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13rac1··on Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
I interpret @syntaxing as meaning they are looking forward to running Qwen3.8-27B, but are frustrated by prefill times with other models, such as Qwen3.6-27B.
13rac1··on Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM
FWIW Darling runs in userspace too.

What do you mean by "proprietary components"?

13rac1··on Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM
Interesting project! A long term vision for MacOS applications is feasible given the success of WINE/Proton with Windows applications.

Are you familiar with the Darling project? https://github.com/darlinghq/darling There's an open PR for ARM64 support https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/pull/1753 Could you combine efforts or do your goals differ too much?

13rac1··on When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement
> Generated in 0.008s • 14,293 tok/s

Chat Jimmy runs ~300X faster than the ~50 tok/s you are used to. What could you do differently when you are able to generate code 3,000 - 30,000X as fast as you could code it yourself? What if it was all good quality code? What would you do differently if it were 100,000X faster? mtok/s? gtok/s?

13rac1··on Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents
Your suspicions are correct, any extra machine works: 4GB Pi, virtual machine, or old laptop.
13rac1··on Vibe coding kills open source
Warning: Claude may support the theory, because Claude is a sycophant.
13rac1··on Chrome for Android doesn't have extensions, but Edge now has a whole store
Firefox for Android also supports extensions, including uBlock Origin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
13rac1··on Why do programmers need private offices with doors?
You may not recognize the difference, but our brains haven't evolved (nature) much in the last couple decades or probably centuries. There's little to no chance we have truly adapted (nurture) to this 24/7 noise, even plants have problems with it: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/plants-are-... -> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S143917912...

> Plants in the traffic noise treatment group were exposed to 16 h of road traffic noise each day for a total of 15 days, while the control group was kept under complete silence. Traffic noise exposure led to significant decrease in growth indices of both plant species.

13rac1··on OpenAI Finally Allows ChatGPT Complete Internet Access
Paid accounts can use the Perplexity LLM, GPT-4, or Claude 2.
13rac1··on Americans Are Keeping Their Cars Longer, as Vehicle Age Hits 12 Years
I suspect the only long term way to avoid touchscreens and cellular is a DIY EV. EVWest, for example, now has complete kits for 14 cars: https://www.evwest.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=40
13rac1··on 2022 Ford F-150 Lightning
Mazda stopped using touchscreens: https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1121372_why-mazda-is-pur...

> “Doing our research, when a driver would reach towards a touch-screen interface in any vehicle, they would unintentionally apply torque to the steering wheel, and the vehicle would drift out of its lane position,” said Matthew Valbuena, Mazda North America’s lead engineer for HMI and infotainment.

> “And of course with a touchscreen you have to be looking at the screen while you’re touching...so for that reason we were comfortable removing the touch-screen functionality,” he added.

13rac1··on Real world ownership is not a use case for blockchain
> For literal-minded folks like us, the idea that key properties of what we consider cold hard objective reality is in fact just squishy agreement can be unsettling. Hell, half of us got into computers specifically to avoid hand-wavey subjectivism.

Objective reality begins to falter even before leaving computing. For example: values for binary ones and zeros are hand-wavey down in the hardware voltage level. People believe it is as simple as: 5V is one and 0V is zero. In reality, (5V TTL logic levels) voltages above 2.7V are high/one and below 0.8V are low/zero. Details: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/logic-levels/all

13rac1··on Show HN: MarkShow – Create Slideshows with Markdown
This method works well. I made a template repo to standardize the process: https://github.com/13rac1/rjsmake
13rac1··on Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
I was confused too without a screenshot in the readme, but realized I could just run it: https://app.standardnotes.org/
13rac1··on Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
> I don't mean to be snarky, but what's the purpose of apps like this?

1. Note organization via tags with a searchable database 2. Secure off-site backup 3. Device-to-device syncing

I'm sure there are more. I wish it wasn't written in Electron, but it wouldn't exist otherwise.

As a web application: https://app.standardnotes.org/

> Meanwhile, if this program's servers go down tomorrow, tough luck.

It is open source, you can run the server yourself: https://github.com/standardnotes/syncing-server

13rac1··on Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cryptocurrency
https://www.wired.com/story/mobilecoin-cryptocurrency/ It is Moxie's, the creator of Signal, pet crypto project.
13rac1··on Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021
Jason Scott created Archive Team. He works at the Internet Archive (archive.org). Archive Team is a community project kept distinct from his work.

* https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Who_We_Are

> This project is composed of volunteers, currently coordinated by Jason Scott.

* https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/User:Jscott

* https://twitter.com/textfiles

> Proprietor of http://TEXTFILES.COM, historian, filmmaker, archivist, storyteller. Works on/for the Internet Archive. Rank Amateur.

13rac1··on I finally escaped Node
Share code between client and server using WebAssembly[1]. The Twitch video player is written in C++ via WASM[2]. C# can be "full stack" with Blazor[3]. Rust can be "full stack" with Yew[4]. Similar support exists for other languages including Go[5] and even the TypeScript-syntax AssemblyScript[6].

