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yandieon Writing fingerprint analysis of responses reveals Kimi's similarity to Claude

At least 1.5B by stealing books, per a recent ruling.

I don’t feel sorry for the model companies

yandieon Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain

I keep all my passkeys in 1 password. So magical

yandieon DOGE is done. What happened to its records?

This government thinks bike lanes are DEI: https://newrepublic.com/post/212853/donald-trump-transportat...

They just slap DEI on any policy they disagree with.

yandieon Grok 4.5

Yeah nobody wants to balance their answers with Nazi ideology (far right basically) in their tuning except Grok

yandieon Apple Foundation Models

I doubt that. What stops the Chinese labs from figuring it out? It’s not like these models are fundamentally different from each other

yandieon Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

https://security.apple.com/blog/expanding-pcc/

The code is open source: https://github.com/apple/security-pcc

yandieon Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

I was referring to Google Gemini AI (their branding is horrible) - Google can see ALL of your interactions with their services - that's not what Apple gets to see

https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

yandieon Claude Fable 5

I use spec-driven development heavily (generate architecture docs + specs first). Opus still get lost often and have to be nudged constantly. Like it can get super detailed for something like some deep SQL optimization but it just can't keep hold of the bigger picture.

yandieon Claude Fable 5

Agree. Deepseek has also been pretty good for my personal use.

I'm struggling to see the moat for these models. What's stopping a competitor or a Chinese lab fromr releasing a comparable one?

yandieon Claude Fable 5

Of course it's all about building the hype for the IPO :)

yandieon Claude Fable 5

I've been running Opus 4.8 for agentic coding and I don't see it being significantly better than Sonnet 4.5 (not that I can tell). I find that pairing Google Gemini and Claude (having Gemini review Claude's code) seems to yield better results. Curious if this jump to 80.3% score in agentic coding will make me see a big difference in actual usage.

yandieon Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

Appples architecture prevents them from seeing customers data (see Private Cloud Compute documentation). Data that Gemini Assistant (not referring to the distilled version Apple uses) see goes straight to Google. Big difference here.

Weird to say it but the only assistant with any guarantee for privacy by design is Siri at the moment.

yandieon Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs

> it's you taking your task to OAI/Anthropic like a consultant/external entity

Good luck with that. This reminds me of the inspiration of declarative programming languages such as Prolog - you're supposed to declare the problems in such a way that the machine can solve it - rather than the imperative way where you tell the machine what to do. What they didn't realize that the definition is harder than the solution itself.

yandieon Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)

During my 5 years of my startup, we had only 1 outage due to AWS because we picked us-west-2 as the primary reason. If anyone starting a company and picks us-east-1 as the primary reason, they should be fired. There's absolutely no reason to be in that region.

yandieon Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration

You can create a new instance directly on AWS aurora. Takes less than 20 minutes!

  aws rds restore-db-cluster-to-point-in-time \
      --source-db-cluster-identifier <source-cluster> \
      --db-cluster-identifier <new-cluster> \                                         
      --restore-type copy-on-write \                                                   
      --use-latest-restorable-time \                                                   
      --db-subnet-group-name <sub group> \                     
      --vpc-security-group-ids <security group> \            
      --serverless-v2-scaling-configuration MinCapacity=0,MaxCapacity=16

yandieon iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

My Amex cards show up like the physical ones with the actual physical design elements like colors etc… so maybe it’s bank dependent?

yandieon S3 Files

It appears that they put an actual file system in front of S3 (AWS EFS basically) and then perform transparent syncing. The blog post discusses a lot of caveats (consistency, for example) or object namings (incosistencies are emitted as events to customers).

Having been a fan of S3 for such a long time, I'm really a fan of the design. It's a good compromise and kudos to whoever managed to push through the design.

yandieon A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses

Now I need a fund that will honor a year of price discovery rather than 15 days. Any recommendations?

yandieon The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline

My childcare cost is $52k/year for two kids. To hire a private nanny for TWO kids, it'll be at least $35/hour with benefits (insurance, paid time off etc) in my area. That'll be around $80k/year for a private nanny. And once the kids are older, the value of a nanny isn't as good IMO since they don't provide the variety of social challenges that a daycare can provide (group working, relationship building, conflict resolution etc...). We have friends with kids of the same age that don't go to day care and have nannies instead, and the differences in social interaction are significant - maybe we just get lucky but I think our kids build a lot of skills being in a bigger group.

yandieon xAI joins SpaceX

WeWork or Theranos. Have we forgotten about them?

yandieon Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections

> Take politics out of it. My comments are not at all based on politics or ideology. It's purely a matter of process issues. It's like saying that short passwords are insecure.

When there're people with unlimited resources who are actively looking for evidence to back up the claim, it makes sense to bring that up because they haven't found anything.

yandieon Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp

Yeah telegram is so easy to develop with - I was blown away. I was able to spin up a bot that checks for GE appointments with minimal effort.

yandieon Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections

Because you can’t make me sign my ballot? Because without my signature the ballot is void. I can also show up in person to cure my vote if you force me to sign it at home btw.

It’s not impossible - I won’t deny it. But we haven’t had any substantial evidence despite the current administration trying to claim otherwise.

If we are to roll back mail in ballot, let’s also make voter ID free and easy, and also make Election Day the weekend or a public holiday, rather than the various frictions including long lines at the poll.

yandieon Minor says ICE took his iPhone, later found in used-electronics vending machine

This guy would tell people to just comply with the Nazi back then. ICE behavior is not far from how the SS worked back then

yandieon Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending

> My friend's Fitbit works way better than my Apple watch.

My husband has a Fitbit and it's so buggy he left it sit on the shelf most of the time - the only times he'd wear it is for exercise.

Siri is bad though, but I have found Google Voice Assistant and Alexa both really have become bad over time, to the point of us just giving up on them completely. My husband is on Android and I'm really surprised how bad voice assistant is despite all the Gemini launches! (mind you he has an Australian accent)

yandieon We're committing $6.25B to give 25M children a financial head start

$250 per child, at 5% interest rate, compounded in 18 years, you'd get $601.65.

Even in today's money, I wouldn't call it a "head start"

yandieon Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source

I'm confused. I checked out the repo and I don't think the notebook itself - the equivalent of Jupyter is open source yet:

https://github.com/deepnote/deepnote/

What's the equivalent of `jupyerlab run`?

> You'll soon be able to:

> Take the UI you're used to from Deepnote Cloud and run it locally > Edit notebooks with a local AI agent > Bring your own keys for AI services > Run your own compute

yandieon Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source

What's wrong with `workflows` - out of curiosity?

Also, AFAIK, Observable is only JS - this is a Python notebook solution that we are talking here.

I'm just an observer - their claim of being successor to Jupyter is definitely hyperbole.

yandieon Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?

I can read Kanji (Japanese) and sometimes I will understand the sentence but can't pronounce it (Japanese Kanji rules are quite arbitrary). Your brain definitely handles information differently with Chinese letters