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nisten··on US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech
Soo does this mean RAM is gonna get cheaper or more expensive?
nisten··on Claude: Elevated Error Rates for Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, and Sonnet 4.6
My speculation is that we'll get fable back tomorrow. Usually we see messy devops stuff or maybe nerfing(not much these days) around the time they're releasing new models
nisten··on Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI
As an opesource AI researcher with a lot of models and datasets on huggingface I am very appreciative of these types of project but we are ignoring the elephant in the room here ( or lack of )

the swiss have no gpus

nisten··on How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s
fancy terms aside... they likely just run alpine linux.
nisten··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
just use vscodium (opensource vscode without microsoft's spyware) stop giving an increasingly incompetent org more control over your data ppl.

https://vscodium.com/

Claude amp, cline, kilo etc plugins all work great with it, for ssh Open Remote works great with it too.

nisten··on Show HN: Gave Claude a casino bankroll – it gambles till it's too broke to think
if only there was some way to donate tokens or gpu time...
nisten··on Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?
In 2-3 decades 30% of the world population will be over 60 years old (~3 BILLION seniors).We don't have an economic model for it, nor does gen-z want to all be Personal Support Workers while paying rent. Nvidia only makes 6million data center GPUs a year. Huawei makes 900k. We need 10 to 100x more to be able to automate enough just to hold civilization together. Amazon built datacenters with near 0 water use but it used 35% more electricity overall. So tha problem can be solved however we need to change out of the whole scarcity mentality if we're going to actually make the planet nice.
nisten··on Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act
teacher, leave em linux kids alone
nisten··on GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
I switch from iPhone to a pixel 9 fold, and installed graphene after 2 weeks on stock android.

Look, it's better than stock android overall, UI much more simplified even though it gives you a lot more security control, battery feels slightly longer, but there are drawbacks, i.e. twitter/x wouldn't install, neither would my bank's app. However from time to time I go to use iOS on the iphone and it just feels like better software, with better ergonomics overall, the combination of the xnu kernel plus the design and feel of the..buttons.. on iOS is still years ahead in my opinion. So keep that in mind if you're switching away from apple to it, as android still feels like decade plus old software.

Now for the upsides.. there's a built in terminal and debian vm you can install and run your agentic AI tools (claude code,opencode etc) in a portable sandboxed environment which you just don't get onios. You can even fire up a graphical xfce session albeit that takes quite a bit of work to get it to go.

As for the tablet form factor of the phone itself when unfolded, i found it amazing the first few weeks and then later found myself rarely using it.

Overall I'm going to stick with itand will never go back to stock android, but am quite annoyed at how much better it could actually be.

nisten··on UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16
As someone fully supportive of the social media ban for Australian kids, I think As someone fully supportive of the social media ban for Australian kids, I think we need to teach UK kids to vibecode their own VPNs with OSS models at this point so they can save what's left of their future civil liberties.

We all know where this is going, they're going to ban the one mathematical tool we have that gives us control over machines, encryption.

nisten··on Mesh2Motion – Open-source web application to animate 3D models
All in typescript too. Actually very impressive. Well, some webm videos and .glb 3dfiles but only the essentials it seems, the rest is all propper typescript.

But a very nicely put together repo. Good job.

nisten··on Replacement.ai
I'm very much pro hyper-automation, especially for all government work... but can't help but think this type of branding is just in bad faith and that these are not good people.

It just screams fried serotonin-circuits to me. I don't like it. I looked at the site for 2-3 seconds and I want nothing to do with these guys.

Do I think we should stop this type of competitive behaviour fueled by kids and investors both microdosed on meth? No. I just wouldn't do business with them, they don't look like trustworthy brand to me.

Edit: They got me with the joke, being in this field there are people that do actually talk like that, both startups and established executives alike. I.e. Artisan ads in billboards saying STOP HIRING HUMANS and another new york company I think pushing newspaper ads for complete replacement. Also if you're up with the latest engineering in agentic scaffolding work this type of thing is no joke.

nisten··on Claude Haiku 4.5
it's good
nisten··on Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks
nextjs being 4 times slower latency wise than plain react or even vanilla js is pretty funny
nisten··on GPT-5o-mini hallucinates medical residency applicant grades
While I don't want to discount the work of any physician-founded org knowing the pain they go through from working with them after they've seen 18 patients in a days work, this still just just looks like bad software. With no testing, no internal bench.

Did you do some kind of zod schema, or compare the error rate of how different models perform for this task? Did you bother setting up any kind of json output at all? Did you add a second validation step with a different model and then compared their numbers are the same?

