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Your theory about token density seems reasonable, but your data doesn't seem to really match it.

Very little difference between TypeScript and JavaScript, which are essentially the same language, just one has more tokens.

Functional languages like Clojure and OCaml are pretty dense, I would have expected them to feature lower.

Kotlin is in some ways a more token dense version of Java, yet Kotlin leads, and Java is almost last.

I think it's absurd to pretend like you can know how a stranger thinks.

If I had to predict either way, I would guess that it is significantly AI generated, but that isn't the same thing as being sure.

Almost every link submitted to HN has a comment about the content being AI generated, many of which are not, I would rather talk about the "tells" rather than make confident assertions that I can't prove.

It might be, I'm not sure.

The code is interesting though, it's not minified, it's very readable, and nicely indented with lots of comments.

The curated data center list is just some inline JSON.

The javascript uses var instead of let or const, I'm not sure if this is just style choice, or there is some code post processing.

It doesn't use react, AI seems to almost always opt for react for front end design, unless told otherwise.

> ...I never will do is cross the "just business"/"personal" line with anyone I may or am working with.

Just in an interview situation, or you will just never be open to a personal friendship with anyone you ever work with?

If you want LLMs to have knowledge of the Norwegian language, wouldn't the most obvious thing to do be to build a good training dataset and make the dataset widely available? Why go to the expense of training your own model, especially when it will be inferior to state of the art models.

Any kind of radio control should be discounted when attacking a US carrier fleet, they will just be jammed.

Autonomous optically guided missiles/drones would fare better, but those are still vulnerable to being blinded by laser systems like HELIOS[0], and of course being shot down by anti air missiles or CIWS.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Energy_Laser_with_Integra...

If the suggested political impact of this music is to be believed, the music might be one of the biggest environmental disasters of all time.

Germany has been pretty widely criticized for decommissioning it's nuclear power program, only to replace it with Russian oil.

There a million ways that malware can persist without root.

Their main DNS is 1.1.1.1 but their secondary is 1.0.0.1 not 1.1.0.0, so close but not quite.

What coding agent(ideally CLI) have people found works well with this?

Occasionally I go and try different agents with openrouter models, but nothing seems to really get close to the proprietary ones like claude-code.

Would like to see what the internals of this look like, how many flash packages and PCBs are in that tiny chassis?

Yes, you have to use the same session, I guess you could load up a bunch of context, then fork the session into a few different tasks, although I haven't tried it.

Foreign assets are only as good as your alliance with those foreign nations.

When you lose your only bargaining chip(oil), things start to look dicey.

I'm at an org, where every medium to large company meeting talks about AI in similar breathless non-specific terms, yet m365 copilot is the only approved AI chat, and GH copilot the only AI coding tool.

It's that but also the narcissistic injury caused by seeing an LLM practice the craft you have spent your life trying to perfect.

I relate to the points about obscure platform limits, and leaky abstractions, but when I look at the exe.dev platform, it might be the most obscure PaaS I've seen, and has it's own strange abstractions.

The shell command to start a new vm, has a --prompt flag to get an LLM to configure the VM for you.

VM's have no public ipv4 IP, and the ipv6 IP doesn't seem to allow incoming connections.

The only supported inbound connections are via their HTTP proxy.

There is no private networking.

At first I interpreted the complaint about cloud providers not offering nested-virtualization, as something he intends to address by offering it as a feature, but no, instead he means that exe.dev's VM abstraction eschews the need for it.

How do you collect these stats?

Is it by characters human typed vs AI generated, or by commit or something?

All of their benchmarks are against 16 bit models right?

Why aren't they comparing to 2/3/4 bit quants?

It's also just wrong, their SQLite benchmark is only using a single thread for the SQLite connection. It's much faster with multiple connections.

I installed two models, but it just always reports:

    Available models (2):
    CohereLabs/cohere-transcribe-03-2026 (4.6 GB)
    flux_2_klein_9b_q8p.ckpt (20.2 GB)
    ...
    Advertising 0 model(s) (only loaded models)

Also the benchmark just doesn't work.

Interesting idea, but needs some work.

The sqlite benchmark is not very optimised.

Just adding:

    db.SetMaxOpenConns(runtime.NumCPU())
    db.SetMaxIdleConns(runtime.NumCPU())

Made the performance on my machine go from 27,700.99 r/s to 89,687.36 r/s.

I also tried making the get user a prepared statement, and storing the timestamp as an unix timestamp integer, but that didn't make much difference for me.

I think the causation is multivariate, but at least partially because of it, yes.

Elon has made multiple comments in the past about how much keeping SpaceX private, makes it easier to run, and achieve it's goals of colonising Mars.

He has given up on that, he has abandoned the Mars goal, and he is sacrificing the company to the whims of the public markets, just so he can have a payday.

xAi raised $45 billion and Grok loses benchmarks to Chinese(GPU sanctioned) open weight models.

I'm overall positive about the Twitter acquisition, I mean it was terrible financially, and Elon has made a lot of unforced errors in it's management, but yes, it does feel like the idpol witch hunts have died down a bit since.

He bailed out his Twitter investors by having xAi purchase Twitter, then he bailed out his xAi investors by having SpaceX purchase xAi, and how he is trying to bail out SpaceX by having the index funds be forced to purchase SpaceX.

Twitter valuation aside, there must be some intangible benefits to the purchase. Lots of influential people use Twitter, he has amplified his reach, and the purchase seems to have moved the overton window in favor of his agenda.

Absolutely, no one should be rewarded for either tokens used or LOC generated. I just think in the absence of any incentives, token usage is a better heuristic as to value produced than LOC generated.

Token usage is a different and more sympathetic heuristic than LOC produced.

The metric by itself tells you nothing about what value those tokens produced, but to some extent it represents the amount of thinking you are able to offload to the computer for you.

Wide breadth problems seem to scale well with usage, like scanning millions of LOC of code for vulnerabilities, such as the recent claude mythos results.

Fantasizing about having someone fired, making no effort to try and understand the viewpoint of the object of one's contempt, does not seem empathetic to me.

As a side note, I found it ironic, that Keith's email that Bryan linked to making the argument that "Empathy is a core engineering value", uses the word "retarded", which by 2013 was already something you could get "cancelled"(or at least chastised) for, because it's not empathetic to the mentally disabled.

Twitter does have a significant amount of racist content, the antisemitism comment is interesting, because while it does exist, at least in my experience twitter seems to be the most supportive platform on Jewish and Israeli issues at the moment.

> [video] It's not free speech

It is though.

Of course it's your choice if you want to post your content there or not, but objectionable speech, _is_ free speech, and if you believe in free speech, then you should protect the speech that you don't like, because one day someone might decide they don't like your speech, and you won't be able to object to it without being admonished for the obvious hypocrisy.

At the present moment, the X post made it to 898 comments, before they locked replies. The bluesky post has 426 comments.

They are posting the same content in virtually identical format to other twitter clones. The whole process can be automated, the marginal cost is nothing.