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flawnon CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3

Yeah, would be feasible if tickets wouldn't be so hard to get for externals. Ain't no way my partner would hang out for a year every week with me in a hackerspace

flawnon “Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain

If you want to share tweets from X, there is exactly that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283

flawnon Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links

archive.ph/ in front of it.

flawnon Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

So you say, they at least create economic value through obscurity of something which should be accessible?

flawnon Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code

Can't agree more, I feel the same.

flawnon Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10

I was excited to be the first pin in Berlin

flawnon The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

I feel that. I thought I am the only one who has this issue, with Claude always adding this superfluous BS. I feel totally backwards when realizing I am trying to teach this model how to write good technical docs, while I could have already done it in the same time.

Anyone has experiences with other models? I feel like GPT is much more concise?

flawnon Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support

It is almost certainly AI-written. Very odd writing style, also the repo README is Claude-generated.

flawnon Codex Resets

* open-weights

(sorry for nitpicking, i think it's important to emphasize - only OLMo has been the most most prominent fully open source release)

flawnon GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday

Also tokens/sec are not only dependent on parameter size, so that is kind of a brittle theory.

flawnon Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips

Then all this 3x amount would have had no ROI, China would have outdid the US comparatively.

flawnon The bottleneck might be the air in the room

I mean, I validate them by opening my window and seeing what the floor is. For me around 430ish usually - inline with what's in the atmosphere globally.

flawnon Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper

Additionally, I'd imagine quantization to have more side-effects than just slightly lower performance (on whatever task). You are basically removing information, and that information could be by chance what the model needs to fulfill it exactly the way you'd want to do - although it's still fully capable. I am not sure if this is really different from "lower performance" but open to hear your opinions.

flawnon Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402

Dumb question here - how can I manage effectively edges across the whole world without the huge maintenance overhead? Which tools would be recommended for that? I e.g. have a VPS at Hetzner with Coolify but users from the US have high latency. I wouldn't know how to not use CloudFlare?

flawnon Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)

Or for 100$, get a 5x increase on all failure points - maximum vibes, maximum excitement.

flawnon GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17

This does not play a role - even if you lock your bootloader Play Integrity Checks still fails, and that means you can't use certain apps, MDM and overall restricts your usage. Thank Google for that.

flawnon The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy

Social Media is actually one problem, and that's not just cellphones. I don't disagree with the premise that this could be all a smokescreen by the UK spying on citizens but Social Media is a huge issue. If you are keen, read up on the intersection of Epistemology, Sociology and Social Media research.

flawnon But yak shaving is fun (2019)

I wonder, how well does Yak-Shaving work for you with AI, how does it look for you specifically and how do you make sure it's not undermining the friction for learning things properly? I want to try some more yak-shaving soon too.

flawnon CrankGPT

They are part of the latest YC Batch. //s

flawnon Swiss voters reject proposal to cap Population at 10M

Not sure if there is any in-depth analysis across more countries about this pattern, but also in this votum, densely populated urban areas had a clear stance against this votum, whereas the majority of votes have come from rural areas. So I am not as certain as you are whether the trend extrapolates as outlined - I rather imagine that the polarization will increase even further across these two segments, with lived and experienced realities drifting apart.

flawnon Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress

What is the evolutionary advantage of this? I mean, if the host dies subsequently that's pretty bad for both parties, or?

flawnon Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models

That's wild misinformation. There was an outdated military database at play, and not just Claude. It doesn't exclude AI interference of course but your statement is just not correct.

flawnon Open source AI must win

Let's abstract this further: It's about the user's existing power and intentions, meaning if I am already in a position of power, AI will multiply it to levels way beyond a peasant could. Power dynamics just get exacerbated.

flawnon There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing

Then check V-Dem, you might argue they're flawed as well but then I'd suggest you to provide counterexamples for why the US should be considered a functioning democracy, and is not on the way to a fully authoritarian state.

flawnon Notes on DeepSeek

The CCP knows, whatever the heck this technology will bring with itself, the current power dynamic inside of the country is on their side, and AI will solidify it.

I hypothesize that, rather than slowly having it disperse in society and allow people to harness it in ways they don't want, they might as well accelerate everything until AI becomes the totalitarian swiss knife - which they can make use of in the best way of course.

Let's see what will happen.

flawnon RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon

Owe a lot to them.

If you have kiddos in Germany: jugendhackt.org

flawnon Stop the Apple Music app from launching

https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes

this is the OG app.

flawnon Ten Years of Franz

Good old times, same for me. Just ended up not bothering and deactivating any additional services - digital detox time ＼ ( ° o ° ) ／

flawnon Three of our worst VC stories

The fact that you hear this often (also not only from the victims of this) should signal that, even without quotes, there is likely some truth to it.

flawnon Ask HN: Anyone else observing a Widespread Outage of Archive.* Sites?

If you check blog.archive.*, a russian landing page with a warning that the page has been blocked by government authorities comes up. Maybe related?