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robotswantdata··on Intel plunges 25%, triggers global chip rout on bleak outlook
Buy the dip. (Sort of joking?)
robotswantdata··on Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console
Significantly slower and less capable than opus 5.5

However you can run comparable or better models than gpt4. Try to stay under 30b

robotswantdata··on An hour of audio transcribed in about 13s on MacBook Air
WER is not good enough for professional use, fine for hobby projects
robotswantdata··on Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B
I’ll just use open source, thanks
robotswantdata··on Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B
Very good dev experience! Congrats
robotswantdata··on Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opus to self-hosted Ollama
Why are you using Ollama? Just use llama.cpp
robotswantdata··on AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200
Unpopular opinion: "We gave an LLM live Stripe credentials, told it to extract money, and it sent $12k in fake invoices" isn't a benchmark. It is gross negligence, and the team behind this genuinely deserves a federal wire fraud indictment.

Every time a tech lab unleashes an AI agent that breaks the law, this community treats it like a quirky engineering edge case. "Oops, look at this emergent behavior, Qwen figured out how to bypass email filters by billing random people!" No, it didn't figure out a clever hack. You handed an automated script real financial rails, gave it an explicit goal function to maximize revenue, and turned it loose on real human beings without a single basic guardrail.

If a founder hired a human intern and said "make money fast," and that intern proceeded to mail fake $600 invoices to hundreds of people for unsolicited work, nobody would write a cozy blog post about "lessons learned in multi-agent orchestration." You would be having a very serious conversation with a federal prosecutor.

Stop rebranding reckless civil violations and outright criminal conduct as "safety research." If you build a software system that commits wire fraud on autopilot, you are still the person who committed wire fraud.

robotswantdata··on Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
This is very fair. Compared to Claude the Codex limits are much better and smarter model.
robotswantdata··on Ask HN: UK Rescue Rocket Sheds/Houses Information
Of interest?

https://replay.bfi.org.uk/video/fbc58db0-b59f-5a31-9fda-1463...

https://www.vectisarchaeology.org.uk/pdfs/irex_wrecked_at_th...

robotswantdata··on Netherlands pulls gold out of the US
True and the same for the lorry or train. Likely 30 needed but they’d be very empty.
robotswantdata··on Netherlands pulls gold out of the US
Just a reminder: The Netherlands' 612 tonnes represent 0.28% of all gold ever mined and 1.7% of central bank reserves. Because gold is insanely dense (19.32 g/cm³), all the gold mined in human history fits into about ~340 shipping containers

A standard 24,000-TEU cargo ship could hold every ounce of humanity's gold using under 1.5% of its physical volume.

So the Dutch portion is a rounding error of global gold that fits in a single shipping container.

robotswantdata··on Microduck
If it’s anything like Reachy, can run it fully offline inc inference
robotswantdata··on Microduck
Yes! At least Reachy can be run fully offline so don’t see why Ducky can’t
robotswantdata··on Microduck
No catch. Loss leader
robotswantdata··on Apple introduces leasing program for iPhones and other devices
Untrue to say they don’t last, our M1 macs 6 years later are still very usable. However your point is very true for corporates, staff always want a refresh regardless if the laptop is good enough or not.

These personal plans make sense for people who want the latest and don’t like the hassle of reselling

robotswantdata··on 'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout
When will the executives face criminal trial too?

“ The seven members of eBay’s security team were all criminally charged and sentenced to prison, home confinement or time served.

Other executives went on to other corporate jobs. Wymer and Wenig left eBay in September 2019, before the charges were filed. The following year, Wymer was appointed chief of the non-profit Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley. Wenig has been on General Motors’ board since 2018 and now runs an AI start-up. Jones remained at eBay until 2020 and now sits on Prudential Financial’s board.

The Steiners sued the trio and other former executives along with the company in the case that led to the $56mn payout. Under the terms of the settlement, Wenig agreed to pay $2mn, Jones must contribute $500,000 and Wymer $50,000, according to the pair’s lawyers.”

robotswantdata··on 1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed
Pihole / dns sink hole Or better yet , never connect it to the internet!
robotswantdata··on Codex Security
Been watching your progress for a while, glad OpenAI have looked after you and the team and you still get to ship!
robotswantdata··on Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
Yes hybrid approaches are much better than people realise.

There are a lot of optimisations that are not in the public sphere, source working on start up in this space

robotswantdata··on GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices
Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/538/
robotswantdata··on Apple won't let me show my app
It is weird. Embrace it
robotswantdata··on Apple won't let me show my app
Did similar. Ordered mini 58mm Bluetooth printer and wrote small service to stream the byteslop as you called it! Worked too well.
robotswantdata··on Apple won't let me show my app
Agree. Looks like ai slop
robotswantdata··on OpenAI Presence
They have big FDE team plus acquired a consulting company
robotswantdata··on How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM
Everything is a sine
robotswantdata··on How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM
Good modelling
robotswantdata··on How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM
Confused. Why not just make the kick drum from a sine? Seconds
robotswantdata··on Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
Need to run this on my Xeons with AMX
robotswantdata··on Codex Micro
Ordered. Not sure will beat my streamdeck modules, but YOLO
robotswantdata··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
Novel app for live music performance (private for me and another big artist, we may release one day). Very unique
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