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ZeroCool2u

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ZeroCool2u··on GPT-5.5
Benchmarks are favorable enough they're comparing to non-OpenAI models again. Interesting that tokens/second is similar to 5.4. Maybe there's some genuine innovation beyond bigger model better this time?
ZeroCool2u··on Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs
Whenever we get the locally runnable 4k models things are going to get really awkward for the big 3 labs. Well at least Google will still have their ad revenue I guess.
ZeroCool2u··on Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
In my experience Azure is full of consistency issues and race conditions. It's enough of an issue that I was talking about new OpenAI models becoming available via Bedrock on AWS and how convenient that was since I wouldn't have to deal with Azure and my colleague in enterprise architecture went on an unprompted rant about these exact issues. It's not the first time something like this has happened and I've experienced these issues first hand, so yes. I'd say reliability is a critical issue for Azure and it hasn't gotten better each time I've gone back to check.
ZeroCool2u··on Quad9 Enables DNS over HTTP/3 and DNS over QUIC
Does quad9 have a resolver that includes ad blocking?
ZeroCool2u··on Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'
Yes, exactly my point.
ZeroCool2u··on Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'
I'm finishing my annual paid Pro Gemini plan, so I'm on the free plan for Claude and I asked one (1) single question, which admittedly was about a research plan, using the Sonnet 4.6 Extended thinking model and instantly hit my limit until 2 PM (it was around 8 or 9 AM).

Just a shockingly constrained service tier right now.

ZeroCool2u··on Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline
See I really want this in a simpler format. Like a single file embedded database on my filesystem that I can point a single/or few tools at for my model to use when it needs.
ZeroCool2u··on Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'
Gift link then: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-16/atlassian...
ZeroCool2u··on Aliens.gov ~ domain registered 17MAR2026
More like over $5.00 per gallon, but your point stands.
ZeroCool2u··on Launch HN: Didit (YC W26) – Stripe for Identity Verification
If you don't "have the full context on the Persona/Discord story" you should work on getting it.

It's literally the first thing that came to mind when I saw your post and not having a convincing/satisfying answer in direct relation to that catastrophe doesn't bode well for getting people to trust your brand. The rest of your answer is essentially the absolute minimum I'd expect from a business like this, but not sufficiently convincing.

ZeroCool2u··on Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
Regardless of your opinion of Yann or his views on auto regressive models being "sufficient" for what most would describe as AGI or ASI, this is probably a good thing for Europe. We need more well capitalized labs that aren't US or China centric and while I do like Mistral, they just haven't been keeping up on the frontier of model performance and seem like they've sort of pivoted into being integration specialists and consultants for EU corporations. That's fine and they've got to make money, but fully ceding the research front is not a good way to keep the EU competitive.
ZeroCool2u··on GPT-5.4
Yup, that was it. Didn't realize they're different models. I suppose naming has never been OpenAI's strong suit.
ZeroCool2u··on GPT-5.4
Ah yes, okay that makes more sense!
ZeroCool2u··on GPT-5.4
Frontier Math, GPQA Diamond, and Browsecomp are the benchmarks I noticed this on.
ZeroCool2u··on GPT-5.4
Bit concerning that we see in some cases significantly worse results when enabling thinking. Especially for Math, but also in the browser agent benchmark.

Not sure if this is more concerning for the test time compute paradigm or the underlying model itself.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something though? I'm assuming 5.4 and 5.4 Thinking are the same underlying model and that's not just marketing.

ZeroCool2u··on President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems
Gift link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-27/trump-ord...
ZeroCool2u··on LM Link: Use local models on remote devices, powered by Tailscale
I've been trying to use this all morning, but I keep getting 500/auth errors, even on a completely new device. Can't even login to my LM Studio account right now.
ZeroCool2u··on Unprecedented 'Jobless Boom' Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion
Gift link for folks: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-02-18/us-econom...
ZeroCool2u··on Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu
I didn't realize that, super exciting!
ZeroCool2u··on Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu
Exactly.
ZeroCool2u··on Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu
Sure it takes very little hardware power to do this, but Zed isn't actually setup for this yet. This is in theory and after a few more API's are adapted.
ZeroCool2u··on Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu
Yes, but they can add a flag to switch renderers on startup like they had for blade.
ZeroCool2u··on Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu
An interesting side effect of moving to wgpu is that in theory with some additional work, this could allow you to run Zed in a web browser similarly to how some folks run VSCode as a remote interface to the backend running on a server.
ZeroCool2u··on Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems
Microsoft Copilot: The Sharepoint of chatbots

I can't imagine a description more likely to give corporate workers the ick.

ZeroCool2u··on Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena
I'd really like to see them add a complex open world fully physicalized game like Star Citizen (assuming the game itself is stable) with a single primary goal like accumulating currency as a measure of general autonomy and a proxy for how the model might behave in the real world given access to a bipedal robot.
ZeroCool2u··on Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite
The meme machine cannot be stopped. It's really not that much, but this has the nice side effect of I simply don't need to worry about it.
ZeroCool2u··on Turso is an in-process SQL database, compatible with SQLite
This is a huge differentiator. I built our internal meme platform with Turso. Really fun and easy to use.
ZeroCool2u··on [dead]
Gift link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-12/powell-sa...
ZeroCool2u··on ChatGPT Health
Yeah, gotta say I'm not enthusiastic about handing over any health data to OpenAI. I'd be more likely to trust Google or maybe even Anthropic with this data and that's saying something.
ZeroCool2u··on US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year
Gift link costs me nothing :)
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