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c0brac0bra··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
The 33% discounted competitors have no non-retention policy
c0brac0bra··on LLMs can be exhausting
Somatic experiencing techniques.
c0brac0bra··on Boston Cooked the Golden Goose
Perhaps Boston can make an argument that California's wealth tax will march down the net worth boundaries.

If they can get a group of those founders to come back that could be the start of something new.

c0brac0bra··on Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love
It is indeed awful.
c0brac0bra··on In the Australian outback, we're listening for nuclear tests
This reminds me of the rumors of the cult Aum Shinrikyo testing nuclear weapons in the outback. They had previously released sarin gas on the Tokyo subway in 1995.

It was lightly detailed in Bill Bryson's book, "In a Sunburned Country", but I don't think there was any confirmation what they were doing was nuclear.

c0brac0bra··on Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
The discussion was about the cybertruck. If vandalism specifically against cybertrucks has cooled sentiment, then a response stating that all the other Tesla models are still selling is a non sequiter.
c0brac0bra··on Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
Have we completely forgotten about how Tesla dealerships were shot up, firebombed? Video after video showing cybertrucks vandalized with scratches and spray paint?

It may be a terrible car from a terrible program, but these events at least bear mentioning. If you saw it happening in 2025, would it have a cooling effect on your decision to purchase? Who would want the trouble?

c0brac0bra··on Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS
The first two links are broken.
c0brac0bra··on alpr.watch
Perhaps something like https://www.perigon.io?
c0brac0bra··on Perl's decline was cultural
My anecdotal experience was with perl guys who were ex-military, irreverent, and fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants. The Java and .NET guys were straight laced and nerdy.
c0brac0bra··on Show HN: A game of higher or lower using GitHub stars
Page seems completely unresponsive on mobile
c0brac0bra··on Unexpected things that are people
The liabilities they listed were in terms of land ownership and allotments. I did not see anything related to acts of God or natural disasters.
c0brac0bra··on Unexpected things that are people
If the Te Awa Tupua is a legal person, and it floods its banks and destroys my home, can I sue it and be made whole?

It seems like they've afforded a river all the rights and privileges of a person with none of the responsibilities, duties, or obligations.

c0brac0bra··on Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams
Brave Browser
c0brac0bra··on Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model
Kimi has been fantastic for brainstorming.

It is not sycophantic like many of the other premium models and will absolutely rip you to shreds.

c0brac0bra··on At the end you use `git bisect`
But did you survive rcs?
c0brac0bra··on Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain
I'm kind of in the middle of this phase. Chronic stress and pressure leading to autoimmune disorder, insomnia, etc.

Completely getting away from software dev will make it hard to support a family.

c0brac0bra··on Aether: A CMS That Gets Out of Your Way
I'd like to see a comparison with Decap
c0brac0bra··on Tesla seeks to guard crash data from public disclosure
If you bought a first gen android should you be mad that you didn't buy a second gen android?

Is this the new "how would you feel if you didn't eat breakfast yesterday?"?

c0brac0bra··on Things that have a bigger impact than coding assistants
Sometimes it's not simply a lack of curiosity, but having the space to build these tools into your workflow. As a solo dev responsible for all development, project management, support, & infra, I've gotten as far as trying to use Aider for doing some features in our legacy codebase but not having it break the time-cost-benefit barrier.

Now I feel like there's probably other workflows out there that I'm ignorant to that could be better, but keeping up feels impossible. Is there a particular approach/tool that you're finding to be really beneficial?

c0brac0bra··on Running Qwen3 on your macbook, using MLX, to vibe code for free
What tasks have you found the 0.6B model useful for? The hallucination that's apparent during its thinking process put up a big red flag for me.

Conversely, the 4B model actually seemed to work really well and gave results comparable to Gemini 2.0 Flash (at least in my simple tests).

c0brac0bra··on Backblaze responds to claims of "sham accounting", "customer backups at risk"
And the salaries, benefits, office space, supplies, etc for their employees.
c0brac0bra··on The Church FAQ
I think the frequency of organ-centered cults is lower than you might imagine.
c0brac0bra··on The Strike Is Coming
Is it just "We refuse to work until the country conforms to our left-wing ideologies"?
c0brac0bra··on Divers recover Phoenician shipwreck that sank 2.6k years ago off coast of Spain
Go and see it while you can! Its lease ends in 2026 I think its future is uncertain.
c0brac0bra··on Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help
I have a family heirloom civil war journal and much of it is unfortunately near undecipherable cursive writing.

It would be great if this would eventually develop into some kind of set of open models that would work on content like this.

c0brac0bra··on Tomatoes Were Considered Sinful – Until the Salem Tomato Trial of 1820 (2019)
Also the fact that they're not indigenous to Italy in the first place.
c0brac0bra··on Veo 2: Our video generation model
I mean, the pelican's body is backwards...
c0brac0bra··on What happened when a city started accepting - not evicting - homeless camps
A UCLA study 'found that a mental health “concern” affected 78% of the unsheltered population and a substance abuse “concern,” 75%.' [0]

[0] https://capolicylab.org/health-conditions-among-unsheltered-...

c0brac0bra··on Up to $41B in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds
Remind me what happens to a US citizen if our personal finances "struggle with fraud" and unaccountability to the tune of 40% when it comes to the IRS?
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