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tombot··on The Components of Agent Memory
Could you say more about why it’s not viable for cloud inference? I’d love to understand this
tombot··on Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console
2026 is a weird time, llms on a ps5
tombot··on Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues
Even if you still use the actions the CI / CD minutes can still happen on a self hosted machine. https://docs.github.com/en/actions/concepts/runners/self-hos...
tombot··on Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster
Perhaps they can hill climb a native app instead of the electron and react native nonsense we have today
tombot··on US claims Chinese AI firms are carrying out 'industrial-scale' theft
Major American tech companies are using “scraping,” which involves training AI models on text written by human creators, leading to them “extracting the worlds knowledge” the Chinese National Security Agency, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency claimed in an advisory.
tombot··on Claude for Commerce Agents
What do you mean spinning off these nieche offerings?

This is akin to a demo / SDK ready to plug into a store, it’s just making it easy for devs to get started. it’s still using core models and APIs, no special magic models.

tombot··on Clean up Claude 5's token vomit with a separate LLM
Just switch back opus 4.8, it's just as capable and you can actually understand the output
tombot··on ASK HN: Opus 5.0 is more autonomous
Opus 5 feels slower and less consistent, switching back to 4.8 at this point so I can actually get my work done
tombot··on Underwater oxygen loss threatens earth's stability, researchers warn
We stopped using CFCs to fix the hole in the ozone layer
tombot··on About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6
Apple isn’t friends with OpenAI anymore
tombot··on Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
"I haven't been able to enter flow state like I can when I hand write code." new flow state is having 10 terminal tabs in diff worktrees and trying to remember what each bit is
tombot··on The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower
“16 developers across 246 tasks”
tombot··on Bohemia Interactive: Cold War Assault Remastered Source Code on GitHub
I believe this game had some interesting anti cheat, it would still let you play if it knew it was cracked but would just make your aim worse and worse until you gave up.
tombot··on VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'
Glad HN is getting to experience the true level of adverts on “news” sites in the UK. It really is next level.
tombot··on Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration
Most people don’t have jobs they enjoy, programmers have somehow escaped this; better pay and more “protected” time instead of doing what the rest of us were doing all along
tombot··on Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank
I really don’t know why there isn’t a brand that’s capitalising on this.

Messaging, calls, maps, notes but no way to take or view images. Marketed simply from a global brand.

tombot··on UK PM gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children's phones
Not sure why this has ended up preferable to a smartphone ban for under 16? Surely we could decide to sell dumber devices that allow communication without internet and image sharing / capture?
tombot··on UK PM gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children's phones
Regular device accounts now ask you to prove you are 18+ through different processes, mine was enabled based on age of Apple ID.

This is entirely seperate to the family sharing permissions that’s presumably the op is talking about, where I think? They are saying the permissions are not fine grained enough so workarounds are needed.

tombot··on Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?
Here’s a hack, get yourself a cheap eSIM data only plan from an alternative UK network (VOXI, Talkmobile etc) if you main network doesn’t have connectivity; they will!
tombot··on AirPods Max 2
Find my works fine on a coin cell battery on AirTag, hard to imagine they need to power up the headphones to do the same.
tombot··on What AI coding costs you
> Developers need the dopamine hit of creation. That’s not a perk, it’s what keeps good engineers engaged, learning, retained, and prevents burnout.

Are developers some kind of special creature? or must they simply learn to deal with the complexity of juggling multiple projects, like every other desk job in 2026.

tombot··on India's VIP culture is out of control
https://archive.is/iI6rY
tombot··on Palantir Captured the UK Ministry of Defence
https://archive.is/jgMF4
tombot··on And then? And then Mullvad was censored in the UK
Mullvad UK customer here, I don’t think watching Americans order at a drive thru is a very compelling ad, had this campaign been more than jus “oh they banned us” you might have got somewhere. Many many UK ads have been banned over the years, the smart ones used the ban to their advantage, this isn’t it.
tombot··on Show HN: Nerve: Stitches all your data sources into one mega-API
The tool might be desktop only, but you can’t explain it or show me a video even on mobile?
tombot··on Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
Have you read the best practices? https://code.claude.com/docs/en/best-practices Are you using plan mode?
tombot··on Wikipedia earned $184M from donations, the servers cost less than $5M
I like supporting Wikipedia, I’m glad they raised plenty of money
tombot··on Wikipedia earned $184M from donations, the servers cost less than $5M
I don’t feel irritated, I feel pleased I am supporting the web I want to see.
tombot··on Oracle is underwater on its $300B OpenAI deal
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of crooks
tombot··on Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown
why can’t I just pay ticketmaster the face value, why must we allow another middleman to charges me more? because capitalism? na mate
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