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ranguna··on Our position on open-weights models
Clown.

I switched from openAI to anthropic because OAI were the bigger clowns in the industry and didn't want to support them, anthropic seemed like the better alternative that didn't cooperate with governamental shenanigans and actually focused on building a better product. But now they are both clowns and anthropic is reaching a ceiling on quality. I'll jump ship as soon as I find a good subsidized Chinese model provider. US companies only path forward is to become retarded instead of competitive.

ranguna··on DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]
You think OAI are doing all that out of the goodness of their hearts?

OAI was a market leader until anthropic decided to start placing all their bets on coding agents, they became the leader and now OAI is scrambling and doing everything they can to de-throne. Don't forget that it was OAI that started this whole RAM shortage, instead of being sustainable about it, they just up and decided to buy 40% of all memory production. They are all bad mate, all fighting for this virtual crown that no one cares except for them.

In the end, what matters is pricing, whoever offers sonnet 4.6 quality at the cheapest monthly pricing will win.

ranguna··on Claude Opus 5
Did you ask ChatGPT the same question you asked Claude from a fresh context?
ranguna··on OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor
People still use bitcoin?

I thought it was a vanity coin now

ranguna··on Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
The PR is public, you can build and use it as well. The anthropic team just decided to use it, and you can as well.
ranguna··on Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law
I thought this was always the case?

But what people do instead is to disable access for people from that specific state.

ranguna··on ArcBrush 1.5 – Node-based image editor (OCIO, OpenEXR, 97 nodes)
I've been looking for something like this for ages now. Thanks!
ranguna··on CatchCat – Pokémon Go for Cats, IRL
AI Slop, but actually really good idea!

I'm take a bit at doing this minus all the AI crap

ranguna··on What will be left for us to work on?
It's not "coming", it's already here. I barely code anymore, mate. And that happened in a just a few years, imagine in a few more.
ranguna··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
And now AIs can do all that
ranguna··on Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained
They could make all e2ee chats, group chats. Where instead of a 1-1 chat between two people or many-many chat between a lot of people, they do 1-1+1 or many-many+1, where the +1 is the government. Technically the underlaying company or anyone else still won't have access to messages and e2ee won't be "broken", except for the fact that there's one more party in the key exchange.

Or they scan at the edge on the user's device.

Either way, both are very prone to false positives and and very much privacy invading.

ranguna··on GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
Not sure about tablets, but you can connect most of the recent pixels to a display
ranguna··on Iroh 1.0
What if you build a p2p video conferencing app with user controlled co-ordinator "server". Server in quotes, because maybe iroh works through the browser?
ranguna··on Claude Fable 5
Honestly, they all look good
ranguna··on Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency
Their point is that OP used the same dot separated phrase to point out that there's a 0.8GB model and an audio/image model on device. Which reads weird.
ranguna··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
Location: Portugal Remote: yes Willing to relocate: unlikely, depends what's being offered Technologies: JS/TS ecosystem, serverless AWS and GCP, React temporal, a few SQL and nosql DBs, generally not bad at devops fullstack Résumé/CV: will send via email Email: ca.hn@bentopais.pt

Chill person looking honest fun work.

ranguna··on Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
Do it like plane tickets do, tie a ticket to an identity + buyback up to a week or so before the concert in case someone wants to cancel (or authorize the transfer and capture only a week before). Ask for ID and ticket at the entrance.
ranguna··on GTA 6 Developers Unionize
I don't think it's the need for management that makes devs not start a new company, it's the huge amount of money and connections needed. You don't need someone managing you to get connections and money, you just need the connections and the money.
ranguna··on GTA 6 Developers Unionize
Like a wise person once said: That is an entirely different argument that's not particularly germane to this topic.
ranguna··on GTA 6 Developers Unionize
Your point turned from "here are some examples" to "here's a sample of one". And that "one" is so different, society wise, from all the other ones that I'm not sure is useful here other that "if you live in a society like this that's just starting to massively produce world wide in this sector other than a brand or two they were doing before, then maybe there can be no union workers compared to the other companies that have been producing world wide for decades across multiple models and brands"
ranguna··on GTA 6 Developers Unionize
> because you made the industry suck to work in.

What do you mean they "made" the industry suck to work in?

ranguna··on Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers
I don't understand either of your points tbh
ranguna··on U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators
Nops, I still think your missing the mark here
ranguna··on U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators
I don't think that's how it works, mate.
ranguna··on Cisco workforce reductions
Meanwhile in what does that have to do with what I said?
ranguna··on I moved my digital stack to Europe
I'm not sure you read the question right. You can host American software on a EU sovereign cloud.
ranguna··on Cisco workforce reductions
I agree with you. Putting myself in the shoes of a tech CEO, I see other companies laying off and saying that their AI strategy made them so productive that they don't need 20% of their employees anymore, I see investors flocking to that company, I look at my company and feel investor FOMO, I layoff as well.

It's nothing personal, it's just how the US works. If this were to happen in Europe, your company would burn to the ground. The amount of compensation you'd have to do would eat your gains from the layoffs.

ranguna··on Fuck You, Bambu Lab. Go Ahead, Sue Us
> From everything we’ve seen, Pawel’s code is a legal third-party tool that is covered under open source software licensing, and in no way has he “impersonated” Bambu Labs or presented as them at any point.

The name of the software literally has "BambuLabs" in it. Not picking sides, but that's pretty dumb.

Also cease and desist are "easy" to handle, just host your code on a European git hoster or host your own gitlab/codeberg. That USA law doesn't affect EU platforms.

ranguna··on Iran mulls taking control of all 7 cables passing through Strait of Hormuz
Sources other than project flower?
ranguna··on GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch
For the very specific case where you are connected to that router, yes.
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