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cyberclimbon Noodle Gallery – Self-hosted photo and video manager forked from Immich

It's a soft fork not a rewrite, they regularly rebase off immich

cyberclimbon Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month

What would it take to run pytorch on the M4 GPU efficiently? Is there still a gap between what MPS offers and this driver (if properly hooked into Pytorch)?

cyberclimbon Show HN: TERMy – A fast terminal assistant that does not use LLMs

is it supported to have it propose a command for approval rather than running autmatically? in the YT video it looks likw it ran the cpu temp command on its own

love the idea/simplicity of this tool!

cyberclimbon The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks

to his credit he did say he skimmed the paper, and it's honestly standard practice to do a first pass of skimming a paper before you'd go deeper into reading it anyways

cyberclimbon Fastpotify

nice that it supports ARM Linux! This is a major gap with the official Spotify desktop app

cyberclimbon Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

Probably cerca 2014 as that's when AlexNet was released, demonstrating that neural networks could beat traditional ML models at image recognition tasks. I recall the researchers used Cuda to optimize their training setup.

AlexNet kicked off a new wave of research around neural networks by demonstrating they could be scaled well and trained on GPUs.

cyberclimbon Bootstrappable Builds: How and Why

I thought the attack itself was version controlled via a tracked blob file used in a unit test. I believe the attack was performed by running the test suite (which modified the source code) and then compiling?

If that's the case, then anyone that ran the tests prior to building from source would be vulnerable if my understanding is right

cyberclimbon A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”

I don't think they are necessarily asserting otherwise

cyberclimbon Pushes to arch AUR are suspendended right now.

> No, I'm sorry but who on earth installs random software from random strangers, without a single step of validating before giving it access...

Realistically most users?

It's already quite a technical barrier to run Arch Linux, and the knowledge to further know about/understand PKGBUILD can only comes with time and is yet another layer filtering people's ability to know how to even try to catch something malicious.

Now consider the layer of even experienced user that's in a bit of rush and doesn't have time to review the full diffs they're upgrading to.

Ralistically it's nearly statistically impossible that 100% of users would be able to all catch and block a given exploit themselves. A shared responsibility model of security [1] comes to mind, and while it's great for users to be active participants in their security, their action/awareness should be a last resort. I wouldn't blame the user.

[1] https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/framework/securit...

cyberclimbon Show HN: Wheesper – Start an anonymous discussion with a link

This looks cool but why do I meed an email to start an "anonymous" discussion?

Also no mention on whether this is end to end encrypted, can you comment on that?

cyberclimbon Show HN: Nectar, a Rust-like React that compiles to WebAssembly

Nice! Heads up that unfortunately the demos don't appear to scroll on mobile

cyberclimbon Ask HN: Books about Genetic Algorithms

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-44874-8

(2015)

cyberclimbon Local-First and Portable CI

Is there any way to cache the dependency installation step on github actions for example?

I supposed you could cache whatever directory it installs to? Would be great to see an example

cyberclimbon Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)

Note that these results are specific to gpt-4o so it's unclear how much they generalize.

They note at the end they're also testing "GPT o3, and Claude" but no empircal results are included.

cyberclimbon Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes

How about the FairPhone running /e/os (which is de-googled)? You can buy it preinstalled directly from Murena.

Although this is not at your target price point. But /e/os can be used on hundreds of android phones (as opposed to GrapheneOS). So you can probably install it on your current phone

https://doc.e.foundation/devices

cyberclimbon Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

> To get there, we are not just reducing headcount and cutting costs, we’re fundamentally changing how we operate: rebuilding Coinbase as an intelligence, with humans around the edge aligning it.

For sure this part screams LLM

cyberclimbon GitHub Actions is the weakest link

The actions/checkout repo still doesn't even use immutable releases so I'll believe it when I see it

https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/2316

cyberclimbon Ghostty is leaving GitHub

Why share any opinion ever?

cyberclimbon Coding agents could make free software matter again

> Why does this matter? Because the “open source” rebrand wasn’t just a marketing change — it was a philosophical amputation.

I cringe whenever I see such an AI generated sentence and unfortunately it devalues the article

cyberclimbon AI Isn't Lightening Workloads. It's Making Them More Intense

https://archive.is/Hsm9U

cyberclimbon Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial

I use this extension on desktop and Firefox mobile to block shorts. They also support chrome (idk about chrome mobile).

https://github.com/Vulpelo/hide-youtube-shorts?tab=readme-ov...

You can also look at NewPipe on Android if you want an alternative YouTube app rather than web mode. Needless to say it's a real shame you have to work this hard to hide shorts...

cyberclimbon GitHub now requiring 2FA for all contributors,what authenticator apps you using?

Checkout Ente Auth

cyberclimbon 4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches

How about the EU imposing GDPR restrictions on non-eu companies?

cyberclimbon YesNotice

Is it possible to track a given URL without that URL becoming public knowledge as a posted question for anyone to see?

cyberclimbon Rust edges toward CPython and older platforms won't like it

I just came across this project recently https://github.com/AeneasVerif/eurydice/ from Microsoft Azure Research (referenced here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/rewriting-symc...)

cyberclimbon Cryptoqueen who fled China for London mansion to be sentenced over £5B Bitcoin

They didn't just pull the word queen out of anywhere, her ambitions are kind of funny

> Her grander stated objective was to become queen of Liberland, an unrecognised microstate on the Croatian-Serbian border, by 2022.

cyberclimbon F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree

> The only thing left is to make a ROM without preinstalled garbage apps from the vendor.

Would e-os fit your use case? https://e.foundation/e-os/

cyberclimbon OrangePi 5 Ultra Review: An ARM64 SBC Powerhouse

I have this board and want to mention that the Armbian image supported for the Orange Pi 5 max seems to work fine as well without modifications. Although I haven't tested much yet besides ssh'ing in over ethernet and doing some basic installations.

https://forum.armbian.com/topic/51307-orange-pi-5-ultra/

cyberclimbon Restrictions on house sharing by unrelated roommates

In the Netherlands from what I've seen (at least around Amsterdam) it's almost always forbidden for houses to be rented out to a group of flatmates (e.g. students), some people go so far as to fake relationships to imply they're a couple instead.

I'm not sure if this an actual law but housing listings often imply its forbidden in the neighborhood, they're looking for couples and families with kids.

cyberclimbon Show HN: A minimalist, encrypted knowledge platform for solo devs and founders

Hi I'm curious about the encryption system. I found this document https://docs.orbivon.com/getting-started/security#security but wanted to ask where the encryption keys are physically stored and where the decryption happens (server-side vs client side)?

I assume the encryption keys are stored encrypted in your database, but what's the (high level) mechanism for decrypting them? Like is the users' password used at login to temporarily load the encryption key in memory?

Thanks for any insights

Also I like the idea of the encryption but I think the use of LLMs greatly reduces the privacy gained but that's a tradeoff