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az226··on GitHub's Fake Star Economy
GitHub has all kinds of private internal metrics that could update the system to show a much higher signal/quality score. A score that is impervious to manipulation. And extremely well correlated with actual quality and popularity and value, not noise.

Two projects could look exactly the same from visible metrics, and one is complete shell and the other a great project.

But they choose not to publish it.

And those same private signals more effectively spot the signal-rich stargazers than PageRank.

az226··on GitHub's Fake Star Economy
Much more important is who starred it. And are they selective about giving out stars or bookmarking everything. Forks is a closer signal to usage than stargazing.
az226··on Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
You can release it with cyber capabilities refusal, they gets unlocked when you apply for approval.
az226··on Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time
This is a bad take. If society takes genital mutilation of children seriously, and it gets outlawed in more and more countries, it helps save ALL children from genital mutilation. Only a shortsighted person would see it as a zero sum.
az226··on Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time
And it is an order of magnitude more common for boys than for girls. And it’s legal to genitally mutilate boys in every single country on the planet.
az226··on Launch HN: Chamber (YC W26) – An AI Teammate for GPU Infrastructure
“Launch” and “schedule a call” don’t go hand in hand. If users can’t sign up, it’s not a launch.
az226··on Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
SCOTUS ruled on this already when Google copied Sun’s Java wholesale.
az226··on Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
Was just a grift
az226··on Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
Yann LeCun seeks $5B+ valuation for world model startup AMI (Amilabs).

He has hired LeBrun to the helm as CEO.

AMI has also hired LeFunde as CFO and LeTune as head of post-training.

They’re also considering hiring LeMune as Head of Growth and LePrune to lead inference efficiency.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/19/yann-lecun-confirms-his-ne...

az226··on GPT‑5.3 Instant
Instant is a traditional LLM (non-reasoning). Thinking is a reasoning model. The name instant isn’t “instant” lol.
az226··on Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs
I’m curious how NVFP4 compares to their Q4.
az226··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
The term lawful use is a joke to the current administration when they go after senators for sedition when reminding government employees to not carry out unlawful orders. It’s all so twisted.
az226··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
Your ballooned unvested equity package is preventing you from seeing the difference between “our offering/deal is better” and “designated supply chain risk and threatening all companies who do business with the government to stop using Anthropic or will be similarly dropped” (which is well past what the designation limits). It’s easier being honest.
az226··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
And Sam is a habitual liar.
az226··on We Will Not Be Divided
Because they want to do domestic mass surveillance.
az226··on I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer
10000% this
az226··on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
It was 2.4% in 2008.

https://web.archive.org/web/20090531152951/http://www.survey...

az226··on Software factories and the agentic moment
Most people don’t know how to build an effective harness that is well optimized and battle tested to work for a wide range of scenarios. But they can happily and easily use a finished service if they have the money for it.
az226··on Software factories and the agentic moment
It is not crazy.

Each engineer is very valuable. LLM tokens are cheap. You scale up inference compute, and your engineers can focus on higher order stuff, not reviewing incorrect responses, validating bugs, and what not.

It’s shocking to me that there isn’t a $2,000 / $20,000 per month subscription tier for coding assistants. I’ve always in my mind called this ExecGPT since around 2021, but the notion was that executives have teams that support them to be high functioning and high leverage, responsible for quality of thinking and decision making, not quantity of work output.

And the value/prop existed and continues to exist even as the models get smarter, even Opus 4.6.

az226··on Software factories and the agentic moment
You have a different agent write the tests and another run the tests. You tell them each that they aren’t checking their own work, they’re checking someone else’s. You can tell them to be skeptical. Then you can also tell them that don’t fail the code for no reason, because a third agent will be checking your tests and you will be penalized for inaccurate testing.

This approach balances out and maximizes accuracy.

az226··on OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again
Feels very much like a Flappingbird with a dash of AI grift.
az226··on Supply Chain Vuln Compromised Core AWS GitHub Repos & Threatened the AWS Console
It’s possible that AWS is a Wiz customer, which would allow them to do more stuff.
az226··on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
100% this.

They could have made their service better or more competitive like with price but instead they chose this route. SMH.

az226··on GPT-5.2
And here is Gemini 3: https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D5610AQH7v9MtrZxxug/ima...
az226··on PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
https://videocardz.com/newz/chinese-cxmt-to-produce-ddr5-800...
az226··on Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?
Widex Moment 440. They’re expensive but really good.
az226··on Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL
How many times have you needed to reset the optimizer during the RL training cycles?
az226··on The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
Oh no! They lowballed their own valuation. Capped profit shares are much less valuable. Who is going to allow this self-dealing to stand?
az226··on Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers
Do you still have headaches?
az226··on US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees
$99 recline your seat fee
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