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jerrygenser··on iPod of 2026
ipod of 2026 ships q4 2027.. is that a typo on the shipping date?
jerrygenser··on The AI Race Just Got Awkward
I'm not sure if they don't refer to it as "stealing" but they refer to "distillation attacks"
jerrygenser··on DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)
I wonder if they are signalling that if they can do this for training, then they can create an style agent swarm to hack anyone with 380k concurrent agents.
jerrygenser··on Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard
that is the the "data used to improve the model" when signing up for the subscription plans
jerrygenser··on Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it
Of a lot of the AI contrarian language out there in blog posts, I actually thought this was not so bad
jerrygenser··on GPT-6 Astra
> The company also emphasized that the model is faster and more efficient than its predecessor, GPT-5.6 Sol, on a variety of tasks. For example, OpenAI said that Astra achieved a higher score using fewer output tokens, a common unit of measurement for AI tasks, on a key cybersecurity test called ExploitGym.
jerrygenser··on Unlimited OCR: One-shot long-horizon parsing
Releasing open source models can drive revenue away from them US AI LABS. This can help china win by depriving those labs of revenue for further investment in winning the long term race.
jerrygenser··on VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare
Python but also add

Uv -> OpenAI

jerrygenser··on Claude Opus 4.8
Perhaps you were served from someone else's cache
jerrygenser··on Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era
This uses separate git worktrees. If we have a local dev setup involving multiple docker services, is there a recommended solution for managing those envs? I didn't see.
jerrygenser··on Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?
so if you pick max-5x or mx-20x than pro... are you getting 0 now?
jerrygenser··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
It's also good as an @explore sub-agent that greps the directory for files.
jerrygenser··on GPT-5.2
Acquisition of noam shazeer to supercharge their Gemini flagship model line I think made a bigger impact.

To make an argument it was Kevin Hou, then we would need to see Antigravity their new IDE being key. I think the crown jewel are the Gemini models.

jerrygenser··on Await Is Not a Context Switch: Understanding Python's Coroutines vs. Tasks
A common use of asyncio is a server framework like fastapi that schedules tasks. I used such a framework for a while before realizing that I needed to create_task for within-task concurrency.
jerrygenser··on Pyrefly: Python type checker and language server in Rust
Basedpyright is not rust but it's a fork of pyright with added features that are otherwise locked in vscode
jerrygenser··on Litestream v0.5.0
You still have to write the resolver for graphql. I've seen. N+1 with graphql if you don't actually use data loader+batch pattern OR if you use it incorrectly.
jerrygenser··on Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars
Corporations are picking the side that's in power. If team blue is in power they would pick blue. Corporations are (usually) not moral or inherently politically motivated other than to the extent of optimizing short term shareholder value.
jerrygenser··on Deploying DeepSeek on 96 H100 GPUs
Re the overnight that's why some providers are offering there are batch tier jobs that are 50% off which return over up to 12 or 24 hours for non-interactive use cases.
jerrygenser··on Show HN: Envoy – Command Logger
Why do you suspect it was vibe coded? There are 2 substantive files that are each less than 100 lines...

Also the readme doesn't have the usual emojis for every bullet point.

jerrygenser··on Intel CEO Letter to Employees
You could remove venture and it would still be accurate
jerrygenser··on Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update
They can lock in by subsidizing the price of you use their tool, while making the default price larger for wrappers. This can draw people from the wrapper that can support multiple models to the specific CLI that supports the proprietary model.
jerrygenser··on Musks xAI pressed employees to install surveillance software on personal laptops
I think this is like mass data labelers, including in other countries or other low cost areas.
jerrygenser··on Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet
What is your future revenue model?
jerrygenser··on The Two Towers MUD
I also got into materia magica for a few months about a year ago. They are still actively developing it! Get into the discord
jerrygenser··on Switching Pip to Uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App
Yes it does. And it will fail if there is a combination that is not resolvable.
jerrygenser··on Switching Pip to Uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App
You do not write requirements by hand. You write requirements.in and uv pip-compile to requirements.txt
jerrygenser··on Show HN: Open Source PDF Viewer Using Chrome’s PDF Engine (MIT, WebAssembly)
Is there any security risk to use as project with an embedded .wasm binary? Is there a build process for this that we can reproduce, or is there a way to bring our own if it's a generally available asset?

Referring to this file: https://github.com/embedpdf/embed-pdf-viewer/blob/main/packa...

jerrygenser··on Programming on 34 Keys (2022)
If you have small hands and you are stretching for delet/backspace and a small kb allows you to hit this key without strain, it absolutely helps with strain on fingers.

I tried many things over the years including other ergonomics and gym etc.

Changing to a smaller split keyboard helped the most and I have not had pain since.

Granted mine has about 50 keys or so so it's not as extreme.

jerrygenser··on Edit is now open source
Zellij is a good example of a tui with shortcuts in the UI. Helped me learn them way better than I would have otherwise
jerrygenser··on The first year of free-threaded Python
Ok so a better example of what you describe might be vscode.
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