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riquito··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
I like your comment but I think you're generalizing too a bit in a different way. It's 60k people spread in different countries, at least four. It is still a big problem, but it's not "the tax implication of losing 60k salaries" for a single government
riquito··on Ember-1
Aside. I find the "cost per task" charts both useful and uncanny. Is It better a model that takes me to 90% in 1 dollar or one that takes me to 95% in 2 dollars? Or a different model that too scores 90% in 1 dollar? How much will it cost me the last 10% or 5%? At the end of the day, cost to 100% is what matters and the half (90%) backed solution may require more to reach 100% (or not, who knows?)
riquito··on Grok 4.7
Eh, it's also one of the providers with "blind" vision models https://mmoustafa.com/blog/so-you-want-to-use-openrouter/
riquito··on The bottleneck might be the air in the room
> CO2 levels are locally elevated in the area where you exhale.

That's the same area we inhale from... Wouldn't be right to measure there then? It's not like we're interested in the amount of CO2 on the ground (in this discussion)

riquito··on I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
I whis you the best, you teached me a lot with your blog posts and code, and your software had an impact in how I use computers. You are probably the only developer alongside Torvalds that my wife knows by name (well, nickname) since whenever you do something cool I feel the urge to share my excitement with her
riquito··on I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
Then you should expect any positive comment to be replied negatively by a competition's puppet or bot too
riquito··on Why I love NixOS
I was looking at hyperland in Fedora this week. I wanted to try out the latest release (released two weeks ago give or take). It wasn't available yet (maybe it isn't still). That's ok, but I checked what would I have needed to do to build it myself, and I didn't want to mess with a bunch of dev dependencies I didn't really care about and that I would have forgotten, so I ended up not trying it
riquito··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
This part I don't understand. I want to allow for a couple minutes, the time to install a unregistered app, and then go back to deny. I don't want to allow "for 7 days" or "indefinitely". In the text and screenshot of the announcement I see that you can switch these feature "on", but can they be switched "off"?
riquito··on Show HN: Horizon – GPU-accelerated infinite-canvas terminal in Rust
I love these kind of projects trying out non mainstream approaches! Thanks for sharing
riquito··on TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool
Perhaps he's thinking about "console" / "display server" but the lines blur fast (e.g. you can run GUI in linux console with framebuffer with some limitations)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_console - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windowing_system#Display_serve...

riquito··on Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
Happens all the time. You and your spouse do the same or similar route (e.g. bring child to school) and a month later you get a ticket. Who was driving that day?
riquito··on Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
You're forgetting that (1) brings a sense of pride. "I built this". That's not true in many ways if you ask something else to do it
riquito··on A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines
A newspaper that sells you a product to allegedly fix/avoid the issue in the article
riquito··on Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch
You may be interested in gemini-2.5-flash-preview-tts

Text in, audio out, so you can merge in a single step LLM+TTS (streamable)

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-2.5-flas...

riquito··on News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
> we need something like wikipedia for news content

Interesting idea. It could be something that archives first and releases at a later date, when the news aren't as much new

riquito··on I built Foyer: a Rust hybrid cache that slashes S3 latency
> Cost is reduced because far fewer requests hit S3

I wonder. Given how cheap are S3 GET requests you need a massive number of requests to make provisioning and maintaining the cache server cheaper than the alternative.

riquito··on Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors
I think he implies that because one can borrow hypothetically any book for free from a library, one could use them for legal training purposes, so the requirement of having your own copy should be moot
riquito··on VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model
Probably not even the best ones, but among some recent models I find Dia and Orpheus more natural

- http://dia-tts.com/

- https://github.com/canopyai/Orpheus-TTS

riquito··on Jan – Ollama alternative with local UI
Closed source, without 3rd party independent review and people should just trust you? As if your app cannot start sending data away in a month or attempt to detect monitoring software, to name a couple
riquito··on Apple introduces AppleCare One
> no other PC or mobile phone manufacturer is providing warranty service (for consumer hardware) that remotely matches Apple's.

Maybe, but Apple is also among the worst companies for repairability of their hardware. If a PC (which you mention) breaks is usually only one part to be replaced (without looking at actual repairs), and any individual with necessary know-how can do it

riquito··on CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
Not that people are obligated to use IntelliJ IDEs, but it's sad that it boils down to "You can have privacy if you can afford it". But admittedly is better to have the option to use it than not being able to use it at all
riquito··on CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
> > It’s important to note that, if you’re using a non-commercial license, you cannot opt out of the collection of anonymous usage statistics. We use this information to improve our products.

> Well, it's basically true for MS-branded VSCode too. I now use VSCodium.

How's that "basically true"? That's false. You can opt out. In fact there's very good documentation around that

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/configure/telemetry

riquito··on Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency
Very cool, thanks for sharing.

A couple questions: - any thought about wake word engines, to have something that listen without consuming all the time? The landscape for open solutions doesn't seem good - any plan to allow using external services for stt/tts for the people who don't have a 4090 ready (at the cost of privacy and sass providers)?

riquito··on New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer
> Waymo is limited to few specific locations with decent roads and does not drive in poor weather

the study is comparing Waymo to accidents occurred in the same cities where Waymo operates, and my understanding is that Waymo drives 7 days a week, 24h a day in those cities, so same roads, same weather. Seems a legit comparison

riquito··on No as a Service
Love it, it's brilliant, but I think the rate limiting logic is not doing what the author really wants, it actually costs more cpu to detect and produce the error than returning the regular response (then my mind goes on how to actually over optimize this thing, but that's another story :-D )
riquito··on Firefox tab groups are here
They don't consume anything, at my peak I closed 2736 tabs (I have a photo to commemorate). Firefox somehow didn't care
riquito··on Getting forked by Microsoft
For the copyright part, it wouldn't have lead to a different outcome. What could have been different is that Microsoft could have had difficulties in working on a GPL fork which is harder to resell (you can, but people are sometimes afraid for good or bad reasons) and so Microsoft could have proposed to the author to sell them a copy with a different license.

But reading the article, the author appears to be more disgruntled by the fact that a behemoth forked his project than the mishandling of the copyright that can be fixed with one PR (he is right to be pissed about that, but that's an easily solvable problem, I doubt Microsoft will stand against it).

riquito··on Mozilla launching “Thundermail” email service to take on Gmail, Microsoft 365
Using Firefox mobile too, it's visible. Could be one of your extensions
riquito··on The Future Is Niri
More often than not you keep just one or two windows visible in the screen, and switch to another app with <super>+<number> or similar. Since you use most apps fullscreen, the small screen doesn't feel so small anymore. Feels good, honestly
riquito··on Mistral OCR
You're making a strawman, the parent specifically mentioned "historical handwritten documents"
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