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fakwandi_priv··on DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows
Most of this thread seems neutral/skeptical with just that post being obvious. On the other hand the volume of jev threads we have been seeing these past 2 weeks..
fakwandi_priv··on SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today
I’m a bit saddened this thread has so little activity, 55 comments as of posting, here even though there are half a million people watching the spacex stream. Just watching the launch, the amount of technology and people involved is incredible.

Prompting claude 5.5 has more appeal it seems.

fakwandi_priv··on Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second
> There is no additional fee for using prompt caching. Input tokens, whether served from the cache or processed fresh, are billed at the standard input token rate for the respective model.

So what he’s saying is correct, there is no separate cache pricing, which by normal standards should be 10% of the cost, which can become exceedingly expensive for anything other than single turn. The way they are stating this is of course strange..

fakwandi_priv··on Grok 4.7
I’ve also noticed this twice now in the autogenerated chat title, recent example: “Explore book locking liveewer”.

Googling it returns no matches but I think it was supposed to be “live viewer”?

fakwandi_priv··on There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis
What’s wrong with wiki.gg?
fakwandi_priv··on Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges
I have noticed the same thing starting with 5.6 when editing my last prompt inside the vscode codex plugin, I’ve seen the model’s thinking respond to the edit with a remark.

Slightly bummed out about it because in the past you could try different situations during a planning session and it wouldn’t pollute the cache but now it does. I’m not sure if forking the conversation has the same problem.

fakwandi_priv··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
> According to Windows Latest, the high memory consumption is due to the fact that Weather is not a fully native Windows application. Instead, it is essentially an MSN Weather web app built on Microsoft's WebView2 framework.

I wonder how this approach is having such an high reduction in memory usage compared to what’s stated in the article. I would assume both use the exact same WebView here.

The only explanation here that I can think of would be that the “Add an application” starts it under an existing Edge process which shares it’s memory instead of completely isolated.

fakwandi_priv··on ARC-AGI Leaderboard
> - Math completely fails in longer contexts

Not sure what longer contexts we're talking about but didn't we have an old math problem optimized, which even the LLM itself was surprised about, just a week ago? Something which wasn't possible 6 months ago.

fakwandi_priv··on TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years
When I'm reading reviews of plans created by an agent especially on security boundaries it's suggesting huge matrixes to test even the very obscure situations, but then I'm also reading things like this and I just don't understand. Are we even using the same tools?
fakwandi_priv··on The worst job interview I ever had
You're guesses are getting somewhat closer each time, almost there.
fakwandi_priv··on Claude Code is locking people out for hours
I've been an avid fan of codex for the last few month's but finally hit the weekly limit so I've wanted to try out claude code before biting the bullet and going for the 200 dollar codex sub.

Obviously in hindsight it would be unfair to Anthropic to judge them on an unstable day so I'l leave those complaints aside but I hit the session limit way too fast. I planned out 3 tasks and it couldn't finish the first plan completely, for that implementation task it has seen a grand total of 1 build log and hasn't even run any tests which already caused it to enter in the red territory of the context circle.

It was even asking me during planning which endpoints the new feature should use to hook into the existing system, codex would never ask this and just simply look these up during planning and whenever it encounters ambiguity it would either ask straight away or put it as an open question. I have to wonder if they're limiting this behavior due trying to keep the context as small as possible and preventing even earlier session limits.

Maybe codex's limits are not sustainable in the long run and I'm very spoiled by the limits but at this point CC(sonnet) and Codex(5.4) are simply not in the same league when comparing both 20 dollar subscriptions.

I will also clearly state that the value both these tools provide at these price points are absolutely worth it, it's just that codex's value/money ratio is much better.

fakwandi_priv··on Android Developer Verification
So what was the word you changed?
fakwandi_priv··on AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip
AMD had an upgrade path with the 5700x3d, assuming you’re on AM4.

Just reading now that they went out of production half a year ago which is a shame. I was very impressed being able to upgrade with the same motherboard 6 years down the line.

fakwandi_priv··on Claude Opus 4.5
I run the same config but it tends to fly through those commands on the weekends, very noticeable difference. I wouldn’t be surprised that the subscription users have a (much) lower priority.

That said I don’t go beyond 70% of my weekly limit so there’s that.

fakwandi_priv··on Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?
This is very unrelated but I worry about posts like these.

HN is a great place to get genuine thoughtful discussions compared to a big portion of the rest of the internet. Reddit used to be the place for finding genuine experiences for products with subreddits like buyitforlife (or more specific) but now these and other subreddits are filled with bots and marketeers promoting what they sell and hammering their competition in the same thread.

