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8thcross··on Houthis used Anthropic AI to build ballistic missiles
I thought anthropic has guardrails, especially their frontier models and OpenAI has none? I cant even get it to work on pure science with Claude...how come nobody is using OpenAI for such? is FT just an another NYT and Wapo?
8thcross··on John C. Dvorak has died
I woke up to this terrible news, and I’m shocked and surprised. I was listening to him just yesterday!

John, I’ve gained a lot from your talks, insights, tips on wine and food, your perspectives on technology, and your advice. Thank you, sir, wherever you are. I wish your family peace, and my deepest condolences.

Memory tags: His one page articles from back of pcmag and byte mags, his podcasts with leo, cranky geeks show, noagenda, horiwitz, heart attack, berkeley, wine, when I was a kid, california zephyr, mudflaps, tip of the day. you never finished that book!

8thcross··on The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox
we are running a harness outside the sandbox, inside a sandobx.
8thcross··on Prompt engineering is collapsing – GPT-5 just proved it
didnt prove anything. prompt engineering still works with GPT-5. dont know what your experience is about...
8thcross··on GPT5 is worse than 4.1-mini for text and worse than Sonnet 4 for coding
I tried it with cursor-agent, their cli - and it generated better code than expected. YMMV. It was more thoughtful and strategic than the other frontier models.
8thcross··on I know when you're vibe coding
Once you on it, you are hooked bru.
8thcross··on Ollama has a native front end chatbot now
a little too late i think.
8thcross··on Vibe code is legacy code
interesting but i have thought about it. rarely is ours as well. All my code is original but based on my past experiences from learning, thinking about it, and improving it based on new knowledge i know. my 2cents.
8thcross··on Ask HN: Claude Code vs. Just Claude
This is from their claude-code guide: "Claude Code is intentionally low-level and unopinionated, providing close to raw model access without forcing specific workflows. This design philosophy creates a flexible, customizable, scriptable, and safe power tool. While powerful, this flexibility presents a learning curve for engineers new to agentic coding tools—at least until they develop their own best practices". The agent is what makes the claud-code as good as it is. By not using it, you are using the model that is a hit or miss on several aspects a programmer would need.
8thcross··on Ask HN: How do you digest fact that you are not successful by 40
I fear your definition of "success", needs some rethinking. What are you really happy about, for whom, why?
8thcross··on Claude Code for VSCode
Been using it for a couple days - The integration fixed the gap that required me to open the files for viewing updates, and changes made in real-time as compared to the terminal mode, which did things behind the scenes, and you had no idea what its doing. the series of nonsensical (but funny) names (Pondering, Twerking, Juggling, etc.) it gives are not useful after its initial fancy wears off..
8thcross··on Makefile.md – Possibly Use(Ful|Less) Polyglot Synthesis of Makefile and Markdown
Hmm...It seems that humans should be less interested in such things? Making Makefiles readable by human is less needed in the context of LLMs needs to know about it more than us no?
8thcross··on Claude Opus 4 turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline
I think we are just discovering as engineers, on how our brain works.
8thcross··on Build real-time knowledge graph for documents with LLM
building knowledge graphs (GrahRAGs) are obsolete from a acamedic and technical point of view. LLMs are getting better with built in graph networks capable algorithms like SONAR and knowledge embeddings. like someone said - just use Notebook LM instead. But, they are useful in corporate setup when the infrastructure,teams and skills are lagging by years.
8thcross··on Ask HN: What Did You Learn Too Late in Your Tech Career?
agreed. depends on how competent a manager is or the org is in recognizing their employee's skills.
8thcross··on Ask HN: What Did You Learn Too Late in Your Tech Career?
I realized, being a manager overseeing people, chasing after career progression was a wrong path. I should have stuck to what I like more, engineering, not bullshitting.
8thcross··on Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant
was it based on India's UPI? If so, this is the basis for SWIFT for BRICS?
8thcross··on Show HN: OCR pipeline for ML training (tables, diagrams, math, multilingual)
so you are saying i can feed my last 10 years of exam question papers and get predictions on what we will get this year?
8thcross··on Google's Sergey Brin Asks Workers to Spend More Time in the Office
I think the Indians started this trend...Infosys, L&T etc.
8thcross··on Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5
got it. plan B for skynet. one baby transformer at a time.
8thcross··on Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5, 6.43 tok/s (eval 11.68 tok/s)
ah, Thanks! but what can a distributed system like this do? is this a fun to do, for the sake of doing it project or does it have practical applications? just curious about applicability thats all.
8thcross··on Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5
whats the point of this? serious question - can someone provide usecases for this?
8thcross··on Are LLMs able to notice the “gorilla in the data”?
Thanks for reminding us that vision (in the vision models) is not the same as having a pair of eyes.
8thcross··on The Two Types of Future Developer
I do see the trend in corporates to push this agenda, not sure if it will survive though...becoming a developer again may sound like downsizing your career progression in many cultures.
8thcross··on The Two Types of Future Developer
About the diverging roles, i agree its likely go down that path, based on my own career experience as well. The fact that I enjoy the freedom to be as innovative with quick turnaround, i could be in terms of directly able to solve business issues, rather than process entanglements set forth for managing developers.
8thcross··on Ask HN: Self-hosting LLMs, is it worth the setup?
people have been doing this for a while now? cost is one factor obviously, but privacy, security, and offline use comes to mind.
8thcross··on Using AI for Coding: My Journey with Cline and LLMs
Cline or Roo Cline allows for local LLMs to be used. OpenRouter.ai - has made both Google Gemini 2.0 flash and thinking free!
8thcross··on Using AI for Coding: My Journey with Cline and LLMs
This was my finding as well - I now use Roo Cline tho....
8thcross··on Google open-sources the Pebble OS
"This means the code being released contains all the build system files (using the waf build system), but it will not compile or link as released."

What do we do with this POS?

8thcross··on Google open-sources the Pebble OS
"This means the code being released contains all the build system files (using the waf build system), but it will not compile or link as released."

But what can you do with this?

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