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xrisk··on DeepInfer: High-performance, large-scale inference framework for DeepSeek models
that doesnt say what cards the reference number used.
xrisk··on DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models
For comparison, rental prices seem to be ~$2.75/ per H-100-hour [1]. Meanwhile, Deepseek says "38 USD per hour per card”. They haven’t specified which card as far as I can tell.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/a1815bc5-b5d5-47ff-bbbc-e1a689929...

xrisk··on Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5
My hunch is that you would need some post training. On top of that; I don’t think the llm itself can read inside the transformer state although I can see how that could be enabled. (I feel that would open up yet another class of exfiltration opportunities)
xrisk··on Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI
This seems like something that could exist as free software and can be easily vibecoded in the form of a pile of scripts. Thanks for the idea!
xrisk··on Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent
Truly built on vibes.
xrisk··on Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents
pyenv has been standard tooling for far longer than uv. depending on package manager supplied Python packages only makes sense if you’re running rhel or Debian or something and your application is packaged/deployed/the maintenance path uses dnf/apt. Otherwise you should always use a venv and use an out of package manager update mechanism. Like, in a broader sense, vendoring dependencies only makes sense if you’re shipping an application, not on a dev box.
xrisk··on Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard
Might be an indication that your task unit is too unstructured or your code base is a mess.

Is your actual code doing something complex or is this incidental complexity?

Relying on the model’s “intelligence” to patch over these issues hasn’t proven to be a reliable strategy for me. Of course, this might not apply to you, just my 2 paisa.

xrisk··on Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)
tfa: "Results were adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, and sociodemographic, lifestyle, and health factors"
xrisk··on CursorBench 3.1
Would like to see wall times. I feel that’s the part that annoys me most, my tasks aren’t particularly challenging I want them done fast
xrisk··on OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users
What models?
xrisk··on Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets
Could you point me towards some resource that would help me understand what you wrote? Genuinely curious about how this stuff works
xrisk··on Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets
Assuming that the prediction market is perfectly priced right? How accurate is that assumption, or are you counting that as an “inefficiency”?
xrisk··on AI Perfected Chess. Humans Made It Unpredictable Again
Stockfish uses neural nets for its evaluation function, I don’t see how it’s unfair to call it “AI”.
xrisk··on AI World Clocks
Maybe explainable via the fact that these tests are part of the LLM training set?
xrisk··on Ask HN: Does anyone have scans of these missing PC Plus issues (1991–1993)?
Only books published by American publishers yeah?
xrisk··on Apple M5 chip
hmm there are apps produced by your script that claim to be fixed according to https://avarayr.github.io/shamelectron/ (Signal, Discord, Notion, etc). And I checked that those apps are updated. Which one’s correct?
xrisk··on Self-hosting email in 2025 is easy actually (apart from M365)
Did switching your deliverer to SES have any effect on how clients like Gmail “tagged” your email? (Promotional category or something IIRC)
xrisk··on Open Social
If your pds refuses to serve you your CAR file I don’t think you can do anything about it, can you?
xrisk··on A recent chess controversy
That’s a cool result, thanks for the link!
xrisk··on Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based
While I don’t know if the claim is true, you’ve linked a post from 2012…
xrisk··on Apple: SSH and FileVault
Yeah I was looking at that page. Found this btw: https://github.com/darkrain42/tailscale-initramfs
xrisk··on Apple: SSH and FileVault
This is not the same thing is it? Arch Wiki mentions something about having to install a separate ssh server into initramfs to support ssh’ing into fully encrypted systems.

systemd-cryptenroll seems to be about storing encryption keys into the TPM so that they can be decrypted automatically at boot (?)

Apologies if I misunderstood something.

xrisk··on Apple: SSH and FileVault
This is such a hilarious failure mode. I would never have imagined something like this to a problem.

In the case of SSH though, I assume retrying after a second or so would be enough. You probably have some sort of retry mechanism to deal with network failures anyway.

xrisk··on macOS Tahoe Incompatible with Mac Studio M3 Ultra
actual title: "macOS 26.0 Tahoe build 25A354 is incompatible with Mac Studio M3 Ultra"
xrisk··on Oh no, not again a meditation on NPM supply chain attacks
Yeah I’m not buying it. If the corporations wanted to, they would.
xrisk··on Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
you are aware that the app you just wrote with Claude pulls in dependencies, yes?
xrisk··on Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
Seems to be a separate incident?
xrisk··on This website is for humans
That is, undoubtedly, a problem created by Google itself. See for example: Kagi’s small web (https://blog.kagi.com/small-web)
xrisk··on The untold impact of cancellation
> I’m not saying that one should believe everything at face value
xrisk··on The untold impact of cancellation
It’s for (often implicit) communities to decide; communities whose members share a certain set of norms.

Further, legality does not imply correctness.

For example, it’s probably legal to call somebody a transphobic slur in many parts of the world but to suggest that trans people shouldn’t attempt to avoid or “cancel” such people is ridiculous.

And if you sincerely think that the only acceptable action to take is make a petition to change the law, I would suggest you go out and touch some grass. The law doesn’t work that way.

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