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fireant··on Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end
That's really nice. Have you tested if it works well with longer and more detailed prompts? For example adding more whole product specs and so on. It would be nice to generate a design system from generated UI you like instead of recreating that UI directly.
fireant··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
If the frontier models will take as much money to train as they do now, there is no way the wealthy are able to afford their training just for their own consumption. Financing of this whole thing rests on the models being available to companies and consumers who are willing to pay astronomical (compared to other software) sums for it.
fireant··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
This is a good point. If I were an investor, there is no way I'm investing into frontier labs after this announcement. Is this how the bubble pops?
fireant··on Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen
It could also be something PSD2 based. You should be able to create payment using PSD2, but the client still has to approve it inside their bank app.
fireant··on Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals
OpenAI & Anthropic are winning right now. I suspect if Chinese companies get ahead in the race the cards will reverse, OpenAI will restart farming goodwill with open models and then winning companies will be releasing closed models.
fireant··on MCP is dead?
Besides points already mentioned,

- remote mcps are server driven, meaning the producer can introduce new functionality without requiring all clients to update their skills and clis

- remote mcps are safe as they don't require literal code execution privileges on your system. Many times skills even bundle scripts with `npx`/`uvx` which is basically just `curl npm.com | bash` level of unsafe

fireant··on Claude Opus 4.8
Wow that looks really impressive. Both the UI and the content looks good, the game is a bit buggy but still nice!
fireant··on Googlebook
Somewhat, it's a tradeoff we are making willingly
fireant··on Googlebook
With AI dependence, unless you are a holdout, offline development isn't really a thing anymore. Perhaps to do some code reviews, but actually producing new code?
fireant··on Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
Doordash and similar are experimenting with autonomous/remotely operated vehicles and porn is getting decimated once good enough uncensored video gen ai gets available. That doesn't sound like viable career choices either.
fireant··on Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message
You can totally get a random "we've detected a suspicious activity, please verify the phone number you've used during registration" form during login.
fireant··on Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense
I have been thinking about this a lot lately. If you look at effects of geopolitical events and who profits and loses, rather than stated intentions. This global oil crisis, the Ukraine crisis, tariffs ect. It's the equivalent of the "the purpose of the system is what it does".

Oil crisis: Trumps friends profit on insider info, US oil industry (also his friends) profits, Russia profits because they are another big oil producer, USD dominance is harmed (also helps Russia), everyone else in the world eats the costs

Ukraine: Russia bleeds, Ukraine bleeds, arms industry profits, politicians in general get something to grandstand on in front of the voters. Personally I believe that this conflict has been artificially prolonged just to amplify the effects

Tariffs: US public eats the costs, Trump profits politically by appearing strong, Trumps friends profit on insider info

fireant··on Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
I don't really get how this stops captcha solving as a service, which is the actual way that scaled recaptcha solving is done? Those things are incredibly cheap and are staffed by humans anyway. Instead of selecting grainy busses, they will just scan the image with their phones.
fireant··on Zig → Rust porting guide
As a human occasionally writing Rust I've also frequently got stuck in type hell.
fireant··on Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
Perhaps for some very specific capabilities such as TTS, translation, voice recognition and so on. But for general intelligence models, better hardware just directly allows better models and that doesn't seem to be changing any time soon.
fireant··on Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
My point is that since we have had so few nuclear incidents, but they have done massive damage, it is very possible that we don't actually know much worse it could get. We have only seen a few points from a distribution that could be much wider than we think. Compared to renewable failures for which we have a pretty good idea.
fireant··on Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga
I don't understand why you are downvoted. Placing economic interests of entertainment megacorp over the rest of internet is one of the things thats wrong with society these days.
fireant··on Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
> Believing we're in a climate crisis and also being anti-nuclear are mutually exclusive positions

I also used to believe that but now I'm not so sure. Nuclear carries massive and unpredictable risks on failure. We can fairly well predict what will happen on catastrophic wind turbine failure, but with nuclear it is much more difficult. And what is arguably worse is that nuclear catastrophic failures are very infrequent and so we have very hard time estimating and thinking about probabilities of them happening.

Personally I think that keeping existing reactors running is better than the alternatives, but I'm not so sure about building up new reactors compared to building more predictable green energy sources.

fireant··on Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
Open multimodel tools will start dominating as soon as frontier labs stop massively subsidising their models only inside their tools and align with api pricing. Personally I think that the inflection point is near considering the slew of recent drama with Claude Code.

Claude Code and Codex are solid, but the real reason people use these over alternatives is that they have dramatically lower overall cost compared to open alternatives.

fireant··on The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables
This could probably be a generic MITM HTTP proxy as well, keep OPENAI_API_KEY=OPENAI_API_KEY in your .env and then replace this with the real key inside the proxy. It wouldn't need to know anything about endpoints or services.
fireant··on Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
It used to be worse, these days you can at least link between storybook and figma and have similar component naming and figma mostly uses css mental model. Before we had invision and sketch and designers and developers lived in their own worlds that were just completely disjoined.
fireant··on €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs
"hard cap it's technically impossible" is really funny because every other provider manages it just fine. Even wrappers like OpenRouter enable you to set a hard cap on proxied Google resources, but Google themselves are unable to manage that inside gcloud.
fireant··on €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs
€26,000 per the fine article
fireant··on Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
Besides the reasons already listed, Cloudflare is free, Azure is not. As a pirate site owner I imagine you don't want you payment information with your name associated with your pirate site. You can pay for hosting and dns with crypto.
fireant··on Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block
There is nothing wrong with that. Stock price is based on perceived future value , not current company profits.
fireant··on We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
So many people in this thread started commenting before trying the product or even watching a simple video of what it does. It's like reddit, commenting based on title without any actual comprehension of the content. Shameful really.
fireant··on We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
GitButler from OP also allows you to do this incredibly easily. This and stacked commits is IMO their main selling point.
fireant··on GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
I agree in principle that more democratic compute = better and third parties introduce additional risk that is outside of your control. That said I just don't see it working economically - either you have an underpowered GPU (4-digit range) at which point you have weak model, or slow model, probably both weak and slow. Or you have expensive GPU cluster, but at that point you also need to consider utilization as you are probably not streaming tokens out 24/7 and at that point TCO is just drastically more expensive for self hosting.

Personally I hope we see a third way - strong open weight models hosted by variety of companies actually competing on price and 9s of availability. That way capex expensive GPUs are fully utilized and users can rent intelligence as a commodity.

There is a very apt analogy to virtual server hosting - hosting vps/shared web is a commodity, it does not make financial sense for most users to host their website on their own physical servers in their basements.

fireant··on What game engines know about data that databases forgot
According to the github readme the author has had the idea in mind since 2015. Perhaps you ought to be a little less dismissive based on, what I assume your issue is, the writing style.
fireant··on GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks
You are just trading opex for capex. Local GPUs aren't free.
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