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NiekvdMaason MiMo v2.6

If you take a look at token share (at least on OpenRouter), they have already won. China-based models are 2x the token share of US-based models: https://x.com/PeterJ_Walker/status/2102185973367116025

NiekvdMaason GPT-6 Astra makes major gains in the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index

Title: "major gains"

First chart: from score 61 (GPT-5.6 Sol) to drumroll 61 (GPT-6 Astra)

NiekvdMaason I found a WordPress RCEs with GPT5.6 and $25

They do: https://portal.anthropic.com/programs/cvp

NiekvdMaason GPT-5.6

In my experience, for coding Codex is definitely far ahead of Claude Code, even when using Fable 5 as a model.

NiekvdMaason Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion

BYD DMCAd my whole repo to connect to their cars... https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2026/05/2026-05-2... It's a shame these car makers are locking down their cars (which are brought for a premium!) and going on a crusade against open source.

NiekvdMaason Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors

With 30+ billion run rate (https://x.com/i/status/2041275563466502560), there should be plenty of cash to invest in infrastructure.

NiekvdMaason Let your Coding Agent debug the browser session with Chrome DevTools MCP

Also works nicely together with agent-browser (https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-browser) using --auto-connect

NiekvdMaason Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

The bug-hunters submolt is interesting: https://www.moltbook.com/m/bug-hunters

NiekvdMaason I'm turning 41, but I don't feel like celebrating

Related: Lex Fridman just dropped a 4 hour podcast with Durov

https://youtu.be/qjPH9njnaVU?si=_pkEi-SDML08AASJ

NiekvdMaason Qwen 3 now supports ARM and MLX

From https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/15940#issuecomm...:

> This is a massive task, likely 2-3 months of full-time work for a highly specialized engineer. Until the Qwen team contributes the implementation, there are no quick fixes.

NiekvdMaason Qwen 3 now supports ARM and MLX

Old post indeed: https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1934517774635991412

NiekvdMaason DeepSeek-v3.1

That's actually a big bump from the previous pricing: $0.27/$1.10

NiekvdMaason OpenMower – An open source lawn mower

Agreed, the Mammotion hardware is amazing - the app is horrible. An open API would solve this as well, but there's little chance with the Chinese owners.

NiekvdMaason FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support

Correct URL: https://medium.com/@vpalmisano/run-whisper-audio-transcripti...

NiekvdMaason Android 16 is here

It's not part of the stable release yet, but the beta version that was released today has an option to enable this: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/06/developer-...

I tried it and it works great - Dex-like experience with mouse and keyboard, on a stock Pixel phone.

NiekvdMaason Tracking Copilot vs. Codex vs. Cursor vs. Devin PR Performance

Same for Google Jules

NiekvdMaason Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study

I had the same issue. Taking magnesium citrate 30 mins before bed fixed this completely. See also: https://examine.com/supplements/magnesium/

NiekvdMaason Show HN: IMDb SQL Best Movie Finder

The imdb.com web search allows filtering on country: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&releas...

NiekvdMaason Show HN: IMDb SQL Best Movie Finder

FWIW this is possible through the imdb.com search interface: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&releas...

NiekvdMaason Home Assistant Presence Simulation

Or buy an officially supporter Home Assistant Green for $99: https://www.home-assistant.io/green/

NiekvdMaason Telegram founder charged with wide range of crimes in France

To make things even stranger, Durov was apparently invited to lunch by Macron. Instead of a presidential welcome, he was arrested on arrival.

Source: https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1828529272539304278

NiekvdMaason Ask HN: What are your favorite index ETFs for Investing?

50% VOO 25% VWCE 25% bonds

That's the way I've been doing it since years.

NiekvdMaason Beginner dev looks at how YouTube sends videos

Nice write-up! For a better maintainable version, I would recommend `yt-dlp --dump-json` instead. This will give you hundreds of other supported sites for free.

NiekvdMaason Why Amazon Has No Profits (2014)

This article is of 2014. Note at the bottom:

> January 2021 > The essay above is now rather old, and amongst other things, it was written before Amazon started disclosing financials for AWS and for Marketplace. I wrote about that here, and have written a few other things about Amazon as well.

NiekvdMaason Ask HN: Where do you live? What's good or bad about it?

As a foreigner who lived 4 years in KL, I totally agree. In my opinion Malaysia has one of the best cost-of-living vs quality-of-live balances in the world. Startups are growing in number and supported through MDEC etc.

The major cons are bureaucracy (banking, government) and a seemingly growing radicalism of Muslims.

NiekvdMaason WebGPU in Chrome Canary now supports float16 for faster local LLM inference

To test, run Chrome Canary with:

  --enable-dawn-features=allow_unsafe_apis,disable_robustness

Then, open: https://webllm.mlc.ai/#chat-demo

NiekvdMaason Stable Linux mainline builds for Ubuntu

See also https://github.com/bkw777/mainline which offers a UI to install the mainline kernels from mainline kernels PPA.

NiekvdMaason Bun v0.8

Are there any plans to enhance the bun compile functionality, e.g. bytecode generation? Similar to pkg in the node world. We use the latter to ship close-source binaries to customers.