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quibono··on Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash
Okay, I just wanted to vent: I'm on the Pro plan and I've not been able to use Argon for the past 4 days - every time I send a prompt I get downgraded to a Flash model.

Makes me consider cancelling the plan entirely.

quibono··on Living beyond the limits of survival: wood ants trapped in a gigantic pitfall (2016)
I love this!

> A ‘colony’ of Formica polyctena was found in January 2013, during winter counts of hibernating bats in the underground bunker.

And all makes sense

quibono··on Living beyond the limits of survival: wood ants trapped in a gigantic pitfall (2016)
I find these bunkers fascinating. I've always wanted to explore one.

Amazing how much money was wasted on these only to be staffed for years and then abandoned.

quibono··on Living beyond the limits of survival: wood ants trapped in a gigantic pitfall (2016)
> Two underground two-level ammunition bunkers, 300 metres apart (26 m × 42 m each), which constituted the core of the base and where nuclear weapons were kept, have survived (Sadowski 2011, Rutko 2015).

Interestingly this is a "Soviet" bunker in western Poland. A Warsaw Pact bunker?

Also, I didn't think that Soviet policy was to store nuclear weapons in Poland - not sure if this quote is accurate or if this was just more common than I had thought?

quibono··on Show HN: Codemap – one-page interactive map of any Go repository
Also, just for posterity, in terms of similar solutions that I know of there's Whiteboard [0] and T3's Guide view [1]

[0] https://dev.fast/

[1] https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code

quibono··on Show HN: Codemap – one-page interactive map of any Go repository
Possibly silly question, but is this aimed at Go repos only because of some structural reason, or because this was the author's intention?

I can see this approach being useful across non-Go repositories too.

quibono··on Toit v2.0.0
> Since they aren't writing as much of the code anyway, they may have less incentive to care about using a "better" language.

I wonder if it's the opposite (in fact blog posts to that tune were posted here more than once): if LLMs are supposed to be writing most of the code, and taking away the friction of actually writing the code, I guess it means one should pick the language based on project requirements and performance since any language is the exact same to work with.

quibono··on Kitty 0.50
I've used kitty before and really liked it. I am considering switching back to it now on Linux. I've been using Ghostty on macOS and loving it there, but it's quite bad on Linux.

It keeps segfaulting, takes a long time to actually start, I keep getting weird glitches whenever I have multiple panes open in a window (which is pretty much always the case), the tab bar is hard to style and I'm missing some of the macos features (like giving a tab a coloured pin).

quibono··on Resisting Cognitive Surrender
I don't like the op-ed but I would agree with the main point or what I understand as the main point, even if the argumentation is weak).

It takes a mix of willpower / routine / systems / laws to keep people in check, otherwise we predictably go back to the path of least resistance.

quibono··on Resisting Cognitive Surrender
On the ego-effect, I sometimes feel like cataloguing some PR-review quirks that are mostly caused by humans being humans:

1. Smaller PRs (that can be easily read) tend to receive more comments and nitpicks than a large change since it's easier for us to have all the PR context in our heads at the same time.

2. Most people are ego-tied to their code even if they pretend that they are impartial

3. Social dynamics around merging and reviewing code between senior/junior and older/newer employees

4. probably many more

quibono··on Resisting Cognitive Surrender
I have been thinking about this for a while. I'm not a Luddite, I can see the amazing value that modern AI brings, and how useful it can be.

At the same time I can't help but wonder that this is almost too much for us to cope, the LLMs are _too_ easy to use. I think we're very good at pretending there isn't a problem here but there is definitely going to be some cognitive decline happening.

We want to pretend like reading over the output of an LLM is nearly the same as us making those changes ourselves but I think there's a lot of value in those boring and manual steps. And most people (including me) will be too lazy to not eventually offload most things to the LLMs.

In a way this is similar to how watching a lecture tends to give one an "impression" of understanding that doesn't correlate with reality. We need hands-on work and some course work to get our monkey brains engaged.

I can only imagine what effects this is going to have in education.

quibono··on H.264 Is Magic (2016)
It depends on how you want to play or share the media.

