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akazantsev··on GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
Also, all the guys currently building huge data centers for LLMs will be extremely pissed if this results in a ban on GLM for them, and they will be locked out of this LLM pie.
akazantsev··on GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
If I wrote something like this about my competitors, I would be beaten to death by my own teammates without the CEO, project manager, or sales team even hearing about it.

There is a very dangerous thing that is very capable and available to everyone. Cranks the volume to 100% AND IT'S JUST 20% OF OUR PRICE, HURRY UP AND TRY IT.

I previously successfully used GLM 5.3 to find out how our DRM system gets bypassed, and Mythos isn't available to me...

akazantsev··on Tells of a Slop UI
They do have answers in Firefox. Maybe your setup is bugging out. I clicked through them, and all of them had answers.

Is Muse free?

Muse is available for free with a usage limit. If you reach your free limit and want more, you can upgrade to a paid subscription, or wait until your free usage limit refreshes.

akazantsev··on Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2
Or... working viruses on Linuxes, for that matter. They always throw something about needing glibc x.x.x or higher.
akazantsev··on Markdown in /src
> I think I'm with the majority of commenters here in thinking this would just wind up being clutter.

Any prompt-storing/sharing ideas floating around hit the same wall - they assume the text will be in English. It won't.

akazantsev··on Markdown in /src
Oh, it will work just fine once he opens a project which he will need to modify and which is full of Chinese markdown files.
akazantsev··on Heretic removes restrictions from language models
I asked GLM 5.3 to hack our DRM. I didn't even need to do anything for it to agree. Same with GLM 5.3 Flash. Make sure they have at least Python available for their task. The Flash went ahead and started reverse-engineering using PowerShell scripts and "manually" decoding bytes from its output.
akazantsev··on The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind
> We need to start fitting nuclear reactors on cargo ships.

That's a great idea, and it's timely too. Right now, cargo ships are being attacked in many parts of the world.

akazantsev··on Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture
It's better to buy models directly from providers that guarantee the quality of their quantization. Otherwise, model quality is a gamble. You can pay the same $10 on Novita or with any other provider.
akazantsev··on Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
clangd alone uses 6 GB when working with Chromium’s codebase. Code indexes can be very large, even for a simple application. Out-of-the-box IDEs must index the standard library and keep it in memory.
akazantsev··on Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools
> The author is not a native speaker.

As a non-native speaker, I really hate how people use this as an excuse. LLMs are good at fixing grammatical errors, so I use them daily as spell checkers. Using LLMs for rewriting is just lazy.

Try: I'm learning English as a second language. I will provide you with a text, and you have to print the corrected text in a code block so that I can copy it. Under it, there should be two lists: one containing the errors and brief descriptions of them, and another containing tips for improving the text. Do not give your opinion about the text. Focus on grammar.

Format: [TEXT] C: [CONTEXT]

akazantsev··on LLMs: Intelligence vs. Cost
> This is fine in most cases, but for open-weights models it can be a lot more expensive than what the exact same model can be rented for from third-party API providers.

Filter by quantization, and most providers will have the same price. There is some "base" price even for open-weight models. Anything cheaper means some tricks on the provider's side.

akazantsev··on Vivaldi for Android now supports some Chrome extensions
Hopefully, they will do just what Brave did - embed an ad blocker compatible with uBlock lists right into the browser. This way, Manifest V3 might blow up in Google's face if a sufficient number of browsers come with ad blockers out of the box.

That being said, they are not talking about Manifest V3 extensions. It's just that they can't test all the extensions and will have to work out the issues as they implement the extension API for mobile.

akazantsev··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
It's not open source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LM_Studio

akazantsev··on Better Batteries
> Java also used to have a big standard library, with many useful things including GUI programming which has been neglected a little bit.

