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acmnrs··on Running Kimi K3 on a M1 Max
The title should probably be edited to specify "M1 Max" instead of "M1 Mac". You aren't running K3 on a base M1 anytime soon. Either way, still a very impressive project.
acmnrs··on Druk: Terminal Code Editor

  * npm<https://npmx.dev/package/druk>
  * X<https://nitter.net/letstri/status/2082128159789461598>
acmnrs··on The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade
The iPhone Upgrade Program was a 24-month 0% financing program for iPhones. The replacement Apple Upgrade<https://www.apple.com/shop/apple-upgrade> is a leasing program that also covers iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches.

Instead of automatically owning the device after making all payments, you can choose return/upgrade/buy it at the end of the lease. The new program is backed by Klarna instead of Citizens Bank, uses a soft credit check, and no longer includes AppleCare+ by default.

The fact that the page is not particularly clear about any of this should tell you everything you need to know about this change.

acmnrs··on Substack writers, you need a website
Alternatively, use an open platform that doesn't lock you in:

  * Leaflet<https://leaflet.pub>
  * Offprint<https://offprint.app>
  * Pckt<https://pckt.blog>
acmnrs··on Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI
I wonder if any of the three other students did use AI, but removed the Madagascar signal? So many students not proofreading suggests that they just want to make it look like they did the work but don't care about the grade, which is surprising for a midterm.

It's also a little ironic that he's showing all of this while wearing Ray-Ban Metas.

acmnrs··on Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary
That makes sense. It also seems like this uses a lot more dependencies and tiers of compilation whereas Porforr is trying to do everything from scratch.
acmnrs··on Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary
Porforr<https://porffor.dev> has been working towards the same goal for a while. The creator, CanadaHonk<https://honk.foo>, is extremely talented and the project still only passes ~68% of Test262. I'm more than a little suspicious of how Vercel has made so much progress so fast, unless I'm misunderstanding the scope of this project.
acmnrs··on Rauno's Field Notes #2
> Our mitigation against context menu discoverability is to place the same actions in the detail view behind a regular dropdown menu.

This is a pattern I'd like to use myself and see more commonly—the context menu as a shortcut but not the only method makes a lot of sense as a balance between the average user and power users.

The only downside I see is that you're losing the browser's native context menu, but this is solved by behaviors like in Helium where `Shift+RightClick` forces the native menu[^1]. I'm not sure which other browsers if any implement that, however.

[^1]: https://nitter.net/heliumbrowser/status/2080218122674376708#...

acmnrs··on Claude Opus 5
From the prompting guide<https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt...>:

> Claude Opus 5's default user-facing responses run longer than prior Opus models'.

The benchmarks do show Opus 5 as slightly more expensive than 4.8, although the scores are much higher.

This still feels like a step in the wrong direction, though, especially with OpenAI making so much progress with the efficiency of their models. Fable's token efficiency made it seem like Anthropic would start following OpenAI's approach but that doesn't seem to have carried over to their other models.

acmnrs··on Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
> Almost 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y Combinator…

The Proton Foundation<https://proton.me> is a Swiss non-profit based in Geneva. I'm not sure which other “Proton” the article could be referring to.