was around for a few months now) without any response. I guess must be really big OSS project for maintainer to qualify.
ilia-a··on Uber's $1,500/Month AI Limit Is a Useful Signal for AI Tool Pricing
Seems odd limit, especially since it highly dependant on Token provider used, with Opus this is not much and could easily be burnt in a week or less, but with something like deepseek the 1500 can literarily be an annual budget.

That being said, I do have to wonder why someone as bug as say Uber, simply not rollout OSS model in the cloud for their team, I'd imagine that would be cheapest & most flexible option, while also keeping all the data shared with LLM private.

ilia-a··on MAI-Code-1-Flash
I mean they are comparing themselves to Haiku of all things, geez that's not a good start...
ilia-a··on Nvidia RTX Spark
Because of the memory costs lately, I doubt this will be much cheaper. Also this is quite a bit slower than even 4070 let alone *90 Nvidia variants albeit with much lower memory.
ilia-a··on Nvidia RTX Spark
Looks like just rebranded DGX in laptop form, the biggest miss is the weak memory speed, 1/2 of the M5 laptop memory speed, and 1/3 of the M3 ultra that is now years old...
ilia-a··on Gemini 3.5 Flash
Yeah, it is a massive jump in price, hardly a "Flash" model anymore... I wonder if they'll release flash lite or something with a bit more affordable price point.
ilia-a··on FastChart: Native PHP extension for server-side charts, barcodes, and QR codes
Native PHP extension: 19 chart types behind a fluent OO API, plus Code 128 barcodes and QR codes sharing the same gd substrate. Composable: charts can draw into a caller-owned GdImage canvas, so multiple charts composite onto one image in a single render pass. PHP 8.3+, BSD-licensed.
ilia-a··on Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
IMHO Mythos was more of a marketing ploy.

When it comes to security and AI, all top tier publicly accessible models (GPT 5.5, Opus 4.7) and even near-top like Deepseek 4 PRO can do a very good job given detailed harness on how to spot issues and cross-validate them to avoid false positives.

ilia-a··on Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux
Looks like lots of grift going on.

Forgetting other categories for a moment, the fact that corp operations are nearly 2x the money going to linux kernel says it all...

ilia-a··on CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers
I wonder how much shared hosting is there really left, I imagine much of it move to VPS or cheap cloud boxes.
ilia-a··on AI slop is killing online communities
Original online communities (forums/chat rooms) got largely killed by social media, now social media is getting killed by AI slop.
ilia-a··on Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
Another nail in the web anonymity sounds like
ilia-a··on Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
Interesting that the 5h limits are raised, but if I understand announcement correctly, the weekly limit is not. So all this means is that you can burn through your weekly limit faster and be locked out entirely, or having to buy tokens
ilia-a··on Let's talk about LLMs
Even without writing code LLMs are a huge help, analyzing code, doing code reviews, documenting code, etc... Even without writing a line of "code" LLM hugely speed up development and take away the annoying/boring work.
ilia-a··on Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
Compared to what was before and after it was pretty great.
ilia-a··on Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
Windows 10, especially when they added WSL2 was genuinely great and an awesome platform for development, with essentially native/fast Linux. Since Win11, it has all been downhill (imo), speed dropped massively, even opening task manager now takes seconds, weird slowdowns that only reboot resolves (temporarily). I hope Microsoft starts taking performance seriously and tries to get back to what was lost after Win10, but I have big doubts.
ilia-a··on LLMs consistently pick resumes they generate over ones by humans or other models
Seems kinda obvious, given that most large recruiting firms/hr use algos to analyze resumes and AI written version likely do a better job at hitting keywords/structure algos/llms pick up on...
ilia-a··on Chinese AI models are ~8 months behind and falling further behind
That doesn't seem right and seems to miss GLM 5.1 and Kimi 2.6. Not to mention there is the whole argument of cost/value that Chinese OSS models have vs GPT/Claude.
ilia-a··on Ask HN:Do people configure Claude Code to use other models
I use codex plugin to often validate claude results, surprisingly many findings, so for things like code-review becomes very helpful. Considering trying using Deepseek 4 Pro, seems like could be a good/cheap alternative to codex
ilia-a··on Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months
Not surprising, hit my 5h limit on Claude Code Max Plan, had some credits so switched to extended (api). 40 minutes later $30 credits gone... so yeah, I can see how this can happen.
ilia-a··on CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940
Yeesh, first kernel root exploit, now this...

Low key wonder if people using LLMs to scan these old code bases for corner case issues and fining treasure troves of exploits.

ilia-a··on After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber
Silly move since combo of skills/agents can achieve same results on most recent models anyway