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iosjunkie··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
hopefully the answer doesn't include an increase in cost/decrease in usage.
iosjunkie··on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
> clothes keep growing in width with larger sizes, but rarely grow in length

Humans have this same problem, which I suspect is the root cause.

iosjunkie··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
Even further back. iOS 27 supports iPhone 11 (released 7 years ago, btw).

Source: https://www.apple.com/os/ios/ near the bottom of the page.

iosjunkie··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
Kind of like a vechical's model year.
iosjunkie··on Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
I would love to know how they are going to handle deepfakes.

Also, doesn't this give law enforcement an easier avenue to compel access to someone's accounts?

iosjunkie··on Resetting Xbox
Would you accept 3% return on your money, especially if the investment was risky?
iosjunkie··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
And your government can’t take it away on a Friday afternoon.
iosjunkie··on VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO
Interesting. I wonder if there is opportunity to train a set of small model variants to excel at a certain stacks. Eg Qwen3.6-27B for Node + React or Qwen3.6-27B for Rust + TUI
iosjunkie··on Openrouter Fusion API
prompting "no mistakes" was load-bearing
iosjunkie··on If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know
And if they do, their lawyers will use Claude to construct their legal case… which Claude silently nerfs as well.
iosjunkie··on Go: Support for Generic Methods
"properly designed" - ah yes, programming languages are famous for universally agreed upon design philosophies.
iosjunkie··on Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site
Brb vibe coding a replacement /s
iosjunkie··on GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs
Sure, but it did better on the test, which matches OpenAI's claim. More bang for more buck.

Interestingly, using your tests as a comparison, 5.5 low beats 5.4 medium at a 82% of the cost.[0]

[0]: https://aibenchy.com/compare/openai-gpt-5-4-medium/openai-gp...

iosjunkie··on DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May
I’m only seeing 3x the cost of DeepSeek for other providers on Open Router. Is there a better place to look?
iosjunkie··on DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
Get comfortable with Deepseek's privacy policy for using this for anything serious.

"To improve and develop the Services and to train and improve our technology, such as our machine learning models and algorithms. Including by monitoring interactions and usage across your devices, analyzing how people are using it, and training and improving our technology."

https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-privacy-pol...

iosjunkie··on Google Workspace CLI
Basically Google’s take on GAM https://github.com/GAM-team/GAM
iosjunkie··on Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]
It that true?

> For Claude Sonnet 4.5, and GPT-5.1 we default to reporting high reasoning results, but when reported results are not available we use best available reasoning results.

https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_...

iosjunkie··on Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste
tldr ignorance is bliss

No shade! I have found the exact same thing.

iosjunkie··on Schleswig-Holstein completes migration to open source email
That used to be the case. You can still get free email hosting, but POP/IMAP needs a paid plan.
iosjunkie··on All-New Next Gen of UniFi Storage
Agreed 100%. Perfect prosumer / small business setup.
iosjunkie··on We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes
No! No, no, not 10! He said 9. Nobody's comin' up with 10. Who processing with 10 bits? What’s the extra bit for? You’re just wastin’ electrons.
iosjunkie··on Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen
Ive had good luck with ‘Monteverde Capless Gel Ballpoint’ refills for my Rotring 600s.
iosjunkie··on Different Clocks
Placed my cursor at the top of the hour peak on the 'Peaks' clock. Few moments later, it shifted slightly to the left. Had a bit of existential dread as I saw time slipping away.

Nice clocks though.

iosjunkie··on Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM
This would have been perfect fodder for Stump the Experts... c'est la vie.
iosjunkie··on Ask HN: Is it time for dark mode yet?
just searched to see if there was any changes with dark mode. This week marks the 5th year anniversary of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23199062
iosjunkie··on A story about restoring and upgrading a Commodore Amiga 1000
Thank you for sharing! A year or two after you got your 1000, my dad bought the family an Amiga 500. It began my love of computing, gave me a scrappy hacker mind set (owning an Amiga in the US a rarity), and ultimately sowed the seeds of my career.
iosjunkie··on Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home
FWIW, the vast majority of sales people I’ve spoken to over the past 5 years have been WFH/WFCS (work from coffee shop).

Certainly for bigger deals they come onsite for the final stages of the sales process, but most interaction is handled remotely and they aren't in an office.

iosjunkie··on Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
That's annoying. For some use cases, not a big deal. But I have used the AWS Route 53 'alias' functionality on a number of occasions and that requires the use of Route 53 nameservers.
iosjunkie··on Pinecone integrates AI inferencing with vector database
Qdrant does with its ‘Query API’.

https://qdrant.tech/documentation/concepts/hybrid-queries/

And handles embedding creation with its fastembed package.

https://github.com/qdrant/fastembed

iosjunkie··on Bluesky intends their indexing to be used by third parties
Is that a SO problem or search indexing (Google) problem?
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