It looks like no, they just deferred to authority the whole thing. Technically theres no difference between them saying that gpt5-mini or llama2-7b did this.

Literally every single llm will make errors and hallucinate. It's your job to put all the scaffolding around to make sure it doesn't or that it does a lot less than a skilled human would.

So then have you measured the error rate or maybe tried to put some kind of error catching mechanism just like any professional software would do?

nisten··on America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints
At the end of the day, if you look at almost any government, roughly 2/3 of expenses go towards healthcare and education things which, AI worlkflow are very likely continue offsetting a larger and larger percentage of the costs on.

Can we still have a financial crisis from all this investment going bust because it might take too long for it to make a difference in manufacturing enough automation hardware for everyone? Yes.

But, the fundamentals are still there, parents will still send their kids to some type of school, and people will trade good in exchange for health services. That's not going to change. Neither will the need to use robots in nursing homes, I think that assumption is safe to make.

What's difficult to predict change in is adoption in manufacturing, and repairs ( be that repairing bridges or repairing your espresso machine ) because that is more of a "3D" issue and hard to automate reliably (think about how many gpus today would it actually take to get a robot to reason out and repair a whole in your drywall), given that your RL environments and training data needs grow exponentially. Technically, your phone should have enough gpu performance to do your taxes with a 3B model and a bunch of tools, eventually it'll even be better than you at it. But to tun an actual robot with multiple cameras and stuff doing troubleshooting and decision making.... you're gonna need a whole 8x rack of gpus for that.

And that's what makes it now difficult to predict what's going to happen. The areas under the curve can vary widely. We could get a 1B AGI model in 6 months, or it could take 5 years for agentic workflows to fully automate everyones taxes and actually replace 2/3 of radiology work...

Either way, while theres a significant chance of this transition to the automation age being rough, I am overall quite optimistic given the fundamentals of what governments actually spend majority of their money on.

nisten··on Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
Looks like MacOS is finally having it's Windows Vista moment

Meanwhile linux people are removing buttons, window borders entirely, sometimes removing colors too, it's glorious.

nisten··on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
Looks like the emergency reserve management worked?
nisten··on Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?
It's slow. Get back to work.
nisten··on GPU Hot: Dashboard for monitoring NVIDIA GPUs on remote servers
half readable color scheme.. random python and javascript mixed in, ships with 2 python CVEs out of the box out of 5 total dependencies... yep it checks out bois...certified infested slop

  python-socketio==5.8.0: 1 CVE (CVE-2025-61765); Remote Code Execution via malicious pickle deserialization in multi-server setups.
  eventlet==0.33.3: 1 CVE (CVE-2025-58068); HTTP request smuggling from improper trailer handling.

And then economists wonder why are none of these people getting jobs...
nisten··on Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify
Opens project supposed to automate typescript deployments...it's a bunch of python.

So now I'll have TWO clusterfucks of infested dependencies to deal with instead of just one.

nisten··on New antibiotic targets IBD and AI predicted how it would work
Yes.
nisten··on New antibiotic targets IBD and AI predicted how it would work
I don't understand why they don't give researchers GPU credits directly given the type of impact they can make.

No legal slop, just email address of runpod/prime-intelect/x-gpu provider account and deposit directly $5000 there. let them waste it.

You can easily filter who's worth receiving by they github and huggingface history.

nisten··on Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in Chat Control [pdf]
I think a good way to shame politicians that push this type of erosion of civil liberties is to label it at gestapoware.
nisten··on ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps
they're too slow,

by the time they do the kids can just vibecode another chat app for themselve

nisten··on ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps
If you are a smart kid in europe learn to vibecode XChacha20 & ed25519 encryption keys for you and your friends to chat with so you can go tell your incompetent government to go fuck themselves.
nisten··on Show HN: Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI at runtime, zero build step
Starting to look like AGI will be written in markdown
nisten··on Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient
i put my laptop next to the window and it was spot on wtf

what got me the most is opening chrome dev tools and seeing nothing there

nisten··on Open SWE by LangChain
Amazing now I need to fire up my other agent so that it can go in my other laptop, and use the dummy github I use for throwaway agent because this thing is asking to act on my behalf on my github and I don't understand wtf that even means... can it sell my account to another bot, can it add all my data to another drastic leak no one cares about...

And then I can finally use this thing.

nisten··on AI Ethics is being narrowed on purpose, like privacy was
Sure yes that too, all of it. Why not. Labs process datasets with trillions of tokens.

The whole point was that these people just complain and make smartass excuses instead of getting any actual work done.

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