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codexon··on Show HN: Scry, programmable internet search w/ congestion pricing
How hasn't reddit sued them offline yet?
codexon··on Show HN: Scry, programmable internet search w/ congestion pricing
How did you scrape reddit comments? Doesn't this require expensive licensing from reddit? How do you handle comments that were deleted by users?
codexon··on Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs
The problem is most of the botnet zombies are in places with very little rule of law like eastern europe/russia/south america/china. It is an exercise in futility and the richest customers just opt to just spend money on more protection than shutting down the zombies.

If the zombie is in the US, hosts like Google or Amazon will take 1+ month to respond.

codexon··on Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
I never said offloading was impossible. It will result in a large slowdown.

It would look bad for cerebras if other people are hosting the 27b version and show a higher TPS than cerebras.

codexon··on Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
The wafer only has space for 44 gb of sram. If they offload ram they lose the speedup of having everything on 1 chip (the whole point of cerebras).
codexon··on Muse Spark 1.3
They are still offering full mythos to project glasswing companies and those that pay them enough.
codexon··on Muse Spark 1.3
They gave a few of the largest companies access to mythos.

Half a year later, it is still not available to everyone else.

codexon··on Hang on to Your Firefox
I don't have any issues with the extra features they try to tack on. I just disable them.

I just wish they would fix the memory leaks and stuttering.

codexon··on Hang on to Your Firefox
I want to be able to recommend firefox to everybody, but after 15 years of chrome and going back to firefox, it still feels jank.

Web apps like twitter youtube discord that is left open for a few hours take up >2gb ram and is jittery. I have to shift+esc and close them to make them run smoothly again. Why hasn't stuff like this been fixed yet?

Why do I need to open about:profiles just to launch a new profile?

codexon··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Rumors are that if your company spends a lot, they will also remove safeguards.
codexon··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
I heard the only way you are going to get into the CVP program is if you have public CVEs. Doesn't seem to matter if you are in a company account or not according to people that are supposedly in the program.
codexon··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
I used to use firefox a long time ago but got tired of all the memory leaks and lag before I switched to chrome.

Now that mv2 is going away, I switch back to firefox, and it still has memory leak issues after all these years, it is really disappointing.

codexon··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
There was absolutely nothing showing that it was vibe coded other than the fact that a website that didn't get any updates for 5 years suddenly got a 20+ bullet point update. People just assumed it was vibed because of the sheer number of changes.

There was not 1 mention about anything being broken, they were simply complaining about AI.

Anti-AI psychosis is a very real thing that is happening https://x.com/Jediwolf/status/2054776716770320631

codexon··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
Not everything needs to be amazon/google scale backed with things like sharded dbs or kubernetes.
codexon··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
The output is indistinguishable from manually written code.
codexon··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
There's nothing wrong with vibe coding as long as the quality is good.
codexon··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
Marketing? Who knows? I haven't used photoshop a single time ever since I found out about photopea.
codexon··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
There's very little incentive for people to advertise that their product was vibe coded. In fact there's many incentives to hide it. Many people hate AI and why would you invite more competition?

Bun gets a lot of hate for vibe coding.

I vibe coded to modernize one of my old hobby websites (so not even vibe coding from scratch) and I immediately got anti-AI comments, and I didn't even say I used AI.

codexon··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
Many of those companies like duolingo have already collapsed in stock price with YoY growth dropping off a cliff. It is happening, it just isn't instant.
codexon··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
There are multiple "photoshop killers" already available, even for free like photopea. I would bet that you can ask AI to make a clone of it. People just haven't done it because there's no need to waste tokens on that.
codexon··on Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
When I meant compile I also meant cargo check. That still takes way longer than go builds.
codexon··on Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
Rust compiles way slower in my experience. This is a major problem because ais need to recompile many times especially when it keeps running into borrow checker problems.

With golang, all borrow checker problems go away. This is a good trade off if your app is not cpu-bound, which most are not. If you need every last drop of performance then rust is a better choice of course.

However, I have run into a few cases of runtime null crashes in go.

codexon··on What Happened to HackerOne?
You are right, but it was a billion+ revenue company that everyone here knows about and probably interacts with every day. I've also heard from others than other companies act the same way.

And they have hackerone employees pre-screen submissions and I had to tell them multiple times why my submission was valid.

codexon··on What Happened to HackerOne?
it isn't simple request flooding, it is application level resource exhaustion
codexon··on What Happened to HackerOne?
I reported some exploits on hackerone.

Most got dismissed.

One of them, a remotely triggerable DoS vector got downgraded in severity. I got a token payment from the company, and 7 years later, it is still not marked as resolved.

I doubt my situation is unique.

codexon··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
It most likely will be quantized. A cerebras wafer only has 44gb ram, and linking them together vastly reduces the speedup.
codexon··on Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources
I don't know about recently, but for many years paypal automatically sided with the customer.

We had many customers that would buy a 1 month sub then chargeback the whole amount after using it heavily for a few days or right before renewal, with a nonsense reason like "item not as described" or "unauthorized charge".

We lost every single case.

codexon··on Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible
Why does it feel silly? There are already billionaires, and now Elon Musk is a trillionaire, and they still want more even though they have enough money to spend for several lifetimes.

Some people always want more. And defending against others like that will result in infinite demand.

codexon··on Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible
I've held this view and talked about it many times here before.

It seems like an obvious conclusion to me that the end result will be a few AI owners trading among themselves should AI develop in what seems to be likely: recursive self improvement, robotics allowing it to displace manual labor and combat.

Then the owners will be trading for land, AI tech, minerals, energy, which will likely be owned by the other AI conglomerates, and maybe the odd thing that can't be replaced by AI like human entertainers that would make up 1% of the economy.

codexon··on Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc
This is similar to what I experienced when I tested mimalloc many years ago. If it was faster, it wasn't faster by much, and had pretty bad worst cases.
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