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wildmXranat··on Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3
Do they ever test by giving the model more resources to see if they can give users more for the same price ? Just saying
wildmXranat··on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
Uh, Do you feel sad for his family or sad for him, because I think he's a real POS. We men should lead by example. He's a leader, but behaves like a weak coward.

It's not hard to keep it zipped up in the pants.

wildmXranat··on I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists
The founders doing well is not mutually exclusive to the overall crash as experienced by the public. Also, a lot of founders are doing well even before they take on a venture. 8/10 founders from successful high growth startups self report as middle to upper-middle class background and 50%+ have elite education from top 10 schools.

You're right, the broad market drags down all retirement savings and those who are about to hit the age of 60+ pay most dearly.

wildmXranat··on Goldman Sachs is pulling Claude Code from its bankers and traders
I have mentioned this a couple months ago to a higher up. I do not feel it is safe and prudent to let codex loose with full root access, network access and remote access to other LAN connected machines.

Not to mention it having access to any files and binaries which may expose credentials or setup which may lead to credential leak via hsm access.

I was simply told to bring it up to an another manager for a "second opinion", but I'm not sure if this even a good way to approach it. Security by committee is an abysmal trap and a way for deferred liability.

wildmXranat··on HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
Nice. This is excessively large so it probably took a while to curate. Well done
wildmXranat··on mitmproxy adds --emudhra option
Someone should've coined this disaster as "QuattroFail" to give it a little panache and international mystery
wildmXranat··on Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities
So much fluff and marketing from every group.

Just give us the damn code to verify things are working since so many have to use stopgap solutions and want to verify them

wildmXranat··on PHP 8.2.35
Yet it was leaked and I can't see a single "Here's this piece of code you can run to validate the fix actually works"

It's like slop for infosec markters

wildmXranat··on PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP
Did anyone find a reputable source for code which can be used to validate fixes ?
wildmXranat··on DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
"valuations" are irrational and make dot com _valuations_ look like a miniature caricatures
wildmXranat··on DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
When that happens, the chips stocks will have tanked back to sane levels and the doom posting will be about that. That will put us in the 2001 era of post dot com bubble, and the following few years will show us who the winner are
wildmXranat··on MCP is a fad
We went from "Review any services and their interaction without local system and network" to "Defending local and remote logic created on the fly to mangle the local file system, and why that's a good thing" ...

That's not a productivity boost. That's a rapid increase in cognitive tax you're offloading for later and as you get backlogged in reviewing it, you lose more control over what it does...

wildmXranat··on Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU
Yes, if this selected piece is the best that was available to be used as a showcase, it's immediately off putting in distortion and mangling of pronunciation.
wildmXranat··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
Nice. When you're done, feel to share in the selfhosted sub on Reddit. There's an ever growing Jellyfin community growing and ex-Plesk users on there.
wildmXranat··on Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons
I've been using Osmo oils. This top oil and also their butcher block. Besides what they say that it is food safe, would this be fine for utensils which may get exposure to cooking temperatures ? Whether mixing soup or stir fry ?

https://osmo.ca/product/topoil-high-solid/

wildmXranat··on Penpot: The Open-Source Figma
Interesting. No idea how it works, but I'm willing to try this out for a quick test as long as I can self host it
wildmXranat··on Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
I imagine there's numerous ways to protect against it and protection should've been added by whoever decided on this optimization. In data layer, create some kind of view which never returns more than 200 rows from base table(s). In code, use some kind of iterator. I'm not a Rust guy, just a C defensive practices type of dude, but maybe they just missed a biggie during a code review.
wildmXranat··on Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
My first question when faced with an unknown error is "What was the last change and when was it promoted?"
wildmXranat··on Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
Hold up ,- when I used a C or similar language for accessing a database and wanted to clamp down on memory usage to deterministically control how much I want to allocated, I would explicitly limit the number of rows in the query.

There never was an unbound "select all rows from some table" without a "fetch first N rows only" or "limit N"

If you knew that this design is rigid, why not leverage the query to actually do it ?

