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pinyen_chengon Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation

That's pretty innovative. But a brand new tokenizer and training method need a lot of effort to do the retraining. Whether it will be widely implemented depends on real frontier performance it can reach.

pinyen_chengon Show HN: Umbra – a autonomous Android agent with background screen control

Most AI agent today treats Android phone as something to reach the service than somewhere agent can work. However, Android itself is a perfect environment for consistent agent to run on.

Firstly, I use Android's 24/7 connectivity and low energy cost NPU to run a 24/7 proactive agent which will check all the information and determine whether it should reach the user or not by LAYA.

Secondly, I use Android's emulation ability to run a full Debian environment for the coding agent to run command and use GUI desktop app for development.

Thirdly, I use Android's virtual display and accessibility api to control apps in the background for testing, working, or even ordering food while user is working or chilling in other app without disturbing them. Also, I use accessibility to create a capsule around the camera hole to make sure user can reach the agent and check the agent's working status while using other app. Also the capsule can expend when the agent needs input, approval, announcement etc.

Lastly, the user can tap the capsule and select something on the screen and send to the agent just like Google's Circle to Search and can record screen and accessibility tree at the same time to teach agent how to perform a task.

I'd like to hear your opinion on the architecture, feature, limitations, or anything you want to share.

pinyen_chengon macOS 27 does not support CoreStorage volumes

Yep, never trust Apple for something they don't rely on to live. For example, don't expect the ecosystem with the Homepod with screen can last for too long. The support will drop and only leave security response if nobody is purchasing.

pinyen_chengon Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3

It's kind of like fun but it will make designer hard to know what user will see. Sometimes designer design big shiny object on purpose

pinyen_chengon Sculpture re-creates odd optical effects of famed Lycurgus Cup

That will be super great if it's applied to the phone's back panel.

pinyen_chengon Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard

I think the future should be efficient quantization which can make model with the same level as Qwen 3.8 27b now accessible from our laptop.

pinyen_chengon Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard

I think maybe the most difficult part will be cost. As far as I know, it will cost more than 5 dollars per item. But if the quality is good enough, I think maybe some gaming user will buy it. Customize layouts is really important for gaming user.