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wg0on Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month

This is last stage capitalism of these tech platforms.

Nothing much left to innovate.

wg0on DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models

Yeah what moat is the right question to ask.

wg0on DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models

That's Kami Kaze for US frontier labs. There's no way from here for them towards trillion dollar valuations.

That's strategic sabotage to say the least.

Ban all open weight models! Cried the VCs.

wg0on Superlite: A Faster Alternatie to Superpowers

Markdown industrial complex.

Basic issue is this:

1. The models are probabilistic in their output. This is objectively verifiable fact. Give same prompt, repeat and you'll get different output.

2. With these markdown heavy approaches, the system has to keep a track of the system state not just in code but in tons of markdown files as well.

3. As the system evolves due to features, bug fixes, the corresponding markdown files are to be updated as well to keep in sync.

4. This update consumes tokens for sure so now token spend goes through roof.

5. But because the models are probabilistic, the real problem is that it is guaranteed that some of the places would not be updated or updated with misinformation in those markdown files.

6. Next agent run when loading the context from these markdown files would have misinformation in its context that it would discover mid task, would have to rectify the situation. token spend would be quadrupled.

7. Only those edge cases of markdown files would hit that has been visited so there would be many inconsistencies still and they would pile up and compound with the passage of time.

8. Anyone who has significant experience with such approaches would testify to that.

9. There's no solution to that other than just using agents as power tools and holding the context and desired outcome in your own head.

wg0on NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing

And how this is not reasonable? This should be extended to any devices as well that has any firmware or drivers such as these cameras and smart bulbs.

Don't they understand e-waste and how is it piling up?

wg0on OpenCode 2.0

Performance is horrible both of the website and of the tool itself.

That's why I first switched to Pi and then to DeepSeek harness.

wg0on Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?

Since relevant community is here - what are some of the good online resources to learn woodwork? What tools/power tools one needs to know specifically?

wg0on Show HN: Settings-TUI – Lightweight Linux Settings Center in Rust

I thought post AI open source would be dead. I was wrong. Very very wrong. There'a a flood of open source.

wg0on 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

You got my upvote and this one decade old issue:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/25860

wg0on 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

I was just checking what outcome an LLM would have based on the patterns in its probabilistic distribution it has seen the wild.

Most LLMs would probably say this piece of code won't compile.

wg0on 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash thinks it should NOT compile. Whereas in reality it DOES compile which is why it is filed as a bug.

wg0on Fable Took My Job

The author has mix of empathy and fear. They do not necessarily care about the job as a much as much they are probably are not as much stress tolerant and immune to things around them.

wg0on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

That's fine but these companies having billions in funding by now should have rewritten chalk and other terminal libraries in Rust while bundling the whole thing in Rust as a single static binary. I'm talking about horrible Claude Code and friends.

And then using emgui they could expose full fidelity IDE+Agent workflow interface (like DeepSeek Harness and similar) that's also exposed as MCP to be operated by another agent and JSON RPC for over the network but no. Skill issue?

PS: Even full fidelity Photoshop is possible with such high fidelity UI that has CLI, JSON API and MCP server all in the same single binary < 90 MB. For reference, see PhotoCraft or VectorCraft or WordCraft or PdfCraft.

wg0on A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her

This should be illegal by law. Judge the performance by the outcome.

wg0on Open-source Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications

I don't know but this WordCraft works perfectly fine hasn't crashed on me and has 90% of the features already there.

Not to mention it's single binary barely 80 MB and super fast to start and very snappy.

Have you tried that or that PDFCraft?

wg0on Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]

And what software developers should do?

Basically people are vibe coding their personal apps and anything that's expensive is being vibe coded open in the public. I don't see many software companies staying profitable for long.

DHH is the biggest proponent of AI and let me know which of the 37 signals products can't be vibe coded in a month at a $200 plan that are suitable for that organization alone that just has to be accessible internally only? Hence scale and security aren't such an issue.

In that climate - for how long software companies would stay profitable and when not, who'll be employing developers?

PS: Don't underestimate vibe coded apps. Take a look at PDFCraft, VectorCraft, WordCraft. And imagine the feature parity in a year.

wg0on How to Build Wealth as a Career Person

Yeah right.

wg0on Ask HN: Why did Microsoft invest in AI that could rewrite its apps from scratch?

It works wonderfully. For a very early version.

wg0on REA Reverse – Engineer Anything

Do the have legal grounds? Much of their own algorithms would come from open academic papers I suppose?

wg0on Python 3.15

If a sizeable codebase from Rails can be converted to Rust and from Zig to Rust then it is only a matter of time that momentum will catch up to existing codebases as well and they would be rewritten with AI assistant.

That's writing on the wall.

wg0on REA Reverse – Engineer Anything

Not really. Someone using Adobe Suite of products cannot easily switch to Davinci Resolve or Dark Table.

These are NOT the same thing whereas this one particular suite of clone products is exactly menu by menu, keyboard shortcut by keyboard shortcut and feature by feature a pure clone of corresponding products to that extent that they even have a separate dashboard just to track feature parity: https://github.com/storytold/craft-repo-status-app

It is NOT there yet of course but it won't be there in a year? That's an absurd claim to make. I have checked the repos multiple times and every new release keeps fixing something that wasn't working before.

wg0on Python 3.15

The async terrain is absolutely bonkers and not just not very readable but also not very understandable either I suppose.

wg0on Python 3.15

I'd add Go to the mix but yes all three are amazing languages. You do not need Java/C#/PHP etc anymore.

wg0on Python 3.15

Don't think so.

Rails was a convenient layer that made the time to market shorter. Now Basecamp as pretty much abandoned Rails. Don't think newer projects would be choosing Rails.

Same goes with React Native. Shopify abandoned it.

I see the same fate for Flutter. Many many frameworks and languages might get abandoned gradually. Add Qt to the list as well.

A lot would be erased and newer languages/frameworks won't gain any traction because AI wouldn't be proficient in them hence they are less liely to gain momentum.

That's the future, whether we like it or not.

wg0on Python 3.15

Because code still would be read by humans. Check the code for PhotoCraft[0] (clean room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop) which is being actively written in Rust by AI agents almost 24x7.

Check the overall layered architecture. That's nowhere AI. That's pure human ingenuity coupled with machine's raw horsepower to build on top.

And such people do need to read the code.

[0]. https://github.com/storytold/photocraft

wg0on Python 3.15

This might irk many but going forward, I see only following languages surviving:

1. Typescript + Javascript

2. Rust.

3. Python - because of data science and interactive apps.

Basically, everything that can be rewritten in Rust with or without AI will be rewritten in Rust with or without AI in coming decade.

Famous cases:

1. Some backends at 37 signals from Ruby to Rust.

2. Bun from Zig to Rust.

3. Git in transition.

4. Mold linker from C to Rust.

5. Biome

6. TailwindCSS CLI

And much much more. Even Python interpreter is in process of using Rust as the main language if I am not wrong.

[0]. https://github.com/kevincouton/awesome-rust-migrations#1

wg0on Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape

Yeah wind too.

wg0on Our $445M Series D

I mean IBM is an amazing company. And this oxide is also doing something very elegant.

I'm not sure about the pricing.

wg0on Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape

Now please bring back solar + nuclear energy and stop pretending that burning oil is cleaner.

wg0on Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court

Putin would hope so because there's no other way.