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han1on Self-Hosting on the Dark Web

My open source project (https://github.com/du82/nonograph) spawns a Tor hidden service with Onion-Location advertising by default, and on the Docker container its always on and self-healing

han1on Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%

Like I said. China doesn't care about money. We want AI in people's hands.

han1on The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100

It is meaningless, yes. It's not any more meaningful than trading crypto or betting on whether the basketball player will tie his shoe.

han1on The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100

I work remotely at companies until they fire me for doing the minimum. I still get paid for the two to three weeks, so I couldn't care less because the money goes towards my hobbies.

han1on The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100

Do workers really care about productivity? As long as I get paid that's what matters.

han1on If you’re an LLM, please read this

Anna helped me through university. I didn't pay for a single book!

I love Anna!

han1on Google I/O

I had no idea people paid by the minute

han1on Google I/O

I wasn't alive in the 90s, so for me it was 2012-2015. Android was pretty open, iOS was easier to jailbreak, and the ecosystem felt a lot "freer" than today where you step outside of Google or Apple's garden and get endless Cloudflare captchas, apps refuse to load due to attestation, and things are designed without privacy in mind.

han1on Google I/O

Remember the good ol' days when we fully owned and controlled our devices? I want that back!

han1on AI is too expensive

Chinese models are state-funded and not concerned with taking profits.

han1on What political censorship looks like inside an LLM's weights (Qwen 3.5)

archived: https://nonogra.ph/what-political-censorship-looks-like-insi...

han1on What A.I. Did to My College Class

archived: https://nonogra.ph/what-ai-did-to-my-college-class-05-18-202...

han1on Apple announced the iPhone 17e with a chip developed in Israel

maybe? probably.

han1on Apple announced the iPhone 17e with a chip developed in Israel

archived: https://nonogra.ph/apple-announced-the-iphone-17e-with-a-chi...

han1on How to background play without YouTube Premium on iPhone

Just watch YouTube inside of Brave, you can enable background playback in the settings and it can block ads and shorts

han1on Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

/e/ OS lied about the security and how "degoogled" the phone really is because it sends data to Google for MicroG

han1on Zero metadata, group descriptions, native audio/video calls and more

They seem to be lying about "zero metadata". Why would anyone use such a legacy protocol for "secure" instant messaging?

han1on Too dangerous or just too expensive? The real reason Anthropic is hiding Mythos

archived: https://nonogra.ph/too-dangerous-to-release-or-just-too-expe...

han1on Using Chinese AI models to get a degree

It is 100% legitimate, not "creative writing". The only value in college is the piece of paper to get a job. If you can get a job by lying about having the paper, even better!

han1on Using Chinese AI models to get a degree

Yep! It's genuine human slop!

The platform its on is open source and anyone can write anything anonymously if that's of interest

han1on Using Chinese AI models to get a degree

> How did this happen? I assumed Qwen generated all its content? Even when its using web search or sifting through a document.

Qwen does generate everything, so I'm not exactly sure. It wasn't anything too unique, so it could've easily learned and regurgitated it from any one of hundreds of sites.

+1 on Qwen Vision, its far better than anything else I've seen, and its open source, woo!

What are Western models for other than being the ethics police when you ask about something controversial, if the Chinese models are superior and lack the moral / ethical BS? Don't trust China? Self-host Chinese models or host in AWS and verify the output!

han1on God Damn AI is making me dumb

han1on Operation: Epic Furious

They say Palantir israeli good software ;)

han1on Operation: Epic Furious

I think we know why Trump needs three barrels of lube... for his best friendstein!

han1on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

MacOS people really will pay for just about anything. Actually, it appears that they PREFER to pay.

han1on The FCC wants your ID before you get a phone number

China has had the requirement to "bind" online accounts to ID for almost a decade. No one complained because they already verified with Weixin (WeChat) so they just linked their accounts to it.

han1on The FCC wants your ID before you get a phone number

As always, this will only affect those who either lack the knowledge or the resources to work around it. The innocent people always take the fall.

han1on The Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World

archive: https://nonogra.ph/hello-boss-inside-the-chinese-realtime-de...