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cgio··on Dots: Always-on agents
The concern for them is if that small group expands. Moving back and forth limits perceived lock in. Someone who moves between oai and Anthropic will also move to e.g. an open source when it’s good enough for their purposes, or will start experimenting and combining. This is how the market will slip through the attempted control.
cgio··on US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS
Is that why US failed while building CP/m, Unix a few, Dos, Windows, MacOs, OS/2,…? A successful market does not impose monopolies. The more, the merrier.
cgio··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Cannabis was the same to some extent. Psychedelics too in the context of rites.
cgio··on Windows 11½
I only have Windows at work, which means less pop ups. Nevertheless, lately I get forced updates with 5 minutes “grace period” more often than I’d like. Soon will be approaching pop up frequency.
cgio··on Alan Kay's answer to "Did the ENIAC have a BIOS"?
Maybe the times are changing. Went through with Adblock and vpn. No looping.
cgio··on Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
And to whom will this settlement be paid? To your random blogger or coder on GitHub?
cgio··on Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story
Pretty sure that, even though the source name is changed, the article has enough detail to identify them.
cgio··on Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
I would argue using Claude in replacing a spreadsheet is potentially more of a tech debt than the spreadsheet itself. Now if you would use Claude to build a point application that performs the same standard analysis it might be better, but only marginally so.
cgio··on What even is an OS now?
Indeed. Some would go, some would come.
cgio··on What even is an OS now?
Ownership does not imply co-identity. If my phone harms someone else, without me being responsible but e.g. the brand that updated its firmware? Your questions are good, and I don’t have the answers. I just think our current model doesn’t either.
cgio··on Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
That is not related to the ad hominem above, or bear to the claim of innovation. Just comparing them implies they are similar. Implementation quality, training data etc. are all optimisations. I have not seen a compelling argument Jev is different, maybe one that it’s better. I don’t have huge insights in the domain, so open to learning or changing opinion.
cgio··on Tell HN: Codex Is Down [fixed]
These NS agents could have been dedicated to better platform resilience I guess.
cgio··on Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
If anything, that makes Jev look even less impressive. They may just be hiding their similar quality outputs behind good PR.
cgio··on Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
It a paradox when the article is claiming the prior art is absurd, but then goes on to analyse the one side and compare it to another for which most of the values (except scaling the concept) are unknown. And even for scaling, it uses the first, pre-laya instance to judge the limited schema, while overlooking that Laya is just doing this scaling. Important to note that prior art is not having built the exact same thing.
cgio··on What even is an OS now?
I think OP may be onto something real, while you are definitely right if we translate concepts directly. But maybe the challenge, with current platforms included, is because we try to cram identities by reference. If a phone had its own identity, with which you transact as with any party then lots of the security concerns would dissolve. To tone down crankiness, I refer to identity in the technical sense, not personality etc. This doesn’t solve the challenge but it might point to a different foundation for a security model.
cgio··on Nokia Design Archive (2025)
I am pretty sure they were designing personal computers too, with Symbian and having witnessed blackberry. Some people may not remember, but people were practically begging Apple to release an ”iPod phone” for what at least felt like years, the market was ready for it and iPod was the key. Nokia was great, their devices too. But Apple won in hearts before it won in pockets. And I was not even a big fan, my first ever iPhone was an Xr, I could still see it.
cgio··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
I think it’s more accurate to say that Claude funded this research. As of today “agents” can commit crimes without repercussions, fund research and appropriate its results. Who knows what’s next. The opportunities for further revolutionary developments is astounding.
cgio··on Claude Opus 5.5
So if it’s meaningful, is the release of 5.5 consistent with the meaning, inconsistent, and who decides?
cgio··on DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why
I am so trained now, that I didn’t even read what they were asking for. Just closed the tab and came here to see if there was anything of value. Too expensive to even read their wall.
cgio··on Can gzip be a language model?
Good point. Looks like it’s related to window size (incl for lzma btw). Lzma stays 0.9 and goes to 88.5 post 8.8M gap. Zstd -14 is close to lzma up to 4.4M where it jumps to 91.5. 14L seems to be the best overall for this scenario staying at 1.9.
cgio··on People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes
There was a rumour/some basic statistics that smokers were at more risk in bad cases of Covid but nevertheless were proportionally less likely to have heavy Covid.
cgio··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
I think that’s the important distinction. Mistakes under pressure do happen. Unnecessary pressure is not a mistake, though, it’s a crime in this context. They could start planning earlier or commit to action later.
cgio··on Claude Opus 5.5
You’ll always have access to the underclass models so they also have your thinking to train on. And good ideas to steal.
cgio··on Claude Opus 5.5
That’s no more than sophisticated avoidance. The phrase remains superficial and arbitrary, which is exactly what it needs to Not be in a public discussion that it’s supposed to support. It’s a reinforcement of the blank check mentality that permeates this industry.
cgio··on Can gzip be a language model?
Lzma. I did a simple test, same payload repeated with a gap. Lzma ruled it.

|gap |gzip |bz2 |lzma | |---------|----------|-----|--------| |0 |2.7% |18.9%|*0.9%*| |8 KB |2.4% |17.8%|0.9% | |*40 KB*|*94.4%* |17.7%|0.4% | |1 MB |*104.3%*|19.7%|*0.9%*|

cgio··on Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware
The problem is, if we don’t confront it now, what will happen to this generation? We are cosy in our experienced bucket, but we should not let it happen, even if it pragmatically gives us more safety. I honestly think expertise should be less relevant with AI. The point of entry level was never just about them building expertise. It was also about them bringing fresh ideas, fresh culture -as annoying as it is sometimes - and challenge the establishment. We are moving towards a stagrowth of incremental “improvements”. Not 20 years. This year. When everything moves fast we cannot afford to have this Damocles sword hanging.
cgio··on Claude Status – Elevated errors for multiple models
In my experience, rather than converging, you end up with a minced up concept. You have to know when to stop the loop. I filter the feedback too, and need to challenge some of the challenges as these models tend to be very conservative. I believe this is intentional, to control AI psychosis, which is indeed quite easy to get. My 2c. If you don’t have good control of what you’re working with you are either searching blind or end up with something basic.
cgio··on MiMo v2.6
Yes, someone can still blow up a pipe and they look the other way. On the other hand, you can also draw parallels to themselves becoming increasingly reliant on US vs UK in the past.
cgio··on Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
In a zoo humanity lays protected. These beings used to roam earth as the apex predators and destroyers of their ecosystem and their species too.
cgio··on Asking authors about their own papers
Curation is the new skill. The dismissal of a result on the basis of authorship is one of the reasons blind reviews are there. It sounds like we need more scientists. In al seriousness, this is a skill not just for science. Even at work, the amount of slop is rising exponentially and people are half-treating the symptom with its source, using AI to summarise. We will find our ways eventually.
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