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Nice finds! This HN profile I looked at today by chance, also contains some anti-LLM incantations, albeit much less obfuscated. I wasn't aware Anthropic had such a magic string: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jeroenhd

In the short term I'm sure the approach works, but the proof of work part of it is just theatrics and doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Using an uncommon CAPTCHA with some alternative heuristics is enough to deter spammers (until it isn't).

Any back of the napkin calculation will show you that if spammers actually start solving the challenge, they will either pay a ridiculously low amount of server CPU time, or regular users on relatively underpowered devices (i.e. smartphones) will have to wait forever for a pageload.

You'll never see that basic calculation being spelled out on product pages, because it will show its mostly smoke and mirrors.

This website seems almost dangerously wrong. It uses only a single phoneme / sound for single letters, regardless of the actual phoneme used in the word. For example, every 'a' in a word is the /æ/ phoneme (as in "cat"), but this same sound is used for the word "a", which should be pronounced as /ə/ or /eɪ/ (as in "about" or "cake").

It also seems to mix up American and British English pronunciation between the phoneme and word forms a lot, for example in the word "class" which uses American phonemes but uses the British word pronunciation.

It sometimes cheats by declaring a word 'difficult'. For example word "no" is declared difficult, which the average learner is probably pretty practiced in saying. It's just not using the same phoneme as the all the other 'o' phonemes on the website.

I'm sure its made with best intentions, but the foundation on which the app is built / prompted is incorrect. Please don't use this to teach children. Use proper material made by educators, acclaimed authors and experts.

> but not the beginning

You didn't stop reading after "The hack itself is on its way out, but the design behind it still matters for your code"? I did.

That xkcd is exactly what this thread is about, and so your lazy linkdrop is completely beside the point. The bots are currently posting lots and lots of (often superficially) "constructive and helpful" comments, and it turns to be a complete slog and burnout for humans to figure out whether to press the "constructive" or "not constructive" button.

Thanks for that perspective! I think that dynamic is present in quite a lot of other communities too, especially the ones who have not traditionally embraced open source. You also see it a lot around creative / artsy work where it almost seems to be a faux pas to share anything but the final product. People do recreate things or just are inspired by other work. Coming from open source software it always seemed like wasted potential to me, but that's probably just my bias.

> In a sense, these mods are no longer open source, but rather source available

I understand what sense you mean, but the terms "open source" and "source available" have very clear definitions, and it has nothing to do with accepting contributions or not, only with the license the code is published under. So in a sense only about downstream effects; upstream effects are still a courtesy also with open source.

I find Photopea to be completely legitimate, and ripoff is too strong, but you can recognize that it's not just a "fairly feature-comparable alternative". It has most of the functionality at the exact same place, with the exact same shapes, because that will help user if they already know how to work with Photoshop. That makes Photopea a well-executed clone, one that has been reimplemented on another platform from scratch.

Mistral STT offers it, which is an open model.

The device runs Android, which makes it very simple to use the Keystore system and to store a device specific private key within the TEE or SE where it can't be very easily extracted. If you really don't want to provision in the factory, you could use secure boot measurements to do it remotely. Of course this isn't completely watertight either against a physical attacker, but it would survive a filesystem dump attack and is the least you can do to appear competent.

They can only do that through an "SSL added and removed here ;-)"-like 'cooperation' and not through passive listening because with forward secrecy a certificate key doesn't secure the transport encryption directly. They could actively MITM outside the perimeter of the target by issuing a new certificate, but that would show up on CT logs.

You are describing the compatibility clause as if it's settled that the EUPL simply allows you to convert to a compatible license. The compatibility clause is an unfortunate ambiguity, but it's not the intention of the license authors to lose strong copyleft and SaaS loophole protections this way. See for example here [1] [2] [3].

[1] https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/di...

[2] https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/ho...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45422512

> I don't have that toggle (but could indeed have sworn I saw it earlier).

You don't see "Allow the use of your interactions with Vibe to train Mistral’s AI models" at https://admin.mistral.ai/vibe/privacy ?

And "Allow the use of your API calls to train Mistral’s AI models" at https://admin.mistral.ai/plateforme/privacy ?

I'm really hoping Mistral will succeed with their open models, so I'm a bit biased, but I don't have any affiliation. This submit is a bit of well-meaning but confused scaremongering however.

