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Ilaurens··on GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
I think this only sets the narrative for USA, but pushes the rest of the globe into open weight. The rest of the world, having experienced the current US administration, undoubtedly realizes this is the only thing that might protect you from the powerful models the US has. Small economies and countries cannot compete otherwise and are vulnerable to military and economic spying
Ilaurens··on US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS
Fedora is connected to Red Hat which is a US company, which is exactly the dependence that is undesired
Ilaurens··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
This is so interesting, thanks for sharing. I hope I'll find the time to really dig into this someday!
Ilaurens··on Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution
These token numbers look off for a 5090. For comparison, an rtx 5000 Blackwell SFF with just 470gb/s bandwidth gets me 30 tok/s on gemma4-31B-QAT. Almost 60 tok/s with MTP enabled. A 5090 should get you much more than that!
Ilaurens··on Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes
"Interestingly, Kimi K3 got rid of all RoPE layers and uses NoPE (No Positional Embeddings) everywhere instead."

It just baffles me that this even works at all. Doesn't it just become a token soup? Is attention that precise that a second token can tell its the second token just because it learns to accumulate something in the embedding space without any sort of inductive bias?

Ilaurens··on The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics
I'm no expert analyst on this topic, but I'm worried this time might be different for them. China finally has the technological capability to challenge this time around and they will gobble up the unmet demand, allowing them to get more experience and more money to catch up.
Ilaurens··on GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
"Your plan pricing is unchanged: Copilot Pro remains $10/month and Pro+ remains $39/month, and each includes $10 and $39 in monthly AI Credits, respectively."

If there's no discount on credits (in terms of tokens per dollar) over other providers, I'm going to switch to a PAYG provider. If there's a month where there's little to no coding I can pocket the 10$. What incentive do they give to stay with this plan?

Ilaurens··on Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
I think you are spot on and a lot of other comments sharing "I'm also so precise, and people don't get it and it's frustrating" are in fact the problem. It's arrogant to think you're that eloquent that there is not other interpretation to your words, and the problem must be with the reader. It only results in more inefficiency if you stick to that mindset.

These are probably the same people that say "everyone else's code smells" and think only they write the perfect code.