E.g. I remember having lots of issues sharing smaller video files encoded with H.265 via both WhatsApp and Messenger. iMessage doesn't support H.265 (or at least it didn't work for me at the time).

quibono··on Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5
My ignorance laid bare
quibono··on Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5
How can one access Carbon? I only see Argon via gemini.google.com

Is this API-only or US-only for now?

quibono··on GitLab Security Incident: Attempted Exploitation of CVE-2026-97229
Yes, after all there is no distinction between data and code since they're the same thing when it comes down to the bytes in memory.
quibono··on A Health Update
It's used for any immuno related disease, it's crazy how many things it's used for.

Psoriasis, eczema and psoriatic arthritis being three that maybe you wouldn't think of when someone brings up methotrexate.

quibono··on fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine
Not quite HOMAM2 but.

I have such fond memories of HOMAM3 and playing it in hot seat mode as a kid.

Interestingly the game is still massively popular in ex-Warsaw Pact countries. Although I think it’s having a resurgence in the US too.

quibono··on fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine
For HOMAM3 there’s also the amazing HotA: https://h3hota.com/en/documentation
quibono··on No more icons in every menu by default
1. Read the post

2. Click on the hamburger menu in the top right

3. ???

quibono··on Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
Maybe a bit unorthodox but I have it plant 1-3 bugs into the code it writes (depending on the size of the MR I'm working on); they range from simple one-off issues to something more structural.

It then gives me a hint on the area or a typical code flow that would hit the bug - whichever gives me less info. I can obviously ask for more hints as I read along.

Obviously all honour-code based since I could just ask it to fix the bugs itself. I think this is something that can't be fixed systemically - either you're going to bother reading and thinking through the code or not.

Other than that I guess reading the tests - to make sure they fail without the code / fix, to make sure the setup makes sense etc.

quibono··on Show HN: OneDeploy – Managed open-source apps with nightly backups and TLS
Others mentioned this already but the pricing is steep. And to add a Dropbox-style comment, I think a big part of this can be handled via Coolify?
quibono··on Apple HomeView
Is this sarcasm or are you one of _those_ Apple fans willing to rationalise every single issue their products have?
quibono··on I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again
Thanks, this is useful. I think something like org-roam-dailies would suit me!
quibono··on Gemini Flash and Pro move to paid plans, leaving free users with only Flash-Lite
It seems Google is going for the integrability of AI into every single product they have over being an OpenAI/Anthropic style provider. Which is a shame because Gemini was great for a while, NotebookLM is lovely and the flash lite model was really good at structured workflows. So I’d love to see them continue the line.

No idea what gating Argon like that does for them.

quibono··on I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again
I’m using both Obsidian and Emacs and yet my biggest issue is actually… knowing what to note down and when. I don’t know if others have a system for this. I also don’t want to end up with some over-the-top note-everything system - then again surely there is some middle ground here.
quibono··on From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4
What kind of models can you practically run with ds4 on a 64GB M5 Max?
quibono··on I'm Tired of the AI Tone
I’ve seen this a few times now, and Claude does not listen to this in the long term. It’s still terribly obnoxious.

I tend to run the content through something like Luna to deslopify now.

quibono··on Why Emacs Consult async searches feel slow and how to speed them up
Great list, thank you. I recently switched to a Macbook for work and I could feel the difference in speed whenever I used Emacs back on my desktop (Linux).

This helps a bit though magit still feels very sluggish.

quibono··on Solving the 1+N Query Problem
Nice, and I understand why using `getAuthorNames` solves the N+1 here.

But... isn't this solving the problem by removing most of what makes it an issue in the first place? I imagine most people use ORMs for the SQL <-> native class data sync capability. And this assumes one would run the Acadia query instead.

FWIW I'm not trying to be negative, it's just my general impression is that these N+1 usually occur because people _want_ direct object access and _want_ to write loops, and _want_ to access fields and have the underlying SQL be sorted by the ORM.

quibono··on Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article
Similar to vomit[0] and claudish-to-english[1].

My general feeling here is that this really needs to be fixed at the model level. All other solutions are mere hacks that work for a bit but all have drawbacks. It's either adding yet more context (which has variable rates of success) or piping to a different model to translate, or using a skill, or mentioning this per each prompt, or....

At this point I think it's in Opus's nature to talk like this, and given enough back-and-forth it will start to drift back to its classic mode, aka this incomprehensible "load-bearing seam" babble.

[0] https://github.com/zachahn/vomit/tree/main

[1] https://github.com/gvzdv/claudish-to-english

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