Mistral has had, and continues to have, a toggle in the admin settings that permanently disables training on your data. The option has not been removed, and previous opt-outs are still honored. As far as I know, Mistral always trained on your data by default except for the enterprise plan, with the option to disable it on all plans, and with the option for organizations to make the choice for all your users.

Kagi Ultimate still uses mostly closed models by OpenAI / Anthropic, etc.

> and at the same time seemed to have lost the ability to centrally disable training on prompts for your entire organization

There is a toggle on https://admin.mistral.ai that allows you to disable training for both Vibe and Console/API for your entire organisation. And I'm not on the enterprise plan. I've disabled training the first time I created an account, and it has remained that way.

You story is also very confusing due to the wording around "opt-in by default" and "disappointed [about] opt-in to training" (most people would be disappointed about an opt-out) and probably conveys the wrong message to most people.

This isn't the case. There's a toggle on https://admin.mistral.ai that allows you to disable training for both Vibe and Console/API for your entire organization, I just checked.

The Miyoo Flip has the same problem. Great device otherwise for GBA or earlier games.

Might instead refer to a start-stop / battery backup kind of system, where idling-but-on doesn't burn any fuel, but sudden loads can still be serviced.

A similar train map of The Netherlands that has existed for a long time, but is geographical instead of schematic, and provides a live view of trains (based on the schedule) instead of a day in the past: https://spoorkaart.mwnn.nl

I don't know what you mean with this. Strudel is AGPL, which is hardly "impossible to use on anything". The default sound banks are CC-by(-sa), CC0 and unspecified. The unspecified ones might indeed be a problem, but the other ones are fine.

As long as you allow anyone to get the source code of any derivative work you make of the Strudel code, and you take some measures to keep the distribution of the two works somewhat separate, you're should be good. And yes, there's a lot of FUD by the FSF, but your pet projects shouldn't be encumbered by such a narrow reading of 'derivative work'.

It's a worthy goal, but can you please not push unimaginative AI slop on kids? The frontpage graphic you're showing here already contains numerous slop markers and errors, and you've apparently still chosen to use it.

In modern times, kids mostly get to know the world through images, and they deserve those images to be real or at least realistic. It really matters that the details are either correct or simplified, but not present and wrong.

For example, a compass with two norths and a garbled east is not a good start for curious conversation, but I think you should refrain from using generated images even if the details aren't so clearly wrong, as you are not an expert in most subject matters, and can't judge those errors. Instead use either photography or stylized illustrations which leave out details to imagination instead of including them and getting them wrong.

Those characters are present. The design of the number row is just so 'out there' that you missed them.

> I drink black tea rest of the day

Black tea contains a considerable amount of caffeine too. Aside from that, I know of two people whose years-long mysterious health effects disappeared (one with stomach troubles and the other with bad muscle cramps) after stopping their all-day >1L black tea consumption. The tannins in tea bind to iron, so it might cause iron deficiency anemia (although studies yield conflicting results), which especially woman are already predisposed to, and for which iron deficiency tests are often calibrated towards men .

Nobody is LARPing an Eingetragener Verein, they're just being one, and the law requires them to have a board and presidium.

As they got hundreds of votes on the issue, that means tens of thousands of euros in membership contributions. It doesn't seem unreasonable to want to create a legal entity for that, and an e.V. is easier to set up in the beginning (although it can lead to a lot of drama later).

It's very, very hard for untrained people to be strict about verifying any secret phrase. The attacker can make all kinds of excuses, while creating urgency, and many people quickly abandon verifying the phrase. A scene in One Battle After Another comes to mind.

> I think it's ok to have multiple talents.

Of course that's okay, but do recognize that most blockchain projects in general and DAOs and NFTs specifically have been considered frauds or at the very least pipe dreams by many on this site from the beginning. And wider in tech society from the moment the hype was gone.

> We don't need to prove to average Joe what we have.

Of course you don't need to prove anyone anything, but it really can't hurt and there doesn't seem to be much effort in addressing the main issues. Not having anyone write about you also just seems like bad marketing: as you clearly are not in stealth mode, an extremely verbose public website stands oddly against no external coverage.

