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LeBiton GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

Yup.

I see posts about OpenAI and Anthropic latest and don’t even care looking at what they do better. I just read the comments here.

I use DS4.1 Flash and GLM 5.3 Flash, pay peanuts per day and get more than acceptable results.

LeBiton GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

Let’s pray Chinese models are not banned.

LeBiton Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas

This is close to saying LLM users are psychopaths.

LeBiton Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

> Yeah, I'm in Montreal right now and have been living there for quite a while.

shocked Pikachu

LeBiton Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

Tes interventions montrent que tu es un raciste intolérant. Je n’ai plus de temps à perdre avec toi.

LeBiton Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

Not really. They are located in Europe. Share a border with France. Still have a lot of laws to protect French.

LeBiton Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

Your comment is dripping with racism.

Did you know there are tensions in Switzerland because there is a will to stop kids from learning French while they attend primary school? https://www.edi.admin.ch/fr/newnsb/CbsqmmLpkhDjQgEILMp_P

Did you know Switzerland is located in Europe and shares a border with France? Did you know people in France speak French?

Do you know where Quebec is located?

I’ve seen your kind before.

LeBiton Best LLM for every budget, updated daily

128G of RAM? I envy you.

You will be able to run some pretty impressive models locally. Good for you.

LeBiton Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

"Extremely illogical". Okay buddy.

What other place do you know of whose context is the same as Quebec?

LeBiton Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

Je t’assure que ce besoin qu’on certains français de montrer leur capacité de parler l’anglais, de nommer leurs entreprises avec des noms à connotation anglophone, etc. est considéré très gênant ici du Québec.

LeBiton Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS

J’imagine que c’est de plus en plus facile de le faire avec l’aide de l’IA!

LeBiton Best LLM for every budget, updated daily

I’ll look into this. But there is no universal solution. I find this to be quite limiting. I understand this is on purpose. If you want to automate, you need to pay more to have an api key.

It’s a good thing we have access to those very cheap and useful Chinese models.

LeBiton Best LLM for every budget, updated daily

I use the following models:

  - Qwen3.5 9B
  - Qwen3.6 35B A3B
  - Qwen3.8 27B
  - Gemma 4 26B A4B
  - Gemma 31B
  - Muse Glimmer 30B

I have 48G.

The MacMini is used solely for inference. llama.cpp + llama-swap.

People are saying local models are crap and serves no purposes.

I use them to help me spell check, write emails, write text messages, write JIRA tickets, write PR comments, etc.

I also use them in coding agents to complete different tasks.

I find them quite useful!

LeBiton Best LLM for every budget, updated daily

I use local LLMs on my Mac Mini.

Otherwise DeepSeek Flash 4.1 is dirt cheap (other "Flash" models are not that expensive either). I pay (very few dollars) out of my own pocket.

There are many things where having an API Key is necessary.

Maybe I’ve missed the boat though: is there now a method to use an api key to access a subscription?

LeBiton Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

Didn’t Israel use AI to target Hamas agents?

You would think, following the absolute horror that was, that any civilized nation would not use such a tool in such capacity.

Or rather, it showed it was working wonderfully for cases where war crimes is a goal.

LeBiton Show HN: Drop – A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support

Check out nono.

LeBiton GPT-6 Sol and Luna

They already exists. You haven’t been invited? Hmmmmm

LeBiton GPT-6 Sol and Luna

It’s not that bad: https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

LeBiton Show HN: Drop – A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support

Why they instead of a microVM?

LeBiton AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator

What do you mean by "It doesn’t provide isolation" ? How so ?

LeBiton AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator

How does it compare to kagent (https://kagent.dev/)?

LeBiton AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator

smolvm integrates with k8s (https://smolmachines.com/docs/guides/kubernetes-in-a-microvm...) and can mount s3 buckets (https://smolmachines.com/docs/local/machine-lifecycle-cli-re...).

I wouldn’t dismiss smolvm so fast. It brings together many ideas that make the whole very interesting.

LeBiton AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator

For microVM, smolvm is quite impressive.

For further isolation, I like to use nono inside a smolvm instance.

LeBiton Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion

I always thought it was bold for people to post anything using their real identity.

You never know if a stance you have now will be frowned upon in 5 or 10 years from now.

I’ve heard you can’t pass customs with a phone without your social network accounts.

LeBiton Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion

Land of the … laugh … free!

LeBiton Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash

What is Astra $/task?

Even if OpenAI end up using 1 token for per task, if the token costs 1M$ , some people will find it expensive.

LeBiton EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'

The USA would take them by force because there is no way anyone in the world wants to have anything to do with the USA.

But taking someone by force in on brand for Trump, so it might happen.

LeBiton EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'

Je suis tellement heureux de constater que Carney bouge rapidement.

Au début des annonces des tarifs, plusieurs experts disaient que de se découpler des américains étaient impossible à court terme. Nos économies sont trop entrelacées pour changer de cap rapidement.

Je ne sais pas exactement ce que Carney a en tête , mais j’espère que ça va accélérer le découplage.

LeBiton EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'

Trump was elected twice.

Until the USA fixes their broken political system, it would be unreasonable to seek to create major bonds with them.

They will remain a partner, but they should be a minority partner.

LeBiton EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'

No. The US has shown it is completely unreliable.

Even if Democrats were to be back in power and devote their 4 years to restore things and apologize, that wouldn’t be enough.

Americans have shown they can vote TWICE for a fascist regime that is willing and eager to generate chaos.

Their political system is foobar.