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TheJCDenton

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TheJCDenton··on JetKVM Mini
No PoE :(
TheJCDenton··on Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
> He also notes that the proprietary AI labs didn’t ask permission when they vacuumed up as much human knowledge as they could to train their models.

I think this should desactivate the moral high ground from which Anthropic is trying to speak. That they would want to make distillation orderly IMHO is fair, but to make it illegal is very rich from any AI frontier lab, really.

TheJCDenton··on Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra
> SWE-2 is post-trained from Kimi K3

On the one hand I would have expected a completely new model, on the other hand it's an RL-ed K3 go Fable 5 capabilities, which demonstrate that this is probably possible, which is nice.

TheJCDenton··on No Man's Sky Cosmos
10 years, i wonder what the codebase look like now !
TheJCDenton··on LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Not so far fetched when your advertising revenue is in the tens of millions of dollars.

They just need this revenue by tv to be higher than the price of the mobile plan per tv. For a few Gb per month it may be relevant in the not so distant future.

TheJCDenton··on Mistral raises €3B
They are not the same kind of companies but they benefit both in their own way of the same market reading.

Apple is fine-tunning Gemini to customize Siri for their customers. They improve what's between the model and their customers : fine tune, inference up to the product. This is exactly what Mistral is doing, with an even more diversity of usage and needs because they are business oriented, instead of customer oriented. This is also what make them economically very efficient in comparison.

Beside Apple is still doing science experiments while Mistral is capable of releasing commercial models, albeit small and specialized.

Don't get me wrong, it's absolutely obvious that Apple is incredibly powerful, now more than ever. But the way they see the future, Mistral have a leaner trajectory.

TheJCDenton··on Mistral raises €3B
When Apple is not racing for the frontier it's a strategy, but when it's Mistral it's a mistake.

The two companies have read the market the same.

It's always very dangerous for first movers and their investors, and the commodification of intelligence seems even more likely each time a chinese open model release. It's less exciting to do business that way, but if you're building to stand the test of time, it's wiser that way.

TheJCDenton··on I wanna live an NPC life
He loved the steak even when he'd known it wasn't real
TheJCDenton··on Show HN: FrontierHarness Eval – 9 harness, same model, cost per pass varies 17x
Incredibile result for pi. The ratio quality / complexity of the harness make me think that all other harnesses are very bloated.
TheJCDenton··on OWASP Top for Agentic Applications – The Benchmark for Agentic Security
Pdf is here : https://genai.owasp.org/resource/owasp-top-10-for-agentic-ap...
TheJCDenton··on Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage
Be aware that for a few 100's Go the google takeout files will contains corrupted data.

You have to make at least 2 takeout to be sure to have all your files in good shape.

The problem is notto download but to verify and be sure nothing else is missing.

TheJCDenton··on Ask HN: What do you use to host side projects?
Cloudflare. Free tier, and prices bound to wall time, which is nice for side projects.
TheJCDenton··on My Friend Aaron
Loved it!
TheJCDenton··on Code in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Becomes Write-Only and Disposable
Is this satire ?
TheJCDenton··on Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM
You think it's bad in English, but it's even weirder in other languages.
TheJCDenton··on Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development
Each time someone mention Deus Ex, someone reinstall it. Again. Thanks !
TheJCDenton··on Claude Opus 5
I think it's the first time Anthropic release a model without any meaningful disruptions while doing it
TheJCDenton··on ScreenWall – Turn old phones into synced widgets for your space
Congrats, this looks very cool! I haven't tested it yet, but is it possible to make it work offline? I'd prefer devices running unsupported or unmaintained operating systems to avoid Internet access altogether.
TheJCDenton··on Cerebras discontinue its free tier plan
Just received an email from Cerebras :

> The current free API tier will remain available to you until August 17, 2026. On that date, your account will be transitioned to the new free credit-based experience. You’ll be required to add a payment method to unlock $5 in free credits to continue to use the service.

TheJCDenton··on Show HN: How clanker are you? A reverse Turing test
Funny little game, would be even funnier to have a system to roast the prose of a friend on social media or even a screenshot
TheJCDenton··on I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)
This is satire
TheJCDenton··on Anthropic pauses credit change for Claude Code
At least the wording is very clear. claude -p and agent SDK is fair game with subscription, so openclaw like usage is confirmed as ok.
TheJCDenton··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
In its current state Fable 5 is also unusable for any reverse engineering work
TheJCDenton··on Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You
It's a great guide that is necessary because the documentation of Claude code is so lacking. It's a shame really, trillions of dollars, but not one man hour to make an agent on the ci to write the doc and a pr. It frustrates me, it has been like that for months, it's like nobody cares or find this normal.
TheJCDenton··on Every Frontier AI Is INTJ
Interesting article, but MBTI is not just contested, the concensus since the 90s is that MBTI is pseudoscience [1][2][3][4][5], so it's nearly 40 years.

Would have been interesting to test against the Big five instead !

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/give-and-take/201309...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20061206025148/http://www.indian...

[3] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/014920639602200103

[4] https://aps.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1742-9544....

[5] https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personali...

TheJCDenton··on Resonance, randomness, and negotiated meaning for AI-assisted tarot divination
But why ?
TheJCDenton··on Life Without US Tech
Europe progressively restricting ASML tech for the US may be the real bazooka, albeit the highly enriched uranium grade one. Would that make Trump behave a little bit more responsibly ? As those trains of thought surfaces more and more, all i can think of is a new global technological cold war.
TheJCDenton··on Local AI needs to be the norm
Very good point on using local ai to avoid data centers costs.

Running AI models on local hardware was exploratory at first, and if it's so easy today it's thanks to open source. It's a little bit coincidental that we have this today, and that mainstream hardware have this capability. The fact that a phone can run very small models is exploratory or some kind of marketing opportunity at best.

Why would hardware company ships cards with more AI capabilites (like more VRAM) in the foreseable future ? On what ground does the marketing for on device AI will keep generating interest ? For something as important, it's very uncertain. But above all, it should not depends on these brittle justifications.

Showing good will in distribution and research prowess today is positive communication, but it can be exactly the oppositite if/when an attack using those small models will reach a high value target.

For China the cultural difference is so huge, it's difficult to say. I would think they first and foremost need to show to evryone inside and outside of China that they match american models. Second, i would say that when americans prefer few very powerfull companies on the get go because they can leverage a lot of capital rapidly to industrialize, China will prefer leveraging a lot of smaller companies exploring a lot of things simultanously (so doing a lot of research), THEN creating legislation to let only the best (or a few) to survive effectively. In the end it's the same result (monopoly or oligopoly), but China may have a stronger core (research) and America may have stronger productive capital, that may be proved obsolete... In the long run, in either side it's a gamble, again.

TheJCDenton··on Local AI needs to be the norm
For the mainstream audience, the sentiment around local ai today is the same that they had around open source a few decades ago. For a few products, some paid solutions were so much more advanced that open source were very often completely overlooked. Why bother ? And the like. Then we had captive SaaS and other plateforms and now it's obviously wrong for most of us.

The dependency we have with anthropic and openai for coding for instance is insane. Most accept it because either they don't care, or they just hope chinese will never stop open weights. The business model of open weights is very new, include some power play between countries and labs, and move an absurd amount of money without any concrete oversight from most people.

It's a very dangerous gamble. Today incredible value is available for nearly everyone. But it may stop without any warning, for reason outside our control.

TheJCDenton··on Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML
Quarkdown is a partial and interesting alternative : https://github.com/iamgio/quarkdown
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