Some bots are already here but I fear when the marketeers come.

fakwandi_priv··on Blocking LLM crawlers without JavaScript
It used to be Hola VPN which would let you use someone else’s connection and in the same way someone could use yours which was communicated transparently, that same hola client would also route business users. Im sure many other free VPN clients do the same thing nowadays.
fakwandi_priv··on Problems with C++ exceptions
From what I can read Swift gives you a stack trace which is good. At the moment I’m using Go where that stack is only generated where the panic is triggered, which could be much higher up. Makes it a lot more unwieldy to figure out where an error happens because everyone uses:

> if err != nil return err

fakwandi_priv··on ChatGPT Atlas
Might not be the best fix but other than disabling memory I changed the setting ‘ChatGPT personality’ to ‘Robot’ and I’ve always had straight to the point answers (so far).
fakwandi_priv··on Migrating from AWS to Hetzner
> The total wall clock time for the build was measured. The smaller the better. I always did one build to prime the caches and discarded the first result.

The article is worth the read.

fakwandi_priv··on Boring is good
I have heard people on both ends of the spectrum:

- LLM's are too limited in capabilities and make too many mistakes - We're still in the DOS era of LLM's

I'm leaning more towards the the 2nd, but in either case pandora's box has been opened and you can already see the effects of the direction our civilization is moving towards with this technology.

fakwandi_priv··on What's New in C# 14: Null-Conditional Assignments
The point the article is trying to make is that it reduces boilerplate, wouldn't be surprised if this gets added to TS in the next year of two.
fakwandi_priv··on Show HN: Swimming in Tech Debt
Refreshing to see a potential conflict[2] get solved in a civilized manner, rare these days. Thanks for including it.
fakwandi_priv··on Jetstream: Shrinking the AT Protocol Firehose by >99%
Why is this being downvoted? Seems like a valid concern to raise if you find two pieces of software somewhat having the same functionality.
fakwandi_priv··on What's new in the Postgres 16 query planner
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/plpgsql-implementati...

Seems like these will get cached at some point.

fakwandi_priv··on Airbus pilot tries Microsoft Flight Simulator [video]
Does anyone have any insights regarding licensing?

Is MS opening a big wallet or is it the other way around where these companies want their newest planes in these type of games? In the video you see "unbeatable fuel efficieny" and I remember seeing Iberia on one of the boeings in the launch trailer, seems like adverts to me.

fakwandi_priv··on If Trump kicks out Twitter, there's always Germany
Has there been a thread on HN that discusses the actual EO?

Let's for the sake of discussion ignore that it's some other political figurehead implementing this law, would it be acceptable? Is twitter a news outlet by editing or annotating a persons message and is it correct to say these companies are forming a monopoly/cartel on free speech. Does twitter's size and impact on the general populace mean it needs different rules to operate?

I'm much more interested in the stances and opinions of people regarding the status quo around social media and their function to the people and much less interested in the drama that ensues every time something leaves trump's mouth.

fakwandi_priv··on MDS: Microarchitectural Data Sampling side-channel vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs
According to the researchers in the paper[0] this is not true.

>We have verified that we can leak information across arbitrary address spaces and privilege boundaries, even on recent Intel systems with the latest microcode updates and latest Linux kernel with all the Spectre, Meltdown, L1TF default mitigations up (KPTI, PTE inversion, etc.). In particular, the exploits we discuss below exemplify leaks in all the relevant cases of interest: process-to-process, kernel-to-userspace, guest-to-guest, and SGX-enclave-touserspace leaks. Not to mention that such attacks can be built even from a sandboxed environment such as JavaScript in the browser, where the attacker has limited capabilities compared to a native environment.

[0] https://mdsattacks.com/files/ridl.pdf

fakwandi_priv··on ZombieLoad: Cross Privilege-Boundary Data Leakage on Intel CPUs
Apparently Intel attempted to play down the issue by trying to award the researchers with the 40,000 dollar tier reward and a separate 80,000 dollar reward as a "gift" (which the researchers kindly denied) instead of the maximum 100,000 reward for finding a critical vulnerability.

Intel was also planning to wait for at least another 6 months before bringing this to light if it wasn't for the researchers threatening to release the details in May.

Source in the dutch interview: https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/05/14/hackers-mikken-op-het-i...

fakwandi_priv··on Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonize
>Germany’s rate of adding clean energy relative to gross domestic product, it would take the world more than a century to decarbonize, even if the country wasn’t also retiring nuclear plants early.

Why doesn't the article explain why the Germans are retiring their plants? I think these articles should go more in-depth regarding the pro's and con's. From what I read and hear Nuclear power is a great source of energy but I feel when convincing other people of this you need to portray the good and the bad.