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lordofgibbons

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lordofgibbons··on Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma
I dug into it more, and it seems like the reasoning efforts are available for the Intelligence Index, but not the Coding Agents benchmark I was interested in.
lordofgibbons··on Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma
I see them for GPT 6.1 Terra, but not Opus 5.5. I'm looking on the Coding Agents page.
lordofgibbons··on Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma
I wish AA benchmarked the models at the reasoning efforts people actual use them at. For example, it's very rare for people that I know to use the "max" reasoning setting - specially because Claude Code itself scares you away from using it. But all of these coding benchmarks are based on just that reasoning effort.

I get it, they can only benchmark so much. But I'd rather have a benchmark of how the model is actually used and offered to customers rather than the best case scenario for it.

lordofgibbons··on Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
It's similar to the ElectronJS desktop app problem. Sure the desktop apps use a lot more system resources, but it's doubtful those apps would have been created in the first place if it wasn't for the speedup of development allowed by ElectronJS.

In this case, sure software is buggier, but there's also a ton more software+features that wouldn't have existed before AI coding tools.

lordofgibbons··on Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%
The difference is that releasing the model for free doesn't have ongoing cost for the company. Providing cheap tokens is very expensive - specially if you don't have access to the latest transistor node chips. So I think the parent comment is right, there's something else at play allowing DS and Xiaomi to offer these nearly free tokens.
lordofgibbons··on Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found
What's the verifiable oracle in this scenario?
lordofgibbons··on Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found
Without showing false-positive rates this analysis is useless.

If your model says every line if your code has a bug, it will catch 100% of the bugs, but it's not useful at all. They tested false-positives with only a single bug...

I'm not defending anthropic and openai either. Their numbers are garbage too since they don't produce false-positive rates either.

Why is this "analysis" making the rounds?

lordofgibbons··on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
Given that Google has said they'll be delaying source code release for Android to every X months intervals (iirc), how is GrapheneOS planning to handle security updates? Will they just be Google's binary blobs?
lordofgibbons··on Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic
The controversy isn't about defending one's country, it's about you and the parent comment author assuming what this is all about without reading the article.

The core of the issue about autonomous use of AI in mass surveillance of Americans and autonomous use of AI in automated weapons that make kill decisions. Anthropic is perfectly fine with working with the War Department and "defending one's nation".

But they are not okay with their AI being used to make a mockery of the 4th amendment and making automated kill/no-kill decisions about actual human lives.

lordofgibbons··on Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
Pardon my ignorance, but doesn't a byte-by-byte output recreation of the C++ code in Rust defeat the whole purpose of using Rust? For one, would it be idiomatic Rust anymore? Also, if there's a (non-memory related) vulnerability in the C++ code, would it be possible for that to be introduced in Rust too?
lordofgibbons··on Show HN: PgDog – Scale Postgres without changing the app
This looks great! I have a couple of questions:

1) Is it possible to start off with plain Postgres and add pgdog without scheduled downtime down the road when scaling via sharding becomes necessary?

2) How are schema updates handled when using physical multi-tenancy? Does pgdog just loop over all the databases that it knows about and issues the update schema command to each?

lordofgibbons··on A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data
I'm currently using Ghostty with Zellij, and there has been a constant tension w.r.t whether I should use a zellij feature or a Ghostty one (i.e, tabs/panes/etc) when they provide the same thing.

I've come to the conclusion to rely more on Zellij because I can SSH into my desktop from my laptop remotely to continue my dev session exactly where I left off.

So, these days I don't even use "native" terminal tabs anymore.

lordofgibbons··on 99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds
You can try raising the head part of the bed by 5 - 6 or so inches using wood blocks. The doctor recommended it to me.

It's not perfect, but has really helped me!

lordofgibbons··on GLM-4.7-Flash
How interesting it is depends purely on your use-case. For me this is the perfect size for running fine-tuning experiments.
lordofgibbons··on Netherlands – Capital Growth Tax and Capital Gains Tax for Box 3
5 years used to be true 15 years ago. IPOs are happening much later now, probably 10+ years, if you're lucky
lordofgibbons··on Netherlands – Capital Growth Tax and Capital Gains Tax for Box 3
How are situations like lack of liquidity to pay the taxes handled?

i.e, As an employee you get stock options, which you exercise when you leave the startup. Then long before the company has a liquidity event the FMV shoots up because the business is doing well. How do you as a wage worker pay the taxes on your paper riches without a way to sell your shares?

lordofgibbons··on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
Ads aren't added to agentic workflows. Agentic usage of gpt-5 is only available if you're a paying user.
lordofgibbons··on China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from thorium
How exactly has it distracted the U.S?

I don't see the U.S rushing to adopt either renewables or nuclear. We're just increasing our fossil fuel burning (natural gas).

lordofgibbons··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
How did we get to a place where either Cloudflare or AWS having an outage means a large part of the web going down? This centralization is very worrying.
lordofgibbons··on Kratos - Cloud native Auth0 open-source alternative (self-hosted)
Do I need to use the other services from the Ory stack to have this be complete? I tried reading the Ory docs a couple of times when I needed an auth solution but it was indecipherable to me as someone not living in the auth world
lordofgibbons··on Cerebras Code now supports GLM 4.6 at 1000 tokens/sec
At what quantization? And if it is in fact quantized below fp8, how is the performance impacted on all the various benchmarks?
lordofgibbons··on ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk
I can't find a single screenshot of opendesk applications anywhere - including their own website. This is extremely strange.
lordofgibbons··on Meta readies $25B bond sale as soaring AI costs trigger stock sell-off
Building data centers for OpenAI, but it requires a lot of upfront capital.
lordofgibbons··on GLP-1 therapeutics: Their emerging role in alcohol and substance use disorders
Not really. It lets me focus on what I want to focus on without losing motivation. Gaming is just an addictive behavior which is why it works against it, but not real work that I actually want to do.
lordofgibbons··on NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times
Is the solution to this problem Golang style package management where you specify the git repo?
lordofgibbons··on Extropic is building thermodynamic computing hardware
How should we think about how much effective compute is being done with these devices compared to classical (GPU) computing? Obviously FLOPs doesn't make sense, so what does?
lordofgibbons··on GLP-1 therapeutics: Their emerging role in alcohol and substance use disorders
I've noticed that when I'm on Zepbound 2.5mg, I don't have the strong urge to play video games and can focus on my projects. Even if I do play video games while on it, I lose interest after a maximum of half an hour.
lordofgibbons··on The MacBook Air 2025 Is Now Cheaper Than a Random Mid-Range Windows Laptop
I really wish these laptops were compatible with Linux. I'd buy one today.
lordofgibbons··on Ask HN: Has AI stolen the satisfaction from programming?
I started (incorrectly) going down this same route of offloading the thinking and system design process to the LLM. It has a disaster.

You have to understand your problem and solution inside and out. This means thinking deeply about your solution along with the drawing boxes and lines. And only then do you go to the LLM and have it implement your solution!

I heavily use LLMs daily, but if you don't truly understand the problem and solution, you're going to have a bad time.

lordofgibbons··on Microsoft Amplifier
There are hundreds of these on github. Why should we care? Why not release any benchmarks or examples?
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