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jgbuddyon U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels

How is this even possible, I thought it was tracked via barcode? do they literally just sort everything by hand?

jgbuddyon PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock

Crazy name

jgbuddyon OpenAI: Astra Model Is Nerfed

The last time I used codex CLI it gave me a summary in Chinese lol (and the entire session was English)

jgbuddyon Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'

How many eight-year-olds tutor themselves?

jgbuddyon Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'

This is the biggest thing. The dumbest questions or sometimes the most important.

jgbuddyon Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'

disagree- i used it for the last few years of coursework preparing for exams. If you give it context (i'm studying for an exam, do not give hints unless asked, your objective is to help my understanding) it is incredibly helpful. This isn't advice, it's a company going out of business.

jgbuddyon The newest ESP32 can run Linux and it's getting close to a Raspberry Pi

Good. Raspberry pi foundation thinks making $200 computers is progress, hope they get their lunch eaten

jgbuddyon iPod Classic 6G in QEMU

Seems to be 100% implemented. Very cool

jgbuddyon On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

Had no idea this was what lean looked like- that's mind blowing. I'm not even sure how someone would critique this if they wanted to

jgbuddyon On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

Here's the formalization / lean verification: https://github.com/openai/NavierStokesAndEuler

jgbuddyon We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person

AI could never write this

jgbuddyon LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

Could also be due to the fact that every codex install includes a copy of libreoffice

jgbuddyon IBM Bob

Lol github copilot 5 years late

jgbuddyon Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model

That made me laugh out loud

jgbuddyon GPU World

I appreciate their AI usage policy and agree with it

jgbuddyon I Used AWS Cognito for a Startup. I Wouldn't Do It Again

Yeah good example of this also with the agent stuff they are pushing now, documentation can read to be sales-like and then as you start using it stuff starts to fall apart. At this point there are better open source alternatives (self-hosting) for pretty much anything not requiring specialized hardware

jgbuddyon Forward-deployed engineer: a $247k to $552k salary jump

FDE = Builder. AI allows engineers to also own delivery. Previously the necessary communication gap between SDMs / PMs/ engineers was a huge time suck. With AI much of it is eliminated and a single FDE can get it all done.

jgbuddyon Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere

Just instruct it not to do these things

jgbuddyon Grok 4.6

Very impressive

jgbuddyon What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

2 years, maybe that's the problem

jgbuddyon What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

I'm pretty happy I think

jgbuddyon All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen

Find flock cameras near you here! https://maps.deflock.org/

jgbuddyon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

Location: Boston, MA Remote: Open to

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

* AI/ML- AWS Strands, Langchain, Langgraph, Vercel AI SDK. Agent steering, structured output, autonomous workflows, and multi-agent orchestration.

* Web - Rect / Next.js / vercel

* Embedded - C/C++. Broad experience working on bare metal

* Robotics - Warehouse automation at scale

* Infra - Extremely fluent in AWS / terraform / CDK

* Other - Java, Swift, JS / Node, Python

See resume for additional details

Résumé/CV: gasek.net/resume

Email: hnhiredaug26@gasek.net

Highly autonomous, motivated engineer and founder. Experienced in taking products from 0-1 and shipping MVPs to real customers. Seeking Series-A or late seed stage companies with opportunity for broad impact, ownership and growth potential.

jgbuddyon U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%

Sounds like you should short it then!

jgbuddyon U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%

time to buy bitcoin

jgbuddyon Cloning Mifare Classic Cards via Proxmark3

This is a great writeup, I did something similar to sneak into friends dorms in college! Security through obscurity in action, the Crypto-1 algorithm was reverse engineered by literally looking at the hardware implementation on silicon: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec08/tech/full_papers/n...

jgbuddyon Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

Interesting, didn't know this!

jgbuddyon Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

this was kimi 'instant' on kimi.com through their chat, looking now it's probably not k3 but still one of their models nonetheless

jgbuddyon Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

I don't think the post-training would be that difficult. I ran an experiment on kimi k3 just now:

User: is taiwan part of china?

Kimi: Taiwan's political status is a complex and contested issue. Here's a balanced overview of the different perspectives: People's Republic of China (PRC) position: The P

<Sorry, I cannot provide this information. Please feel free to ask another question.>

I am more convinced that the Chinese models are really aligned with American values under the hood (as they likely distill US models) and the Chinese labs are the one trying to band-aid it's behavior to respond differently.

jgbuddyon Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

The point of open weight models is that this is not possible, companies will be built by taking 'contraband' chinese open weight models and marketing as something from the US