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Engineer. Building apps, discovering tech.

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pulkas··on A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal
Andrew Paprocki: Bloomberg: home-grown server-side scripting

this is a great video to watch if you're curious about how the bloomberg terminal ui was made. https://youtu.be/ODgs0eWAIKc

pulkas··on Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory
Thelio Mira AI $3,299.00 Description Specs Warranty Accelerate your AI development with Thelio Mira AI, System76's affordable, GPU-focused workstations, built for local AI development — so you can train, fine-tune, and iterate challenging AI workloads entirely on your own hardware.

Configure Thelio Mira with up to:

    16-core AMD Ryzen 9000 Series CPU
    192 GB DDR5 RAM
    Dual NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 GPU
    192 GB GPU memory

this is miss leading. actually it is 4gb ram a400 price.

dual RTX6000 price is : $40,538.00

pulkas··on I'm going back to coding by hand
If your idea generation isn’t outpacing your implementation speed, coding by hand probably makes more sense. At least it keeps your brain engaged.

But the right move is to find a way to increase the rate at which you generate ideas and offload the coding almost entirely to AI. Because if you’re not doing that, someone else is. They’ll eventually build something better than your app.

And when people stop choosing your product, if you can’t come up with the next idea and this is your only source of income... well, good luck.

pulkas··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
is this a leverage?

https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-...

pulkas··on Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
mission completed
pulkas··on Show HN: Vocal Slice – Cut audio by selecting text, fully on-device
I’d like to understand how this works.

This account was created only 13 days ago.

It has made only one submission, which is this post, and had only two comments before submitting it.

How does this happen?

I have an HN account that is 10 years old, but when I submit something, it often gets flagged almost immediately. So how exactly does HN’s flagging and ranking system work? Does account age or karma matter at all?

For reference:

user: terranivium created: 13 days ago karma: 18 about: vocalslice.com

pulkas··on Solod: Go can be a better C
bun tried hard to be written in zig.

eventually, they fell back to rust.

there's a lesson here: subset languages are fine for experiments and small projects, but they're rarely the right choice for production software.

...and C still can't be replaced. it's still the language of choice for mission-critical systems and low-level problem solving.

pulkas··on Solod: Go can be a better C
no it cant.
pulkas··on Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents
I think the next movement is heading to multi model orchestration.

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/train-small-orchestration-...

pulkas··on Show HN: Persona.js – a vanilla-JS agent UI library with native WebMCP (MIT)
when will WASM integration become widely accepted? we need realtime canvas draw like oldschool desktop ui/ux.
pulkas··on The Last Invention of Man
Tegmark's 2017 piece on AGI and existential risk — still very relevant given recent developments in AI.
pulkas··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
waiting for the anouncement: cursor for grok heavy users.
pulkas··on Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)
article is too old. who is using gpt-4o today?
pulkas··on GitHub Is Down
they are testing the limits of ruby on rails.

"Ultimately, if more companies treated the framework as an extension of the application, it would result in higher resilience and stability. Investment in Rails ensures your foundation will not crumble under the weight of your application. Treating it as an unimportant part of your application is a mistake and many, many leaders make this mistake." https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/bu...

pulkas··on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
what happens if bitflip occurs while you are detecting bitflip?

bitflippin...

pulkas··on Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experience
your better make it as chrome extension.

And i dont know why you wanted me to give you all my permissions?

pulkas··on Introducing the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server
There’s something almost nostalgic about it: cutting-edge technology wrapped in layers of bureaucracy that feel lovingly inherited from another era.
pulkas··on Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation
This violates the Claude Code subscription terms of service, so please be careful.

This project violates Claude Code's Terms of Service by automating Claude to create an unattended chatbot service that responds to third-party messaging platforms (WhatsApp, and what you add ...).

