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batperson··on All I wanted was a custom domain email
You're forced to use their web UI when going the free Zoho route, right?
batperson··on OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns
Why do I keep seeing this nonsense posted around? gpt-o1 was released sept 2024 and deepseek r1 was jan 2025
batperson··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
I've been sharing that pelican grid in my circles a whole bunch, it's great! I think only one data point is missing, generation speed. Would be interesting to see how the reasoning level/token counts relate to speed.
batperson··on Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs
The future of inference is likely in ASICs, so we'll get the inverse, a bit less capable than frontier but super fast models. Like this 14k tok/s beast https://chatjimmy.ai/ from Taalas (who got acquired by AMD recently).

GPT-6-astra runs at like ~40 tok/s, I have a hard time imagining what could be accomplished with that type of model at 10k+ tok/s when in the hands of the public. Will certainly make cybersecurity a challenge for older systems.

batperson··on GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
Do you know what reasoning level this was generated at?
batperson··on Claude Fable 5.1 made me a nice animated pelican
The video compression created the illusion, it removed enough frames to where you can't tell the motion of the spokes since every frame refresh they moved enough distance to be "valid" for both forward and backward motion.
batperson··on Monitors for Work
I had 3x32" 4k at 100% scaling for the longest time (32" 4k is still the best bang for buck right now imo). Main horizontal center display and a vertical on each side, angled aggressively towards my head.

But 4k is quite weird for productivity, if you do two columns you get 1920px on each side with a split right in the middle, which is far from ideal. With 3 column layout you end up with 1280px a piece, which ends up being too cramped with most apps.

Recently I got a 40" 5120x2160 LG display which ends up being about the same PPI as 32" 4k, but it lets you have three 1706px columns, which is much more comfortable. It's quite nice, but unreasonably expensive. I could've bought three 32" 4k for the same price.

batperson··on AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T
Buy what? Hardware for inference? Pretty sure you'd still be giving money to "AI assholes", just somewhat different flavor. And you'd likely have to pay so much that the $60/mo would seem like peanuts, and in the end you'd still have a subpar experience/performance compared to SOTA.
batperson··on Codex Micro
I own an elgato Stream Deck (somewhere in a drawer), I love the concept of keys being a display but the keys are VERY mushy. Still a better deal and a way more versatile device than that Codex Micro pad.

Now that I think about it, I think I'd enjoy using streamdeck more if it was just a USB touchscreen thing maybe with some vibration for tactile feel with the same UI.

batperson··on GPT‑Live
What about people with disabilities, physical or mental, who can't get out, old people with no family or family who doesn't care? In theory it would be great if everyone got some attention and socialized, in reality a lot of people in society are forgotten, no one wants to talk to them.

For some of these people even talking to a robot would likely be a huge improvement in quality of life, and that's just talking. If said robots could also help them out in real life, sort of like a personal assistant, that would be even better.

batperson··on GPT‑Live
Social people will be fine, I think this tech is far more important for lonely people who for any reason don't get to socialize much (if at all), this is especially common in older people. These people might not have any other alternatives.
batperson··on Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension
Edge user here. For one, chromium is faster than firefox, any given page will load about 20% faster, another reason is edge workspaces feature, I've grown to like it, which seems to be some sort of chromium feature that everyone bakes in weird ways if at all, and I'm still running ublock origin on edge without any funky bypasses.

Then there's a fact that a bunch of sites/webapps straight up refuse to work on firefox and they ask you to install chrome or something. And lastly chromium the most popular browser flavor and as a web dev it helps to see pages through "the same eyes" as my users/customers.

That's about it, the only reason I use firefox every day is their superior picture-in-picture player, chromium one is waaay inferior.

batperson··on Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T
If you check openrouter there are a tons of providers selling API access to open source LLMs at a fraction of the cost compared to SOTA models (codex/claude). What model you're serving and what kind of platform you serve is a big factor.

