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maxdo··on Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left
Agent of the future will reverse engineer blue rays for you , bingo , order laser , home robot will assemble and read the device .
maxdo··on Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed
this is fun to watch, next week : new fable and astra, also where use muse wonder in this benches? they where leading model in many of these charts.
maxdo··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
The question formed wrong . They killed entire industries. I feel like they are at inflection point where they hired fde , but for now they try to solve fancy problems to do not visually scare their customers .

Yet picture is very sad , industries affected to the point that majority of the companies asking about their existence:

1) software dev tools all IDE , developer analytics tools eg jellyfish etc . Dead . On the same note : warp.dev that raised $80m a year ago as an ai terminal… can barely explain why do they exist now.

Visual workflow editors . Older ones and even n8n. There were literally 1000 companies that were doing small deployments. Why do you need it now ? A year ago half of the Internet was booming about these tools .

Any data visualization tools . Gone .

Data integration tools all kind of crm to crm to erp to something else . Solved problem

And you can go on and on . I would probably not exaggerate if I’d say that millions of businesses are heavily affected by, from tiny one to adobe .

maxdo··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
They just start hiring FDEs, a first step towards that.

And they already killed or make existence of many companies not viable , def 1000+ were killed

maxdo··on Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier
That’s false . Ukraine is hitting moving targets with middle strike every single day with ai that knows what to strike. More capable than any f-35 in that regards .
maxdo··on Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier
Yes to hit something 1864 miles away you need to maneuver. Most likely it did > 2000 miles .
maxdo··on Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier
Missions in Ukraine Russia achive same results for 1000 times cheaper. Real war nowadays is cheap and mass produced.

As an example, Russia hits with drones a specific parts of the bridge using mesh network of ER resistant drones . Ukraine is sending drones for 2000 miles deep into Russian territory. F-35 plus payload is not capable of that .

What is the point of sending f-35 if Ukraine can send 5 cheap rockets? And deliver 2-3 tones of payload over the most sophisticated air protection in the world ?

maxdo··on Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier
Because it's not America with Vietnam/ Iraq war mindset.

Helicopters are extremely vulnerable for drone interceptors. With Recent developments, the an interceptor can fly up to 600 km/h. It can also wait for you on the balloon.

Overall, piloted aviation, it's almost a dead end with all the recent capabilities.

maxdo··on Tesla Roadster
tesla roadster weights 1.6-1.7 tons, thats prob without compressed air. But common, if you buy a rocket car, that is capable to suck itself to the road, you will not care about this extra 300-400 kg of weight, that probably will be compensated by perfect low center of gravity and several motors.
maxdo··on Tesla Roadster
yes, you can, if you think like an engineer. they have suction mechanism, low center of gravity that helps you to beat any ICE counterparts.

You can't call this beauty of engineering a muscle car.

maxdo··on Muse Spark Open
and it's already not competitive from day 1
maxdo··on Muse Spark Open
everyone is doing backdoors, except eu, they just receive bribes from those who install backdoors.

the only difference is: the backdoor is made to kill people like you or not. I'd rather have a backdoor that is installed to kill someone on the different continent, e.g Iran leadrship, not in my country/city.

maxdo··on Muse Spark Open
great, I've been reading series of papers related to open source/open weight LLM Backdoors.

It's 100% possible, curious when will be the first incident.

Having something built by entity with HQ in the wester world is always a bit safer. That could be mistral, but they decided to be a consultancy company, not an ai lab.

maxdo··on Tiny Little Office
patching dependencies correctly was one of the first agentic coding tasks llm solved 100%. you will need to dedicate a session once a year to to such patches. Or community of vibe coders will do it for you .
maxdo··on Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era
i think tokens for any scientists should be free.
maxdo··on The Aaronson Oracle
36% not too great.
maxdo··on GLM-Legal
No fable 5.1 no opus 5.5 , no gpt 6.1 , benchmarks for the hype .
maxdo··on Lobbying is corruption
Dear fluffy Europeans , please explain , how you built Nord Stream 2 against all the rules ?