> It's indeed teamwork to bring it into production

So is or isn't the NanoGalaxy an actually physical, working device ready for a demo? (which isn't necessarily production, but somewhat close)

The entire design looks very interesting, but from the outside and without domain expertise I find it very hard to assess if anything about this is actually real or just a large and well-executed product of an AI psychosis.

The signs that this project is real are hard to verify:

- Angel investment by FinFET inventor Chenming Hu [1] seems a big vote of confidence, but there is no independent confirmation of this anywhere, except for two photo's in LinkedIn posts [2], which do look convincing.

- The NanoGalaxy PPMOCVD was presented at IEDM 2025 [3][4], but nobody seems to have written about it except the company itself. In this case, presenting means a poster presentation with a very vibrantly colored marketing picture.

- The NanoGalaxy PPMOCVD is built and in production, because you can "Witness a full 12-inch MoS₂ growth cycle on your own wafer lot" [5], but nobody has reported on this. A photo/video of the actual device would help a lot, but instead a very clean picture of what seems like a 3d-model is shown.

There are a few worrying signs:

- The submitter on HN presents itself as the founder. They have previously submitted other projects under the Phanta or PhantaField names [6]. Notably two hype cycle subjects: DAOs, NFTs and augmented reality, combined in a book that itself is rather 'out there' [7].

- The comments on HN by the founder are clearly AI generated with phrases like "honest caveat". The content seems to make sense (to a non-expert like me), but it's quite jarring.

- All the work except the NanoGalaxy seems to be theoretical for now, but written in very definitive language in extreme detail. For example "The die is built" with specific properties but then referencing three very experimental papers. This can of course be genuine (technical) marketing, but it's also very similar to AI psychosis work that I've encountered elsewhere. Although I must say in comparison this does look a lot more internally consistent and logical to me.

- I find it very hard to believe that the NanoGalaxy is actually existing and working hardware ready to "Witness a full 12-inch MoS₂ growth cycle on your own wafer lot". I would imagine you need a sizable team to produce such a new device, and that seems to be inconsistent with the way the company presents itself (a one man show of the founder). The absence of any verification or showcases of the device, or any evidence of a larger team make it suspect.

[1] https://www.phantafield.com/news/first-angel-investment-chen...

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7126002... and https://www.linkedin.com/posts/xuejunxie_its-a-great-honor-t...

[3] https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7404253323...

[4] https://www.phantafield.com/news/12-inch-ppmocvd-iedm-2025

[5] https://www.phantafield.com/product/ppmocvd

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=minkowsky

[7] https://xcancel.com/thepantheonai

The second chapter of the included tour [1] is about celery: "In fact, it's the fourth most common item among the Buttolph Collection menus, after coffee, tea, and olives."

[1] https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-story/

> Just repeating the same prompt until you get the desired result?

Not necessarily the desired result, but until it's 'done', where the LLM itself is the judge on if the is the case according to the given criteria (often just an updated todo-list). One of those extremely simple 'harnesses' (if you can even call it that) was even named the 'Ralph Wiggum Loop' [1] to allude to the braindead-but-persistent tokenmaxxing it results in.

[1] https://awesomeclaude.ai/ralph-wiggum

The point is that you need several orders of magnitude less capital to run GLM-5.2 compared with the investment needed to train a model like Opus or GLM-5.2 from scratch. To do inference of GLM-5.2 you'd need an investment of roughly less than €300k (8x H200 at GLM5.2 FP8), which is completely feasible for a lot of hosting businesses.

Even if end-users can't run these models themselves at home, there are a lot more and varied options to choose from, especially considering privacy and data protection.

You can apparently also do GLM-5.2 at Q4_K_XL with 2x RTX 3090 and lots of RAM [1], but I don't think that counts as a potential frontier model.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639186

> The reason we skip 200ms instead of pausing for 200ms when we get missed packets in a WebRTC call is because we can't pause the human on the other side of the call. But we can pause AI just fine.

This isn't about pausing anyone; it's about doing faster-than-realtime processing after a delay event. Humans can do that to some extent, and this is in fact done with some voice applications like Microsoft Teams, where after a network interruption the audio is sometimes played back really fast until the point that it becomes real-time again.

I hope it's an intentional design decision, because it works really well (for me). I can often perfectly keep track of a conversation in spite of the network delay. As much as I hate Teams, its meetings and voice implementation (also noise cancellation) works quite well, especially compared to current open source solutions like Jitsi or BigBlueButton.