What am I missing ?

wildmXranat··on Two new Gemini models, reduced 1.5 Pro pricing, increased rate limits, and more
Interesting. In essence, we could equate to paying for the Gemini Advanced or Pro as a way to avoid use of our data and prompts.

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms#data-use-paid

wildmXranat··on We’re no longer sunsetting the free team plan
Well. So what's the plan then? If they were doing this to create more revenue and limit spend, then will they be trouble down the line?
wildmXranat··on The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge
Wait until you find out about the trap that is "default page or home page" in Edge... What poop show.

I installed Windows 10 LTSC and am not looking at a regular, retail level Windows ever again. They are shoving distractions and spyware into every app

wildmXranat··on Upwork just stole $10k from me
I've often been asked by clients to bypass paying via these platforms. They don't like it as much as the developers. Let's face it, the resolution here of clients now having to withdraw out of Upwork, only to be able to pay you out of bounds is bonkers.
wildmXranat··on Microsoft Has Broken Millions of Webcams with Windows 10 Anniversary Update
The update broke my install. Update finished and the computer restarted to a blue screen. Next restart didn't work and all I had was a black screen. Windows installation media couldnt help out since the partition was locked for some reason.

In 6 months, I had to restore windows 10 3 times after botched updates.

wildmXranat··on Canadian doctors reverse severe MS using stem cells
I live in Canada. I just listened to one of the participants talk about the experience on the radio and I found it just incredible.

In her own words, "She could not feel her body from the neck down. After the long and gruel ordeal procedure, she began to get sensation back. Things like hot and cold water began to be discernible. She no longer needed to hold both railings when walking down stairs in her home, needing a cane to get the mail, etc ..."

She said that it gave her her life back. She said that in short time, she began to get bored with doing the regular, tired routine and actually got a part-time job.

I mean, all that sounds phenomenal.

wildmXranat··on Oracle's letter to Russian IT companies
You are right, but there's a way around the argument that allows them to still make a bad decision. It's called management by committee. They don't need to provide a good fit-gap analysis, sound points for the plan or quantify why it's better. You will simply hear that a group of smart people have concluded that it's a "good plan" and that they consulted with Oracle and their own experts who are also absolved of any responsibility since lack-of accountability is built-in to their contract.

It will cost a lot in time and dollars to actually get what you want and you will not want to litigate Oracle.

wildmXranat··on Oracle's letter to Russian IT companies
What part of parent has not been your experience ?

I have experience parent's woes and more. That includes having Oracle staff in house doing in-person knowledge transfer. Experience says that Oracle will not provide a qualified person if we call for one as well. Sourcing from their own consultant pool is also a black box crap-shoot.

We also involved Dell and their support team to provide feedback and second opinion on Oracle CBO, query optimization and overall needed knowledge to use their Toad for Oracle performance tools. They literally stopped short of saying: yeah, you need people smarter than us for that.

I still think Oracle is a great product, but it's only fit for large organizations with bottomless budgets. I think we spent something north of $100K on Oracle's E-learning and that was probably the cheapest item on the list.

wildmXranat··on Nginx: a caching, thumbnailing, reverse proxying image server
Clever and thanks for sharing. It was a good read.
wildmXranat··on Polish codebreakers 'cracked Enigma before Alan Turing'
The Polish mathematicians were truly great. It was Rajewski and crew who broke the enigma codes.
wildmXranat··on A Message to Our Customers
To all in-love-with-Apple downvoters, please read this Schneier sound analysis of the same type of situation that RIM(Blackberry) has been met with: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/08/uae_to_ban_bl...

/quote: "RIM's carefully worded statements about BlackBerry security are designed to make their customers feel better, while giving the company ample room to screw them." /endquote

I have lost enough points on this thread to simply double down on this issue.

This is not a good sign at all. While Google can't compete with Apple on the principle of "not spying on their users". All Apple has to to is to publicize it and then ask for forgiveness from it's users later.

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