  The exact issues:

  1. Automated, unattended usage - The system runs as a background service (launchd) that automatically responds to WhatsApp
  messages without human intervention (src/index.ts:549-574)

  2. Building a bot service - This creates a persistent bot that monitors messages and responds automatically, which violates restrictions on building derivative services on top of Claude

  3. Third-party platform integration - Connecting Claude to WhatsApp (or other messaging platforms) to create an automated
  assistant service isn't an authorized use case.

  The README itself reveals awareness of this issue at line 41:

  **No ToS gray areas.** Because it uses Claude Agent SDK natively with no hacks or workarounds, using your subscription with your auth token is completely legitimate (I think). No risk of being shut down for terms of service violations
  (I am not a lawyer).

  The defensive tone ("I think", "I am not a lawyer") indicates uncertainty about legitimacy. While using your own credentials doesn't automatically make automated bot services compliant—Anthropic's TOS restricts using their products to build automated chatbot services, regardless of authentication method.

  The core violation: transforming Claude Code into an automated bot service that operates without human intervention, which is explicitly prohibited.
pulkas··on Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC
The Mythical Man-Month, revisited
pulkas··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
@kagi scrape here.

https://kagi.com/smallweb

pulkas··on Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig
zigdom all-diy
pulkas··on Why I love OCaml (2023)
darklang team loved ocaml too. in the end they ended up using f#.
pulkas··on Synthetic: All-Inclusive AI Platform with 19 Always-On Models for $20-60/Month
Synthetic offers a subscription-based alternative to pay-per-token AI pricing. Instead of tracking usage costs, you get unlimited access to all their "always-on" models for a flat monthly fee.

What's included:

- 19 always-on models with both UI and API access

- LoRA fine-tuning support (FP8 precision, up to rank-64)

- Embedding models at no extra cost

- Standard: $20/month (135 msgs/5hrs), Pro: $60/month (1,350 msgs/5hrs)

Technical specs:

- Always-on models: No quantization (full precision)

- On-demand models: BF16 precision (FP8 for Jamba-based models only)

- LoRAs: FP8 precision, rank-8 to rank-64 support

- On-demand GPU pricing: 80GB at 3¢/min, 48GB at 1.5¢/min, 24GB at 1.2¢/min

- On-demand context limit: 32k tokens

Complete always-on model list:

DeepSeek: R1, R1-0528, V3, V3-0324, V3.1 (all 128k)

Meta Llama: 3.1-405B/70B/8B, 3.3-70B (128k), 4-Maverick-17B (524k), 4-Scout-17B (328k)

Others: Kimi-K2 (128k/256k), GPT-OSS-120B (128k), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B (32k), Qwen3-235B variants (256k), Qwen3-Coder-480B (256k), GLM-4.5 (128k)

Additional features:

- LoRA support for Llama 3.1/3.2 base models

- Embedding model: nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5

- Any HuggingFace model available on-demand

Links: https://synthetic.new/ | With referral: https://synthetic.new/?referral=9oxapskWLeOrDT5

pulkas··on Domain Sniped on Launch Day
Killsaas.org and killsaas.net are available to buy. Why aren't you getting these domains? Yes, owning the .com is better, but you've already mentioned that the project is a public benefit one. In that case, .org and .net seem pretty appropriate. I'm curious—why is there so little interest in .org and .net domains?
pulkas··on Rash – The Reckless Racket Shell
You are not in here : https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell
pulkas··on Nvidia H100 and A100 GPUs – comparing available capacity at GPU cloud providers
Another cloud gpu comparison web site : https://cloud-gpus.com/
pulkas··on Show HN: A smarter Unix shell and scripting environment
You are not in here : https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell
pulkas··on Ask HN: What is an A.I. chip and how does it work?
It is what ASIC for bitcoin. A new era for AI models.
pulkas··on Show HN: An experimental, keyboard-first user interface
I think bloomberg terminal's UI is the best keyboard centiric UI ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE8HiHZcgEE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODgs0eWAIKc