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badatnames··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Low key ad instantly sold me. Awesome looking tool, bookmarked
badatnames··on 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
The consistent reports I'm getting through friends who have spoken to recruiters is just that standards have increased dramatically. Firms accepting only a single candidate CV from a recruiter instead of 5 or more, and the recruiter downstream working their ass off to ensure it is absolutely the best possible CV, because if it's not then they don't get paid.
badatnames··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
SpaceX is a different beast with extremely high friction to enter its market, a massive technology lead, and well developed preferential high level relationships with just about every country worth worrying about.

OpenAI/Anthropic meanwhile feel a bit like they're hoping to sell iPhones in a market about to be flooded by $20 flip phones, with almost no channel of their own to do it. And for whatever mad reason OpenAI are now signalling they will attempt to compete on price with flip phones despite their cost of labour, energy, and just about everything else being far higher

badatnames··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Because at some point keeping it up involves filing an S-1 that doesn't look like a garbage fire
badatnames··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
It's asking a lot to trust they can or will maintain this new pricing. In any case it's exciting to think this might lead to further price cuts in the highly competent and competitive Chinese clones. I'm still using ChatGPT for interactive queries, but at this point pretty much only because of its familiar UI
badatnames··on Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5
I'm also not personally a fan of Ansible, but to claim it doesn't really work is quite breathtaking given the size of the installed base.
badatnames··on Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5
It reminds me a bit of what Ansible got right: user communication. The underlying tech may have existed for a long time, but the genius is presenting it to a regular developer in a way that reads "yes, even you can understand ML, just using a little JSON". The contribution of that should not be understated, as has been clearly evident recently.
badatnames··on AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
Everything is always better with more YAML, are you perhaps new to this industry?

Next we also need an instruction style guide and CoC. It's important to treat your agents with respect. I almost forgot, the YAML template meta-language to YAML the YAML. Then we will need a foundation employing 12 FTEs to maintain it all and of course to run the certification process. You are certified, right? Statistics show a 10x increased chance of an agent going rogue and hacking competitors if it has been mistreated or been run in an unvalidated sandbox. It goes without saying the sandbox certification process is separate and must be repeated yearly by a trusted third party auditing company.

badatnames··on Show HN: CUA-S1 – A System One Model for Computer Use
Please give us a hyper general cookie consent popup dismissal add-on :)
badatnames··on Laya the open source version of Jev
This is crying out to become an Excel or LibreOffice Calc add-in
badatnames··on Communication by means of modulated Johnson noise
What happened today ?
badatnames··on Systemd is a suite of basic building blocks
You know it's underdeveloped because everything is described as "basic" or "simple". There's no such thing in any complex design, yet somehow for all his purported seniority, he keeps pumping out designs using the same description.
badatnames··on Systemd is a suite of basic building blocks
Where "basic" follows a highly nuanced alternate definition, where if you step out of line without realising it, you lose 3 days debugging a complex undocumented interaction between 4 enterprise crapware daemons only to find out the answer is "you're wrong and won't fix" buried in a 6 year old bug report, when all you did was plug in a USB mouse or try to set the default audio output device, or something else.

Total and utter propaganda, it's underdeveloped steaming garbage

badatnames··on CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3
...or 40 and divorced
badatnames··on Iranian banks' SSL certificates are being revoked due to OFAC sanctions
Utterly moronic. We support the freedom of the Iranian people by forcing them to install a local government root CA in every browser. I mean at this rate they won't even have to buy their monitoring tech from China any more, just an old PC and a late 90s tarball of Squid
badatnames··on DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro
I imagine they're doing this due to capacity issues or somesuch. They can always relaunch Pro later, meanwhile a little ricered benchmaxxing of their existing flash model provides a temporary cover story. They certainly aren't silly enough to think this won't impact existing Pro users </paranoia>
badatnames··on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
I think the most enjoyable part of this is to have written it in the characteristic long-form Zitron wall of text style while still managing to pack almost the whole text with meaning, which is entirely the opposite of Zitron style.
badatnames··on Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU
Look at that subtle off-white coloring, the tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a schematic
badatnames··on Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache
Why do I always find interesting new Twitter accounts just as the person is leaving :)
badatnames··on GLM-5.3-Flash
Ha - I saw this, but took one look at the slopfest README and it sorta scared me away. Will give it a go thanks.
badatnames··on GLM-5.3-Flash
Curious what MCP setup you use? I'm not sure which one I have wired up, but I have to restart Ghidra every time I change file. I think it's either LaurieWired's original or a fork of it
badatnames··on Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
You should find an excuse to offer 3D printed extruded pelicans from various models as awards for something. I have no idea for what, but the idea captivates and I'd love to win one somehow. They'd be collector's items in a few decades
badatnames··on GLM-5.3-Flash
DS4 Flash absolutely kicks ass for reverse engineering and bug hunting. Almost no point in considering paying for a bigger model, although it's possible the stuff I've fed it (wide variety of older DOS/Windows stuff and device firmwares) might be easier targets.
badatnames··on OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
Using codex every day, in spite of which, I hope some day providers will just start naming their offerings small/medium/large, a bit like we eventually started doing in software testing. Trying to remember what Sol is or why it's better than the other thing is more cognitive effort than I can muster at this point. And that's a sure sign of commoditisation in itself
badatnames··on A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
Looks like an awesome release, but the smell of AI from that post is horrid.

Here is a wild idea: is it really so hard to edit out sentences structured and punctuated like this - it's so painfully obvious and distracts from the content. The effect is real.

badatnames··on More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts
There is plenty of historical data, $100k is a steal for as long as situations like Iran persist. And now he is incentivised to ensure they do persist. Our fearless leader, ladies and gentlemen.
badatnames··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
They were too small for this to be a meaningfully sized purchase for AMD, there's real risk they get sucked into a team that ultimately delivers sqat, not to mention the chances of anything being delivered in an even remotely consumer-priced bracket are definitely out the window
badatnames··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
Well so much for that dream.

Guess we can look forward to picking these up ex-enterprise on ebay for under $5k a pop in a decade or two

badatnames··on Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
If CADA passes in its current state I doubt we'll be banning Chinese models any time soon. I think most people misunderstand the extent of the permanent damage caused by Trump
badatnames··on Anthropic's Claude AI models hack into 3 outside groups during testing
Never worked with a security department that volunteered pretty much anything. Anthropic and OpenAI's meanwhile, they have simultaneous timed releases in the BBC and FT and presumably a dedicated PR manager.

Whoa there Amodei, are you saying your model hacked into a super secure environment too? How alarming and incredibly well timed.

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