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monneyboi

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R&D / Hacker. Using computers for good.

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monneyboi··on Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
I'm playing around with some ideas on top of pi durable. Cascading contexts exposed over http. Mostly deepseek, glm and kimi in there. https://github.com/resolveworks/key
monneyboi··on French national assembly votes 0.055€/GB internet tax
This is taxing communication and should not be legal. I don't see how it's different from having to pay for talking to your neighbor.
monneyboi··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
I think we can stop pretending it's "pretty close" and just call it what it is.
monneyboi··on Quad9 to exit France
If you want to support Quad9 in their dealing with this, you can donate to the cause here: https://quad9.net/donate/

Quad9 is a Swiss-based not-for-profit organization whose operational budget comes entirely from sponsorships and donations.

monneyboi··on Quad9 to exit France
Keep up the good fight! I'm happy that you take a stand for your beliefs and try to do what's best for all of us.
monneyboi··on Revolut down as users report app not working
I just learned the embarassing way that my ability to pay for groceries depends on the livelyness of europe-west2.
monneyboi··on DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order
Great advertisement for deepseek and a clear signal open models are winning.
monneyboi··on Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
If only it would be possible to "close your doors to AI agents". It's not I'm afraid. Where do you draw the line? What browser is allowed?

For example, I now have to `pacman -S chromium` to buy tickets from Deutche Bahn. They accuse me of being a bot when I use firefox on linux. It's a known problem, and I think stuff like this will only get worse the longer this cat and mouse goes on.

monneyboi··on We are entering a period of overlapping crises
We are entering? I feel like we've been there for years.
monneyboi··on Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
I never understood memory solutions for coding agents.

You have the whole session history right there. One recall skill and some JSON parsing gets you grep over perfect memory. Why would you ever use more tools to spend more tokens to construct a imperfect memory next to your session history?

I just don't get it.

monneyboi··on Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones
So we pay Apple for friction. And the state pays for Graykey to remove it. Whoever wins that arm race this quarter determines what our rights are worth in practice.
monneyboi··on GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
Haven't touched Anthropic models ever since GLM 5.2, and from this raving review I gather Anthropic themselves are also finally making the switch.
monneyboi··on Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
I wonder what the future is of SaaS in a world where everybody can vibe up what they need on demand.
monneyboi··on Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
In China the government controls the discourse. Here it's the corporations.
monneyboi··on Anyone using a Wispr Flow alternative that is non-cloud?
Moonshine.ai

I've put it in a simple android app https://github.com/resolveworks/scribe if you're interested

monneyboi··on Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard
Refreshing, now let's make this a default feature. I imagine a "Upcoming models" list with links to these kind of dashboards.
monneyboi··on US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
If we get to try and explain these times in like 30 years to our (grand-)children, I'm sure it will be with a great sense of embarrasment.

I hope one of these days we can get our priorities straight.

monneyboi··on OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
With every message board we find, I can't shake the feeling that this is just the tip of the iceberg.

It's only possible to get away with this because we have anthropomorphised the models to a certain extent. We can pretend they hold the responsibility. instead of the people executing them.

monneyboi··on DeCloudflare
I've heard good things about https://bunny.net/
monneyboi··on RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree
I use treesitter to build outlines of files and directories: https://github.com/resolveworks/trace

Have not benchmarked it, the intent is mostly to save time, not necessarily tokens. I noticed that the models need a lot of toolcalls to ground themselves, and often have trouble with getting an overview.

monneyboi··on Moonshot serves Claude instead of Kimi and collects exchanges for model training
I can't be the only one that is getting tired of this.

Framing learning from observation as somehow bad. Something literally everybody is doing, model and human alike. It's the process this whole industry is built on. Pretending that this is bad because the other people are also doing what you have been doing, is hypocritical and childish.

Meanwhile I'm sitting here looking at some "Flibbertigittering" spinner like some sort of caveman, unable to steer the model when it misinterprets my ambigious prompt because I'm not allowed to see 80% of the output tokens I'm paying for.

monneyboi··on OpenAI Agents API
Instead of this push for more vendor lock-in, give us the reasoning tokens we pay for. Thanks.
monneyboi··on Compute-efficient pretraining and scaling to trillion-parameter models
Imagine the sheer amount of power you could save by releasing the paper.
monneyboi··on Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished
While initially a perpetual right to copying for some publishers, copyright was made into what it is today to "promote creation". Funnily enough it's used in the exactly opposite way. Culture is basically frozen, same movie and same music released every week.

The fields where creativity flows the most seem to me the ones furthest away from copyright. FOSS and memes come to mind.

What matters is who made something, regardless of who copied it. I think that in a ocean of AI generated content, this will become more and more important. Platforms like patreon and kofi show that people care about creators and are willing to support without 'buying a copy'

monneyboi··on Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says
Why are we framing this as "the fight against climate change"? This framing puts the culprit outside of ourselves, as if it's some external force.

I feel that way of looking at it makes changing impossible. It's our own behaviours and systems that will have to change. There's nothing to fight here, the answer instead lies in collaboration.

monneyboi··on Prediction: GPU's are currently the cheapest they're ever gonna be
Check the developments in ASIC. Taalas and the likes.
monneyboi··on White House Launches Arcade.Gov
Anything for some more attention
monneyboi··on Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
It sucks that we got to "European" being used as a main selling point.
monneyboi··on The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
Imagine the enormous complexity of office file formats if your business is literally building coding models/agents and still you choose to bundle LibreOffice.
monneyboi··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
I'm hoping that Mozilla Firefox can adopt a similar foundation/donation strategy as Signal has proven to work quite well.

We really need independence from Google in the browser landscape if we want the open web to survive.

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