Swing was replaced with JavaFX, then JavaFX was removed from JDKs. Long live Swing! But yes, it's extremely nice to have a GUI library out of the box.

akazantsev··on Canonical backs new project to translate large C codebases into safe Rust
Demanding others to pick up Rust "for fun" is not fun at all.
akazantsev··on Canonical Backs New Project to Translate Large C Codebases into Safe Rust
> capable engineers can pick up any language

Sure, given that they are getting paid for it. How many people will be interested in learning a programming language with insignificant job availability, in addition to contributing for free?

akazantsev··on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
> The submission’s title (open weights 30B local coding model) is luckily wrong: This is meant to be a general agentic model.

https://xcancel.com/alexandr_wang/status/2086756152034066792

It's correct. See the OpenCode demo. Generic models are good enough for coding without necessarily being designed specifically for coding.

akazantsev··on Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users
Those are just the default settings. Here, you can force it not to use emojis and to be much less verbose: https://chatgpt.com/?no_universal_links=1#settings/Personali...
akazantsev··on Replacing the Kobo Libra H2O Battery
The "glue" he is mentioning on contacts probably isn't glue at all. There is no reason for glue to be there. Most likely, it was a waterproof coating.
akazantsev··on Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver to Windows
> To me, the argument against a proprietary driver seems extremely weak if you're running Windows anyway, but I guess they see it more that if more game devs can run the RADV driver, they can get wider testing (or a simpler story for devs to test at least) and backdoor improvements into the Linux side?

Are you using an AMD driver?

Let me share my experience. One day, you wake up and your GPU driver is gone for no reason. I'm not even joking here—the recent driver update broke the driver for many users. Launch Battlefield 6, and your driver is... gone. A new driver update comes out... Launch Battlefield 6, hard freeze. Improvement. I'm still running an older "blessed" driver version for this reason, and I'm scared to update.

akazantsev··on Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls
> Would also be trivial for the author to add a warning for users that have that setting enabled. Something like "Heads-up: you have requested reduced motion, and this library disabled animations as per your request"

They already do exactly this. The commenter wants a switch to force animations anyway, so he can check the demo without changing system settings.

akazantsev··on Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3
Dunno. Apple makes exceptions for big companies and might do so for something as big as Minecraft. Also, SDL3 supports far more platforms https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/README-platforms Now they can release a Java edition even for PlayStation and Xbox. At least porting to SDL3 opens the door to consoles and mobiles if they want to do so.
akazantsev··on Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3
> I'm always wondering whether or not SDL would be better

SDL supports mobile; GLFW doesn't. Maybe they're unifying codebases between the platforms.

Edit: BTW SDL3 still works even on Android 4.2. I made an app using it and ImGui, without any Java.

akazantsev··on Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon
> Gemma isn’t very good at agentic execution

I had no issues with it for C++ development with https://pi.dev. I'm yet to try it with Zed Editor. I don't rely on agents too much. However, I used it on Chromium's codebase to research some functionalities, let's say for searching. Requests like: check my last commit and do the same for SetterA and SetterB; it also ran without any errors.

akazantsev··on Qwen 3.8
Google makes Gemma 4 31B QAT; that's not a small lab. It's one of the better models out there for consumer hardware. Allows me to run it on a 7900XTX with 64k context.
akazantsev··on Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
A week ago, the Windows AMD drivers auto-updated and stopped working. I had to reinstall them. I am not sure if that counts, because this is not the first time this has happened.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/comments/1udaj4w/new_amd_up...

akazantsev··on I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets
That's because sandboxing is quite hard. I use `cco`, but even then, the home folder is exposed. You are one prompt away from the agent sending the browser passwords with curl.

To prevent this, you need a fake home and a networking whitelist for the agent to access the provider (llama cpp, OpenAI, etc.)

There is no cross-platform solution that is easy to use for this. And no, a Linux box with Docker won't do. I develop a cross-platform native app and want the agent to compile and fix the platform-specific errors.

akazantsev··on How I use HTMX with Go
> Now why do I have to care about "cloning templates" every time I render some html template?

You do not have to. It's a self-sustained injury by the author. You can compile the templates once and just execute them.

The issue is that author wants to specify page titles in the main templates. If you pass titles as a context, you can split base.tmpl into BASE_BEGIN, BASE_END and use them in the final templates.

Yes, you will have to pass the title depending on the page template during the But his tactics will break anyway when you try to support different languages.

akazantsev··on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
Unlikely Linux will become mainstream until people stop saying "install Linux" and not a particular distro. I recently installed Ubuntu on a new laptop: something doesn't work because I need a more recent kernel, so... I installed the second "user-friendly" distro - Fedora. Scrolling is 10x faster in Chromium-based browsers, making it unusable. The fix - install KDE... Then I had to make hardware video acceleration work so that playback wouldn't drain the battery. That was a pain in the ass.

So, Linux won't consume LESS unless you spend your time configuring different stuff.

I can't imagine users want to mess with this instead of buying macs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/1qqyh2z/scro...

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