[1]: https://medium.com/wasm/webassembly-on-the-server-side-c584f... [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16835769 [3]: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor [4]: https://github.com/yewstack/yew [5]: https://github.com/hexops/vecty [6]: https://www.assemblyscript.org/

13rac1··on Mother's blood test predicts a sub-type of autism
You may discount the entirety of positives, but there are, in fact, positives. This does in no way minimize the severe cases, rather simply contends ASD is not always negative, which was your original concern.

I cannot agree with your perspective comparison. Vision many help someone learn piano more quickly at first, but is immaterial to their maximum ability as a pianist. A better comparison is early detection of the development of additional fingers or exceptionally large hands (example: Rachmaninoff), both of which directly and permanently affect a person's ability to play difficult piano pieces. This too would be a concerning eugenics issue.

13rac1··on Mother's blood test predicts a sub-type of autism
How about a list of people who have/had it:

Tim Burton – Movie Director / Lewis Carroll – Author of “Alice in Wonderland” / Charles Darwin – Naturalist, Geologist, and Biologist / Emily Dickinson – Poet / Albert Einstein – Scientist & Mathematician / Bobby Fischer – Chess Grandmaster / Bill Gates – Co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation / Temple Grandin – Animal Scientist / Thomas Jefferson – Early American Politician / Steve Jobs – Former CEO of Apple / Stanley Kubrick – Film Director / Barbara McClintock – Scientist and Cytogeneticist / Michelangelo – Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Poet / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Classical Composer / Sir Isaac Newton – Mathematician, Astronomer, & Physicist / Nikola Tesla – Inventor / Andy Warhol – Artist

https://www.appliedbehavioranalysisprograms.com/historys-30-...

13rac1··on React created roadblocks in our enterprise app
Yes, now, but not then https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor It's just .NET and C#
13rac1··on Automate any tasks that require multiple entries of data in a browser
How is this not the largest security hole in the world?

> Cognifirm integrates with all the online systems that your employees work with, including 3rd party systems that are made available to you by the government and your business partners.

No emphasis needed.

Where's the details on this AI? You know what acts a lot like ultra high quality AI? Actual humans.

13rac1··on US ends era of emotional support animals on planes
Again, I am not referencing people who are homeless. I haven't said "you can tell who is abusing the system at first glance." either. I think we generally agree though. Thank you for the conversation.
13rac1··on US ends era of emotional support animals on planes
> The first thing you linked to is the personal opinion of someone with what looks like a personal blog.

Anything you or I write here is effectively the same thing. ;) Equal valuation. This blog does cite the ADA and IAADP though.

You seem focused on the bureaucratic hoops and seem to think I want them enforced more strictly? I haven't mentioned that. Please evaluate only the words I use. You seem to be making a point about specifics I haven't raised.

The people acting unethically/immorally and abusing the system know who they are when they do it. It's why they are so defensive. Selfish people ruining good things, once again.

13rac1··on US ends era of emotional support animals on planes
I understand there is a huge grey area on this subject. I specifically refer to the abusers (the only label I am applying intentionally.) I didn't mention people who are homeless. A much better explanation than I can give at this time: http://brightside-susan.blogspot.com/2011/05/people-behaving... A quote from the article:

> "Each time an employee has an encounter with a fake service dog (and yes, they know when you're lying), this brings us tangibly closer to the implementation of laws, regulations, and policies that make it harder for me to live my life without being treated as a second-class citizen."

As a video: https://www.kronon.tv/videos/people-behaving-badly-2013-farm...

13rac1··on US ends era of emotional support animals on planes
This doesn't seem too far of a reach: "Abusing the system" => Taking advantage of services for people with mental and physical disabilities => Taking advantage of people with disabilities.
13rac1··on Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository
Thanks! Yes, it's puppeteer, plus imagemagick to add transparency using an overlay on an empty map, and ffmpeg to make the 60fps video. A lot of data, currently have over 200GB.
13rac1··on Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository
Yes! Great idea! I've been working on a similar, but different project recently. Using screenshots instead of git. I wanted to see the change in air quality due to the wildfires over time, so I'm making time-lapse videos: PurpleAir Air Quality 7200X Time-Lapse - Glass Fire - San Francisco Bay Area - 9/28-10/3 https://youtu.be/CFT-EIEmzfM
13rac1··on At JPMorgan, productivity falls for younger employees at home
Apples to Oranges. This is not Work From Home. This is Work From Home during a Pandemic during Natural Disasters. WFHPND is a bit long for an acronym though.

Productivity may, actually, fall for younger employees at home, but data from this year is not valid for a calculation vs prior years.

13rac1··on Apple’s abandonment of Intel chips is inevitable (2018)
A reason cars keep getting larger is fuel-economy laws.

> Expanding a car's footprint — the wheelbase multiplied by the track width — gives it a lower fuel-economy target to meet under the CAFE standards negotiated by automakers and regulators.

https://www.autonews.com/article/20160814/OEM11/308159946/is...

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