I'm no expert but I think eventually we'll have even more specialized ASIC like machines with models burned into them and a that will absorb a chunk of the market, similar to what happened to crypto mining but to a lesser degree since the work isn't as static.

batperson··on How is Groq raising more money?
Before they removed it, I was using groq Kimi K2 model for a chat bot in small community site/chat. It was really good, seemed to have incredibly vast general world knowledge and the fast speed (400tok/s if I remember right) meant that chat users got a response instantly which was a much better experience compared to other SOTA models at the time.

On the bright side it looks like Cerebras might be serving Kimi K2.6 at 1000tok/s soon https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/cerebras-kimi-k2-Enterprise

batperson··on Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability
These are business class laptops, there's no dedicated GPU. Where are you're going to utilize this high refresh rate? I'm pretty sure 99% of the time the integrated graphics would be working hard to churn out 120 frames of static views.

I bet the vast majority of people would be perfectly happy to have 60hz display, longer battery life, and save a few bucks at the same time.

Funny bonus anecdote: I reinstall my OS in december, only a few weeks ago did I realize it wasn't set to 144hz but 60hz, since I was busy with work since and didn't play any games I did not even realize.

batperson··on Lazy-brush – smooth drawing with mouse or finger
Damn, what a flashback. I forgot about that game, it was quite something for its time. I remember the gesture spell casting system not working very consistently, but it was still a ton of fun.
batperson··on “QWERTY wasn't designed to solve type bar jamming” [pdf]
I found the opposite when I went through a split keyboard phase and did Colemak-DH layout. As far as english goes I found that a lot of words had a smoother "flow" when it comes to finger location.

In the end I went back to a regular qwerty because my WPM on split keyboards/colemak-DH was considerably worse even after many months of practice.

batperson··on The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome
I can't find information on what would happen to Chromium, would google need to hand it over too? That's probably more important than the fate of Chrome.
batperson··on Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video]
+1, a nicer looking ff experience, more customizable too.
batperson··on OpenAI o1 System Card [pdf]
Wasn't aware of "Claude Dev", just tried it out, it's pretty cool. I had this simple node chatbot with a handful of features but it was all just one big script, asked it to split up the logic into separate files that would make further dev work/maintenance easier.

5 minutes and 30 cents later it came up with a decent folder structure and split everything up nicely, even cleaned up a bunch of messy code into some helper functions. Vanilla claude API could've probably done all this as well, but it would've been much more of a hassle. I'll definitely be playing around with it some more!

batperson··on Can ketones enhance cognitive function and protect brain networks?
Nuts, seeds and olive oil are all extremely high in calories.
batperson··on Mixtral 8x22B
That's the old/regular model. This post is about the new "instruct" model.
batperson··on Tailwind Isn't for Me
A big issue that these articles never mention is that using browser dev tools to debug CSS becomes a huge pain with tailwind. It also makes it harder for community to create custom themes/user scripts for your website/app since targeting specific elements becomes incredibly hard when no class names exist.
batperson··on Spotify starts divesting from France in response to new music-streaming tax
Then you can think of Spotify as a more user friendly alternative to Napster, Kazaa, Soulseek, Limewire and friends.
batperson··on Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)
The PPI ratio for 32" 4k with no scaling is actually pretty good (at least to my eye, since it's similar to my previous 24" 1080p, 27" 1440p monitors). If we can agree on that, then the solution is to just move the monitor closer to your eyes, 3rd party monitor arms help with that.
batperson··on Tell HN: Firefox has madea lotof progress. Let the browser wars continue
Sidebery is great for this nowadays, looks pretty slick too. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
batperson··on Somafm
Scrobbles... reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR8az1UMOiQ
batperson··on Introduction to math for game developers
Could you elaborate ? Does this require any specific setup?
batperson··on Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in your favorite language?
You can also just click the . (period) key when viewing any repo.
batperson··on Hacker News needs a Dark Mode
Here's my custom dark mode CSS if anyone enjoys the google dark mode aesthetic (I inject with the "Stylus" extension, avoid "Stylish" extension at all costs): https://pastebin.com/CsVkRbYM

Also my CSS for hckrnews.com (my preferred homepage UI): https://pastebin.com/SLRrY9gn

Looks like this: HN - https://i.imgur.com/P6rDgR8.png hckrnews.com - https://i.imgur.com/HfjOAYW.png

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