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S0yon Faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp

How much does this speedup inference for the end user in terms of tk/s ?

S0yon "As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice

Having the LLM give you new options doesn't mean you have to pursue them. It's just something else to talk to your doctor about.

And it's not like self researching medicial issues isn't a new concept.

S0yon Montreal adopts bylaw banning insults against police, municipal employees

Yeah, hopefully this bylaw is only going to be used for extreme cases like these.

S0yon People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes

Here's what I did to get rid of my nicotine addiction (vaping):

- Gradually lower the strength of my liquid until it was at the minimum.

- Stop all vaping and switch to nicotine gum

- Gradually increase the time between each gum

- Stop the gum altogether

This process took probably 3 months and tbh it was pretty miserable the whole time. It's 100% worth it tho, You don't realize how much it controls your life until you stop. You will also still get random cravings for a year or two afterwards, Heck it's been 4 years and I still sometimes get dreams where I'm vaping.

S0yon Student teacher arrested for private Snapchat message

I saw a very similar story on youtube. A young woman was in some trade school studying to be a hair dresser. She had a bad day and posted on snapchat something like "I'll shoot everyone" The same system mentioned here triggered and cops showed up to her school. The whole thing was totally blown out of proportion and she got suspended.

S0yon Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

https://joinmastodon.org/

https://bsky.app/

https://www.threads.com/

Pick literally any one of those, just seriously, if you're still on that platform, leave.

S0yon I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program

I'm personally not too alarmed by this. All the tracking is in the context of their franchise and I honestly find the stats pretty cool.

If in the end it helps them to provide me a better service, I'm all for it. But I also never really was of the opinion that McDonalds was a large evil corporation.

S0yon Cloudflare Drop

Every new feature they've launched recently can be used to make the web more dangerous for everyone except those who use Cloudflare.

S0yon Cloudflare Drop

Cloudflare has the astonishing ability to make me hate them more as a company every new feature they launch.

S0yon Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding

I've also noticed this. I wonder what causes the overlap. It can't be as simple as crypto and LLMs requiring the same hardware.

S0yon Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding

Sure. https://deep-reinforce.com/ornith_1_0.html

>Built on top of pretrained Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5, it achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source models of comparable size on coding benchmarks.

>Ornith-1.0 is a self-improving training framework. Instead of relying on human-designed harnesses to drive solution generation in RL, Ornith-1.0 learns to generate both solution rollouts and the task-specific harnesses that guide those rollouts.

S0yon Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding

These are simply benchmaxxed versions of either Qwen or Gemma 4.

S0yon Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months

But did it make them more productive?

S0yon Show HN: GhostBox – Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier

Do you realize how disastrous it would be for the open-source ecosystem to remove actions from the free tier?

S0yon Show HN: GhostBox – Borrow a disposable little machine from the Global Free Tier

This is 100% against githubs TOS lol.

Some years ago I toyed with the idea of running a minecraft server inside github actions, I used tailscale to create a public endpoint and saved the world in an artifact that was re-loaded on the next run. It worked really well, but the point was never to actually use it for real.

S0yon My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack

> Where did the litellm files come from? Do you know which env? Are there reports of this online?

> The litellm_init.pth IS in the official package manifest — the RECORD file lists it with a sha256 hash. This means it was shipped as part of the litellm==1.82.8 wheel on PyPI, not injected locally.

> The infection chain:

> Cursor → futuresearch-mcp-legacy (v0.6.0) → litellm (v1.82.8) → litellm_init.pth

This is the scariest part for me.

S0yon Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Social-Media Addiction Trial

https://archive.is/FwwtV

S0yon Backblaze Pricing and Product Updates

rclone?

S0yon Backblaze Pricing and Product Updates

>designed to store and scale to tens of petabytes of infrequently accessed data...

>During each billing cycle the Spaces Cold Storage service will have a 99.5% Uptime (as defined below) per month.

It's not really the same product.

S0yon Backblaze Pricing and Product Updates

>Free API calls: Effective May 1, we’re making API calls free for all B2 Cloud Storage customers.

>Storage price: Also effective May 1, we are updating pricing from $6/TB to $6.95/TB

Honestly amazing change. The free API changes are going to cut our bills in half. the 95cent increase per TB is totally reasonable.

S0yon Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

Now I just want to see what this post will be translated to...

S0yon Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

If you use Ublock you can add this to your filters to restore a sane number of videos per row:

---

! YouTube 7 Videos Per Row Fix (Home and Channel Pages)

youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-row:style(display:contents !important;)

youtube.com###contents.ytd-rich-grid-row:style(display:contents !important;)

youtube.com##ytd-rich-grid-renderer:style(--ytd-rich-grid-items-per-row: 7 !important;)

! YouTube 7 Videos Per Row Fix (Channel Page margin fix)

youtube.com##ytd-rich-item-renderer:style(margin-right: calc(var(--ytd-rich-grid-item-margin)/2) !important; margin-left: calc(var(--ytd-rich-grid-item-margin)/2) !important;)

! YouTube 7 Videos Per Row Fix (Font Size fix)

youtube.com###video-title.ytd-rich-grid-media:style(font-size: 1.4rem !important; line-height: 2rem !important;)

youtube.com###metadata-line.ytd-video-meta-block:style(font-size: 1.2rem !important; line-height: 1.8rem !important;)

youtube.com###video-title.ytd-rich-grid-slim-media:style(font-size: 1.4rem !important; line-height: 2rem !important;)

S0yon Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMs

>To maintain safety, no operational details are included in this manuscript;

Ah yes, the good old "trust me bro" scientific method.

S0yon AI World Clocks

To be fair, This is a deceptively hard task.

S0yon ChatGPT Atlas

When I was testing out Agent mode I had to give it login details in clear text (throw away account). Keychain access is very sensible.

S0yon ChatGPT Atlas

I think memories might be more for people who use chatGPT as a companion rather than a tool.

S0yon Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist

The amount of compression that was applied to these photo is downright criminal.

S0yon AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning

>Just use EC2 and basic primitives which are easy to migrate (ie S3, SES)

If that's your whole infra you really shouldn't be on AWS in the first place.

S0yon Literalism plaguing today’s movies

>it was completely panned by the audiences which I think was undeserved, from a lot of people because they found it "weird" or incomprehensible.

The biggest issue with the movie is that it's boring. I personally think the weirdness wasn't used to it's full potential.

A very similar (and highly underrated) movie is Richard Kelly's Southland Tales which in my opinion is far superior and vastly more entertaining to watch. Which I guess does prove there is some merit to your point, since this movie was also panned by critics and audiences for being "way too weird".