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mixtureoftakeson macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool (2025)

what is with the ai written articles lately? and ai designed websites?

who looks at it and goes "yes, ill upvote this. more people should see it."?

not only is it down but its likely to be a decently sized hack too, many big accounts including elon having their bio edited to promote various crypto

mixtureoftakeson AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

the comment " be aware that talking to LLM actually moves carbon from earth into atmosphere" having 39 likes is ABSURD to me.

out of all the fascinating and awful things to care about with the advent of ai people pick co2 emissions? really? like really?

mixtureoftakeson An Update on Heroku

i am impressed. no ai can ever write announements this bad

mixtureoftakeson Software Pump and Dump

extremely bad takes CHECK broken cert CHECK somehow top of front page CHECK

mixtureoftakeson Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app

also is there a way to make parakeet type more naturally? less capitallization, less punctuation? can this be a setting?

this can already be done via local llm processing the text but surely there is an easier way to do this, right

mixtureoftakeson Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app

Which model would be the best to use for mandarin? Are there any models on par with Parakeet that are just as fast but also understand Chinese?

mixtureoftakeson Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app

the model is permanently loaded into ram for access speed. discharging it would unload it from ram and lead to longer start times

mixtureoftakeson Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI

oh this is because they want more data to build better ai (that will give them more money and power and probably some other things too)

mixtureoftakeson Helium Browser

so you have ptsd from a browser?

mixtureoftakeson Helium Browser

WHY IS EVERYONE IN COMMENTS SO OLD AND BITTER WHAT ON EARTH ARE WE DOING

mixtureoftakeson Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today

15 years in tech is like a month in crypto

mixtureoftakeson Playable Counter-Strike Diffusion World Model (trained on 2x4090, 5M frames)

this is crazy

when trying to run on a mac it only plays in a very small window, how could this be configured?

mixtureoftakeson Fuzzing 101

small world we live in...

mixtureoftakeson Fuzzing 101

fuzzing lore: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1799457232607985698

great read if you wanna waste 11 minutes

mixtureoftakeson Show HN: Quilt – Powerful RAG UI for Document QA

Is this sota? How does rag quality compare to that in, say, lmstudio?

Also is there a "rag quality benchmark" yet

mixtureoftakeson Amusing Ourselves to Death (2014)

   Most of us will read this and continue living our life exactly the same way as before

          …wake up

mixtureoftakeson Two new Gemini models, reduced 1.5 Pro pricing, increased rate limits, and more

TLDR - 2x cheaper, slightly smarter, and they only compare those new models to their own old ones. Does google have moat?

mixtureoftakeson GitHub notification emails used to send malware

Honestly i would have typed commands in shell if "captcha" asked me for it. Just to see the scale of outcome's awfulness.

I'm almost bored enough to just start installing weird malware for research and funsies

mixtureoftakeson Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla

all while some people spend their entire lives obsessing about privacy without even doing anything illegal...

mixtureoftakeson The Quantum Butterfly Effect

it was just deleted? Page not found

mixtureoftakeson Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size [pdf]

Good realease but the annoying part is they're very unclear about which types of models they are comparing. They provide benchmark comparisons for the base models only and arena comparisons for instruct only? Was that intentional? Why would you ever do that? This makes things unnecessary complicated imo and the only payoff is a short term win for google on paper.

Guess I'll just fully test it for my own tasks to know for sure

mixtureoftakeson Ball: A ball that lives in your dock

very cool website! I did sheep 4000 and my pc immediately exploded

mixtureoftakeson Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco

I haven't taken a ride in one of those yet, what does it feel like?

mixtureoftakeson FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations

they really know what they're doing don't they I imagine the implementatioin of this as some executive saying "surely we can't get away with that" and then of course, them getting away with that

mixtureoftakeson Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models

llama 3 definitely beats it, but 99% of the users wont care which is actually a good thing... apple totally wins the ai market not by being sota but by sheer amount of devices which will be running their models, we're talking billions