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bakugo··on So you want to use OpenRouter?
There are none, this isn't a problem specific to OR as much as it is a problem with serving LLMs in general.

If you use any other meta-provider that routes your requests to third party providers, you'll likely face the same issues. If you try using any of those providers directly, you'll likely face some of the same issues as well, except you won't have the option of quickly swapping to a different one and taking your credits with you.

Extreme variance in quality and feature support per provider is probably the biggest obstacle holding back adoption of open weights models.

bakugo··on Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE
Update: I raised this issue on their platform issue tracker, and was informed that it is, in fact, intentional. Sigh...

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/3084

bakugo··on Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE
Trying to open any codeberg.org page from my main Helium browser results in a 403 just saying "Bye". Opening in Chrome or Firefox works fine. Very confusing.
bakugo··on Shopify moves back to Native from React Native
Translating code from one language/framework to another is easy for AI to do, as it does not involve solving any novel problems. Making improvements to existing complex codebases is much harder.
bakugo··on Amazon pilots ad services in ChatGPT
I believe "classical" advertisements, as in those intended to convince the average person to purchase a tangible product, are on their way out.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who's noticed an increasing percentage of ads that fall outside of that category - either aimed at business owners and wannabe entrepreneurs, trying to sell some sort of get rich quick scheme, or just straight up scams.

bakugo··on More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math
Interesting that this is already off the front page after just 4 hours.
bakugo··on DaVinci Resolve 21.1
So let them? A product that focuses on chasing the competition is effectively useless, because the competition will always be ahead.
bakugo··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
Something to consider if you're looking at Bunny.net: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710845
bakugo··on GamersNexus and LG: Or why rooting your TV is a bad idea
GN has sadly been trending towards overly long, rambly clickbait videos in recent years, in line with the rest of Youtube. Most of their videos could easily convey the same information with a third of the length.

It's unfortunate, because they're one of the few voices speaking out about issues like this.

bakugo··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
Haha, no. The average tech illiterate person tolerates a LOT when it comes to bad performance on low end devices.
bakugo··on The revolt of the reader
There's a website that does this: https://www.salahadawi.com/hacker-news-ai-detector

Unfortunately, it's not a browser extension and doesn't seem to have an API. I'd make a browser extension for this myself if it didn't involve paying for expensive Pangram usage.

bakugo··on The revolt of the reader
This isn't very effective on any models released in recent years. With older ones, you used to be able to influence writing style significantly by just putting examples in the context, but newer models have gone through so much assistant RLHF, they really want to revert back to their default "assistant voice" during their turn.

You can still influence their writing style in a broad manner that might look correct at a glance, but the repetitive little patterns that give it away will always be there - if it was that easy to get rid of them, don't you think the AI labs themselves would've done it before releasing the models?

bakugo··on Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
I cut my Claude Code token usage by 100% by writing the code myself.
bakugo··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Why indeed. How very convenient that their all-powerful AI, which was only constrained by the most basic "sandbox" imaginable, managed to find a way to break out of it and "hack" a bunch of websites in a way that could be easily tracked, catalogued and published on a brand new website created just for this purpose, less than a day after the release of their newest model.

I'm sure it's all just a coincidence, though. And I'm sure it will still be a coincidence when it happens again after the next model release.

bakugo··on Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux
That has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand.
bakugo··on SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods
Are you speaking purely out of principle, or do you truly believe it makes sense in this particular case?

Personally, I just can't imagine anyone paying a monthly fee just to access metadata for Steam games and nothing else. At least with Nexus Mods, you're paying for (easier) access to actual content for your games.

bakugo··on SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods
Knowing Nexus, I do expect some manner of censorship, though the exact form this censorship will take remains to be seen.

I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if they started taking payments from game publishers to hide historical player count data for certain games that aren't doing very well.

bakugo··on SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods
Okay, so go ahead and replace it. Even if we ignore the whole historical data aspect of SteamDB, you may find that accurately tracking and storing as much data as possible for hundreds of thousands of apps on Steam may not be as easy as it sounds, especially when you're doing it for free.

SteamDB is (was) one guy's passion project, that's the only way a site like this can work, and passion projects in tech are a thing of the past. There's no way to monetize it without making it borderline unusable. I am confident that, when SteamDB inevitably becomes a cesspit of intrusive ads and/or starts locking features behind a paywall (that no one will pay for, because paying a monthly subscription to see metadata for Steam games is insane, which will lead to more desperate measures and possibly an eventual shutdown of the site), no suitable replacement will be made.

bakugo··on Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
Yes, it does. None of this information changes the fact that, on a fresh install of Ubuntu Server 24+, the default user can privilege escalate to root using a few LXD commands.

https://starlabs.sg/blog/2026/06-old-wine-in-a-new-bottle-a-...

And yes, I've tried it myself, it works as advertised.

bakugo··on Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
It's absolutely not Omarchy-specific, Ubuntu has the exact same vulnerability out of the box, just with lxd instead.
bakugo··on Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
Ubuntu has the exact same vulnerability, except with lxd instead of docker, but for some reason, it's considered working as intended.

On a fresh install of Ubuntu Server, the first user created is part of the lxd group, can install lxd without root thanks to snap, and can immediately create a privileged container with the host's root filesystem mounted inside.

bakugo··on The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now
Well, I'm sorry to say, but you've been reading AI slop for a while now.

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/piranesi/

> Piranesi is the opposite: everything stripped to the bone, every sentence load-bearing.

Yikes.

bakugo··on The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now
> I love Stephen's writing

You mean you love Claude's writing.

bakugo··on The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now
Fully AI generated article complaining about the state of the internet.

The sheer irony of the word "grift" being used 13 times within it...

bakugo··on The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now
This is the right takeaway. Before the internet went mainstream, these ultra loud and obnoxious minorities were restricted to being obnoxious within their local communities, and their speech was restricted to what they were willing to say to others face-to-face.

Now, both of those restrictions have been lifted: they can now act obnoxious in front of a global audience that will be forced to listen to them, and they no longer have to worry about the potential consequences of being obnoxious in person.

bakugo··on Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days
> I'm a better programmer than most

I don't think so. If you were truly better than most, you'd be proud of your work, instead of trying to avoid doing it at all costs, while accusing others who don't do the same of "not working to a professional standard."

Can't write bad code if you don't write code at all, am I right?

bakugo··on Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
Probably not what the author intended, but to me, this represents a great argument against the somewhat frequent claim that "AI writing patterns reflect human writing patterns". Rather, AI writing is distinctly not human, and is drifting further from human writing with every new model release.

LLMs were not taught to say the phrase "load-bearing seam" from humans saying it, because humans have never said it. It's almost definitely an artifact of post-training and nothing more.

bakugo··on Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days
> due to private key copyright infringement issues

None of the Switch emulators Nintendo took down had such issues, they all required supplying your own keys.

Nintendo takes them down anyway because they can, and because they have enough money that no individual can fight them on it. Their takedowns have no real legal standing, and there's no reason why they couldn't do the same for every other emulator, other than them simply not wanting to.

bakugo··on Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days
I think it's pretty telling that the only response techbros have to that is some form of false equivalence, every single time.
bakugo··on The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
I wish I could say I'm surprised that they're still milking this.
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