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AmazingTurtle··on I hate GitHub Actions with passion
Ah a classic stack overflow flavored answer ala: do it differently so you don't encounter these issues
AmazingTurtle··on FUSE is All You Need – Giving agents access to anything via filesystems
Yet another prime example of "All You Need is All You Need". Useless clutter in a headline.
AmazingTurtle··on I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (2022)
I read tons of comments like "It's not [this], it's [that] instead!" which is also wrong.

The performance bottleneck is whatever resource hits saturation first under the workload you actually run: CPU, memory bandwidth, cache/allocations, disk I/O, network, locks/coordination, or downstream latency.

Measure it, prove it with a profile/trace, change one thing, measure again.

AmazingTurtle··on Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
lmfao sorry to say that to both of you: were you lobotomized?
AmazingTurtle··on Floor796
Thats fun. I like it. Try clicking on naruto :) https://floor796.com/#t2l4,780,732
AmazingTurtle··on Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached
Well they announced it in their v11 release. They stated that you may stay on v10 for 12 months (EOL) and otherwise proceed with non-profit etc.

Classic rug pull though

AmazingTurtle··on Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash
I'd prefer a 30 minute response from GPT-5 over a 10 minute Response from {Claude/Google} <whatever their SOTA model is> (yes, even gemini 3)

Reason is: while these models look promising in benchmarks and seem very capable at an affordable price, I *strongly* felt that OpenAI models perform better most of the times. I had to cleanup Gemini mess or Claude mess after vibe coding too much. OpenAI models are just much more reliable with large scale tasks, organizing, chomping tasks one by one etc. That takes its time but the results are 100% worth it.

AmazingTurtle··on Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash
Show me an affordable open source coding model thats closet to GPT-5.2-codex capabilities. Note: I do not have tons of HBM lying around
AmazingTurtle··on GPT-5.2-Codex
Have you tried telling Claude not to leave serious quality issues behind?
AmazingTurtle··on How can I read the standard output of an already-running process?
Hacky workarounds aren't rare exceptions; they're the plumbing of modern software. Anti-cheat and antivirus tools only work because they lean on strange kernel behaviors. Cloud platforms ship fixes that rely on undefined-but-stable quirks. Hardware drivers poke at the system in ways no official API ever planned for.

Yeah, they're ugly, but in practice the choice isn't between clean and hacky; it's between shipping and not shipping. Real-world software runs on constraints, not ideals.

AmazingTurtle··on Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
Yeah and people keep posting shit about how google will win over openai due to their "long breath"
AmazingTurtle··on Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
a) They serialize tons of data into requests b) Headers. Mostly cookies. They are a thing. They are being abused all over the world by newbies.
AmazingTurtle··on FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence
I ran "family guy themed cyberpunk 2077 ingame screenshot, peter griffin as main character, third person view, view of character from the back" on both nano banana pro and bfl flux 2 pro. The results were staggering. The google model aligned better with the cyberpunk ingame scene, flux was too "realistic"
AmazingTurtle··on Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected
I looked through some of the GH repositories and - dear god - there are some crazy sensitive secrets in there. AWS Prod database credentials, various API keys (stripe, google, apple store, ...), passwords for databases, encryption keys, ssh keys, ...

I think hijacked NPM packages are just the tip of the ice berg.

AmazingTurtle··on SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python
Yeah but then don't say that SPy is a (interpreter and) compiler in the first place? Just say it's a interpreter.
AmazingTurtle··on SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python
> SPy is [...] a compiler

> SPy is not a "compiler for Python"

I think it's funny how it's confusing from the first paragraph

AmazingTurtle··on We tested 20 LLMs for ideological bias, revealing distinct alignments
Sampling the LLM 100 times whether an abortion should be legal or not should yield an even distribution in yes/uncertain/no. Thats what I call unbiased
AmazingTurtle··on The Dragon Hatchling: The missing link between the transformer and brain models
Your quotes (“ and ”) and apastrophes (’) make me think this was written by AI as no sane human wouldn't use " or '
AmazingTurtle··on Migrating from AWS to Hetzner
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44038591
AmazingTurtle··on ThalamusDB: Query text, tables, images, and audio
You say it's a DB, given the execution time of up to 600s per query, I say: its an agent.
AmazingTurtle··on A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator
Even if codesmith _was_ objectively bad, I am still wondering _why_ do you spend _so much time_ shittalking that company on every fucking occasion? Reddit, HN, LinkedIn. You are putting way too much energy into that, way more than the average person would objectively care. Makes me wonder.
AmazingTurtle··on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account
can you please stop your whataboutism
AmazingTurtle··on Amazon Vega OS and Vega Developer Tools
I bet thats gonna last for a couple years until amazon abandons it again.
AmazingTurtle··on Bit is all we need: binary normalized neural networks
I'm gonna refer to this one here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45361007
AmazingTurtle··on You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here
Idk what foolish use of AI has to do with immigrants

also: reminder that someone wasted his precious time creating an account and writing this ragebait comment just for a little bit of internet visibility

AmazingTurtle··on This website has no class
Checks query selectors

> document.querySelectorAll('*[class]');

tons of elements with class

AmazingTurtle··on Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search
A few of my top picks:

https://anycrap.shop/product/see-through-toilet-paper

https://anycrap.shop/product/nose-hair-wig

AmazingTurtle··on Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML
lmfao
AmazingTurtle··on Browser Fingerprint Detector
Brave Browser is not detected, lol
AmazingTurtle··on Show HN: Semantic grep with local embeddings
Why does it need to say RUST in the headline as if this was a feature, lol
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