Did anyone go to jail for that or that was lobby ?

How former chancellor of Germany suddenly got a big title in Russian oil company , went on Putin birthday to celebrate and no one asked questions?

Or maybe Iran expert initiate ?

Or entire Austria chancellor fiasco ?

Caviar diplomacy maybe ?

At least lobby is transparent.

America half way out of their shame moment , Europe … not sure there’s ever way our due to how they distributed are . France and Germany entering the room in the next election cycle . Hungary before , Slovakia , Bulgaria , Czech Republic now

maxdo··on Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B
interestingly , it destroy the landscape of Chinese models.

Unless china takes leadership in frontier space the picture is next :

1. cheap workhorses for classification, routing, other scenarios : Jev 2. coding agents with less erros : Anthropic/Openai, etc. 3. Science /Legal/Medical : A mixture of Jev+Anthropic scenarios

maxdo··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
I feel the opposite. An agent sometimes work an entire day . The chance of doing that work twice defeats any motivation to use cheaper , less capable models . Also if you open benchmarks leaderboard for the first time in a while there’s almost 0 Chinese models .
maxdo··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
The hype is almost reverse now . With opus , sonnet and haiku 5.5 , why should I care about Chinese models that are so behind ? Also Jev seems like killed a big chunk of deepseek market too .

I personally used it for secondary research agents and classification . Now classification part is gone .

maxdo··on I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard
It’s not different . One case you chose tiles , you take a picture of your bathroom , and give it a rough sized of tile + room and it will Give you visual check . Second option if you want it also to calculate materials . This is a 3d path . First one can be done by just chat , another one is coding agent .
maxdo··on I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard
dump the plan, make sure it has height etc, after dump pictures if needed,

refs of colors. atropic has some nice recipes somewhere online, entire prompts you can feed into cc. i used their workflows feature, otherwise it's painfully slow.

do it in two steps, first generate just the named 3d model, walls, stairs etc inspect for correctness, after proceed to the fun part, materials, colors, etc.

I did it in extra one step, not sure if that was needed, i build a local harness first for extra small room 6 ft by 6ft, and after that expanded into real size. It installed lots of tools.

maxdo··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
PR is just an entity to review /do some other LLM processes . Human part check other models review PR's, tests all kind of , security etc. Also human is to checks docs, specs in the pr, db migrations if any , some of the tests related to the PR. We stopped reading the code after opus 4.6. Sometimes for very core parts i skim through files just to make sure if the changes were correct.
maxdo··on I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard
yes, it's amazingly/depressingly good at things that would take a $1000+ software, and years of education just a year ago. Now I'm doing this with leftover claude/codex weekly quotas( i do have both due to some testings at work).
maxdo··on I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard
I spent last 2 months in construction stores. A good chunk of people drop a size in claude/chatgpt, and put tiles in their existing picture etc.

You can feel differently but it saves you so much money, time, and bring you so much pleasure. Not the other way around.

maxdo··on I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard
I did almost the same but it was completely AI , and started from renovation. it build me material list looked for discounts, saved me ~$2k.

Tricky question how do you know that person did a real drawing, not generated it in codex/claude code?

maxdo··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
You have all the struggles for the price of Anthropic / cursor subscription. I use the first one I code large chunks some PR are 50k LOC and I have at least 2-3 like this a week . It’s a greenfield project .

I still have quotas left I use it for home things build 3d model of my renovation projects, alerts for shopping list etc . And yeah I use cutting edge of cutting edge of models that saves me time and money , only discount monitor saved me ~$2k on my renovation project

maxdo··on Docker Agent
they hope they can annoy and email every person in the org asking for money , same way as they did it with docker.

looks like a weird abstractions. why do i need this if i have modal.com, e2b, cloudflare that use original docker + some toolings around + way to run + isolations on network level.

maxdo··on Mistral Large 4
Not bad only two major releases behind top tier. Edit : checked its rather 3 generations behind . Oh well
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