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SeriousM··on Reframing smart glasses as 'pervert glasses'
Reminds me that the smartphone cameras were supposed to always make a 'click' sound while taking a photo. Nowadays Snapchat users take silently photos all the time, not only from themselves but from other "funny" people too.

In contrast, glasses are always directed to the others and therefore hard to distinguish between normal looking and recording.

SeriousM··on Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot
Who really cares? The model multipliers and the artificial currency were the final nail in the Github Copilot coffin.
SeriousM··on GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
pi is great for learning, oh-my-pi has all the nice things included that I've built fory pi previously.
SeriousM··on I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
And say it's true because the AI said so.
SeriousM··on Anthropic says Alibaba used 25k accounts to mine Claude
> Anthropic wants firms like Alibaba punished

Do they care what we want? Im happy that China is copying the models and make them available for everyone, with 1/10 of it's price.

SeriousM··on GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2
There is no concept of "knowledge" in LLM as it is on Wikipedia.

The question-tokens define the answer-tokens. That's it. The art relies in clustering the relevant weights together.

SeriousM··on Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics
At least a third arm would be helpful. I can't count how many times I've wished for a third arm!
SeriousM··on Stop making swap partitions–use swap files instead
Foe the ones, like me, who didn't know why you recommended that:

By setting umask 077 first and then creating the file, the file gets created with the correct restrictive permissions (0600) in one step instead leaving the file readable for "everyone" for a moment.

SeriousM··on Show HN: Crawlie – Free open-source SEO audit tool for humans and agents
That's nice! I like that it also checks for the llms.txt. It seems to me that no SEO agency is aware of this simple but powerful file.
SeriousM··on Wiki Spy
It reminds me on the wiki game "get to famous person X in the fewest clicks, starting at start page". Just a bit harder.
SeriousM··on Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
Haha, yes! Last time I asked it for options how to tackle a task and only do the research without touching any code. With xhigh rasoning, it echoed the options that many times until it was convinced that option A is the better choice and started implementing it.
SeriousM··on Don't trust large context windows
I found myself in a similar workflow. Depending on the task at hand (starting a new project, enhancement, maintenance), I let the agent create/read the markdown files that I keep updated (AGENT, STATE, ROADMAP, DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, (CODESTYLE if I plan to modi it myself)). Then I choose the various roles that I need in this session and and have a planning phase. After that, the agent is starting implement the changes and I have a manual correction phase.

This flow works for my needs, building idea demos, prototypes or tools for my own sake. I don't let agent code in our main code base where everything is still hand tailored. That's a conscious decision.

I noticed that the cheaper models (flash, ...) are quite hard to hold back changing files. A question for possible options sometimes results in "yes, I'll go with option A" without asking back. Frontier models on the other hand love to plan and ask you deliberately for your consent.

I use pi.dev with almost no skills at all to understand how models really work and "feel" to work with.

SeriousM··on Human Routers of Machine Words
> A “thinker” who doesn’t write, who skips the step of “merely” synthesizing their vague thoughts into prose, is not thinking. And then these people give their noise to the AI.

OP is quite good with words and has a high standard and world view. The reason why people use AI to manifest their ideas is probably because they have no other way communicate otherwise.

It's a medium to pack the idea into "something" that represents the idea. It was never about a finished and polished product. It's the sign language for deaf people - a way to show your thoughts.

I'm certain that the people presenting their github repo do put quite some effort (= prompt work) into it, which IS the thinking process. At the end of the day, most developers are introverts that can think very well but have hard times with soft skills.

Everyone wants to be proud of his work, let us don't blame them how the show it off.

SeriousM··on AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed
Thanks! That's exactly what we need for our 6 ppl team.
SeriousM··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
I would love to see the push10k on android playstore/fdroid. It looks so inviting and motivating that I searched for equivalent alternatives for android but found none! Would you, maybe, publish it there as well, pleeeease?
SeriousM··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
Could we please stop putting price tags on 15-commit repos? It's just crazy that every idea, created with ai, now costs 10$ or more per month, despite it costs 5$ to create.
SeriousM··on Do agents.md files help coding agents?
Yes. In my case (and I guess everyones usecase is subjective) my system prompt states to read the AGENT.md file when possible.

On a new project I usually set up the context of the model (language to use, reason of the product/prototype, etc.) and then I tell the LLM to write a AGENT.md, STATE.md and ROADMAP.md. I don't tell the LLM what's in there because the model has it's own directive and flavor what should be in these files. The models already know the purpose of these files by themself! On a new session, I let the agent read the markdown files in order to continue with the work. Before a session ends, I let the LLM update the markdown files. Maybe one word of caution: don't switch models - it's like putting another person on a working station and ask them to continue the work of others.

Easy setup, really good outcome!

SeriousM··on Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model
Thank you so much for the insight, I really appreciate it!
SeriousM··on Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model
Thank you for sharing your usecase! I like your product very much!

Could you talk a bit how you did the finetuning? Did you use unsloth or any other tool and how went the verification to proof the outcome?

SeriousM··on Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw
And its fuel are github copilot ai credits, burned in 2 days. Good luck habing a running business on scout and your credits are gone.
SeriousM··on Claude Code OS: open-source operations copilot that self-updates
I thank you to take my feedback seriously and I read it again. It's now much clearer what the project is about!

May I clarify my previous feedback a bit more: I was trying to wish for handcrafted readme. Vibecode the product is fully ok, but people buy ideas from humans. Once you've let build your idea, take your time and write the humans, that should use it, a handwritten letter. For what other reason than another himan should use it, did you uploaded it to a public repo and post about it?

SeriousM··on Nvidia RTX Spark
And when you had a tool call that asked the user for the next step, you could easily run a whole day with 4c. Guess how the people did 5k $ worth of token with 100$ spent.
SeriousM··on Announcement and FAQ: Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual Plans
It's about the comments that are currently exploding.
SeriousM··on AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system
Microsoft just introduced another virtual currency to tinker with.

The comparison with adult webcam services are actually quite fair: you buy the currency, spend it and watch the actor doing it's job... but now in the tech ecosystem.

SeriousM··on Claude Code OS: open-source operations copilot that self-updates
The readme tells me much, but doesn't say anything helpful. I would love to have the authors of the ai tools would at least put a bit love into the explanation...

Anyway, I learned about https://handy.computer which is nice! Combined with Whisper+ from F-Droid and you have a nice way to input voice as text from everywhere.

SeriousM··on Step 3.7 Flash
My guess is "Fun with the Step[mom]". Well... grow up or go to reddit.
SeriousM··on Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era
Sadly there are so few solutions, if even one, that is trying to offer a real remote agent interaction. That's why I've build my own. No IDE per se rather than a discord bridge, with all interaction possibilities that makes sense and a way for my agent to quickly send me files or host mockups. My usecase is to build tools, reports, do research, mock up ideas and build prototypes. That's why I don't need to see the code that was written.
SeriousM··on Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier
This is the repo: https://huggingface.co/pbhappliedsystems/qwen3.6-27B-gguf-Q4...
SeriousM··on Local AI needs to be the norm
Would you share your experience of the used models? I have quite some experience with the larger models but the smaller ones tend to loop around or just fail on their tasks...
SeriousM··on The USB Situation
@dang, can we please get a flag function for ai slop?

"The lie, the age, the gap, the trap, the names, the buy, the ..."

I really don't come to HN to read such a stuff and HN is full of it since months. Please let us flag it and filter it out.

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